The roof

A few weeks back I went into the kitchen one morning and noticed a big hunk of my ceiling falling to the floor. No one around to help and the water kept coming so I waited for a break in the storm and climbed up there to fix it myself!!

Amazingly I figured it all out and stopped the leak!!! So proud of myself that I took care of the problem!!! Poor Kyra stood at the bottom of the ladder crying and Emma grabbed the camera to document it all just in case I fell off. She did call me my mom to tell her what we were doing and while I tried to assure her (while screaming from the roof to Emma to PLEASE TELLE NANA WE'RE OK) amazingly she showed up within 5 minutes "just to check and see if we needed anything".

Granted I can't compare to the coolness of Tanya's fort for Jack, but now I'm working on siding my house, I'll post before and after pictures when I can get the house done. I think my kids would vote for a fort over new siding anyday! Any chance we can convince Aunt Tanya to come build one for us now???

BFF's

We have some absolutely favorite friends that we've started spending all of our time with. It's an interesting combination since the moms are best friends, you always want your kids to be the best of friends! She has 3 boys and I'm blessed with 2 girls and 2 boys, but interestingly enough it's the perfect combination.

We find the kids sneaking off to play all sorts of intricate imagination games, the boys planting in front of the play station and all of them working together. We love our friends! (and maybe just maybe the moms are hoping for some future relationship between our youngest two . . .)

Emma's Pics

Sorry to double post, I decided tonigh to sort my pictures on my computer into better files so I can remember what happened when and found this slew of about 300 pictures that Emma had taken! First post is from the boys, but this one is all emma's. So interesting to view the world through their eyes! Try it sometimes, give your kids the camera to take pictures of whatever is most important to them, I have to say I was surprised and impressed.

Future photographers

What do you get when your kids steal the camera for an hour or two?

Bragging

To anyone who's still reading when I lament about Kyra's sleep, I have to brag for just a second.

3 nights in a row we do our bedtime routine, and as soon as she says her prayers, she covers herself up and lays down. It's taken up to 20 minutes for her to fall asleep, but she's doing it all by herself!!!!!!

So proud of us.

So much fun!

So I realize all of 6 people read my blog now, but honestly this is a lot of fun!! The kids are loving reading "their blog" and want to post things constantly. Thanks to all who got me hooked on this fun new world.

Un-Casting call

Sam got his cast off last week! For anyone who doesn't know, he broke it during one of our family home evening activities about 7 weeks ago! Both bones, all the way through. OUCH!

He was pretty brave when they took this big loud saw to it, and no one else liked the sound very much either!

Check out the big bump on the bottom of his arm. It's technically broken but he got invited to a swimming party with a friend and we convinced the Dr. that he could go for 2 more weeks without so much as moving beyond walking (ie, no bikes, trampoline, scooter . . .) and they let him keep it off so he could swim.

What a trooper!