Fruit by the Foot Addy, compliments of big sister Emily.
I forgot to post these cute pictures on my garden post. Addy was helping me with the garden before the kids got out of school last week. Above she is taking a nap in the ground cover. Below she is feeding a worm to a chicken. She fed a lot of worms to chickens that day.
When the girls got home from school on Wednesday and I informed them that they were going to be spending the rest of the day helping me plant the garden, Emily said, "Why wouldn't we want to help you in the garden? You gave us the most wonderful gift of life and of feathers!" Yes, I took the girls last week to get feathers in their hair. Thank you Steven Tyler.
A few weeks ago, I was having Addy help me with the laundry. I was letting her put the clothes in the washer and I let her put the soap in and push the buttons to start it. The only thing I didn't let her do or see me do was take the lock off the washing machine. You have to hold the pause button for 3 seconds to do that. I always lock it when I have a load in because it is front loading and there have been times buttons have been pushed and I've had to start a load over. So it stays locked until the next time I do a load and I unlock it and then lock it again. Well last Saturday I heard the washing machine running and I knew I didn't start a load. And, quite frankly, if I didn't start it...well...then the only other reasonable explanation is that a ghost came from the grave and started it, because ain't nobody else 'round here gonna do such a thing. But turns out it wasn't a ghost. It was Addy. She took all her dirty clothes, put them in the washing machine, unlocked it and started it.
One of Addy's favorite cartoons is Max and Ruby. I can't stand watching it though because every time it's on, I have this overwhelming desire to punch Ruby in the face.
Back a few weeks ago when the Mavs were playing Oklahoma, Steve was saying something about what a good match up that was. Emily was asking why and Steve told her about the Red River River Rivalry. He told her that in school in Texas they teach kids to hate Oklahoma from the time they are in Kindergarten. Emily looked at me with total seriousness and asked, "Really?"
Last week I packed the kids lunches and I packed one for Addy as well. When it was time for lunch she got it out and she was so mad that I only made her 1/2 of a sandwich instead of a whole. When she said the prayer before she ate she said in a slightly perturbed voice, "And please bless that next time my mom will make me a BIG sandwich."
I've said it before and I say it again. I have the hardest working husband EVER! He worked such long and hard hours last week. There was one day when he worked all day and all night and got home at 8:00 the next morning, slept for 3 hours and went back to work and worked until 11:00 that night. Stephen, I love you!
Last summer we had season passes to a water park. This year we downgraded to passes to the city pool. It opened on Saturday and the girls begged me and begged me to take them even though it was absolutely freezing outside and it was raining off and on. I finally gave in late that afternoon and took them. This was our first time at this pool and lets just say, it wasn't the best experience. I had no intentions of getting in the pool. I was content to sit and watch the girls swim and read my book. They have 2 slides at the pool. Emily and Aubrey went down them and so of course Addy wanted to. She ran over and went down the slide and *WHISTLE BLOW*. The lifeguard said that you couldn't go down the slide with floaties on. So I told Addy she would not be able to go down the slide. She begged me and begged me to let her take her floaties off and let her go down. So I finally gave in and got in the dang pool so she could take her floaties off and go down the slide and I could catch her. She takes them off, goes down the slide, I catch her. *WHISTLE BLOW* "YOU CAN'T CATCH ANYONE COMING DOWN THE SLIDE!" What? So I asked him if it would be better for me to just let her drown rather than catching her. It was the most irritating experience, the whole thing. Emily and Aubrey were in a part of the pool and they were playing this game where they were trying to see who could touch the bottom of the pool first with their feet. They were just staying in the pool and going under, not jumping in or anything, and one of the lifeguards made them stop doing that. It felt like every 5 seconds the whistle was blowing. *WHISTLE BLOW*WHISTLE BLOW*WHISTLE BLOW* It was so ridiculous. My girls were complaining and saying they don't ever want to go there again and can we please get passes to the water park again. And I told them they should just be thankful we could afford passes to the pool because the only other option for them would be to stay home and fill up the little blue plastic pool that has a hole in it. I was trying to explain to them that there are rules to everything and they make the rules to keep people from getting hurt and sometimes we don't like a rule, but we just have to follow it. But it was a little hard for me to not be somewhat irritated on the inside with all the whistle blowing going on. I'm really hoping that maybe it is because it was the first day and the lifeguards were all ready to flex their whistle blowing muscles and there were 3 of them and 4 of us in the pool. Hopefully next time we go it will be a much better experience.
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