Days To Remember G's Blog

Here are the boys Monster Jams they made on Tuesday for Craft time! You can also see their haircuts from Monday! Page touched them up a bit for me.

Page took the boys to Dunkin' Doughnuts yesterday morning. The boys each received a free doughnut coupon as part of their BOOK BUCKS. Each Thursday morning this summer we have gone to the library for the summer reading program, if they read everyday with mommy for 20 minutes then they get one BOOK BUCK a day. Hezekiah loves the Berenstain Bear books, especially the Bear Detective books by the Berenstains. Eli loves any and all books and cuddles up to mommy and sucks his thumb as I read to him. The BOOK BUCKS then allow them to buy toys from the treasure chest at the library. So the boys say that any of their toys that they receive from the treasure chest are called, "BOOK BUCKS." So, a lot of times during the day I will hear one of my boys say, "Mommy, where are my BOOK BUCKS?" AHHH BOOK BUCKS! They also have received free ice cream coupons from Ben and Jerry's, dinner from Bob Evans, and burgers from Whataburger. It has been fun! They love BOOK BUCKS!

Isn't she beautiful! Her smiles light up my day. My sweet Maggie!

What have we been doing each day? I need to catch up! I wanted to update my blog on my dayz to remember, see the problem is I need a new battery for my camera and I have not been able to take pictures of the things we have been doing for a week or so, but I thought I would add what pictures I have not added. For science day we have played does it sink or float, we also did a fish game where there are numbers on some fish and stars on the other fish (thanks to Hezekiah's preschool this past school year) so we have played that too. The boys have to match the number to the correct number of stars on the little fish. We have made mud pies for science day and also have used food coloring to predict and see what different colors are made when added together. My camera went dead during that one. This week we have painted and made Chef boy ar dee pizza. (however you spell it!) That was a lot of fun, but I was so surprised the boys did not want to play with the dough..........they enjoyed everything else though. Hezekiah has also been practicing making A's and B's today, Eli colored, and we also did puzzles.

Maggie is 2 months old now, at her check up she weighed 10 lbs. 3/4 ounces and she was 23 & 3/4 inches tall. She is tall and skinny. She is also more active and alert these days, she can be such a sleepy head. We have had a couple 'make your own sundae' nights with friends over and the kids really have enjoyed making them with sprinkles, M&M's (Eli says when he eats them as he turns the M's sideways, "That's an E, that's an E.."), and whipped cream......yum! I guess it is one way to beat the rainy days and summer heat! After you eat ice cream sundaes your face goes pretty crazy as you can see with Eli and Hezekiah I am sure it is all the sugar they had!

So today at 8:15 a.m. I decided to venture into known territory with 3 children. I decided it was time to go GROCERY shopping with my three. Thankfully the Neighborhood Wal-Mart is only 2 minutes down the road and not many people are at Wal-Mart that time of day, hhhmmm I wonder why?? But thankfully it went really well. The only funny thing that happened really was Hezekiah running after one of the workers who had a forklift thingy with a pallet on it and she was pulling it down past the frozen food section (we were by the garlic bread area.........who can resist garlic bread?) and he decided to start running after the poor woman full blast, yelling "I am gonna get you." She kept pulling the pallet, however at a bit faster pace. Hezekiah is running ahead of me and the lady is past the meat section now, and he is still running after her and an older woman looks at me and says with a grin, "You got your hands full." I laughed and said, "Yep, it is this way every morning, if you want you can come over sometime and see more action!" She said, "Oh, he will grow out of it." But personally, I do not think it would be much fun if he did grow out of it. Actually, I think that God has skipped a generation in my family and gave me the wild man. My grandma always told my mom that she hoped that my father got one exactly like him.........to my knowledge from what I have been told my father once caught the sewers on fire in his hometown. So, what the Lord has blessed me with here is interesting...........I pray that it is not to that extent because my mom says that I was good! :) Maybe it is from Page's side of the family.

Today was also funny, because well......those of you who have multiples and remember the days of feeding a wee one and wondering just what your other children are going to do during the time you are occupied with the littlest is always interesting. You may plan the best of activities for them during that time...........I usually plan snack time, but they ALWAYS come up with something else......usually fighting over a coveted toy. But today was different, it was really amusing and I laughed and smiled a lot listening to my boys. First, they decided the front of the sofa was a spaceship and they were flying. Eli says to Hezekiah, "Huzekiah, do you got yous beatcycle on?" And he lifted his little hands over his shoulders and pretended to click a button in front of him on his chest. I started laughing. He meant his seat buckle. Next, Hezekiah came up with a game in my bedroom using a toy from McDonalds (some type of stick thingy) and a plastic star that you place on the end of the stick and throw. Well, he made Eli sit at the end of the bed and watch him. He made Eli say, "Go Hezekiah, Go Hezekiah." Then Eli would say, "Good shot Huzekiah." Hezekiah would say, "Eli, say 'That's my brother.'" And Eli would say it, then Eli would say, "Yeah, Huzekiah, Yeah." It was much fun listening to them..........because well I was feeding my little peanut and I did not get to watch it all, but I did get to listen. Right now they are playing the game with Daddy, and Daddy has to say, "That's my son!" Too cute!