Okay, better late than never. The plan was to change the decor in the bedrooms once we moved in. Out with the rough/tough boy digs and bring in the pink/purple fluffy stuff girls need in their rooms. The girls divided themselves up when we first moved in. Two girls to a bedroom. Jordis and RaeAnne to share, ZoraLin and Kendalan to share. That only lasted a few weeks. Musical beds has been the ongoing nightly dance that Mom and Dad are getting tired of! Right now, all four girls are in one bedroom. We have a queen bed and a full bed on the floor in one room. Put together like one supersized bed. You would think that this is a wonderful solution. NOT! Now the battle is the three older girls all want to sleep in the same bed, thus leaving Kendalan in a bed by herself. Granted, she is still in the same room with them, but the whine flows and flows.
Kendalan turned three years old April 24th. This girl is SO ahead in just about everything. Well, except for the desire to use the potty. She just does not seem to have the time to fiddle with using the potty. I am not too concerned. RaeAnne was 3.75 before she over night decided to throw away her diapers and use the big girl toilet. She never looked back. ZoraLin was earlier in training and basically did the same thing. Jordis came to us with scars on her hips which we think were likely caused by being tied on the potty chair. Kendalan is another story. This is what she thinks the potty seat is for. Yepper! That's my girl!!
I arrived home from work last night and RaeAnne could not stop telling me about the Lemonade Stand that they were going to have. She crawled in bed with me, flipped and flopped like a fish out of water, and finally dropped off to sleep. This morning first thing off, she was looking out the front door to see if Paige was out. (Our neighbor girl) The phone rang about 11am and it was seconds later that RaeAnne literally ZIPPED across the front lawn to Paige's house.
I filled my pockets with quarters, grabbed the camera, two excited little sisters and headed across the street. Here is what I found.
The girls had a great time for about an hour and the neighbor's were great about "donating" to the girls' pool party fund! That is supposedly why they had the Lemonade stand, to make money for a pool party. I still don't know where that party is supposed to be. Guess Mommy's are the last to know!
I cropped and fixed this one up just a little.
Our weather has been variable lately. About one month ago, we had a very strong wind go through during the middle of the night. I heard all the noise and was up watching out the wind as things flew by our house at a very quick pace! That night we were one of the lucky ones here in our little neighborhood, the only damage at our house was our slippery slide blew off the playset. However, several of our neighbors were not as lucky. One neighbor's playset fell over, just inches from their house. Their storage shed was flipped upside down, the contents thrown all over and damaged. Another family had quite a bit of their pool deck torn off and scattered about. But the biggest damage of all....a house in the process of being built was literally blow away! Bits and pieces were scattered even across highway 75 and beyond. We were the only house here that did not lose any shingles!
This week we had a hail storm move through. Again, we were spared any major damage. Folks near to us had baseball sized hail. The biggest we saw was about quarter size. Here are photos of the hail piled up on our deck. Again tonight storms are marching across our state. We have heard reports of tornado activity.
We had a wonderful surprise phone call the other day. A former neighbor was coming through town with her dogs and puppies! The girls have enjoyed being a part of three litters of puppies from these dogs, so of course, they want to be a part of the fourth and final litter of pups!! Some of the next door kids also came over to join in the fun. The puppies are adorable and I heard all kinds of pleas, "Mommy, can we have one?" "I like this one the best!" "Awww, come on, just one?!"
