Ghosts?

Someone at our house seems to use the last of the cereal and popsickles and not throw away the empty boxes. He also mysteriously added several items to my laundry this weekend. Somehow I ended up with extra shorts, a swimming suit, some extra ball socks, and a couple of other items which were not familiar to me. Nobody at our house seems to know who is responsible for these things, so I am assuming it is a ghost.

Matching mohawks

The kids school has a dress code that prohibits extreme haircuts. Frankly, all it does is create a desire of the kids to have their hair all wacky, but since we are good citizens, we have to follow the rules. This means that the minute school is out the boys start in with wanting the summer mohawks. I had been putting this off since we are generally at the ballpark late and I just don't feel like giving the kids haircuts at midnight. I finally made the time today, and since Cameron had a mohawk, then Preston had to have one as well!

summer fun

Our church has started having donuts and coffee after mass. It is really nice, as it serves as a good bribe for Preston and Quincy to sit still during church. This morning, my sister had donuts with us. I asked her what she was doing for the day, and she said she had to go shopping. Preston immediately announced that he was going shopping with her. He then demanded that we go right now and move his booster seat into her car. Being the extremely nice aunt that she is, my sister let him tag along. Preston helped Aunt Amy pick out a few necessary items and she ended up buying the boys new water guns. They had a ton of fun sneaking up on everyone in the neighborhood and making sure that our water bill is the highest one in town! I am not sure where they come up with their energy, this was all after a few hours of swimming with cousins in the city pool, and cleaning out their pig pen!

another wacky weekend

Its the weekend again...and again we have a million little things to do. We haven't folded laundry in a week, so it is piled in my bedroom and ready to be folded and there is more to wash too. I don't have much hope of getting it all done today, but maybe if I work hard...??? The girls played softball in Osage City last night. It was an ugly game. Not much more I can say about it, just that they only had 8 players and those 8 seem to have forgotten everything they had ever learned about the game. I hope I never have to sit through another one like that! Just a bad night. After the girls played, we drove over to Carbondale to watch Colin's team. They also lost, but they played really well. Colin got to pitch, which I admit racks my nerves. He just is such an easy going kid, he stands out there and if he throws a strike, he smiles, if he hits a kid he smiles, and if he walks a kid he smiles. He is having fun! Which I guess is the reason we are doing this after all! Preston had a t-ball game this morning. His team had fun and there was no crying today at all, so that was a big improvement over last week. maybe it was because it was not hot! Cameron has the late game tonight - I hope that his team does ok, but their main pitcher is on vacation and that means that they are down to 8 players too.

Jim is helping with the city park project (unless it rains). I am saying a little prayer that this week goes better than the last time they were planning to move dirt. I went over to take him a water, and he had sunk the dump truck in mud. I mean buried it. It took them quite a while to figure out how to get it out!

I hope that your weekend is great - we are going to try to get in a little TV time or something amongst the running in circles! I don't think that summer was made for relaxing!!

Self Portraits

By Madison

Musical marvels

Madison took Preston and Quincy to Story Time at the library today. It was family music day. Preston and Quincy both won prizes. Preston got a cardboard accordian (that really plays the most amazing music) and Quincy got a plastic clarinet. They have been making lots of music around our house today. I must remember to write a special thank you note to the library for these great prizes!

Small update

Colin has a great time at the Olympic try-outs. He got to talk to several of the wrestlers, got some autographs, and learned all sorts of new moves! He told me a lot of details about how each wrestler did, how they won, and how fast some of them were. He was exhausted, but not grouchy, so that was nice!

I had a doctor appointment yesterday. #7 has a good strong heartrate at 169 beats per minute. Everything looks good and they told me that they would schedule my c-section already, which I declined to do. It just seemed too early to think about scheduling something! The kids have been "helping" us come up with names. So far, my favorite is Preston's suggestion of Power Ranger. I am pretty sure there won't be any others in the kindergarten class with that name!