I feel like the worst mom in the world today! Poor sweet Libby gets severely accident prone when she is tired. Like falling down the basement stairs, falling off the couch, falling off the bathroom counter, falling off her chair- kind of accident prone. And then there's David. Poor guy, I felt like I was going from one "Fire" to another today, saving my kids lives left right and centre, only to find David in the bathroom... playing in the toilet and trying to drink my hairspray. I need a vacation!! :)
aren't they adorable! and my girls love being all matching so they are very excited to wear their new hats everywhere! We also had fun turning our princess tent into a balloon pit and here's Cadie eating one of the only foods she will eat these days - saskatoon berries.
ha ha i feel like such a failure as a mom - i sent my little girl off to school for her very first day of french immersion kindergarten ever and I didn't even take any pictures! She was very brave and not even shy at all -some of her classmates were grabbing on to their parents legs and crying but she was happily waving goodbye to me. After a lot of coaxing "what did you do at school?" "How was school?" etc., I finally got - tomorrow I get to play at the rice table. Thats it. ALthough she was telling David "non, non!" later today - pretty soon I won't be able to understand her at all!
So, back a month or so ago, the piano bench fell on Libby's big toe. It turned black and blue and looked pretty awful. She's tough, she barely cried when it happened. However, the toe nail finally fell off a few days ago and that was worth the waterworks! (I think it was partly my fault because I did the whole "Ewww, gross!" when I saw it) Anyway, her toe looked awful and there was a tiny stub of a new nail way down at the bottom starting to grow but her toe had almost NO toe nail. So gross. So as Libby is saying her prayers that night, she prays that her toenail will be better by the morning. I better "back-story" this a bit: when we were camping Libby prayed that it wouldn't rain.... and it POURED! Since then she has been trying to convince me that Heavenly Father doesn't answer our prayers. (according to her, it even says so in the scriptures!) So, I'm all concerned that my poor daughter doesn't have a testimony of prayer, so I sit her down and tell her that Heavenly Father will fix her toenail and that it will grow back but she has to be patient and that Heavenly Father will have her toe back to normal by Halloween... or maybe Christmas. (seriously, I cut her toenails like once every few months!!) So. Imagine my surprise when she proudly shows me her beautiful new toenail two days later!!!! Seriously, I think I was a little too shocked; I know prayer works, but this was a minor miracle all for the sake of my daughter's testimony! I'm so happy Heavenly Father thought it was important enough to fix her toenail (and her belief in prayer). What a wonderful God we have!
so, we have had a great summer. It has been challenging at times (I've been trying to stay home and do less - and for someone like me that is REALLY hard to do. seriously. one of the hardest things you could ever ask me to do would be sit still and do nothing) But we did have a great time camping last weekend! Even though Chelsea claims it was pretty awful :), it was pretty luxurious camping! The kids even got to go on a train ride around the camp site! We did experience a thunder/lightening storm our first night and I was reminded of the pioneers - how did they do it? I tried to convince Chelsea that we should stick it out and spend the night (even though our tents were hopeless and our sleeping gear all wet) - if the pioneers could do it, we could do it! She retorted "the pioneers didn't have a choice!" We spent the night at her sister's house in Red Deer. It was so nice of her to take us all in!
The kids had so much fun at the beach - David loved playing in the mud... almost as much as walking in the water!
Doesn't he look like an old man!!
Corey was our resident photographer - isn't he amazing! Even though the Sheers won't be going camping any time soon, our children loved it and asked on the way home if we could please go "campfireing" again soon. Hopefully we'll make it a family tradition!
so one of the main reasons I'm blogging is to keep a record (like a scrapbook) for my kids that I can hopefully print off at some point. So this post is for Libby. She gave her first talk in primary yesterday and I was so proud of her. She helped write the talk (including picking out the picture prompts) and read most of it herself. (all of it at home before we left, of course!) She also made a story today - she set up her animals and told me what to write and she took the pictures with our "old" camera. (like corey will EVER let her touch the new one!!) SHe's growing up so fast and I love her craziness, her excitement for life and the way she processes things. SHe's quick to share and help.
She's always smiling and genuinely cares for others. She LOVES being center of attention and LOVES being zany and silly. She's got an infectious laugh that gets David and Cadie going, too. I love you, Libby!
The Monkey's Party by Libby Wilson
Once upon a time there was a silly brown monkey.
She had 100 friends over for a party.
Then silly brown monkey and lizard-that –loves-to-swim went swimming.
When they came back all of the party friends were gone and that made monkey sad.
So then some dogs came back and they had a dog party instead. The monkey was super happy. The End.
well, we had a full, fun week. again! The kids said some hilarious things (Libby: "Cadie, if you see something green, you should probably eat it. It just might be cucumber." Cadie: "Lets play house! Libby, you be the mommy, I be the baby and Mommy, you be the camel." and many more that I just can't remember. It's been nice having Corey home because he can laugh with me and finally gets what I mean when I say our kids are psycho! On Monday we had friends over and went to the library. On Wednesday we went to Kids day at the stampede and got to see Chelsea's family. On Thursday we went to the southland stampede breakfast and swimming. On Friday we had our annual Calaway park day with the Wilson family. Yesterday we went to our ward stampede party, and to top it all off, it was "wilson day" at church - Corey and I spoke in sacrament and then Libby had her first talk in primary - I was so proud of her, she did a great job. After such a fun week, it's no wonder Cadie fell asleep during dinner! :)
Corey is a really big geek and he likes all things geeky. Julie finds fufillment in being a stay at home mom and enjoys teaching piano on the side. Libby likes to talk. Cadence likes to copy her sister. David likes to eat and sleep. And that's our life.
