We decided to stay home from church Sunday and catch up on rest - plus hopefully avoid sharing our tummy bug with our church friends. The sickness came on so suddenly last weekend, we just weren't sure if we were still contagious or if we were truly done being sick yet. It was a very restful day.
Monday arrived all too soon. The good news - it was St. Patricks's Day and Grammy and Grampy came for a short visit. The girls asked me to paint their nails green and help them choose all green outfits to wear that day. I even painted my nails green for the day. But I was so bothered by it I had to take it off after dinner that night.
Monday morning the kids woke up to find some treasures that the leprechauns had left for them. They even got to have some ginger ale and Sour Cream and Onion potato chips for breakfast which catapulted me to rockstar status for the day in the kids eyes.
Annie was excited about the seeds and mini green house she got.
Wednesday was kindergarten registration for Lily. Here she is in front of the door of the school, with a sucker in her mouth, trying to look tough. I was choked up the whole time as I sat there and filled out all the paperwork. Lily was super nervous during her readiness evaluation. But of course she knew everything and is totally prepared for school. We have entered a lottery to try and earn her a spot in a Spanish language immersion program. If she gets accepted, half of her school day will be in English and the other half will be in Spanish until she completes sixth grade. Ideally by the time she finishes ninth grade she will be able to take and pass all the required tests to earn a college minor in Spanish and be a completely fluent speaker. It takes a lot of dedication and at home work on the part of the parents but we feel like this is an amazing program to be a part of. It will be a big adventure for the whole family.
We were sad to see Grammy and Grampy go. See how broken up Tommy is? Grampy helped Daddy install a gas line to our laundry room so we can install a gas clothes dryer soon. Lily loved having Grammy snuggle in her bunk bed with her every night and both the girls liked snuggles in Grammy's bed in the morning. Unfortunately we shared our tummy bug with Grampy. He was sick shortly after visiting us. Sorry Grampy!
After Grammy and Grampy left, it was life as usual for a few days. Lily is still working hard in her dance class. They have started a new hip hop style routine that is really cute. During Lily's class, Annie had some tummy troubles. She didn't make it to the bathroom at the dance school in time and we had a poopy mess to deal with. It was REALLY bad. I had to throw away the panties and pants she was wearing and clean the bathroom at the school. After everything was cleaned up, I wrapped Annie in her jacket and took her out to the car with Tommy. A few minutes later the same thing happened again. A teenager from my ward offered to hold Tommy while I cleaned Annie up a second time. Now we had no clothes and no coat. I had to wrap naked Annie in her blanket and pray for Lily's class to end soon before I ran out of options. Once class was over we went straight home and got Annie all settled. She was better after that. Of course all the mess would happen in the 45 minute window we were away from home that day!
Poor sick little one. Thankfully after this episode, we were completely done with tummy troubles the rest of the week. I finally got caught up on laundry and did some shopping and housecleaning before Puna and Papa arrived Friday night.
On Friday night Lily went on a date with Puna and Papa to see "Savior of the World" at BYU-Idaho. Brady sang in the choir for the program. Lily was super excited to go. She took a little purse filled with peanut M&M's to entertain herself. She fell asleep after Act I and slept for the remainder of the show. Papa said during the quiet moments the people around them could hear Lily snoring. While Lily was on her date, Mommy and Daddy took Tommy and Annie to a wedding reception for Natalie Webster - Jeremy's boss's daughter. It was a beautiful reception. Annie loved the chocolate fondue fountains.
Saturday we made a trip up to Heise Hot Springs. It felt so good to swim in a perfectly warm pool with chilly Spring air around us. Tommy took a little while to warm up to the idea of swimming, but ended up loving it. Lily was super brave and jumped in over and over again. We are so glad we signed her up for swimming lessons last year and we can't wait to do them again. Tommy also liked being set up on the edge, then he would launch himself into the pool after we'd count to three. Sometimes he wouldn't wait for Daddy to get to "three" and Tommy would just throw himself toward Daddy's arms. Annie was perfectly content to stay with Papa or Mommy and stick to the shallow end where she could easily touch the bottom.
It was a lovely afternoon. The only thing missing was Uncle Brady - who had to take a test and couldn't make it up in time to go with us.
The highlight of the day (who am I kidding - the week!) for Annie was a new pair of pink boots from Puna and Papa. She insisted on wearing them to the pool with her Princess Anna dress. She also danced around the house all the rest of the day saying "I just love my new pink boots!". Silly little sweetie!
Sunday we had stake conference. Our stake presidency was released and a new presidency was called. It was a wonderful meeting. It got a little long for the kids. But they behaved very well. Jeremy was asked to be an usher before the meeting. When the kids saw him standing by the door, they just had to join him. First Tommy wanted to be with Daddy and play with the usher badge Jeremy was wearing. Then the girls wanted to "help" Daddy. Puna snapped a quick picture of the three of them on her phone.
They even got to wear a badge like Daddy's. Oh how we love our little ones! Thanks again Grammy and Grampy and Puna and Papa for coming to visit. It made the week fly by and it made the kids very happy.
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