hi ho Silver, away!

What a day, what a day. Where to start?
Got up and worked out this morning. It's getting muggy in the garage and I sweat and stink. In the context of "we were working out" that might be a good thing though.

Brother is feeling a little under the weather. He's had a fever and a bit of a cough. It goes away with Tylenol and Triaminic. Today he had a dentist appointment, one that we cancelled once before, well technically we forgot and called afterwards to rescheduled but still. I didn't want to cancel again so I took him and actually by the time we made the 35 minute drive he was feeling chipper and had a great appointment. He was happy because he got a cool dinosaur toothbrush with dino-head cover and he has no cavities and they have video games in the waiting room and in the kids chairs.

We stopped by Panda on the way home where the kids insisted on using chop sticks. Lucy was very cute stabbing her chicken with one and eating it that way. Unlimited refills is also a novelty and they enjoyed several glasses of lemonade each.

When we got home we had some cleaning up to do, and mother's day cards to pop in the mail, and a late birthday present to send off, and my phone rang about 3 dozen times today.

The girls are at mutual tonight. They are building go-carts and then racing them in the parking lot. I am excited to hear how it went.

Our kids are great, and lots of fun. That said, they also can be a handful at times. Lately brother's been having trouble not hitting H. She is expert at pushing his buttons (as all older sisters are I think). Today they were fighting over the toothpaste, or toothbrush or who was standing by which sink while they brushed or some other equally important dental related thing and he hauled off and punched her in the eye. I don't think she'll have a black eye. He however got a big black mark on his good boy list. He had to sit in time out, help me with extra chores after the girls were in bed and have a big talk (again). Punching is a boy thing, at least around here it is. None of the girls have done that~hair pulling and shoving yes, closed fisted punching no. We been suffering from some general slowness to obey and not wanting to go to bedness. I can't wait for summertime. Bedtime is not critical and "you can't swim until you __________" is the best motivator ever.
Additionally Little Miss I'm-two-and-like-to-do-things-by-myself is into taking off her diaper, a zillion times a day. Not cute. We've been working on potty training but it's really been a half hearted effort on my part because I don't think she's ready, she just likes to be naked. Since she's been in speech she's talking more, we're not understanding much more but she has lots of things to say. It may actually be more frustrating while she tries to tell us and we don't get it but hopefully she'll improve and it will be better. The good news is she is saying more words that are clear and making a lot more effort.

We have many friends who are moving in the next while. All of a sudden. Mom and Dad decided to move a little over a month ago. Their house is on the market and they are planning on leaving for China this summer (if that plan holds); if not maybe they'll go on a mission sooner. Then not two or three weeks after that DH had a meeting with his boss and agreed to move to MD next summer, which was not what we had in mind before that. Then our Bishop and his family got a job opportunity in So Carolina and will probably move this summer and now our other friends Quinn and Sandy got a new job this week and are moving to Utah next month. It's just crazy. Change is everywhere. I think the job market of today is such that people move a lot more.

And a few random thoughts to end the evening with: I've been watching this eagle cam, for awhile now, and I have never seen the mother but the babies are cute. I wonder when they'll fly. Brother and I like to check on the chicks.

Our DDV count down is counting in days now, not weeks or months! woo hoo!

and lastly I got a Lone Ranger DVD in the $1 movie pile at Wal-mart some time ago. Today I stuck it in the VCR for our commute to the dentist and back and E loved it. It's his new hero, that super cool TX Ranger fighting for good and shooting his gun. Very fun. I couldn't see it but did get to listen and it was fun to hear the theme song again and to listen to his good deeds.