My Kids

Party Time :)

My nephew turns 3 tomorrow.  We'll be celebrating some more this Sunday...here's when I first held him!

Randal blowing out his "3" candle.

New toys!

First Day

We survived our first day of mother's day out, which is really a trial run for preschool :)  I think Bethany did a lot better than Zachary!  Here's my attempt at a picture with their backpacks (at 7:30 in the morning).

When it rains, it pours!

Hopefully the end of our week will be better than the beginning.  It started with Zachary getting bit in our yard by fire ants.  You can kind of see the bites on his feet in the last picture.  We gave them their first popsicles after the incident.  Katie and Randal came over as well (and Katie got to spend the night on her birthday).  We met my friend Christa at an indoor play area yesterday, but before we left, I noticed our house was not cooling down.  It was getting hotter and by the time we got home for lunch, it was up to 85 degrees!  Aaron called the air conditioning guy, and thankfully he was able to replace the broken part for about 200 dollars...better than paying for a new air conditioner.  So, we spent the rest of our day at my in-laws' house.  We swam, played, took baths, and by the time we got home it was close to 80 degrees again.

Katie looking down from the top.

Zach mastered the slide!

Oh, I forgot to mention that while we were dealing with the fire ants, Rudy got up on the table and ate all 6 rib bones from Aaron's dinner.  I've been watching him, and he hasn't gotten sick yet.  Dumb dog!

Celebrations

This is birthday week for my niece and nephew!  Katie turns 5 tomorrow...I'll never forget when we first met.

We got a Toy Story cake for Katie and Randal.

She's such a good big sister!

Ariel is her favorite princess.

Swimming Lessons

First, I have to tell a story about my fearless daughter today.  We went with a friend to Chick-fil-A, which has a big indoor play area.  My kids have never crawled up to the top, but they did today.  I could hear Bethany's happy voice and see her every now and then, but when it was time to go, I had to get an older girl to find her and slide down with her.  Thank goodness I didn't have to climb in there to bring her down!

I took pictures after our swimming lessons tonight to show we actually went.  It was our second time, and it went much better...at least for Bethany.  Going under water is their least favorite part.  We let Zachary keep his pacifier in most of the time.  I was feeling bad for all the other people having to listen to him cry!  Hopefully Zachary can get over his water fears before the end of the summer.

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