Weekend

Josh got home Saturday afternoon, and Harper and Juddson were both asleep. It was so beautiful outside, I decided to take Noah to Tillis for a walk. We walked around a couple of times and then we sat by the creek and threw rocks into the water. We hadn't gotten to do that in forever, and that is one of his favorite things to do, so we really had a good time. I WISH I would have had my camera with me... After we had our fill of throwing rocks, we walked around to the playground and he found some kids, well, teenagers to play with. He went to the top of the playland thing and they would throw the football up and over to him and he'd catch it and throw it back down and laugh really big. We'd been there a while and I knew it was about time for the tooters to get up, so we walked back him. Sure enough, I was greeted at the door and they insisted I hold them before I did anything else. The night was uneventful and we watched some shows and went to bed. I had a headache and couldn't sleep all night, and Noah and Harper were in bed with us, and I kept getting kicked in the back, so I moved to Harper's bed to try to get some sleep. After a few hours, Josh came in there and lay down by me, and then he told me to look up... Harper was sitting outside the bedroom on the vent on the floor with her cat. We called her to come in there with us, and we laughed about playing "musical beds" and then we were up for the day.
Noah's teacher at church said he participated and did great and he even got an award for being so good! Yeah Noah! After church Pa and Kara came over and ate pizza, and then Nanna stopped by and brought Harper a few more birthday gifts, and ended up getting everybody a gift. She bought little step stools for each of them. They are so cute, and the kids love them... I wonder what trouble they are going to find now... Harper already said... "I meed something in my room...wait, I can't reach it, I meed my bench" and pushed her pink stool into her room to reach her jewelry box. After afternoon naps, we pushed the table over to the side and got out the soccer goal and they played soccer. I told Noah he could do one kick, then it was Harper's turn to do one kick. He said, "Not 1, 20." and I said "You want to do 20 kicks and Harper do 20 kicks?" He said, "No...Noah 20 kicks, and Harper 1." We explained that that wasn't fair...so he agreed to 20 kicks for him, and 20 for Harper. After soccer we had supper... some ate cheerios and milk, others pizza, all of them ate yogurt. They love those yogurt pouch things, it's the same thing that comes in the container, but I guess it's more fun eating it out of a tube thing.... and more expensive, oh well, it's calcium.
We had our first Bice Family meeting. I have been working on a flip chart of rules and I got them star charts for things like taking vitamins, picking up toys, etc... and I introduced the charts during the meeting. They were so cute, sitting on their stools all in a row, listening and watching my "presentation." I don't know how well it sunk in, but they were sure cute sitting in a row on their stools listening to me. One picture was of a boy (NOAH) screaming and he would just study that page and try to get his face like the picture, he'd squint his eyes and stick his tongue way out, Josh and I were rolling, laughing... In one picture, with the mad kids-- Judd really got into that one, saying "Hoppa, MAD..." and he'd punch the picture.
Noah was in the tub the other night and I walked back there to check on him and there was water coming out from the bathroom into the living room... I yelled a little and asked him how that happened after I'd already told him not to splash and not to throw toys in the floor and demanded to know how it happened. He thought for a minute and looked up at me and said "It was just a accident." in the sweetest voice possible, so I laughed and started putting towels all over the floor... I am such a softy. Due to my reaction, he's now learned to use that line all the time. Like, we hear a thud and Judd is crying and saying "woawa, hit" and we say "Noah, did you hit Judd?" He says (again in the angelic voice) "It was just a accident."