Where does the time go?

I can't believe it has been nearly 2 months since I updated this blog. So many little things have happened in that time & yet things still seem quite the same. Funny how time goes by so quickly.

We're still in the middle of redoing the dining room & I have run out of ambition to wash the wallpaper paste from the walls at the moment. I think getting the wiring half done yesterday will help rev up my ambition to get it finished so we can have things moved back into their places & be 'more normal'. At the moment the 2 bookshelves that belong in the dining room are in the living room crowding it a bit. But at least I don't have ugly wires hanging from my walls & ceiling now which is an improvement.

Gabby & Braly have had gymnastics all this week. Today is their last day & I know they are going to miss it but at the same time I think they will enjoy not having to get ready to leave somewhere every day. Will seem more like summer vacation next week. Adam was going to have next week off but due to some scheduling errors he's taking a partial week & will take another partial week at a different time when it fits into our schedule so we can do some fun day trips.

Gabby had to have a filling that she had a few months ago fixed yesterday. Part of it must have been a tad too high & it chipped off. She's turning 7 on Sunday & I have yet to figure out what to buy this girl for a gift. Normally she's got all sorts of ideas of what she wants but not this time. Kinda nice in a way because maybe that means she's content with the things she has. I don't think one can say that about most children. Since her birthday is on Father's Day this year I have to find a way to celebrate both events, making them special & I seem to have run out of ideas at the moment. We are heading to Marquette Childrens Museum on Monday but I feel that there has to be some celebrating happening on the actual day.

Morgan has been having breathing trouble, stuffed up nose, especially at night for the last few weeks & it is getting OLD! That means that after having a breathing treatement, a few hours later she wakes up totally freaked out & is hard to calm down. I don't think it is nightmares but rather trouble breathing because sometimes she's finally calm & then she starts crying again. I've gotten out of her a few times now that her nose hurts & it causes her to cry. Seems that another doctor visit will be in store for us next week. I may try to get Braly & Gabby's checkups done at the same time since we go to Iron Mountain & its just better to make the trip there really count.

Braly is so excited that he'll be going to the same school as Gabby in the fall. He'll be in the regular Kindergarten class which means he'll go straight to 1st grade the following year. He counts to 100, reads quite a bit & knows so much. Yesterday he told me that he knows everything. LOL how funny is that? I told him he does know a lot but he's got a lot more to learn.

Gabby & Braly are signed up for the summer reading program & now we have at least 6 hours of reading ahead of us. Good thing I enjoy reading to the kids so much & that we do it quite frequently (and that we can get it done at the same time so it isn't 12 hours of reading b4 they turn their slips in). The kids enjoy our devotional reading every night. Although Morgan is a little hard to get to sit down sometimes. But she's only 2 1/2 so she'll come around. We've got such an awesome daily devotional book for the entire year. It's simple for them to understand & to read themselves if they choose & it has the cutest art work. I really enjoy it myself & really like the things that it teaches us to do.

I've got TONS of pictures to post. Especially of our visit with Carol, Travis, Darien, Alexis, & Nathan. All I have to say is it was a lot of fun to meet them & start to get to know them. And Gabby, Braly, & Morgan had so much fun with them that they cried when they left. In fact, Braly cried for the next few days each time he thought about playing with the boys. Really makes me realize how much he misses having boys to play with. Playing with his sisters just isn't the same. Wish all the cousins were closer so they'd have each other to play with but since they aren't, I'm going to have to do better at getting some friends to play with him & do boy things.

Time to wrap this one up. Sorry it is so long...oh wait...not really. Just trying to keep everyone in the loop as best I can & obviously I haven't been doing very good so I'll try to do better. It's time for me to eat & get the kids ready for our last day of gymnastics. I've got videos & pics of them doing the balance beam, vault, uneven bars, & floor exercises. They are so cute & so full of energy & minimal fear. Oh to be a child again.