- Spring seems to have officially sprung around here, although I think a few colder days may be in store this week. We have our garden plowed up, it needs to be tilled up and it will be ready to plant! I am excited to have the garden going again, and the kids absolutely love it. It's a great learning experience and I think all kids should know where their food comes from, whether it's veggies or meat or anything else-and I don't mean that it's from "the store"! :-) I think you could grow a few things in even the tiniest of spaces.
- We attended an egg hunt at a friend's house Saturday. It was so much fun! The eggs were filled with so much fun stuff that wasn't candy. We got tattoos, lip gloss, stickers, putty, and even fishing lures!
- My mom and dad both have birthdays this week! Dustin's cousin is also getting married. It's going to be a busy week! Lots of fun things going on!
- Emilynn has her first specialist appointment this week with the pediatric gastroenterologist. I am really hopeful this is another part of the process of finding answers to her stomach issues. I will post updates and more details on her problems soon. I do know that she will probably have an endoscopy and possibly colonoscopy to see what's going on. We have already ruled out celiac disease and a few other things.
- We found 24 eggs under our front porch! We finally found where one chicken was laying! I hated to waste all those eggs but it was no telling how long they had been under there. Come to think of it, I should have saved them for our annual family egg toss! Darn!
- I am ordering butterflies today. I bought a butterfly "kit" thing and now we need the caterpillars. I thought it would be a great homeschool project, and the kids have been asking since winter if it was time to order them. Carson is probably the most excited, he loves bugs and stuff like that.
- Speaking of spring, one of our hummingbirds is back! I have to make some food for him-it is on my to-do list this week. It is SO easy to make your own food for them, it is just a simple syrup with sugar and water. I DO NOT add the red dye to it, and they gobble it up just fine. I can't imagine what the red dye does to their little bodies, when I know what it does to our bigger ones. I will post the recipe when I make it. I got a $2 feeder from the dollar store, so it's a very cheap, fun project to have! The kids love looking for them to come eat and watching them.
- And speaking of homemade, making lip balm is also on my list to make in the next few weeks. I have beeswax I ordered, so I will have to post the recipe if it turns out okay. I love Burt's Bees lip balm, so I'm hoping it's similar.
- Swim class was great Friday. The boys really did good! The teacher and I were wondering what happened to the boys! Carson was much more comfortable in the water and kept doing things to show off for Ms. Elise, the teacher. Henry was floating all around in his puddle jumper, kicking his little feet. He is going to be a fish like Emmy. There was so much confusion with the pool being broke for so long that the teacher is giving us an extra lesson for free this time. That makes me happy! Ms. Elise and the Y are great! (In case you missed me saying that 5 dozen other times! Ha!)
- The kids and I have been walking every morning for a week now. It feels good to exercise and gives me so much more energy. I have learned I have to do it first thing in the morning, and I WILL be interrupted at least 32 times. Invariably someone will need more drink or something as I'm going along. I basically just walk up and down our driveway until I am tired and that's that. I only walk a short portion of the driveway, where I can see the kids the whole time if they decide to play instead of walk. I am hoping it will help on the road to losing weight, but also showing the kids an example of an active lifestyle. They are not sit in the house, play video games kids or anything by any means, but I think it's good to exercise and be active as a family. After a long winter, it's nice to be back in the swing of working out. As far as weight loss, I know that will be a slow process, as we choose to eat real, whole foods versus the low fat options on the market. I just really feel we should eat food as God intended, not the new options that are made in a laboratory somewhere to mimic things like butter, milk, meat, etc. My goal is to just eat less of those yummy, real foods. We also need to work on not eating out so much as that seems to happen more these days as we get busier and busier.
- Speaking of eating out, we went to our favorite Mexican place after church and did not need a highchair. Henry wanted to sit like a big boy. I was a little sad as we hit another "milestone". He is growing up too fast for this Momma! He even pooped in the potty last week! One another note-Carson would probably still sit in the highchair if we let him! Ha! Kids are all so individual and different. It's neat to see the different personalities develop. Just in the last few months Carson has come out of his shell big time. He is just less stressed really, he worries less about every little thing and just seems to be having more fun. He is looking forward to school in the fall and he even spent the night away from home for the first time recently. Big changes in my oldest boy!
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