Water Fight

On Wednesday since it was the hottest day of the week and early day for Kaymin, I told her the night before she could have a water fight when she got home from school. I went to the Dollar Tree and picked up a bunch of water blasters that they could use to squirt each other. She could hardly wait and is a lot like her mother....the more the merrier. When I got home from picking her up at school that day, there were already neighborhood kids waiting in our driveway. Apparently she ended up inviting everyone that lived near us. And those that weren't invited ended up coming over anyway. I ended up with over 20 kids and no one got hurt...I guess that is what really matters. I took some pictures but they are all pretty lame. It was total chaos, but I am beginning to wonder what day isn't around here?

Non Stop Poop

Okay, so I haven't posted in a while and although we have been running around doing things...you would know that I have either forgot my camera..or just forgot that I HAD it. Anyway...one picture that I did get was this one. Beware, those with super gag refluxes...you may not want to continue reading this. Rarely do I ever change a wet diaper. I mean, out of the 6 or so diapers that Gerrit goes through a day or say approximately 42 in a week, I may have 1-3 wet diapers per week. The rest of them are poopy. His bowels are in full working order. Although we still struggle with blowouts, this isn't the worst one. One morning I went in to get him after he woke up and it was coming out of the neck of his pajamas and his feeties were also full of it. WOW...was that disgusting. I am so glad that I have gag refluxes of steel.

I Jinxed Myself

Last night was a long night. Deilen cried all night that his ear hurt. I knew he had an ear infection so I waited for the doctor's office to open this morning before calling. In the mean time Kameni told me that her "two" ears hurt. So I decided if I was already taking Deilen, I might as well take Kameni. Sure enough, both of them have double ear infections and bronchitis. The doctor told me that they have a lot of congestion in their lungs. You would never know they were sick. They were acting like monkeys by climbing and jumping off of everything. The crazy thing is, neither one has a fever, runny nose, and they might cough once or twice a day. Anyway, I am sure glad that they are on antibiotics. I think I jinxed myself by being grateful for not having to take Kameni in with the bandaid incident.

The Bandaid

Well, I've always heard about kids putting things up their nose and I have always thought how lucky I am that none of my kids have done that. Well, I can no longer say that. Today Kameni decided to put a bandaid...used one at that...up her nose. She had pushed it so far up her nose that I couldn't even see it with a flashlight. However, I was lucky enough that I could see a small piece of one of the ends, at least that is what I hoped it was. I stuck my tweezers up there and hoped for the best. Luckily I was able to pull it out. Hooray...no trip to the doctor's today.

Not Gerrit AGAIN!

Okay, isn't it funny that we can tell the personality of our kids at such an early age. Gerrit is SO determined and nothing will get in his way...and I mean nothing. I can't believe some of the things he has figured out how to move, go around, or go over to get what he wants. His new obsession is to mimic a caterpillar while going over and under our foot rests on our kitchen chairs. Yesterday as he was climbing over them he fell pretty hard on the foot rest with his teeth. He screamed like the Dickens, but I guess I was just looking for blood. Instead there was little white things in his mouth that I figured was left over crumbs of something he found on the floor. Later that night I noticed it had to have been pieces of his front tooth. He broke off quite a chunk. Hmmm....I can only wonder what will come next.

Easter

Oh boy, my kids were so excited, but because of the week we had they all went to bed without a fight. In fact, Kameni fell asleep in the car on the way back from my mom's. Kaymin got home put her pajamas one and went to bed herself. The Easter Bunny came and spoiled the kids as usual. Blake and I gave each of the kids an Easter outfit and they looked so cute. We also have them some bubbles from Gymboree. They are by far the best bubbles out there. The bubbles last forever and don't even pop on grass, cement or nothing. Then the Easter Bunny hid the eggs we colored for Easter, as well as some plastic eggs with candy in them. He also brought the girls some matching Hannah Montana pajamas, and the boys rash guards (swim shirts). I had to teach the lesson in Young Women's and I taught about the last 8 days of Christ's life. Basically 3 days before he died, the day he was crucified, and the 3 days until he was resurrected. I even made unleavened bread (I found it off of a Jewish recipes website...how I LOVE the Internet). I was actually pretty good. My favorite dough of all time is pie crust dough...I know, I know...it is SO weird, but I love it. This dough tasted just like that and even cooked it tastes a lot like pie crust. After church we usually go to Blake's mom's house and since she had hers Saturday morning...we came home and crashed. It felt so good to finally sit down and not have anywhere to be. We watched Bedtime Stories and pigged out on Easter candy.

Easter Eve

Easter Eve...that is what my kids kept saying on Saturday. That morning we had breakfast at Blake's mom's house with an Easter hunt for the kids. Breakfast was really good. Deilen was upset because someone picked up the last egg so he wouldn't pose for me. We went straight from there to Kaymin's soccer game. We had the treats and Kaymin was so excited. They only had 4 girls show up so we ended up forfeiting and just playing a scrimmage game with some of the girls from the other team (they had 8 show up). Kaymin made a goal. She is quite the good little soccer player. Can you tell Kameni is tired? She fell asleep with her legs kicked up on Blake. Our kids have been having "sleepovers" with each other in the girls's room. They basically consist of them sleeping in sleeping bags on the floor. But they stay up late goofing off and being silly. After that we went to my mom's for her Easter egg hunt. Right before leaving for her house, Deilen started to run a fever. So Blake stayed home with the boys and I took the girls to my mom's. Deilen was in tears because I wasn't taking him to Grandma's to find the eggs he stuffed. I felt so bad, but I brought him back some. My mom always has a hunt for the adults too. Once the kid hunt was finished it began raining so hard that we couldn't do our hunt outside. Instead we took a pair of dice and if we rolled an even number then we got to choose an egg. My parents put money in some of the eggs. Of course I forgot my camera. I had left it in the van, but I took our car in case Blake needed the boys' car seats for any reason and they were in the van.