stuff

*this kid's got a job!
 he worked his first shift, 3:30-8, at forrest farms pool wednesday night. he reported that it was "so hot and so boring. i was just watching the clock the whole night." that being said, i think he really understands the importance of being alert and not distracted. they showed enough horrible drowning footage in his lifeguard class.

*i really wanted to get a picture of him performing his life guarding duties, but I had the girls in the car, and i didn't want to embarrass him. so I pulled a creepy-creeper and sniped him through the fence

*the little girls played outside in the little pool all yesterday evening. we ate dinner on the deck, chicken, rice, and corn - super messy - and then Delaney decided to add water to the mess.

*thanks, big d!

*this morning we had gymnastics. during stretching, Frankie got worried, started crying, and then came and sat with me for awhile. she has never acted like that, it was really weird. thankfully, on my evening run the other day, I had listened to the 'calm coach' talk about what to do in this situation. I sat her on my lap and comforted, and after a few minutes I took her back in and we talked to the coach, she got a buddy, and she was fine.

 

I had somehow left the house without my purse (or my wedding ring) today, so we weren't able to do our after gymnastics ritual of filling the truck, so we went straight to addie's school and she finally got to be the line leader. she's been asking for like a month, and we just haven't been early enough.

*of course, frankie and laney fell asleep on the drive from gymnastics to addie's school, and then as soon as we pulled into the garage, they both woke up. I needed to finish the laundry so I let Frankie 'rest' in the basement, and laney went down too. I checked on them (covertly) a few times and they were having fun and being good, so all's well that ends well, right? pre-k driving can not end a day too soon.

I.am.over.it.

*lexi went to sandy's (of the twitter name bad gal sandy) to work on a project. sometimes it is so hard to know what to do as a parent! we dropped Christian off at ff for some more life guarding, and then we picked addie up. the girls played outside in the water while I made dinner. then we played in laney's room for awhile while we waited for daddy to get home so we could have dinner. 

addie and Frankie were climbing all over the recliner and laney would pull them down.

then it was Frankie's turn.

sister love!

we were all laughing so hard. they are so funny. :)

*little miss rudolph laney has a pimple on her nose. still cute.

*matt finally made it home. he was gone from 5am-9pm yesterday, and till 6pm today. we had dinner and then it was time to pick up the lifeguard. he had a game at Dorsey, (he forgot about his game when he agreed to work, grrrrr) so after his shift we went to his game. they were losing 6-2 when we got there, but in that inning they ended up scoring 7 runs - felt like we were bad luck! but then - our last up to bat we got 2 outs, and then rally! Christian started it off with a great hit to a hole in the outfield. then they kept it going through 4 more runs, till a risky base runner got picked off at 3rd. bummer. but 13-6 is a lot better than 13-2. go Yankees!

 

when we got home, lexi was making cupcakes for fatty Friday for seminary tomorrow. go lex! laney had woken up. don't go laney! and then matt headed to bed. go matt!

 

and a bonus for today:

our bff's in seattle posted this picture on fb.

he was such a cute little boy!

I just love ma' boy!