sweet sunday

it was a nice and semi-restful sunday. i made cupcakes for summer's birthday with a yummy new whipped cream frosting recipe. we bathed girls and even lounged a little. matt and laney stayed home to recuperate a bit longer. matt sent me this picture of lanes cashed out on the couch.

he also sent these:

he made some yummy chicken pot pies for dinner. isn't he amazing?!

addie took it back old school with this cute purple dress. i probably wore something quite similar to this number when i was her age. :)

i sent this to lex. laney is taking over her seat at the dinner table. we miss her though!

after dinner we finally painted the birdhouses i bought at the thrift store for $2 during our trek shopping.

the girls loooooved it!

delaney kept saying "addie your house is beautiful!" "franks, i like that color!" "mom, do you think mine is cool?" "i hope bubba likes my house!" i think maybe her love language is words of affirmation. :)

i love the way she's sitting here on one knee. also, about this girl, she's like the dr. seuss of 2-year-olds. she is a little rhyming genius! she rhymes all the time! in the car - "i'm getting buckled, shuckled, muckled" before lunch - "i'm hungry, tungry, fungry"  at bedtime - "i'm tired, fired, mired."

it's hilarious! she rarely uses real words, so i guess we could work on that. rhyming is a pre-reading skill though, so i'm just glad to be moving in the right direction. :)

this little artist was all serious.

i love this, she added a cactus to the side of the house. must be because she was born in new mexico. ;)

delaney got to paint in the almost-buff. can you tell why?

after painting and ice cream we had some guinea time.

they love holding the boys like they are babies, it's actually pretty sweet.

but then sometimes they try to walk around with them and we experience mishaps. oh those poor guieneas...

all better and being treated like a baby again. 

and don't mind our pre-laundry day pj's.

and then some pre-bed frisbee.

 

it was a nice night. lexi facetimed us, and she and i got to have a long chat. i got to facetime meet emmi, heard all about 'tito' from maryland, and promised to send a list of needed items. she's still having an amazing time, is getting all a's and one b, and is begging for chris to come visit. i am really enjoying this 'adult' relationship she and i are embarking on. i had a friend tell me once not to get too hung up on the disliking each other that adolescence can bring because we really only have that unique mother-child relationship for 18-years, after that we have decades to be adults together. so far, so good!!!

also, i am so proud of christian today. st marys little league has made the unfortunate decision to schedule sunday games. :(((( it makes me so sad and infuriates me all at the same time. we've played for years with no sunday games, i hate that they are changing things. today was his first scheduled sunday game. i told him that he knew our values and he knew what we'd like him to do, but he is closer to 17 than 16 now and he could make the choice. and he chose, and was not sad about, going to church. happy mama heart. :)