All before 11:00 in the morning...

Bedrooms cleaned
Book room cleaned
Living room cleaned
Halls cleaned
Basement cleaned
Everything vacuumed
Bathrooms mopped
Tile mopped
Mirrors cleaned
Doors (somewhat) cleaned
Trash emptied
Ice cream eaten

We'll call this day productive

This is Andrea Werehavingababyitsaboy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxhTnWrKYs

► 0:31► 0:31www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxhTnWrKYs

Holy cow it's been a long time since I posted

Not that it means that I'll post again any time soon.

So, what have we been up to for the last four months?  I have no idea.

Irene started saying "yes" a long time ago.  It started out as a very annoyed sounding "okay," then morphed into an "uh huh" and yesterday it changed into a very distinctive "yes."  It's pretty cute.

We went to Idaho once? a couple of times?  I don't remember.  It's always nice to go up there.  Brita and Benton both went on the zip line.  That thing is a little bit scary.  I went once.  I think that's good enough.  It was a couple of times we visited because the first time we went up this year the lambs were being born.  The kids got to see the third of a set of triplets being born.  It was pretty exciting.  They were happy when it needed to come into the house that night because it was stronger than my dad thought it was so it was standing up in its box and trying to get out.  They thought it was funny.  We had a get together with all my family in the area, too, when Melissa came to town.  It's always nice be with family.

We went to North Carolina to hang out with all the McNabbs.  It's always nice to be with family..  Peter's parents rented a beach house for a week and it was so nice to be there.  I think the last night was my favorite because all the kids were having so much fun and the weather was perfect at the beach and no one was puking and then we came back and all got in the hot tub.  I think we had 14 people in the hot tub that night.  The 80 hours of driving got a little old, though.  We had to stop in Illinois for a couple days because we just couldn't make ourselves drive straight back.

I'm pregnant.  btw

The oldest kids got their hair cut tonight.  Brita's was long enough to donate, so we need to get that sent off.  They look mighty cute now (kind of like they looked mighty cute before, but with shorter hair.)  Brita always looks so different when she gets a hair cut.  Mima said she wanted to get her hair cut, too, but then changed her mind at the last minute.

We finally got around to planting the garden.  We tilled it a while ago, but didn't get it planted until last weekend.  Hopefully our tomatoes grow.  Things aren't off to a great start this year.  Brita picked out some flowers and we planted them last weekend and now the entire plants are purple--I don't know if it's nutrient deficiency or water troubles or what.

Peter's a one man show at church lately when it comes to the music.  Last week he played the organ for sacrament meeting, accompanied both musical numbers and then played piano for primary.  Tomorrow he's accompanying the choir as well as playing the organ and playing for primary.  Good times.

I'm just plugging along being tired all the time.  We did get all but two rooms of our house cleaned today so that's a vast improvement.  Monica came over last Saturday and we spent four hours cleaning the book room.  We've faithfully kept it clean since then so she doesn't cry when she comes back from her vacation.  Yep, cleaning, that's pretty much my life.  And being indebted to Monica.

Irene went into nursery last Sunday.  Not the biggest fan.  Mima really liked having her in there, though.  She's a really great big sister and was showing Irene all the ropes of surviving in nursery.  It was fun to watch.

And now for some pictures.

 Before and after the haircut.

 The hot tub.

 Mima's birthday at the beach.

 Balanced rock.  Brita and my dad climbed up to the base of it.  Brita was pretty scared, but she did really good and was proud of herself when she got down.

I totally forgot my sister and her family came to visit.  This last picture was one of the funniest games of Red Rover I've ever watched.  And yes, I watched and didn't participate.  I'm lame like that.

Sleeping Queens

We got the game Sleeping Queens for Christmas.  The kids love it.  They've probably played it more than 100 times.  And it's not actually that painful to play it with them.  Good game.  

Anyways, tonight Mima was carrying it around and said, "Mom, I don't want to keep this anymore."  I said, "Um, why not?"  Mima (defiantly, always defiantly): "I don't want to keep it.  I want to give it to Sister DeYoung."  Her nursery leader had just stopped by and picked up a couple sewing machines and evidently Mima thought we should give her something better, too.  

She's such a funny kid.

Benton's math

Benton finished his math book yesterday!  It was more of an overall preschool book than a math book, but he called it his math book.  He was doing about 16 pages a day at the end there.  Pretty impressive.

Mima still insists on doing Brita's math books for her math.  She counts things and circles things and colors things.  It's pretty fun.

Irene

The other day (okay, probably a couple months ago) the older kids were all lined up on the couch doing something.  Probable playing the ipad, but I can't remember.  Anyways, Irene pulled herself up to the couch and started walking back and forth along it trying to bite all the kids toes, which were sticking straight out because they have short legs.  It was so, so funny.

Paharo

Brita is crazy smart.  Jut in case you didn't know.  We've been reading the Story of the World to the kids at night and then Brita steals the book and stays up reading it.

So, today at lunch...

Brita:  Mom, why were the pyramids really big?
Mom:  Because the people who made them made them that big.
Brita:  Hmm, and to keep their Paharoes safe?
Mom:  Umm..[figures out what she actually said] Oh, yeah, to keep their Pharaohs safe.
Brita:  Yeah, I just like to call them Paharoes.

Brita's Math

Brita finished her math book today!  Hurray!

Voice mail.

I love it when Google transcribes my requests for Peter to pick things up at the store on his way home from work as completely garbled messages.  It makes me happy.  The first is a request for milk and cheese.  The second is a request for heavy whipping cream and milk.  Apparently we run out of milk a lot.  And I'm pretty sure Google thinks I don't have enough pet names for Peter since it always picks a random one even though I always call him Peter.


"Hey J, It's Andrea, I was wondering if you could get some more computers on your resume sent. If that's okay. Me. Thanks buddy bye."

"Hey sweetie. It's Andrea, can you stop. Thank you, have a place that would be great and I don't know if any reason. I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Love you bye."

21 packages of pasta
4 greek yogurts
2 packages of sausage
50 tealights
1 container Tillamook mudslide ice cream
2 container cottage cheese

 All for $25. No coupons.

 I just needed to tell someone, and you, my blog, were it.