The Deal

Ok...I am writing this for everyone to see. Since Emily had such attitude the last half of the school year last year we made a deal.

Lets start with Emily has been watching Jon and Kate plus 8. Each of the 8 kids have had a special day with their parents--Emily happened to see the one where Mady got her ears pierced, and since she is the same age as Mady, Emily feels she should have her ears pierced too. Our deal is: If she does not get in any trouble from the beginning of the school year until Winter Break we will let her get her ears pierced for Christmas, otherwise she has to wait until her 9th Birthday (a year and a half).

Logan's First Boat Ride

Yesterday afternoon we went up to the Lakes to go boating/tubing on Marv and Caryl's new boat. We were all excited all twelve of us could go on the boat together. As we were getting on the boat it started to sprinkle. I was trying to get Logan situated because he did not like his life jacket. I found as long as he kind of stood up the jacket didn't bother him as much and he enjoyed watching the water. Then it started to rain a little harder. We thought maybe we could just wait it out for a little while, so they put the canopy up--It was cold coming down on our backs so we wrapped ourselves in towels. Then it rained harder, so we figured we had better go in. After a few failed attempts to load the boat on the trailer Christie, Myself and the 6 kids jumped in the pickup while the other 4 tried get it loaded. I don't know how long it took, but they finally did it and we went back to the camper. It rained an poured so much there was a little pond outside of the camper when it finally cleared. We decided instead of grilling to go out for pizza. While we finished eating the sun came out, so about 8:00 everyone (except Logan and I---Logan was ready for bed) took the boat out and went tubing. What a day!

Kings Pointe

On Wednesday Emily and I went with Christie, Braeden, Aubre and Amber over to Kings Pointe. We had so much fun. Emily was a little hesitant to go down the slides at first, but once she went down one for the first time there was no stopping her. There was one-the toilet bowl--that I would not let her go on because I think she needs to be a little older for it. Otherwise she went on every other slide over and over.

First Tooth

Logan is getting his first tooth. You can't see it, but I can feel it poking through on the bottom. He started clapping last week too. It is so cute, we say yeah and he just smiles and does it more. And Logan just may crawl. He of coarse still hates to lay on his tummy, but sometimes when he is sitting he puts his bands out in front of himself and rocks back and forth--not on his knees yet, but we will see.

To Smart

I can't remember what Emily and I were talking about last night. I think she wanted to go somewhere and I told her I didn't want to travel right now. She came back with the fact that we are all traveling all of the time because the world is always moving. Right now we could be upside down and are not even know it. WOW did we learn that in First Grade!

Mom

I didn't even see it coming, but last night I was feeding Logan and all then sudden I hear "Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom". I was so excited and made such a big deal about it that hopefully he will do it again soon!