Journals
Tuesday,Sep 4 2007, 01:46:02 AMSummer 2007
Well this summer was a lot of fun and work. The girls got a swing set for their 4th birthday from Clint's parents. No you have not missed their birthday. This was an early present so they could enjoy playing on it before the weather is too cold. The play set took us one week and the weekends on either side to complete. All three kids have a blast playing on the swing set. This is a monster set. It has a tunnel that goes over the swings, a slide, a climbing wall, and house on top. Needlessly so say Timothy is not allowed in the backyard now without an adult. He does not like it when the girls go out without him. Another fun adventure that the kids and I had was sending about a month at my parents house helping them with their store that they have opened and with getting the house ready for all the cousins coming in. With all the opening preparations going on there was not much time to get the house ready for 8 adults, 8 children 7yrs. and younger, and 6 dogs. Then the kids and I stayed to help some more with the store and to visit then with my aunt Carolyn and their great Pom. The opening of the store was a success. Clint and I were able to work a little on the flooring in the house before coming over to his parents house for Labor Day. The kids really had fun on the slip-n-slide that his parents bought for them. The girls didn't really have the hang of running and sliding. They did enjoy being pushed on the "boats" that came with it. I even enjoyed getting in on the action at the end. Yes, I even did some sliding on the slip in slide. We will be going back to Tulsa this weekend for birthday celebrations of the girls and Julianna's birthdays with my parents. I will be staying on for the week since Clint has taken off a week and said that I could get away for a vacation from the kids.
The girls are going to be starting Awanas at the church on Wednesday nights and I will start playing in the orchestra. This fall Clint will be tutoring inner city kids threw a program at our church. Timothy is really growing up. He is running all over the place. His lips have really been busted up lately due to all of the falling he has been doing. I am thankful that he has not knocked out any teeth. He is really trying to talk to us. He looks at us and tells us things and points but he does not make any sense. He is starting to make up words for things. He says "ga-ga" for drink, "cak-cak" for cracker. He can sign and say something that sounds like please but more like "peas". Another one of his favorite words is Donegal. He loves to call for Donegal. He has even started potty training himself. There was one day that he kept his diaper dry the whole morning. He would just run to the potty and put the seat up and if I was not there with him he would come and find me get my attention and then run back to the potty. He has not been so successful lately. Oh well, he will get there one day. Well, the kids and I are sleeping over at Nana and Papa's tonight since they thought we were sleeping here last night. I guess I better go tuck them in and sleep back there with them so they actually go to sleep. Hope that everyone had a great summer and Labor Day weekend.