We met up with some friends at another awesome free indoor playarea called The Ark. It is at another big church which is just down the street from the ymca so it is very convient (although their hours are not as long as the tubes). We brought a lunch and the kids got to run wild then stop in for a bite before heading off again.
Jonathan enjoyed just lying on his blanket on the ground and I got to chat. I would guess we'll stop in here often.
I love that my kids enjoy fruits and vegetables. Kevin is a little more picky with which ones he likes, but as long as there are a couple that's fine with me. He helps himself to apples quite often, but lately I've been finding them partially eaten all over the house. A little gross.
Kherington loves holding her baby brother. I get annoyed with this sometimes because if he's sleeping I want him left alone, if he's awake and happy I don't want that ruined and if he's crying she doesn't want him.
She is sweet girl, very kind and helpful. She loves to do crafts and has recently decided she likes jewelry and hair things. I let her dress herself entirely (she goes through multiple outfits each day) and some of them are pretty funny.
I am sad that we haven't found any little girls friends to play with here. She does love playing with the boys though. I think the other half of it is since she's not in preschool she doesn't get a social outlet that way either.
Ryan took Kherington to build a birdhouse at Lowes at their free 'Build and Grow' class. Kherington loved it, but once she was done convinced her dad that they needed bird seeds to go with it. That would have been fine except for the fact that we don't actually have a good place to put a birdhouse. When I signed her up I just though it would be a fun free activity to do with her daddy on the off chance he didn't have to work Saturday. She was excited about the bird seeds and put some in her birdhouse then stuck it out on our balcony. Hopefully we don't end up with a bunch of bird poo out there.
The funny part of the whole experience was that even though they provide them with picture instructions easy enough for a kid to follow, Ryan still managed to mess it up. Ryan is awesome, but definitely not known for his handyman skills. Luckily he was able to pry the nails out and start over so he didn't have to ask for a new kit ;).
I came away from our first Sunday at church overwhelmed by how many young families were in the ward and sure that we wouldn't actually make any friends because there were so many people. I felt like we had just started to get to know a couple ward member when the announcement came that a new ward was to be created and in do so, other ward boundaries (including ours) were to be realigned. As a result, we are now in a new ward. Our apartment complex right on the ward boundary, so just across the street is our old ward.
No going to lie, I was pretty frustrated. At the same time, our lease is up in September and we want to find a place with a yard so we'll probably change again. The first Sunday was just weird. Kherington is still the only girl in her CTR4 class and the only one in her class who changed wards. I went to a RS activity during he week and actually got to chat with some members and that made the ward seem not as strange...granted, most the people I met were from our old ward also I just had never talked with them.
Later in the week, the kids were begging to help make cinnamon rolls so we doubled the recipe and took some to families in our new ward. They really are the easiest thing to mass produce with very little added effort. Plus they taste delicious. Both kids repeatedly told me to make sure we kept some for us.
I hate when I find pictures that I forget to blog, so here are a couple of the lost ones. I now have 2 cameras, an ipad and Ryan's iphone to pull pictures so it is a little more difficult to keep tabs on all the devices.
Last night, our house was a disaster. The kid had dumped out most the boxes of toys in the playroom, pulled out all the blankets and scarves plus unloaded some of my kitchen stuff. Kevin was jumping on the couch and fell on to a scarf. This wouldn't have been a big deal except for the fact that underneath the scarf was a metal kitchen bowl. Ouch. He was sad, but stopped whining as soon as he learned we were leaving for my RS activity at the church. Then as we were walking in the doors at the church, Kherington when to open the door, missed the handle and fell back into Kevin whacking him in the mouth again. This time the crying didn't stop. He wanted to sit with me. His mouth kept bleeding. I called and had Ryan come get him. By the time I got home he was happy again and was showing off a cool ice cream cone his daddy got from McDonalds on the way home. Since he was acting fine I didn't think much of it.
Well, the next morning I woke up to him next to me in my bed and his top lip was HUGE. The entire underside was black and blue. I've seen fat lips before, but not like this. I did some googling and from what I read, even if I took him to the dentist there is nothing they could do.
