Just me and my girl

Mallory and Madison are at a slumber party. Colin is in Iowa with his wrestling coach watching the Olympic try-outs. Jim took Cameron and Preston fishing. That just leaves Quincy and me all alone at home. She has been keeping me entertained! We planted some flower seeds, took a bubble bath and read some books. Now she is singing and playing with all Preston's toys while he is not here to stop her!

We spent the afternoon at the city pool. (Grace, I still say it is too cold, but the kids swam for a couple of hours and didn't complain too much!) We then took care of the pigs, and then all the kids disappeared to the various events listed above. Quincy was pretty sad at first, but she is good now! I am enjoying the relative quiet and lack of being at the ballpark! I am also hoping that Colin had a great trip to Iowa, they left this morning around 5 am and won't return until late tonight sometime. He is staying the night with his friend, and we will pick him up tomorrow. I would venture to guess that he will be exhausted! Here's hoping he can sleep in the car on the way home! Anyhow, I think it was a great opportunity for him to get to go, and I am sure he will tell us all about it!

I've been good, right?

Quincy: I be good right?

Me: Yes, you have been very good.

Quincy: Then I go to the 'cession' stand?

Didn't take her too long to figure that out did it?

Firsts

The first swim of the summer of '09 lasted about 10 minutes due to the extremely cold water. Nobody complained about the cold, just didn't stay in for long!
Preston played his first t-ball game. He got 2 good hits in without using the T so we were pretty excited about it. It has been long enough since the other kids played t-ball that we had forgotten how the kids get bored when they play the outfield, and how they tend to start crying halfway through. Since Preston got 2 good hits and did not do any crying at all, we consider this a very successful game!

Our Pig Growing Experiment Seems to be Working!

These little babies are growing fast! (And getting dirtier and smellier by the day).

What the...????

I found this when I got home from work yesterday. I didn't know what it was, but it sure looked gross! Apparently, this is what happens when your 13 year old daughter walks her little brother to the store and buys him breakfast. Fun Dip - all the colors mixed together and eaten with a grapefruit spoon counts as a serving of fruit, after all it is fruit flavored, and they used the correct utensils for fruit!

here it is...

We finally got the sonogram photos to scan. They didn't turn out very well, and these were done at 7 weeks, so the baby is more like a beating footprint but, you can get the picture anyway! Hopefully we will have another sono in a few weeks and then we will have some pictures that look like an actual baby! Ha!

Rain

Yesterday, we were trapped indoors all day due to a misty, miserable, cold, rainy day. This made for a lot of sadness when ballgames were postponed. Since we haven't played that many games yet, we are still sad when we don't get to play! Quincy entertained herself by stealing the girl's makeup and giving herself a make over. She really loves to eat their lip gloss. This did not go over very well I might add! Whereas I generally enjoy a nice rainy day to do some baking and housecleaning, I must admit that I much prefer a sunny day when the kids are out of school!

The city pool opens this Saturday, the kids are very excited about this. Grandma filled her pool as well, but it has been too cold to swim (not that it would stop them from trying it, but mom said NO!).

We have finally completed all the paperwork and testing for Cameron's school next year. I am relieved to have this task finished, as it was a bit time consuming and cumbersome. Now all we have left to do is to pick out his elective courses. I believe his choice is to take Spanish, but I also believe it is because he thinks he can learn to curse in Spanish!