Kid stuff

This morning James and John got up early to go with James to the Men’s Prayer Meeting with the missions conference we’re in this week. When the got back James told me that James and John ate a banana and two Krispy Kreme donuts each! “Where did you put it all?” I asked in shock (I can’t even eat more that one at a time or I feel sick!). Jamie looked at me and stated, very matter-of-factly and in a tone that said “don’t YOU know Mom?” “We put them in our stomachs, Mom.”

There is a little playground up the street from where we’re staying. The kids have been begging and begging to go play there. So yesterday morning I walked them all up there to play for a while. We hadn’t been there for 5 minutes when John fell off the monkey bars and face planted in the mulch and Ethan wet his pants for the first time in a year or more. So I comforted John and then walked everyone back and got them cleaned up. So, after days of begging, in only of 5 minutes of play time they all decided they didn’t like the park anymore!

Gaelin is crawling really well and pulling up next to things. He has finally decided that he like other food besides applesauce, namely animal crackers. They’ve been giving him animal cracker in the nursery and really getting a kick out of watching him eat them. He gets so happy when he gets the sugar inside him! He also had a juice pop the other day. He got most of it in his stomach. The rest he got all over his hair, clothes and the person who was feeding it to him!

At lunch yesterday Elizabeth had a grilled cheese sandwich, french fries and applesauce. She was also given ketchup for her fries. So she systematically ate the whole lunch, carefully dipping them first in the applesauce and then in the ketchup. But the entire lunch was gone! She ate it with such relish too, savoring each bite as it went down.