The gang and I are on a mandatory rest before school starts next week. I implemented this hiatus a few weeks ago and while I've been pretty good at maintaining it there have been a few activities on our schedule. Here are a couple of pictures from them :)
We went to the fair with Grandma, gosh, two, maybe three weeks ago. Yikes. Sorry this is so late. Anyhoo, we ate too much and had too much fun.
I don't know why kids love this stuff so much. It's quite ridiculous when there are cream puffs right across the way that would have been $5 much better spent.
Apparently something really interesting was going to our left, as neither child could be bothered with a photo.
Again, something to the left is entrancing.
Harps and Grandma. Thanks for giving my back a little break!
To me, this look says "When I turn 16 all your hair is going to turn white and you will probably die a small death each time I get behind a wheel to drive because I am trouble with a capital T."
Riding the train. Big shock.
Harper and Zarriah...age 6 1/2 months. Look at Z's hair!! (P.S. This isn't the best angle for H, is it?)
This is better. Oh those cheeks! That's Mom's friend Joan behind her :)
Notice the nuances in this photo: Thatch yelling at the kids behind him that he's going to shoot them with his lasers, Coop with his turned to the right like a trucker, the kids behind them yelling back at Thatch with them screaming that they're going to shoot them. Sigh, boys.
I wish I could zoom into this so you could see the smile on his face!
Thatch sharing his ice cream.
And there it is...the moment we hit the wall. "NO MORE PICTURES!!!!!" he yelled, emphatically.
Coop was still pretty chill though. He likes ice cream, by the way.
And so does H.
Here we are, on the way inside church. Luckily, they let us in again.
After church we went to B&N and Thatcher spent all allowance for the first time on...
A shark book!! We read it for bedtime every night of shark week.
Okay, so here's a random experiment that I found off pinterest (If you haven't joined pinterest it would be best if you never do, it is a time suck.) I am re-growing onioins that I cut already. It was a long shot...
Here's how much they grew in one day!
In the mean time, Jonathan took photos of his lawn. I will admit, it's pretty awesome. Even if we aren't allowed to walk or play on it.
Celebrating Shark Week: Here's the little guy being a shark. He's doing so good at swimming!
We went to a wedding this past weekend and they had cupcakes, red frosted cupcakes. It wasn't quite his color though.
And here are the onions after a week...Crazy!! This is kind of fun!!!
Anyhoo, Friday starts the begining of our regularly scheduled programing...school stuff, OT, library time, so on and so forth. Fun should ensue.
Here's the thing...I am 100% sure we have a computer virus. That being said, I deleted another post that I had completely written. Are the two related? Probably not but I'm running with it. I've taken the necessary precautions and backed up all my most recent pics on a flash drive and am going to risk trying to squeeze in one or two more posts before I take it in. Or before I can con convince Jonathan into letting me get a new one ;)
Anyhoo, I really have no idea of what we did last weekend anymore it's been so long...but I have pictures so that should help! I tried to stay home so I could work on Harpie's fancy bedroom, and I did a pretty good job of that, but we did go out a bit. Oh right, looking at this I remember what this was mostly about...the sharpie incident. Let us proceede...
Okay, here is where I make a confession. I may or may not have killed Sparky the fish. I cleaned his bowl and I thought I did the right mixture of water but he super died. Didn't even float, that's how much he died. Thatch took it pretty rough that first hour so I did what I do best. I made cookies for dinner. Here's Coopster sneaking some raw dough from the cookie sheet. It's in his genetics, he just can't get past them.
And a quick video of the Coopster...and Spiderman, who was feeling under the weather.
Harps LOVES eating (those genetics strike again). So far she's a big fan of pears, apples, sweet potatoes and somewhat a fan of oatmeal. She is not fond of butternut squash.
Here's a quickie of Harpie eating. It's boring but seriously, she's cute and at the end gives a funny little shiver.
And here's where the proverbial poop hit the fan. It was Sunday of Jonathan's night shift, which you all know marks the bottom of the patience barrel for my Love. He's tired and grumpy and completely unpleasnt to be around. <---That was being generous in my description of him.
I was painting in Harper's room and baby gated Cooper out of it (which was a wise decision in hindsight) so I wasn't paying attention. Yea, Yea, it's my fault. I heard Thatcher yell, "NO COOPIE, DON'T COLOR ON THE TV." I was off that ladder and over that gate faster than a fat chick after a free twinkie. Here's what I found.
Jonathan lost his mind. I promptly locked Cooper in his room for his safety (and our sanity). This TV is Jonathan's baby during the winter time. In the summer his baby is his lawn.
After some googling one post said to use acetone (seriously, acetone? That's a terrible idea.) and another said to try dry erase marker on top of the permanent marker. We figured what the heck, it's already ruined. A Christmas miracle occurred and it worked!!!
Cooper was clearly sniffing the sharpie or trying to give himself a Hitler mustache. I'm going to go with the sniffing.
So we figured, why not try it on Coop? It's not like it could get any worse, right?
No joke, it took it off him better than a bath ever would have! Shut up, Mama's gota new trick :D
And here's the TV afterwards...tuned to ESPN. Ugh.
After Jonathan left we headed outside to blow off some steam. They decided to play in the sprinklers which I found to be uncomfortably chilly. It wasn't exactly toasty outside either.
Oh, the trouble he is going to get into someday.
Lord bless this kid's mother because she's going to have it rough.
Anywho, Monday we were off and running again. Back to the grind...swimming and OT!
"Mom, no pictures until I've had my coffee."
Michael Phelps he isn't, but he's on his way ;)
Progress!! That's Thatch in the middle! He NEVER used to jump in the pool. I'm so impressed with him.
Mr. Cooper waiting patiently for his big brother.
When we got home Jonathan was sleeping and Cooper took a nap so we went out to play in the nice weather. Harper hadn't been in the swing yet, I don't know why really, just laziness forgetfulness on my part probably. She LOVED it! She's a thrill seeker, great.
Happy Harpie.
Oh, I wish you could have heard the laughs!
A cute one from the Thatcheroo.
"Yeah, this is awesome."
It was brought to my attention that I only put awesome nice pictures of me in the blog. Well, here's a crappy one. Anyways, Thatch walked out of his room like this that evening. I have no idea why or what he was doing but the kid's got some style.
Thatch telling Jonathan something really important I suppose.
Okay, here's the back story. Jonathan and Thatch were talking about Shark Week, which has been much anticipated by the Yarsleys, and Jonathan asked Thatch to show him his shark face. This is was came from that. Oh, these boys of ours.
And so that brings us up to last Monday. Sheesh, I need to get on the ball with these. Wednesday we went to the fair and I took a bunch of pictures and ate way too much so I'll try to post that later on, if the computer can make it until then.
What the heck, how can Thatch be 6 already? Like I said before, time is flying exponentially at this point. We kept this celebration low key because we've already done the big stuff. Jonathan is on nights so we obviously needed to keep out of the house, there was no containing the excitement on this day. When he woke up he announced "It iss time to start my Birthday!!" I have created a birthday monster but I love it!
There were a few official errands that needed to be ran first such as signing up for swim lessons, buying some cupcakes for our play date and picking up an estimate for new windows. After that we headed to Alaskaland (No, I am never going to call it Pioneer Park) and played with Layla and Jack, my friend Shana's little ones.
He was playing Spiderman...move over Thomas!
Here's what I think he was thinking :"Huh, this looks dangerous. I will not go any farther up than this. Yup, good plan."
Where he's always happiest, on the Alaskaland Train.
Coop is happy too but not with me because I separated him and Thatch for shenanigans.
After Alaskaland we went to OT, Lowes and then home for naptime. We were able to visit with Jonathan a little before he headed off to work and to skype with Grammy and Grandpa for some quality birthday chit chating. Then it was to Grandma and Sam's for some party action! Thatch only picked at his food a little bit and then headed off to the farm to feed the horses (which he loves!). When the got back we did cake and he got some fun Spiderman gear which I'm sure will appear in some pictures soon.
Deep breath in for some serious wishing action.
Mission Accomplished.
Thatcher at 1 month showing some serious model potential in his future.
Our sweet little girl is half way to her 1st Birthday. <tear, sniffle, tear>. I sincerely believe that with each child you add to the possey time begins to speed up exponentially faster. Her "official" half birthday was Saturday, July 21st, but I'm behind so sue me. (Don't really sue me, that would super effect our relationship and not in a positive way.)
Here are the official Stats for Ms. Harper Evelyn Yarsley:
Weight: 18 lbs 2 oz.
Height: 27" (Only 21" more until Disneyland!)
Teeth: None yet, but working on it.
Clothes size: For sure 9 months, heading steadily into 12 months.
Favorite Food: Chocolate Ice Cream
And here are some photos of my girl...
Halfie Birthday Harpie :) 1st Chocolate Ice Cream...surely not the last!
A little bath time for Ms. McChocolaty.
The 6 month basket photo : D
Confession: Because of the broken camera incident I didn't take her 5 month photo :(
Teething
Devouring Information.
At the Dr. for 6 months shots. Thatch was pretty concerned for her because he knows the pain. Better than knowing what polio is, that's my opinion.
First real food. Oatmeal. Yummy. She ate it all, probably about 4T of it. She rocked the butternut squash today too but I know she didn't like it. Mwahahaha.
So there she is. All sugar and spice and everything nice!
