Our kids are also growing bigger. We had both kids to the doctor for well-child check-ups last week. Miles is 18 months (in Nursery! Yay!) and Tess will be 4 years old this week. Miles is off the charts for height; he’s going to be taller than Tess before we know it. We LOVE our new doctor!! Bryan came with me to the appointment and he was also very impressed by him. I had seen him once when Miles was 15 months and really liked him, and after this visit I like him even more. It is so very, very nice to have a doctor whom we trust and also really like. We had a fabulous doctor in Logan, and in Riverdale we had two not-so-great doctors, so it’s wonderful to have a fabulous one again. Both kids seemed to really like him too because he makes the kids feel so comfortable. I could go on and on because it’s so refreshing after 2 ½ years to love our doctor again….
We had our cute niece Emma come to stay with us for a few days earlier this month and it was great! She is 9 years old and a huge help to me. She loves my kiddos and she’s really sweet with kids, so it was almost like free babysitting for 4 days. At the park, I could be a lazy mom and just sit on the bench and watch the kids play (normally I have to run after Miles and make sure he doesn’t fall off the jungle gym), and when Tess had to go potty “right now!” in the middle of the checkout line at Wal-Mart, I just sent Emma with her. It was great! I’m looking forward to having kids that age, where they not only entertain themselves very well, but they also help out so much!
This past weekend was a family reunion for my Gramma D’s siblings and their kids. I think there were not only 2nd cousins there, but also 3rd and probably 4th cousins as well. I knew very few people. But it was just nice to see my own 1st cousins whom I don’t see very often. The reunion was at a hot springs in Idaho and unfortunately it was cold, windy, and rainy all day long…luckily the swimming pool felt like a nice warm bathtub so we just played in the water most of the day. Even Miles who doesn’t usually like water loved just floating around in his lifejacket.
We also got to see Bryan’s family yesterday for Father’s Day. Tess is at the age now where she loves wearing dress-up clothes. Everything is “Princess this” and “Princess that” and she had a blast wearing her cousin’s fancy dress-up clothes. Gramma and Grampa Terry gave her an early birthday present of a “Sleeping Beauty” dress with shoes, crown, and purse and she hasn’t taken it off yet. She’s pretty cute.
Speaking of cute, the other day Tess was playing and got a little confused about the different traditions on holidays. She came over to me and pretended to knock on my door. When I answered she was standing there, holding her Easter bucket, but instead of saying “trick or treat” she was asking for Valentines.
The pictures this week are of: 1-Miles enjoying a marshmallow when we went up the canyon a few weeks ago for a campfire (Bryan wanted to try out his new chainsaw, so we had to find an excuse!) 2-I took Tess and Emma to the library for an evening of “Clowning Around” with face painting, balloon animals, puppet shows and the like. 3-One evening after the kids were in bed, Bryan & I were outside and saw a little baby frog in the grass. We’ve been hearing them for months now, but we couldn’t ever find one. Anyway we brought it inside to show Tess and she was thrilled. He was a tiny little thing but he could jump so far and Tess was just cracking up. 4-The last picture is what I found when Tess called to me the other night after she was supposed to be sleeping. Right before bed, (during the “Quick!-Stall!-and-ask-Mom-something-ANYthing-before-she-can-turn-out-my-light” portion of our bedtime routine) she asked if she could comb her hair in bed. I said, “no; go to sleep” and turned off the lights. Well, about 15 minutes later, she started crying and yelling for me. I went in and she had gotten out of bed, gotten her comb, and gotten the comb terribly stuck in her wet hair. She said she had been twirling it. It was pretty bad; so bad that for a minute I was worried that we may have to cut it out. But, eventually I got it out, and hopefully she learned a lesson about minding Mom! :)
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