Raimey Grace

This is how our week started, me very pregnant! I was told that I was 40 weeks and 6 days here. And expecting to be induced the next morning. Well, fortunately everything went as planned. My midwife came to the hospital and broke my water at 9:15am and my labor started right after that.

At 12:20pm Raimey Grace was born. She was born on June 21, 2010. She was 6lbs and 15oz, 19 1/2 inches long. She has dark hair. Everything went way better than I could have hoped for and we are very grateful for everyone keeping us in their thoughts and prayers.

Tahlia thrilled to hold Raimey.

Ashton with Raimey.

Ransom with Raimey.

randomness

So this year I finally did it! I bought a membership to the zoo. The kids love it. I swear I find new things there every time I go. It is not a very big zoo but it is always changing! I was sad to see the bears gone but then very excited to see they will build a new exhibit for bears and other Arctic animals, I believe.

Here are the kids having fun. Sometimes the kids are crazy after church so we take them for a Sunday drive. One Sunday that landed us at the Draper Temple. It is a beautiful temple.

crazy kid!

Ransom is too much most days! He is still kinda on the small side and well I have figured out why. He is always hungry and does not like spicy food. It is unfortunate since I love spicy food and most everything that I cook is spicy one way or another. Recently, he has profess his love of sandwiches and spaghetti and meatballs. I think that the picture says it all.

He is very busy too. His favorite thing is to torment his sister. It is constant. I think that I have finally broken him of saying naughty words with the help of soap, but before that was completely taken care of he was sure to teach them all to Tahlia, so I still get to listen to it. Now he constantly has his fingers in his mouth, yuck!
On the other hand he has been awesome. He will help in the kitchen, help weed the garden, swing with Tahlia and most importantly he would watch a movie quietly while I napped. That was awesome. Ashton never could do that!

Tooth Fare!

I am very happy that there is not some sort of tooth fairy exam to become a parent. I would have failed that section for sure and continue to fail in that area. On Sunday Ashton lost his 4th tooth during dinner, eating corn on the cob. While that this is awesome and normal I was not feeling so normal. I was being induced the next morning and was very anxious about that. So we did our normal bed time routine with the kids and then took them over to Aunt Laura's for the night and next couple of days while I was in the hospital. Needless to day the tooth was forgotten about. So the other day when he had been home for a couple of nights I asked him if the tooth fairy had visited him and he said "No" but had gotten out his note to put it under his pillow to tell the tooth fairy that his tooth is actually in the cup beside his bed and not under his pillow.

Yes, at our house he has had to write the tooth fairy to remind the tooth fairy of where his tooth is. He had to write the note because the tooth fairy forgot to take the tooth and leave a dollar, and needed an excuse. Not just that time but three times now. So He keeps the note in his desk and when the tooth fairy forgets he gets it out and puts it under his pillow for the next night.

We love to see the note now and we are very proud of his creativity and patience with the tooth fairy. How may more teeth will he loose?

Kindergarten graduation!

This year we were invited to kindergarten graduation. Good thing! The kindergarten classes did a little program and sang songs. It was so cute. They were given fly eye glasses for a song. They all loved it and had a great time.

This is Ashton and his teacher on the last day of school. He was awesome. I was very pleased! That is saying something!
His teacher loves to teach the kids through song and music. He always had his guitar available with songs at the ready. After the first week of school Ashton told me that he wanted to play guitar. I thought let us get through some piano first.
Ashton over heard his teacher say that he was going to be so sad when the school year ends that he is going to go home and cry for 4 days straight, eat chocolate and drink chocolate milk. Ashton believes this still. The aid told me they really do cry every year.

That is awesome. I know that they care about what they are doing and they really enjoy it. I must admit that I just laugh because... well, I really hated school all 20 years that I put in. Of course I do not want that for my children I do want them to love learning. So I am very happy.

Tahlia

So Tahlia has decided that she is all grown up in the last few weeks. Incidentaly, she tells us she is the baby. She insists that she dress herself all of the time and you are absolutely not allowed to touch her cloths or shoes. You can tell her it is backwards but be prepared to be screamed at. She absolutely loves her shoes. It was her first word after all. After she is put to bed she goes about her room looking for shoes to put on and then goes to sleep.
The other night she had her "foop flawps" on in bed and woke me up with her screaming at about 2am for me to find her upset that her foop flawps had come off and she needed them back on. I don't know where she was headed but whatever makes her happy.

I must say that Tahlia is a baby nut too. She goes gaga for the babies. I have been very nervous, about a full time baby here. Fortunately she was able to get a little practice before hand.

Spring Soccer

Spring soccer time. The joys of soccer practice and going to soccer games. This year some friends at school were planning a team and Ashton said that he wanted to play so we signed him up! He is really enjoying it this year. He is getting better as the games go on. He is getting better at keeping scores too, and tells me who won.

Oh I go to the games for a laugh. I know how rude, but it is true! Seeing all the little ones run up and down the field is pretty funny, but it is the things that go on, on the field, when nobody else is paying any attention. Like the goalies doing whatever bored goalies do, jump around, sit down and whatever else there is to do to pass the time that cracks me up.