A Little Math

Debbe has started doing addition. I don't know whether this is normal or not but she likes to do addition. We'll be driving somewhere or, like this morning, be eating breakfast or something and she'll call out, "Hey mom, what's 4 + 3?" [or something else] I'll say, "You tell me." And then she counts it out on her hands and tells me the right answer [she gets it right almost every time]. I have done absolutely nothing to help her out with this, I haven't pushed her, I haven't coached her, I've only answered her questions and corrected her [and showed her the way to find the right answer] when she's given a wrong answer. We're sure proud of her!

Debbe's Dance Recital

Debbe had her dance recital last week and she did great!

Nana and Grandpa Rogers and Aunt Michelle came down to watch her [the flowers are from Aunt Shel].

Their teacher narrated the dance and the children started out the dance 'alseep' until the teacher said the magic words, "magical children."

And then they woke up and stretched...

And stretched...

And stretched!

And then danced all different ways all throughout the kingdom.

It was very cute, and Debbe was perfect!

You can probably tell that the pictures don't match up, that's because half are from the recital and the other half are from the last class before the recital [I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get many good pictures at the recital, turns out I was right. ☺].

Documenting Childhood

Documenting childhood is a full time job! I find my kids doing something cute and thinking to myself, "I really should get out the camera." But if I took pictures of every time my kids were cute, I'd break my camera. ☺ So, here are some pictures of some of our recent moments...

Chad gripes anytime I try to take his picture, but really, I pass up so many moment just like this every day, I had to finally snap a picture of how great of a dad he is.

The kids decided that the windows needed washing... so they got wipes and went to. haha. Oh well. The windows probably did, in fact, need washing and now they do even more!

My kids are so good to each other! Cosette can't peddle her 'new' bike so she ends up just sitting there on it [which she is actually ok with], so Debbe decided to go push her around the playground on the bike, it was so sweet. I surprised at how much time Debbe spent pushing her around, she's such a good big sister.

Debbe wrote/sang me a mother's day song today, it was titled "Hey hey hey, I love you."

"Hey hey hey, you're the best mother,

hey hey hey, I love you so much,

hey hey hey, sometimes your mean,

but I still love you and you're still the best mom, hey hey hey."

hahahaha!!

Eating While Sleeping

As I mentioned in my previous post about Isaac, he's started taking late afternoon naps and he doesn't like to wake up. Well here's a video of him eating dinner tonight... with his eyes closed. He just refuses to open his eyes! It's hilarious!

I'm Remembering...

Okay, so I'm remembering some 'incidents' now and obviously Isaac's not all sweetness and goodness, he's also a regular, impulsive little boy. ☺ But he still somehow manages to make his naughtiness come off cute.

Like the time he called our bishop a "stupid head" to his face...

Yeah, that was fun.

But somehow Isaac managed to seem so innocent and impish about it. And, he was so heartbroken when I disciplined him, shocked that that was unacceptable.

How am I to resist that kind of sweetness!?!

That kid has my number... and he uses it often.

All About Isaac

I was noticing that my recent blog posts have been a little biased towards the girls and I love my Isaac so I decided to do a post just for him.

He's such a good person, so sweet and thoughtful and caring, but he can be quiet and reserved at times so I think that's why I'm more apt to blog about the girls. He just doesn't cause as much of a ruckus as the girls do!

He got a big boy bed last month! He loves it.

He's started doing this thing. He must still need naps because he's started falling asleep at like 5 o'clock in the evening and sleeping for hours and then staying up until 10 or 10:30! You'd think, 'just wake him up, don't let him sleep.' Ha! We try that! He sleeps through EVERYTHING! He even slept through a trip to walmart, in and out of the car, in the cart, everything. Oh well, we just figure he needs his sleep, obviously there's not much we can do about it, so we just roll with it.

Here he is wearing his cowboy boots. They're way too big for him, but they look so darling, I love it. And at least he's not calling them cowgirl boots anymore... haha That's what happens when you have an older sister. :) I tried to get a cuter picture of him in them, but it didn't work out. Oh well, I figure I have all summer, right?

A Whole New World

Being 5 has opened a whole new world to Debbe. She informed Chad this morning, "Uh huh, because I'm 5 now and 5 year old's know everything." She wants everyone to know that she's five now too. She keeps getting upset because her dance teacher apparantly won't listen to her when she's been trying to tell her that she's had a birthday. Well, today during church as Chad and I were heading to Sunday school we happened to hear the Primary kids being excused for their classes. They excused them class by class, "The sunbeams are excused for class now. And now the CTR 4's... and Debbe who's 5." We thought that was so funny! She had to make sure they knew she was 5 and not 4 anymore! Oh Debbe, oh oh oh Debbe. :)

"I DO IT!"

This littlest one has those three words mastered!

Intuitive

This is what Debbe knows about what I'm going through, she knows that 'mommy has a sickness in her brain that makes it hard for her to be happy sometimes.' [And she also knew, during the past few months while the kids were being shuffled around from grandparents to grandparents, that daddy was at home 'babysitting' me (I thought that was cute).] I'm feeling better now [finally, hopefully it's here to stay], but I still have moments when the clouds come over my mind. Debbe was sitting next to me the other day during such a moment. Nothing changed except the look on my face, that was it, I was sitting there and I felt my mind darken and apparently it showed on my face, but sweet Debbe immediately asked me, "mommy, are you feeling sick again?" She's FIVE. She shouldn't be able to immediately recognize the look of depression at FIVE. I feel like I've robbed her of her rightful charmed childhood. I mean, the poor girl knew what bipolar meant when she was four years old. And yet, she's tough, she's stayed sweet and loving and right now is in her room singing songs about Jesus and the Holy Ghost. :)