Summer

I got this bike for Eliza at a garage sale last weekend and she loves it. She's working on peddling and steering, (which means we have to push her the whole way). No more fights with Kaleb for stealing his bike! (just lots of fights about other things . . . )

We got dressed up, did our nails and took picutures while the boys went crab fishing this last weekend. I'll have to blog about their adventure later.
I love this complicated girly. She has to do things by herself, but at the same time I hear "I can't" a lot from her. I guess it depends on what I want her to do and not do :-) For example, in the car it takes her about 10 minutes to climb in the van and pull herself up into the car seat and get her buckles on. If I try and help her to move the process along she gets so angry! One time I gave her the tiniest boost into her seat and she immediately slid back down and climbed out of the car to start over, yelling, "No mom! I can do it by myself!"

Playing with their buddies

Braydan got to go to Logan for Sym and Josh's sealing last weekend. I tried to buy a plane ticket to go with him (now that Alisha's here to babysit :-), but prices went up to $500! He loved being with all of his family, especially eating at Bluebird and Juniper Takeout (our old favorites (sniff!), wrestling with his cute nephews,

and playing with his beautiful nieces.

Thanks for taking care of him everyone!

Kaleb had swim lessons last week. He grinned ear to ear every time he got one-on-one attention from his teacher. Then he would look at me to make sure I was watching.

He said he learned "monkey, airplane, banana." It took me a minute to figure out what he was talking about, then remembered we used to call it, "zip, tee, down." His variation sounds more exciting :-)

A word about Alisha: From my last few posts, it doesn't even sound like she's here, but that's because she rarely is :-) Every night is some activity and I've started living vicariously through her exciting life. I love getting her ready, telling her what to wear and what to say and do. (I'm bossy remember). We're always asleep by the time she comes home, so I'm always eager to wake her up in the morning (evil laugh) and get the latest scoop about all her drama with boys. I never realized how boring I've become until she came. We did get to go on a date this last Friday (miracle that she was around to babysit) and it was so fun to not worry about anything!