It was a great weekend, and as soon as I finish this I'm going to sit down and watch TV, so I plan to be fast. The pictures will have nothing to do with the commentary.
Saturday we deep cleaned the kids rooms and organized toys. We'll see how long that lasts. We did pack away some toys for now to limit the potential damage in the wake of Hurricane Sunflower and Tornado Sweet Pea.
Then the girls and I spent some time outside while the boys and Dad played StarCraft together. Sweet Pea is definitely the one in the family with the most potential to buy us a house with her sports career. The weather was beautiful.
Then we had dinner with friends. Technically it was our Saturday night Home Fellowship Group/Bible Study/Small Group/Cell Group/Mini-church, etc. depending on what church you go to, but we call it HFG and since all but us canceled it was dinner with friends. We missed the others and were sorry about their reasons for missing (baby with RSV and broken water heater being some of the reasons) but it was nice to only have 6 kids total instead of 22.
We did buy some hair clips for the girls this weekend. We want a little less of Sweet Pea's hair to be bangs, but finding clips at times has been a problem. With 25 new ones we should be able to make it a month or two.
Oh, how I loved being able to play with sunlight backlight again...and with my new lens it is fabulous! It was the first time I filled my memory card in months. Light is what I love about photography.
Sunday SnapDragon sang in both main services at church with a group of 6 other kids...hmmm, the rest were girls. They sang the chorus of My Deliverer by Rich Mullins. I enjoyed watching him so much and he really enjoyed being part of worship and was sad when it was done. But I am glad he won't be practicing the same two lines over and over and over and over anymore.
Sweet Pea had her first communion at church (very early for any denomination) but you try having food and drink and not share it with her! It seemed it would be better for the rest of the congregation to give her a little bit...thankfully our church serves juice, not wine. I'm pretty sure God understands.
Today we watched the movie Elf and folded clothes. We should probably cancel the DVD portion of our NetFlix. I put Elf in our queue to watch at Christmas, but we sat on "Young Sherlock Holmes" for 3 months so we missed seeing it during the season. I do admit we all enjoyed the movie, though Sweet Pea missed it due to the best nap she has had in 3 weeks.
Then Oak, the girls, and I went to McDonalds for dinner and WalMart. The boys had dinner at home and played some more computer. Huckleberry is almost 13 and SnapDragon 9...when did they get so old? I don't know, but I must admit having two kids seemed like a complete breeze. Sunflower even got to order chocolate milk since we weren't feeding her brothers. A win-win for all.
Warning...TMI...And Sweet Pea had her first BM in the toilet. We had no intention of potty training at 18 months. But she has been giving some signs she is ready. Then today in the bath she started yelling at Oak when usually she loves baths, so he put her on the toilet and success. We're not really sure where to go from here. She is a year and a half younger then the others were. Yes, I know...but we are lazy and they were slow.
On a completely different note, the lighting in the back of the yard through some sticks and brambles and under the cedar is gorgeous at 2 p.m. here. Oak doesn't like the shot because he isn't sure exactly what her expression means, but since she followed it up with the words, "Mom! Stop taking pictures and come in our house!" I think I know. (The house was less than 3 feet tall, so I didn't stay long. It was sunny but February is still pretty muddy.)
Then I spent an hour editing pictures and writing a blog post. Overall a pretty nice, and relatively typical, weekend.
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