Monday, June 20, 2011

In the pool with Nanna B.  See Bea dunking her head. She's so wild in the water!

So, we've spend a lot of time riding bikes around and playing at the pool.  The kids are also super awesome swimmers.   I got them all these new floatation devices that are made from life vest type foam but look like floaties with a tube around their waist, but it's coastguard approved which means you can use them in public swimming pools like the one behind our house.  I also bought them tiny goggles that finally fit their tiny faces and heads so now they can see underwater and all they want to do is go underwater and wave at me.  haha! Every mom with a two year old clinging to her leg at the pool asks me what I did to get Bea so comfortable water and I tell them, "Puerto Rico!"  Haha.  She has those floaties on, but they aren't that super buoyant, so she does backwards dives and rolls and does this thing where she dunks her own face in the water like 6 times before she takes a breath and she thinks it's so funny.   I seriously think she could be legitimately swimming by the end of the summer. 
All the kids having a great time in the car.  Guess who loves Clemmie?

We went to the Children's museum with Tracie and her kids plus my friend Alissa that lives on our street on Wednesday and then we played in the fountains(since they're both at the Gateway mall in SLC) and then we went swimming at our pool directly after that, which was an insane day, but totally fun. 
All the kids in the helicopter at the museum.  Bea's friend Ella is in the window.  It's a great exhibit.

Then on Friday we went to the aquaraium, which is just around the corner from us and found out that it was only $36 for a year membership for all of us, so we got that and the kids were in love with it.  We went with a few friends from the neighborhood which included a couple five year old boys and at one point there was this one exhibit that had a red light with some fog machine spilling out fog over the water and the two other boys were saying, "woh, that's a fire on the water!" and Henry was like,"there's no way that could be fire guys.  Fire cannot be on the water.  That's probably just a light with some dry ice or something."  They totally argued and didn't believe Henry, but when he asked me what it was I told him that he was right, but that it was meant to look like fire, he felt so good that he didn't give in.  
Packed in to look at salamanders. So cool!

My mom moved into her new place, which is so awesome, so we went down to Provo to hang out and help her unpack a little. She lives on the bottom floor in this really fun complex in a super nice condo that has almost no one living there and she's right next door to a giant room with a huge flat screen TV, kitchen area, eating area that is also right next to the indoor pool and hot tub.  Then just across the lawn from that is a tennis court(that needs a little TLC).  I put Clementine down for a nap, walked 30 seconds to the tennis court to play with the kids and then we went swimming, all the while I would be totally in range of the baby monitor(when I bring one down)! Yay! It's the sweetest setup ever. 
Trying to get a good shot in the boat. Clemmie would have nothing to do with it:(

My sister-in-law had her baby on Friday so I went to see her yesterday and when I walked into the room, I burst into tears because I was so happy for her to finally have her baby and because I'm pregnant and emotional about everything, AND because he looked a lot like Henry with his red hair and big eyes.  I just couldn't help thinking back to my first moments with Henry and how special that was. She was so happy.  I am so happy that she had a baby because all I ever want to talk about is babies!!!

So we've been late to church lately and it was raining cats and dogs today so I went to sleep super early so I could wake up at 6:30, get myself ready, get the church bag all ready, I made a gourmet breakfast and got all the kids clothes and shoes out, even their hair bows all ready before I woke them up. I marched them all downstairs and they ate breakfast while I did their hair and then quickly got them dressed and out the door totally on time for church! I was a little late though because it was raining so hard and I had to coordinate Henry helping Bea with the umbrella and me with Clementine and all my bags and it took an extra 5 minutes to get in from the car, but we were basically on time.   So at church we had the greatest lessons.  The RS one was on missionary work and a few guest speakers spoke about their conversion or their missions and the spirit was so strong, then in Sunday School we learned about the last day of the Savior's life and what he did in the last moments before he was betrayed and was captured and sent to be judged.  Basically the point was that if one of us knew that we were going to die a horrible death soon, we would probably be thinking a lot about ourselves, but Christ was so focused on teaching the apostles and serving them until the last moments.  It was such a showing of love and unselfishness.  Such a great lesson.  One funny thing is that there were two funny men who decided to sit in the front right corner of the room instead of the rows, which is where I had strategically planned on cornering Clementine with chairs so she didn't walk all over the room, but I didn't care that they were there and I blocked her(and them) in anyway.  When the teacher saw this he said, "welcome to Sunday school everyone" and then looked over at me, the two old men and Clemmie and said, "And welcome to Junior Sunday school.  If anyone misbehaves you will go to time out in the Junior Sunday School".   Haha.  It was really funny. 

1 comment:

Alissa said...

So maybe we just need to take Ella to Puerto Rico for a few weeks and then she and Bea could hang out in the pool...