A Summary

(I know, I know, too many family/kid based/summary type post. The only way I actually can make myself take time to blog is when I feel the guilt about not recording cute kid stuff. Sorry to you.)

This weeks highlights include:

The complimenting of children

We were at Costco after a long morning of errands. I was getting the hot dogs and Jane was feeding Faith her bottle (filled with formula powder, hot water from the coffee machine and oops! soda water--I had nothing else to give her and didn't want to spend 40 minutes nursing her --and she totally chugged it. Hilarious.) Anyway, Seth and Jane were nicely helping Faith, playing games and eating all their food and some random older man came up to me and said: "I just wanted to let you know that you have extremely well-behaved children" which completely made my day. Of course everyone ended up with a Reward Churro and I had a smile on my face the rest of the day.

Missionaries

The only reason that this is a highlight is that I actually took pictures. Not that they weren't nice missionaries. They were. I just have nothing memorable to say about it.

Emma loses her tooth

(self portrait, by tooth loser)

I realize this is, like, her millionth tooth. It just warrants highlighting because over Christmas we realized that Emma (of course!) knows The Big Secret regarding fun people that give you stuff at holidays and tooth losing time. So she, being aware of Non Secret Knowers in the vicinity, but also wanting to make things as easy as possible, began to quiz me: "So, um, Mom, should I put my tooth just, like, on my desk, so it's easier for the tooth fairy? Would she, like, want me to put it in a bag so she doesn't have to touch it? Is she going to come, um, tonight, or does she want to wait another day?" I let her know that under the pillow would work as well as usual.

Which is to say, it doesn't and Emma got her dollar handed to her today. To which she replied "She should have given me dimes...(like the SHE?) it would have made it easier to do tithing."

We'll let "Her" know.

Further tooth awesomeness

Jane came running into my room and, seriously, HOLDING BACK TEARS OF JOY (her eyes were literally brimming) announced: "I have my first loose tooth! I'm just so happy because I've really been waiting a long time." You'd think she'd just gotten proposed to, or something. And the rest of the night was very surprised that we didn't mention it again. Because she certainly did:

"I'm just so very happy about this tooth."

"Every time I touch my tooth, I just feel so happy inside."

"Oh, I just forgot about my tooth, but then I realized it again!"

Faith is adorable

Reason Number One: Laid, cooing, in this warm bath for 45 minutes:

We just kept checking on her and she was happy as a clam. And Faith isn't really happy just lying anywhere for 45 minutes. It was big news.

And Reason Number Two: Laughed!!! Yeah. Laughed. All choking and cute while I tickled her neck and she gazed at an apparantly HILARIOUS Finding Nemo book that I had on her changing table. See? Adorable.

(This isn't a picture of her laughing. This is a picture of why during our car ride she was really mad. We were laughing, not Faith.)

I'm continuing to drown in a sea of children

No further comment necessary. Just wanted everyone to know: 5 kids is hard.

The end.