saturday

saturday morning matt and chris headed out to saturday #3 of eagle project work at cavert cliffs. it is a long process! and it is so hard to let your scout do it himself. but i can honestly say that chris has done this himself. every unorganized aspect. ;)

while they worked i went to get maggie and grace to hang out with us for the day while their parents were at camp/temple.

i asked delaney if she wanted to go potty for a treat and the big girls asked that if delaney went potty that they could get a treat. i said if they helped her then they could. so they all stood around her as she sat on her froggy potty and cheered her on. it was pretty cute. after much persuasion she finally made a pee-pee. everyone was happy. :)

if you are getting tired of pics of this bugga-boo, then quickly scroll through. 

cause, come on. 

when your baby climbs up, tells you she loves you, and asks if she can cuddle, what are you gonna do?

please let these moments last! please let me remember these precious moments! please let us stay this close!

happiness. :)

 mosquitoes love this girl as much as i do, poor little bitten face!

and one 6-year-old having a tough time. it's hard when friends don't do exactly what you think they should do. especially when your inclination is to pout about it when/if they don't. :/

the big girls were pretty into the treats and asked for ways to earn more, so i told them they could pick up 15 things for one treat (small candies). they were all over it! they'd run around picking up toys in the basement (where there is a plethora of treats to be earned) and come up and carefully pick their treats. i felt a little bit bad, like i was sugaring up my girlfriends kids to do my bidding, but i did plan on taking them to the pool to burn off all the sugar, so i didn't feel too bad.

anyhow, they cleaned the basement while i did the wood floors and then we hit the pool!

every hour they have a 15 minute adult swim time, so we have lots of snack/water time. daniel laid out his towel and it was monkey-see, monkey-do.

we went to the pool from 12-2 and matt and chris still weren't home...

one of addie's friends gave her $10 for her birthday, so she thought about it and decided to buy a snorkel set.

best.purchase.ever.

and doesn't she look awesome in her gear?

towards the end of adult swim time, all the kids sit around the edge of the pool and as soon as the whistle blows, they jump in. addie's a full on swimmer, not fast, but efficient.

frankie is a partial swimmer. she swims better than she thinks she can swim. she lacks confidence, but that's ok with me because it keeps her safer. she doesn't like to wear our ladybug puddle jumpers, which is not ok with me. delaney is fearless. she doesn't like to wear the ladybug either, but she does love a little floatie hippo innertube. she'll get into it and swim all around, even the deep end. she likes to "splash," which is to jump off the side with the floatie toy around her waist. i asked her yesterday if she wanted to go under water and she said "yeah!" so i dunked her. after being a little startled, she said "again!" i taught her to hold her nose, so the rest of the afternoon she'd come to me, hold her nose, and say "let's go under!" love it!

i've got a little pool routine down. i take the girls into the girls room where there are 3 showers, and each girl gets their own. i take their suits off and wash them, then put their pool cover ups on and head home. it's so nice not to have to worry about bathing them when we get home! 

m&c finally made it home after 4. they are still waiting for mr grubby to make the sign, but other than that we are done! we've almost got ourselves an eagle!

that night we took the littles to emily prettyman's wedding reception. it was a cute barnyard theme. we ate and matt danced. and laney played on daddy's phone. :/

she is obsessed. again.

 

while we were at the reception, alexis and chris went to pick up elder vaterlaus! he is no longer an elder, just visiting for m&r's sealing. they visited at the herrington's for awhile and then brought shelly home to visit. i love that kid! so glad we were able to hang out if only for a little while. :)