The most entertaining activity at the local city park is not the playground for Miss E. It is the water fountain on the pedestal that she climbs and proceeds to splash in the water. She does not care to drink the water, just splash and get wet! Big brother Hunter taught her all about this earlier in the summer. And today was no different. We left the park this afternoon with any one in their yard in our little town hearing our oldest daughter shriek “Moh wawa Mommy! Moh wawa NOW Mommy! No no not buh bye! Moh wawa NOW!”
Youngest daughter Anika Iris enjoyed the park from her view in her infant seat. You would never know by looking at the seat that it was completely taken a part and full sprayed down with Oxi, soaked and washed twice yesterday due to first a huge explosive blow out diaper and then to a full force vomiting incident. Poor Anika. She was also washed from head to toe twice yesterday. Thankfully today she enjoyed her time in the seat as we were out and about and her seat stayed clean and so did she.
Elizabeth was just chilling at the park, taking a break in the action! Her crossed ankles made me burst out laughing. She looked so mature.
Our growing son, Hunter, likes to help me cook. He helped today with banana wheat cake, chocolate chip (we call them “Holstein” with white and dark chips) cookies, beef roast in the Crock-Pot and veggies and rice. I was nursing Anika when Hunter was supposed to be watching the rice. It boiled over and he proclaimed that he is specialzing his cooking skills and no longer a “rice cooker” but thinks he would be a great “soup chef”. Yet tonight we are going to prepare an egg bake for after church tomorrow. Nathan buys farm fresh eggs from a local farmer who comes into the lumberyard to buy supplies. We have three dozen fresh eggs so an egg bake I thought would be a good way to use some of the eggs.
Hunter whether he wanted to or not spent some time late this afternoon writing thank you notes for the birthday gifts he received. Thank you notes are not old-fashioned. They are necessary and required in our household. Plus letter writing is a dying art. Kids needs to learn to write letters and not just emails!
Anika looks like her daddy! And she also loves her daddy and had some quality cuddle time today with him. Saturday routines changed for us this year because after thirty years of being open on Saturday mornings, the lumberyard is now closed for the entire weekend. It is easier to hire employees when they know they do not have to work weekends but probably has annoyed a handful of customers that they cannot get pick some weekend project supplies on Saturday mornings. The lumberyard delivers for free though so if you call ahead in the week, supplies can be delivered by Friday afternoon for customer’s weekend projects. Most of all, the schedule change has given us freedom for our family on the weekends to have more time to do things together. And it has given Nathan’s dad his first break in thirty plus years to not have to be at the office by 7AM or earlier on Saturday mornings. Now those of you that know Nathan and his father Eldon…do you really think they are not working? Of course not. Especially this time of year. As Nathan says “it is our Super Bowl season”. But thankfully we still have our share of splendid Saturdays together.
Hunter whether he wanted to or not spent some time late this afternoon writing thank you notes for the birthday gifts he received. Thank you notes are not old-fashioned. They are necessary and required in our household. Plus letter writing is a dying art. Kids needs to learn to write letters and not just emails!
Anika looks like her daddy! And she also loves her daddy and had some quality cuddle time today with him. Saturday routines changed for us this year because after thirty years of being open on Saturday mornings, the lumberyard is now closed for the entire weekend. It is easier to hire employees when they know they do not have to work weekends but probably has annoyed a handful of customers that they cannot get pick some weekend project supplies on Saturday mornings. The lumberyard delivers for free though so if you call ahead in the week, supplies can be delivered by Friday afternoon for customer’s weekend projects. Most of all, the schedule change has given us freedom for our family on the weekends to have more time to do things together. And it has given Nathan’s dad his first break in thirty plus years to not have to be at the office by 7AM or earlier on Saturday mornings. Now those of you that know Nathan and his father Eldon…do you really think they are not working? Of course not. Especially this time of year. As Nathan says “it is our Super Bowl season”. But thankfully we still have our share of splendid Saturdays together.
awww…thanks for writing letters and thank you notes. Employer aside, I agree. A lost art! 🙂