Contemplating Six

Sam is soon having a birthday so we were talking about it tonight before bed...


Me:  Sam, can you not turn six and just stay five for a bit longer?

Sam:  But Mom, I don't know how to do that.... I have to have a birthday that's just how life is!

Me:  But if you keep getting older then you are going to become an adult and move out... then what will I do?

Sam:  Mom.  I'm just tuning six, it's not that old.  It's not like I have wrinkles all over or anything!!

Of Wisdom Teeth and Kids

I am one of the few adults I know that still has all of their wisdom teeth.  I remember being happy that my dentist had never mentioned getting them removed as all my friends took turns coming to school with cheeks much chubbier than mine (for once!).  Right now I'm wishing that I had taken a turn with them as I have been suffering with one terrible wisdom tooth all week!  In my suffering I may have also been doing a bit of whining because the kids have noticed. 

Sam:  Why does your mouth hurt Mom?
Me:  Well, I have these things called wisdom teeth...
Sam:  (with a sly grin) Oh you mean like "The wisdom from above is first of all pure, it is also peace-loving, gentle at all times and willing to yield to others.  It is full of mercy and good deeds and shows no favortism."?
Me:  No, it is actually not like that at all!  (although I'm pretty proud at how well he pulled up his latest memory verse!)

The next day Sweet Maarti turned to me and out of the blue said "Well if your mouth hurts then we need to pray about it."  She then put her hand on my cheek and prayed "Dear Jesus, thank you for Mommy's mouth to not hurt.  Amen." 

Two different approaches - both made my heart smile.

So Much to Catch Up On....

Wow!...I was going through my pictures and I have a lot to catch up to do on here!!

In a nutshell:

We celebrated Father's Day.  Sam made Jeremy a monster cookie at school.  The kids were so kind and offered to help Jeremy eat it since it was so big. 

We also went to a car show in the rain.  There were fewer cars than usual, but Jeremy was still happy to wander around looking at everything. 

The school year ended (that sure went by fast!)  Sam gave his teacher a final fist pound and he was outta there!

Right after school ended we headed to Enderby for a week... and what a packed week it was!!  Of course we had to take part in the Canada Day celebrations!  Here is a picture of Papa and "His Girl", Maarti, in the parade.

Luke met Granny for the first time.  He is 8 months and she is nearly 94!  She was really taken with him and this is one of my favorite pictures from our whole holiday:

Ever since we watched our friends compete in a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu tournament Sam has been talking about wanting to do Jiu Jitsu.  Since we were in the area our friends invited him to attend a kids class.  Sam had a ball!  It was pretty fun to watch him.

Both the kids were in swimming lessons with their cousins and both did very well... wish we were there for another week of swimming because they were getting more and more confident in the water each day.

Sam learned how to ride a bike!!  Ironically, he started on July 4th... Independence Day!  He's a little over-confident for my liking!  Slow down there, Sam!

We ate a lot of ice cream!  Believe it or not Enderby has the best little ice cream shop!   There are about 60 different flavors to choose from!  Papa and Grandma gave us a punch card for our anniversary so we could make several trips during our week there.  Yum!

Luke wasn't so much into the ice cream, but he was supper excited about Papa and Grandma's toy bus!  He played with it for a good long time!

We are home now and loving summer here too.  On Sunday we heard that Clayburn Village was celebrating 100 years so we went to check it out.  The kids had fun in the one room school house before we headed to the kids tent for games and face painting.

Too bad we didn't take pictures with the old cars before Sam got a huge green snake painted on his face!

One man invited the kids to sit in his model T and pretend they were driving.  How fun! 

So far we are having a great summer and we aren't even half way through it!! 

We are lovin' all the family activities of summer!