Relaxing week

We've had a nice relaxing week. Monday night the Rudolph's stopped by for a visit on their way to live in Hawaii. We had a great visit with them. Wednesday I got some Christmas shopping done and I worked everyday this week but I think I've been home more this week then I have in a long time. In fact Kyra and Kyleigh have had a couple of pajama days. Kids have done great with the sitter after school and thankfully the sitter is flexible because on Monday and Thursday she ended up with a neighbor kid for about 10 minutes.

Kyra and Kyleigh have really started playing together this week. It is so neat watching them play together. Kyra gets Kyleigh laughing and pretty soon they are both laughing hard. Last night they were running through the house holding hands and Kyra misjudged how far Kyleigh stuck out to her side and Kyleigh hit the wall full force. She has a big black and blue goose egg on her forehead. Kyra just looked at her like "Didn't you see the wall?". After Kyleigh stopped crying the two of them started up again. Yesterday they played around the futon all day, Kyleigh can climb up and down the futon on her own which she thinks is great. Kyleigh also cut her lip and the inside of her mouth yesterday, that's what you get when you play rough with your older sister. Update: Today as we were leaving for the neighbors Kyleigh tripped when trying to walk into the garage and hit her head on the floor. This is what it looks like 1 1/2 hours later, it was much worse.

We are looking forward to a relaxing weekend. We're going to a friends for supper tonight and then should be home the rest of the weekend. We hope to finally make it to the Catholic church this weekend, we haven't been there since the middle on September, unless you count the Saturday night mass that Mark's coworker saw us at(we're don't know who the coworker saw but it wasn't us). Have a great weekend!

The week in review

It's been a busy and exhausting week around here, I hope next week is slower as we get packed up for our excursion. It was the last week of swimming lessons, on Friday was fun day so even Kyra got to go in the pool. She gave me a little scare as she slipped in the baby pool and couldn't right herself so I even got to take a little swim. On Wednesday we met some friends at a local pool and the kids had a blast and want to go swimming everyday. We'll have to see, it's not easy watching three kids in the water by yourself, but the pool had a very fun kid area so I wasn't too worried about Valynn and Mason.

Tuesday I had a doctor's appointment. I'm not gaining weight like they would like and the baby (my tummy) isn't growing like they would like so I have an ultrasound at my next appointment to check everything. On Thursday I spent four hours in the hospital being monitored. I was having some abdominal tenderness and there was concern it might be an infection. Everything came back looking good so there are no worries there.

Yesterday Kyra's friends Matthew (the neighbor boy) turned two so we were over there for a little bit to see him. He's about six weeks older than Kyra and his mom is due a week before me in August. Today the kids have a birthday party at Allie's (another neighbor). Tomorrow night we're having some friends over for supper.

The advantages to having a garden. Last night Mason came up to me when we were outside and told me he was hungry so I told him he could have a carrot. He said from the garden? The three of them proceeded to eat peas and carrots from the garden until they were full. All three have been very good about helping pick produce from the garden and even helping clean it. Their favorite to pick are the raspberries and blueberries, but that means not many make it into the house. Oh well, it's good for them. They still aren't fans of green peppers but they are still excited to pick them. On Monday they loved the zucchini casserole I made which shocked us parents.