I have the wonderful opportunity to play Legos with Bryson on almost a daily basis.

Today his question was…

“Do you want the one with the green hat or the pirate without a head?”

Then I actually had 2 choices of pirates without a head.  1 was a traditional pirate.

The other was a headless pirate in church clothes. 

I chose the traditional one.  We had a fun time on a Lego ship. 

Life is good.

Our ward has a yearly tradition.  Everyone saves their christmas trees and then the scouts and any one else who wants to goes on a camping trip and have a HUGE bonfire.

Devon got to go with Rob and the scouts this year! 

For our wedding we got 3 sets of glasses. 

1 was pretty hideous, they looked like they were from the 70’s and were just VERY durable, so the last one broke after about 10 years.

1 set was normal, we still have 1 of those.

Then our Blue Glasses-

Then we got a set of 4 indestructable blue plastic glasses.  They are great!  We somehow broke 2 of them, and then the other night I filled up a glass, put it on my nightstand on some papers and I woke up and the papers were all wet.  There was a leak!  So we are down to 1, which is sad, because we loved these cups!

Here is one on our MESSY table, sadly our table often looks like this.  It is our dumping zone.  Our goal is to find a place for everything and keep the table CLEAN!

It is hard to find a time when we are all home and “awake” 

With school we found that 7:30 AM was the best time.  I would wake the boys up, they would dress, stumble to our bedroom and onto our bed.  I would read some verses to them.  We read from the Old Testament this year.

They are soakin’ it all in.  Maybe?

Then it is time to pray.

Hopefully scriptures and prayers while half asleep still benefit our family.  We just want to have FAMILY scripture study and prayer and this is the only time we are all together.

I have never let the big boys play out front alone.  If they were riding their bike, I was out watching for cars.  If they were tossing the ball in the front lawn I was on the porch reading.  Or sometimes when I was tired of being outside, I would be in the front room, with the door open so I could hear them.

Well, time moves on, they grow.  Suddenly I feel ok with the big boys (age 8 and 11) being out front on their own.  I still leave the doors open so I can hear.  But I am not watching or checking that often.

When is this ok?  My neighbors have let their 6 year olds do this.  Seriously, ride their bike around the block on their own when they were 6.   That to me seems to young.  But an almost 9 year old, I feel ok with him being in front of the house.

I think I would let Devon ride around the block, but not Carson yet.  Unless they were together.  But that is a scary combination, Devon on a bike and no one watching out for collisions.  He isn’t the safest bike rider.  The coordination isn’t all there yet.

Then even CRAZIER.  I let Bryson play in the front yard with the big boys and I am inside listening.  For one thing, Bryson is REALLY good about not going in the street.  If a ball rolls out, he doesn’t even make a move for it.  He knows he can’t do it and he doesn’t try.

If the boys are playing ball or frisbee with him, I feel he is safe.  IF he was just wandering around with out something to focus on, then no way.  I would be out there too.

This would explain my week.  I am just glad it wasn’t last week when I felt sick.

Devon is doing 3 classes at Newport Sea Base.  Which he is loving.  He will earn 2 merit badges and it is a great program.  BUT, it is a good 40 minute drive to get there.  Of course I was planning on Rob dropping him off each morning, but that isn’t quite working out.  So far he has one day.

So I am driving 2 hours a day just for Devon.  Then you add the other things this week.

Jr. Lifeguard for Carson.

3 trips to the library already this week.

Orthodonist appointment.

Kung Fu

Hypnobabies Open House.

Tomorrow night we will have Kung Fu and then a Pack meeting.

I need a vacation from our summer vacation!

The cub scouts had a nature photo contest.  Here are Carson’s best entries.

He plays this with his friend Jack (and I guess has seen the show at his house)  So Bryson likes to run around the house with a sword stuck in his shirt. 

He is a pretty sweet ninja turtle. 

Carson started off in Mrs. Fix’s class.  It was hard for the teachers because they were sharing classes, 3 teachers for 2 classes and it was weird.  Anyway I pulled him out in December to Home School him which he loved!

 

 

It was fun for me too, it was nice to have just time with Carson.  Sometimes he was bored, but he did a lot of creative things, like when we learned about Archimedes, he went and build Archimedes water screw out of Legos.

 

 

He loves history!  Who would have thought it?

Who would have thought those could be connected?

But the other month as part of our book club discussion somehow I brought up that some women eat their placentas after birth. My friends found this somewhat revolting.

I assured them, I could never do that either. BUT, next time*** I think I would definitely plan on drying it and having it encapsulated so I could take pills of my placenta. Surprisingly, they didn’t find this an enjoyable option either. But for moms who have had post partum issues, it is a great option. A wonderful way to help regulate your hormones after birth.

I am going to send them this link from People Magazine.   Afterbirth for Dinner to prove I don’t make these things up AND I am not the only person out there who would do such an interesting thing to her own placenta. 

*** There will probably never be a next time, but if there is I have great plans for all I will do.