A Good Few Days!

We had quite an exciting week before Emry went back to school!  The kids and I managed to go swimming everyday last week, and was it ever the week to go, it was so hot everyday!  We also were able to have our road into "our" yard made, and the rest of the farm yard smoothed out!  Gravel was also brought in for our road!  Jared was busy ripping out caraghana's in Myrna's backyard to open it up a bit.  Although it is not all beautifully landscaped quite yet, her backyard looks so much better, it is so nice to be able to look out her kitchen window and see something besides caraghana's, now you can see the little play house and the two big poplar trees with the hammock swinging between them!  On Saturday Dave was out and together he and Jared started on the electric fence between the barley and grass they seeded here on the home quarter!  Neither of them felt like finishing it up that evening, they only have gates left to do, and I hear they are the annoying part of fencing!  So Dave gave Jared a hand with our house!  Dave cut all the drip caps to fit around all the windows while Jared tacked them up!  It worked so smoothly!

The west side of our house!

The south side of our house!

Our beautiful road!

The front of our house, facing east!

The north side of our house with some of the siding up!

Dave and Jared

Our old boy, Martin.  He will be eleven this next March!

Calum got his hair cut Saturday evening, and for some reason he did not want to.  He kept saying it hurt me!  As soon as Mynra cut a little bit and he realized it did not hurt he was fine!

To continue on with the excitement of the week, Myrna invited Dave and Char and the kids out for Sunday dinner.  Rachel was already here with her two little guys, only Lalainia and Jason couldn't be here!  It was nice to be together, and as usual the kids all had a great time playing together!  Sunday afternoon for the adults was a lot less exciting, it seemed to be a sleepy Sunday afternoon!  And to end the evening off, Myrna's home teachers came over and Calum and Liam turned into wild animals!  They were running around chasing each other and making very loud noises!  Liam was carrying Calum's big Whinnie the Pooh bear around and Calum was running around in only his diaper, so I put Pooh's little red shirt on Calum.  He really looked so cute and the boys had a good laugh over it!

A very cute and chubby Jonas asleep on Myrna!

This little man seems to sleep much better when he is propped up, much like his older cousins, Calum and Armin!

Dave having a Sunday afternoon nap!

Armin is totally enthralled with little Jonas!

Calum as Whinnie the Pooh!

Monday the kids and I made rice krispie squares for Emry's lunch and bread, although my bread didn't turn out that great we did enjoy a warm and fresh loaf for supper with our Whelsh Rarebit!

Tuesday, finally a little peace!  Emry returned to school after a fun filled summer, her hair is a little green from all the swimming we did!  Calum is back to his normal quieter self without his sister here to pester him, although now I don't have anyone to keep a close eye on Armin when I have to run out of the room for a quick second!  Armin will once again have to be attatched to my hip!

First day of Grade Two!

Last week was also quite the week for head injuries for our three precious little ones!  Well, mostly Thursday to be exact!  It started out just before we left to go Visiting Teaching!  I had left Armin on the floor in the living room with Emry while I went into the laundry room to get our swimming suits out of the dryer, all of a sudden I heard a few loud crashes, and then screaming both from Emry and Armin.  He had crawled to the top of the stairs and before Emry was aware of where he was we propelled himself down, all the way to the bottom!  We did have a gate there, but it was starting to pull out of the wall, so Myrna decided to take it down and get a new one!  She did get a new one the day before this happened, however she hadn't quite made it home yet from staying with Rachel!  I checked him over really well, and I couldn't see any apparent injuries.  The next thing happened at the hospital, of all places!  I had to get my blood tested so all three kids and I waddled into the little lab room, I was holding Armin and told Emry and Calum to sit on the floor by the door, I sat with Armin in the chair where they take the blood.  The chair has a special arm that comes down in front of you so you can rest your arm on it while they are poking at your veins!  I always seem to have either Calum or Armin on my lap and it has always worked just fine, until this past Thursday!  Calum wanted to put the arm down and before I could see what he was trying to do he slammed it down right on top of Armin's head.  The under side of this particular arm is all hard plastic.  It left a red mark.  After I got Armin settled I gave him to Emry to hold while I took care of Calum, so he couldn't get into anymore trouble.  Well, Emry sat on the same chair with Armin while I was holding Calum and the lab technician was getting everything ready to take my blood!  I had put Calum down when the tech gave me back my health care card to I could put it back in my wallet, well before I could even blink an eye Calum again wanted to put that arm down, this time it crashed on Emry, hitting her right above her left eye, there is now a greenish bruise just above her eyebrow!  The next head injury happened at the swimming pool!  When we are done swimming I always put Calum and Armin in the shower to warm up while I get dried off, Armin just lays on his tummy and slides around.  Calum had gotten out of the shower and when he went to get back in he slipped and hit the back of his head on the ledge of the shower, causing him to bump into Armin which made him bump the front of his head on the same ledge.  Armin now has a greenish bruise in between his eyes at the top of his nose, and a purplish bruise on his cheek from falling down the stairs earlier that same day!  Sunday night when I was putting Emry to bed she took Armin from me to give him a hug, but when she lifted him up over her head to give him a little ride she forgot how close she was to the top of her bed and banged his head into the sharp edge of her headboard.  He also has a purplish bruise across his forehead.  She felt terrible, I think she cried as hard as he did!  However, we made it through the week, and despite all the head trauma's we had a good last week before Emry went back to school!  I am looking forward to having her back at school to learn and grow some more, the house it a little quieter, did I say a little...well I take that back, at this very moment Calum is running around our room with a headband on his head, holding a pen and using it as a sword all while pulling all of Jared's ties down and attempting to walk around in daddy's big hiking boots!  School cannot come soon enough for him I am afraid!

The bruise on his cheek and the top of his nose are starting to go away, the one across his forehead is still quite purple!

Still the happiest boy on the planet!  He makes the same kind of gagging noise Calum made at that age, we think it is his way of laughing!