Michael:
spent Wednesday home with us and we had fun finding a new fish hatchery. He's been busy while at work and has been meeting a few dental offices around town each week as well. There's a place here with popular breakfast burritos, so he usually takes those or bagels around and even crossed paths with a dentist he did a group project with at BYU. He has been itching to get more plants around here so we had fun doing an early afternoon date on Saturday to get to the nursery before it closes. A nursery employee talked to us about some different types of raspberries and some planting procedures, and everything he said was so new to me while Michael had read about all the things he was saying. Plant man. I'm excited to see what our garden and yard looks like in a year or so!
Maddie:
had "virtual back to school night" for Westin and Bennett and I have a great feeling about their teachers and school. Just seems like such good people with a great school vibe. I hopeful they will be able to go in person after the first quarter. But if not, I know they'll go at some point and I know they live close to a great school. My wrist/hand keeps getting worse and I'm so worried it needs surgery. The thing I am the very most sad about is thinking about playing the piano. Fine motor stuff hurts so much, and I just know playing the piano would feel impossible right now. Finishing the living room area felt so good this week. Every time something looks the way I've been seeing it in my mind I just feel such a huge sense of peace. Saturday was the first day that I fully cleaned these things in the same day: all the floors (which is part vacuum, part mopping, part sweeping/bona now), bathrooms, kitchen, all loads of laundry including sheets, dusting, and putting away all my paint supplies for a bit (next is painting the piano room, dining room, and upstairs hallway, but I think I am going to get a feel for virtual school first) and it had me wondering how anyone lives in big houses. I feel like it took so much time! I feel like this house is the perfect size/floor plan/neighborhood for us right now and I'm just so grateful everyday that things came together the way they did.
Westin:
LOVED showing grandpa and grandma his new bike riding skills today. They came up for the day with Katie and her boys and it was the best to have some cousin time and hang out together. The air quality is horrible right now because of the sad fires happening near us, so we just stayed inside for most of the day. We were so glad they came up! Westin had so much fun running around with Jack. He seems to grasp the concept of virtual school, I hope this goes well. I ordered a few little supplemental things (national geographic little kid books, some writing books, etc) so that we can do our own thing as needed on days he might seem burned out of his school routine. But maybe he'll love it? He loved that we bought lemon and orange trees, and he loves harvesting zucchini and tomatoes whenever they're ripe. I still just think it's so nice that we moved in to a garden that had those already growing.
Bennett:
is excited to meet his teacher this week too! I hope so much there's a good speech therapy solution through the district, that's all being worked out. I'm guessing it will be online, which is obviously not ideal. Especially if he doesn't have an already established relationship with the therapist. But we're all working with what we've got right now and I feel like I have been noticing his improvements more lately. Bennett wearing a mask is just so stinking cute for some reason. We were able to go to church for the first time since March today, for a shortened and very small sacrament meeting. And just looking over at Bennett who was so good at continually bringing his mask back up over his nose was just adorable to me. His growing love for Camden also keeps melting me all the time. Also no one reminded Bennett to pee during his Sunday of fun cousin time, so after playing playing playing all day he suddenly announced "I'm peeing" while sitting on my lap on the deck that night just before his late bedtime. I want to announce that my mom spidey-skills made it so that none of my lap was peed on and between Katie and Michael and I we had a deck and a boy sprayed off by the hose in no time flat. Kids are so funny. When do you learn to pee even if you're having a good time? The things we take for granted.
Camden:
Had his first day at church in so long! And just because church has been shortened to only 45 minutes now doesn't mean he forgot to make sure he got some foyer time in there when he was being too loud. He knew he needed to fit that in early. I also tried to put the sacrament in my mouth while my mask was still on, so, must be getting used to that thing. He takes just one nap a couple days a week now, which is never too fun to have him fight that second one just to finally give up on it. But overall I'll be happy when he learns to get just one long nap in there each day. He's more chill on his stomach these days, and sometimes rolls over onto his stomach while in his crib (and then screams until you come help him back over), but no moving up to his hands/knees yet. He babbles a ton and is for sure trying to say some of the words I'm saying when we read his little books, so cute. He eats a lot lately and isn't hating on vegetables so much anymore. Still a much bigger fan of fruit, dairy, and meat though. He hated haircut day this week and hated the shower that followed and loved the books/cuddles/naps that came around after all that trauma.
The House:
Finished the left side cabinets of our TV wall! Oh I was dreading that. To put it off I painted the mudroom entryway white, both layers, the living room wall white and grey, the living room trim white, and the entryway/hallway white. The pole my friend Staci brought over has been a game changer, why was I moving a ladder around so much in here. Goodness, what else am I doing the super hard way in life. After I painted the entryway white the crown moulding didn't look white at all anymore...so, painted that! Then the last thing I did was finish painting the laundry room lower cabinets. Which was the LAST CABINET to paint! Woohoo!! The new pendant light coverings came in and I love them, plus we got a new trash can that fits much better in our kitchen and I know from how happy that makes me that I'm becoming so much more of an adult. But hey, it's joy and I'll take it!
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| Bennett loves asking to hold Camden lately! |
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| Westin is making taste test cards for us to figure out if we like bacon, sausage or chorizo breakfast burritos more. I love this kid's love for food. (Bacon won all around.) |
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| My all-day everyday necklace broke! I'm so sad! It was a semi-colon to remind me to pause, and be a patient mom. So, look out kids. |
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| Left side done!! I had no energy to do this after doing the right side... so I painted the hallway, mudroom entryway, and the front entryway, then came back to it. Painting with no sanding required is way more fun. |
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| We found a new fish hatchery! The food isn't free, and there's no cute trail. But we dropped a few quarters and loved it! |
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| White instead of yellow, with my grandma's mirror on the wall. Later that week we bought a snake plant for that corner and it looks so good there! |
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| Then Westin went to his desk and colored this. I love how he processes things through coloring and he spends so much time at Michael's old desk now that it's in the boys' room. |
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| Then the cherry on top was seeing this Wild Kratts episode. If only all our nature finds and coloring time and PBS shows could be so coordinated. |
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| Feels so good to see this room how I've been seeing it in my head since we bought the house! Just need to get a rug now, and find a different spot in the house for that rocking chair. |
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| New pendant light coverings! I was so happy to find these and know that I could replace the lamp shade style pendant coverings they had without redoing the entire pendant lights. |
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| New favorite pants... plus they're $10 from Wal-Mart, can't beat that. |
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| Trees for date night! It was so fun to pick out plants and pots, because it made Michael so happy. He's been needing an orange tree back in his life for a while! |
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| Cute cousins! |
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| Bad lighting because it's night, but that laundry room lower cabinet spot is done! Which means I unpacked all the boxes in our living room, because all our office supplies type stuff had to wait on this area to be finished. This is also the first time since moving in that there has been no painting supplies or misc tools on that counter and it makes me haaaaappy. They'll be back soon though :) |
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