We've had a crazy and busy week! Monday was a rather stressful day - I felt like I was never going to be able to get everything unpacked because the kids would never let us! For Family Home Evening, we went to the temple - the grounds are closed right now, but we were able to look at it and feel the peace of it. It's nice to be so near the temple!
This week also started out rather stressful because of David's potty training. He was having accidents because he didn't want to go to the potty - and he would argue with me every time I told him it was potty time. Thankfully with some M&M bribery and some patience, he seems to be getting it. He doesn't usually need me to tell him to go to the bathroom and he has had very few accidents. He wanted to wear his underwear to bed last night, so we told him that when he woke up he had to go potty right away - and it worked - we will see how well it continues to work... Either way - this has been a relatively easy potty training experience!
David has also made the switch in to the size 4 clothes. They are still rather big on him - but they mostly fit and the 3T stuff is getting small (plus he hardly had any pants) So we pulled out the size 4 stuff and now that's all he wants to wear. It included this fun set of pajamas that Aunt Tina made for Anna many years ago! He loves them!!
David wants me to stay with him in his room while he falls asleep most nights. The he often tries to snuggle with me as he falls asleep, which leads to interesting results. One night he starts out by putting his hand on my face, then he moves his head to my shoulder, then his head to my chest, then he moves so his whole torso is on my stomach, then he keeps moving until his stomach is on my stomach and his head is on the ground on the other side. Then he realizes that he can't get more of me by moving that way any further, so he turns and puts his head on my shoulder and lays his full body on top of mine- but that isn't good enough because my knees were bent, so his legs weren't on top of me, so he kicks my legs down and puts his legs on top of mine - then he whispers in my ear "there, that's better" and he does all that while pretending to be asleep... But by that point, I was laughing so hard that he couldn't sleep, so I convinced him to move back to his bed. :) In the picture below - he fell asleep like that and I had to text Dan and have him come rescue me - he took a picture and laughed at me first.... :)
James and Aaron have been doing a LOT of Origami to entertain themselves. They found a book or origami animals and have been making a ton of paper animals. Koopa found one and brought it to me - and he just looked so cute!!
Here is David rocking and having fun showing off his new underwear. He LOVES his underwear! It was never hard to keep him in clothes before - but it sure has been this week!
This Thursday, the kids started back to school. The first day was stressful and filled with technical difficulties and craziness - but it all worked out and hopefully things will start getting into regular schedules. Friday went better and hopefully next week will be better still. Thursday, the Relief Society President and Young Womens president came by to say hi and welcome to the ward, so we chatted for a bit - the ward seems friendly and hopefully we can get to know people here despite the whole COVID thing. Friday was supposed to be a primary Halloween drive through, but Dan and I messed up on the time and we missed it - the kids were majorly bummed out. :(
Saturday was the big day - and Dan and I had tried to plan lots of fun things for the kids for the day so that we could have a fun Halloween and a great time together even with out the usual trick-or-treating. Dan and David started out the day by making banana bread and muffins, so I woke to a yummy breakfast! David loves to help cook. He asked me if when he was daddy's age, he could cook lots of things too. And he told me that he really likes to make eggs.
We got the cookie dough rolled out and cut into Halloween shapes, then baked them before heading out to go on a walk. The weather was beautiful, so we headed to an area with lots of great walking paths, and went for a beautiful walk. Eileen and Anna took a longer path than Dan and I did with the younger kids, but David couldn't have gone any further than we went.
When we got back we carved pumpkins. David mostly just poked his pumpkin and drew on it, but he had fun. Evie got majorly squeamish about touching the pumpkin guts between this year and last - but we had fun! Dan even got one for me to carve. :) The kids were struggling with cleaning out the inside of the pumpkin, so I ended up cleaning out 4 of the pumpkins - including my own. It was a lot of fun!
Then we had fun decorating out Halloween sugar cookies! David would mostly just tell me what to do - and I would do it for him (with me giving suggestions and keeping his hands out of the sprinkles)
Then we had a yummy dinner of fry bread and then some of the kids watched Nightmare before Christmas before eating a cookie and heading to bed!
Church today was wonderful, and we had a beautiful Sabbath together!
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