Last night Shay skinned her knee at the tennis courts and the combination of being tired and getting hurt was not good. As I tucked her into bed after major crying on the way home, she looked up at me and said, "Mom, you're beautiful, (paused, thinking)...AND...you're the BOSS...AND...you're the MOM!" She reminds me of that Garth Brooks song "She's Every Woman". She'll rage just like a river, then she'll beg you to forgive her.
She also reminds me of the little girl with the curl--when she's bad she's HORRID. But that's Kysa too.
Kysa took a late nap yesterday and so I let her sit in bed with me and write/draw in a notebook. Ty and I were watching her draw and she was being oh so cute. I said, “Kysa, you’re just delicious.”
She chuckled and looked at me like I was trying to pull something over on her, “Mom, you don’t eat me!”
Kysa can write her name, and so Ty asked her to write his name. She promptly wrote the T (without help), and then said, “What next?” I said, “Y”, and she said, “That’s in my name!”
Raleigh had his first football practice on Monday night after a big rainstorm. He came home muddy but had fun, and his coach Brad Perkins thought he did great. Brad has coached a flag football team for a couple years now but Raleigh hasn’t played until this year. He said he wanted Raleigh at tight end so he could block and catch, and I imagine he’ll play defensive line as well. He is one of the bigger kids but he is pretty fast. He needs to work on his catching but Brad thought he did a good job catching the ball at practice so maybe he is improving. He is playing football this year instead of soccer, yahoo!
We were able to have Breyden Parkinson (Aaron’s son) over yesterday and I just love that kid. We went to the primary activity and then to Arctic Circle. Ryker Perkins also came with us. Then the kids did the slip and slide and played in the water in the backyard.
Sympathetic words from Shay's nursery teacher Sister Nelson trying to
console my horror that we brought Shay to church without underwear on.
Naturally Shay told her teachers, but not Ty. In the rush to get Kysa to
primary on time (to give her first scripture) I gave Shay her dress to put
on. I never bothered to check her undies. Ty took Shay and Kysa and
Raleigh in the Ex while I tried to locate Kysa's scripture illustration.
I found it, and the girls were on time, only problem, no panties for Shay.
The nursery ladies had a pull-up, but Shay being Shay, she wouldn't put it
on. Little did Ty and I know or we would have ran home and rectified the
situation. (ha ha, rectified) I was mortified.sort of. I mean, she's 3.
I was more embarrassed of my parenting. I asked Shay why she didn't wear
any underwear, and she exclaimed, "Because you just didn't put any on me,
silly!"
Kysa did a great job on her scripture. A handicapped young man named Robbie
who is about 17 and still goes to primary was really impressed. On
completion of her scripture, he enthusiastically gave his approval-"Great
job!" It was cute. Kysa was proud of herself, and followed in Raleigh's
footsteps, giving the same scripture that he gave in September of 2006, his
first primary scripture. She had it mostly memorized. 2 Timothy, Chapter
1, Verse 7, "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and
of love, and of a sound mind."
Yesterday we had a fun fishing trip to American Falls dam with Grandma
Jer-Bear and G-Ro. No luck catching trout, but we did catch some bass,
including a lunker that Ty said was the biggest bass he'd seen. Before we
started catching fish we had some excitement when Kysa fell off the front of
the boat as she was dipping her feet in the water. I jumped in after her.
She freaked a little bit but not too bad, and Raleigh was kind enough to
jump in and swim out to her, which helped her relax. Shay also got in on
her own accord and proceeded to freak out. Raleigh enjoyed swimming in the
reservoir enough that he was really hoping to get in a 2nd time, but the
bass fishing area was quite mossy so we didn't get in again. After fishing
we went to Pizza Hut. The American Falls trip has become an annual event.
This was the 4th consecutive annual trip with Grandma and Grandpa.
