Mother's Day

I sure do love these girls and the chance to be their mom!  Never a dull moment :)

Dino Day!

A couple Saturdays ago was Dino Day at the Texas Tech Museum and like every other family in Lubbock, we attended (although Andrew was at school and couldn't join us).  

We love dinosaurs!

It was insanely busy, but the girls still had fun - Curious George was there!

Pin the tail on the dino!

Real birds!

And they got to make dinosaur feet - this occupied most of our time.  

Both the girls made it through a hole in the bean bag toss.

After the dino festivities, we took a few minutes to walk around the rest of the museum (or at least the interesting parts....)

It was a crazy couple of hours, but we (I) survived and we (the girls) even had fun!

Halle's Broken Arm

I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later, but I guess I thought it would be later!  Our first broken bone :(  

Halle was out playing on the tramp with Eve on Tuesday, April 26th.  Eve had her back turned and I was inside, so there are no eye witnesses, but apparently, she caught her foot or something trying to get out of the tramp, fell, and landed just right on her arm.  I heard her screaming immediately, so brought her in and had her rest on the couch.  There was no visible injury and no swelling, but she cried for about three hours at which point we decided we should probably have it looked at just to be safe.  

Andrew had meetings at church that he needed to be at, so he took Abigail with him and I took Eve and Halle to the ER.  Little did I know when we arrived at 7pm that we had a five hour ordeal ahead of us....

Halle was so brave even though her arm was hurting!  And even though we had to wait A LOT!  

Finally made it into a room around 10pm, where Halle was excited to learn there was a TV!  Too bad there was nothing on :(  

Eve and Halle were both very patient waiters.....

Finally they came in with the results of the x-ray.  Oh, when they'd done the x-rays, I couldn't go in (obviously), and Halle was a little nervous, so Eve went with her and helped her be brave!  So nice to have a big sister!

Anyway, turns out she had a buckle fracture near her wrist (on the side of the arm the pinkie finger is on) and they needed to cast her up to her shoulder.

So they wrapped, 

and wrapped, 

and wrapped some more.  Then squeezed it on there tightly - which was the part that made Halle tear up :(  Through the whole thing, Halle was so brave even though she was scared, in pain, and very tired.  The doctors were amazed by how well she did!

Trying to hold in the tears:

They came to do another set of x-rays, so I waited outside while Eve stayed with Halle again - such a good helper!

All done and finally ready to head home!  After midnight at this point....

Sister support!

Halle did great getting used to the cast - no complaining, milking it for sympathy, or anything!  She had a couple visitors from church - her sunbeam teacher brought a treat over and so did my visiting teaching companion whose daughter is in Halle's class.  She loved the attention!

And she only got a little pampering from Mommy :)  A snuggly bed on the couch to rest in!

Two weeks later, we went back in for another set of x-rays.  Things were healing nicely, so they left her original cast in place and over-wrapped it with a color of her choice: purple!

4 more weeks with this one then another set of x-rays to see what comes next!  

Baldwin Visit!

We were thrilled in April to have a visit from the Baldwins!  Candace and I both being pregnant and grumpy, we wanted some time to commiserate with each other and let the kids go wild - which we did, and so did they :)  

Play time at the park!

Abigail loves the big kid swings now!

A fun round of "Who Shook Hook?"

Lots of people to cram around the dinner table - meal times are always an adventure with six little kids!

Candace and Hannah were nice enough to plan a tea party for everyone - something my girls have never experienced before and quite enjoyed!

Abigail was more interested in the water than the tea party.....

After the party, ducks!

Then play time at the park!

It was very hot and very windy so we didn't stay long.

Can you believe in June we're adding two more to this group of crazies???

And yet, we are :)  

Passing Time

Here's a post of random stuff we've been up to the past month or so......

Pigtail sisters!

Abigail's reaction when I won't let her play with my phone:

Eve's pet ladybug:

A couple weeks ago Eve and I went over to her new school to get her registered for kindergarten.  She was nervous at first, but quickly warmed up to it and was very excited!  The cookies didn't hurt ;)

Apparently the school has over 100 animals that the students get to help care for, including a couple there for the kids to pet - which made Eve even more excited for school!  Only three more months until I have a child in school - ah!

I took the girls with me to vote the other day and they loved this elk statue :)  And their "Yo vote" stickers.....I don't know why they all chose the spanish ones.

I got to take Halle to a birthday party for a friend from her church class.  I wasn't sure how it'd work out with her broken arm (a post on that is coming), but she did great!

She sat at the top of this big slide for several minutes before working up the courage to give it a try:

But she finally did!  And then wouldn't stop going down it :)

All the kids!

Purple birthday cupcake face!

Eve did her first paint by number project - and did it all by herself!

So proud of our budding artist!  

We had a huge rainstorm a few days ago (first rain we've had in two months!) and since it was very warm, I let the girls play out in it!

Even Halle managed to get one arm wet :)

Jumping in the rain!

And afterwards, they all wanted a snuggly bed in the living room to warm up :)  Not a bad way to spend a spring day!