Weekly Review

April 28 - May 4

The tooth fairy visited our house again April 29th. Jeffrey was sitting at dinner wiggling his tooth when he said, "I think Dad could pull my tooth out tonight" and wah lah! He had the tooth already in his hand! And just so you know, he is terrible at getting his picture taken. We had several tries to get him to just look normal but it's just impossible if a camera is involved! He's a funny boy. He and Jack both have a loose tooth right now.

Jane and Jeffrey were into painting this week, a very messy endeavor. But, whenever I do this with them I feel like such a good mom. Isn't that funny?

Well, look at that, this picture turned out pretty good! Jeffrey painted enough pictures for a book and then wrote on each page. It went something like this... "This is me and Jack. This is my dad. This is when my dad comes home. I like my family." Interestingly enough, the picture he painted of me was left on the cutting room floor!

For FHE we worked in our front yard. The boys helped weed and load the trash bins. I pruned and dead headed the rose bushes. John got the planter squares in the cement ready to fill with pond rock. Jane entertained Katie Anne in her stroller. It was a nice evening without any wind, so it truly was a miracle! I took these pictures that night, which I'm glad I did because it was VERY WINDY this week and all the flowers were blown off.

On Wednesday night I had planned to stay home while John was at scouts but remembered I had to return a video. I loaded the chillen's up and away we went. Now, Baskin Robbins happens to be just next to the video store and it happened to be 31cent night so we happened to go there too. I felt badly later that I hadn't let the kids get more than one scoop until I remembered that we had just had ice cream that afternoon for our afternoon snack. Lucky dogs. The boys had fun climbing on the fire truck.

Thursday morning Jeffrey came stumbling out of his room gagging. He had swallowed a nickel! He said it was an accident but what was the nickel doing in his mouth!!! Anyway, I had warned him recently of keeping small things out of Katie Anne's reach so maybe he was just testing to see if I knew what I was talking about. He did tell me this morning that he thinks the nickel might have come out. I did not check.

I found out on this day that I probably have kidney stones again although I wasn't in that much pain. I'm being treated for a UTI which is probably TMI, but hey, this is my journal and these things need documented!


This weekend we had a friend over afterschool and into the evening while his parents were at the temple. The boys had fun playing together. We had 'restaurant night' which means left overs and I was pretty proud of the spread...meatloaf, stuffed chicken and broccoli shells, stir fry, and fajitas. Yum!
John got all of the bathroom sink fixtures changed out and they are SO MUCH BETTER! He also took down all of our air vents, scrubbed them and painted them and put them back up. They also look, you guessed it, SO MUCH BETTER! Little things do make a difference.

Happy Birthday to Ruth Ann yesterday and I think I forgot to say welcome to the world, Traigen! He was born on the 23rd and we can't wait to see a picture (hint, hint!) As if she didn't have anything else to do. Anyway, have a great week!