Friday, August 26, 2011

Summer 2011 Part 2

This summer we also..
Read books, 
Played with play dough in our pj's; put stickers on our faces and did lots of laundry
We ran races and got in the way,
made ice cream in my $5.00 yard sale find  -worked great!
Took a Sunday night hike and threw stones,
lots of stones
and we held some stones in our tight fists that we should have let go...
We played together and payed little attention to fashion
And we ate corn.  Isaiah told me that if he could choose between bags of candy or just 2 little kernels of corn he would pick the corn!

We also took a trip to Thunder Bay.  Pictures on that coming soon.

Summer 2011 Part 1

 I have no idea where to start with posting about our summer. I think I'll just start posting pictures and see where I end up.

5k race -July 4th
My cheer leaders -they were rather tired of the whole thing by this point. But having them there  was very special.

My grandparents (and aunt -not pictured) also came.  My Uncle Daryl ran the race as well.  Much faster that I did I should add.  He recently qualified for the Boston Marathon.  I'm proud of him, but have no desire to join him!   
Later that day we went to my grandma's for ice cream.  Here Callie is playing with her second cousin Lilly.  Sweet girls! 

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

To Nap or Not to Nap

To blog or not to blog.  I hate it that it has been over a month since I blogged.  If I remember correctly I was behind on blogging when I posted the last time also.  I just keep thinking I can't blog until I catch up on all the stuff from our summer and I can't do that until I have pictures to post.  The pictures are finally on the computer (not this piece of junk) so one of these days I shall catch up.

In the mean time here is a question: when do you have a child stop taking naps? Oh the agony.  Right now Callie sleeps every day -she's is not the problem.  Isaiah and Nathan both have quiet times for about 1 hour.  More times than not they both sleep, but then I have to wake them up or bedtime is not fun.  I feel like for my sanity they must take a quiet time.  Am I a bad person for that?  I don't really care if they don't sleep, but often they fall asleep.  Sometimes they don't fall asleep then they are complete bears till bedtime and even the next day until nap time comes around again.  Then I think maybe I should let them sleep longer today.  Bad idea.  As I started this post Nate was pretending to be a fireman on our bed (where he was sent when they had to be separated).  I have no idea what the correct answer is to this and I don't really expect to get one.  However, if you have suggestions they are welcome!

My main reason for blogging was just to get back into it again.