Excuse this Home

My friend gave my a poem the other day that I'd like to share. It's me all the way.

Excuse This Home

Some homes try to hide the fact

That children shelter there.

Ours boasts of it quite openly

The signs are everywhere.

For smears are on the windows

Little smudges on the door;

I should apologize I guess

For the toys strewn on the floor.

But I sat down with the children,

We played and laughed and read.

And if the doorbell doesn't shine

Their eyes will shine instead.

For when at times I'm forced to choose

the one job or the other,

I want to be a homemaker

But first I'll be a Mother.

Creative Fun

I'm trying to be more creative for both my sake and Kaden's. If I just let him watch t.v. he gets very (let me emphasize very) ornery. So far we've made a Felt Pizza, Puppets, Giant Color Dice, and a Castle. I think he's having fun with them. We're also going to try to get outdoors more often now that the weather is warming up. We went and fed horses yesterday and on Thursday our neighbor has invited us to the Aquarium. We are totally excited. There's also the duck pond by daddy's work. Any other ideas? Send them our way.

Long Interesting Day

Let me tell you about my Saturday. It all started when we tried to go "yardsale-ing" at 8:30am. Of course it started raining so we only found two and they didn't have anything worth buying. What a waste of a Saturday morning. I left for Emily's State Solo and Ensemble early so we could hang out. When I got there she was starving so she ate Kaden's snacks from the diaper bag (cheese dipping crackers and fruit loops yummmmm). We talked for a while and showed off Autumn to Mrs. Tawa (she said she was perfect). They were running way late so Emily didn't sing until 1:15ish. I thought she did a great job. I recorded it so you can all hear her beautiful voice too.

I wanted to get home quick so I could get a nap while Kaden was still sleeping, but it wasn't to be. First of all it was still raining, only much harder now. I needed to return something to Target so I opted to stay on State street instead of the freeway. Bad Idea! It was under construction so we had to detour and that took forever with very long lights. I hate driving in heavy traffic with pouring rain! So I finally got to Target and ran through the rain so Autumn wouldn't freeze. I went to return the item and of all things somehow the receipt was gone. It flew out of the bag in the rush to get out of the rain. So I had to go back in the rain with my baby to put it back in the car and then back into the store to get one lousy jug of milk. What a mess. I was soaked and pretty upset. By now Autumn is starving, but I just wanted to get home, so I listened to her cry for most of the way, poor baby. Everything was fine once I got home to Nathan. He just laughed at my story. No sympathy from him, go figure. haha at least it's over. Later that evening we drove through a bunch of tiny towns like Genola, Goshen, and Elberta to get to a wedding reception in Eureka. It was a longer drive than we thought, but it was pretty fun. I even saw an old friend from LD's there. She was married to the Bride's brother, now that's a small world. Nathan laughed that LD's is taking over the world. I can't go anywhere without seeing someone I know. haha Eureka of all places. We sang really loud to the radio all the way home and Kaden was the loudest. Anyway, Kathy reminded me of this video when we called to get better directions to the wedding. I hope you like it too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqR0-FUQyp0

I'm sorry this was so long. Thanks for hanging in to the end.

As we speak

As we speak, Kaden is playing with a bunch of thread spools and little balls. He is such an organizer (aparently he didn't get that from me). He gathers specific groups of toys and puts them all together. Earlier it was the stuffed animals. Autumn is just content to sit in my lap and listen to the pitter patter of computer keys. I am constantly amazed at how different they are. I can't wait until they can play together. Kaden already tries by giving her toys to play with. He is such a sute Big Brother. We just got a double stroller today that we are dying to try out. Just an hour and a half until Daddy gets home and we head up the canyon for a beautiful spring picnic. Yay!!