Lizzy's Broken Tooth

Yesterday Lizzy banged her mouth on the bathtub and broke off a big chunk of one of her front teeth. It was (and is) awful. I'm taking her to the dentist tomorrow. I called and they said they will either shave it down or try to seal it somehow or put a crown on it. It has not stopped her from being reckless - she tries to walk around all day, but never does more than 3-4 steps before falling or lunging down onto something.

In real life, it actually looks worse than in the picture - more jaggedy and pointy, but it was hard to get the right angle. At least you can get the general idea.

Happy Father's Day!

These kids love their dad!

Tristan, Oliver, and Rachel enjoying the slip 'n slide at our neighborhood Father's Day BBQ.

Elizabeth's First Birthday

Lizzy turned one on Friday, June 15th. She had a great time at the little party we had for her. She loved that we sang Happy Birthday (she danced the whole time) and looked around grinning at everyone.

Easy Yoga

(Background info: I started doing Bikram Yoga in May. I just do it at home, using a Bikram book and CDs and an old Raquel Welch video. Sometimes Daniel and the kids like to do it, too.)

Rachel's funny about Yoga. She used to try to do it with me, but then stopped because she said it was a little too "tricky". She still likes to pretend that it's not hard at all, though, so this is what she started doing: she'll walk by when I'm doing Yoga, and then wait until I'm in one of the resting poses, like lying down flat on the floor doing nothing except breathing, and then she'll run over and do it and say, "This is EASY!

Or she'll just stand there and watch, wait until I lay down, and then she'll roll her eyes and just say "EASY!" really dramatically, and then lie down and do it, like "I could SO do this whole Yoga thing if I wanted to."

Summer Schedule

Today I started my new "summer schedule". It was great. We went to the park this morning, then the kids played outside while I put Lizzy down for a nap and cleaned up inside, then I called them in for "work time" and while I cleaned the kitchen (Monday is kitchen day for me) I gave each of them a job in the kitchen - Tristan wiped down our benches and chairs, Oliver wiped down the whole underneath side of the table and the legs, and Rachel dusted the bottom two feet of the blinds (that's all she could reach) and washed the baseboards. It was so nice to have helpers, and they had a fun time and got to check off their charts and get a penny.

Then we had study time and worked on math (Monday is math day). Tristan and Oliver did math worksheets and Rachel and I did a counting game on the computer. By the time we finished, Lizzy was awake and it was time for lunch. It was a good morning.

Tomorrow the plan is to go swimming instead of the park, and then we'll be cleaning in the family room/hall/front porch area and doing geography study time. We'll see how long we can keep this up.

Temptations and Confessions

Oliver has been saying something funny lately. When we were at Schlitterbahn he was standing in a long line with Daniel and Tristan to go on a waterslide. I think he was getting hot and tired, and he looked up at Daniel and said, "Dad, my feet are attempted to go in the water." I'm pretty sure he meant "tempted".

A little while later (they were still in line up on a balcony-type thing, and looking down at all of the swimmers going around in the lazy river) he said, "Now my feet are attempted to fly and go in the water." I'm not sure what he meant by that - maybe he wanted to fly down to the lazy river and dip his feet in? Who knows?

Then yesterday he confessed to me that sometimes when he is in a time-out in his room he is "attempted" to play with a remote-control car that is in his treasure box.

It's so cute when he says it that I haven't explained to him that "attempted" and "tempted" mean different things. I hate to correct my kids when they're saying something super cute.

Speaking of confessing things, today Tristan confessed to me that one day when he was only five he was in the study and he was supposed to be taking a nap and he looked at books instead, before I told him he could (sometimes we do part resting/part reading naps, and I guess he skipped the resting and went straight to the reading that time). I'm glad he got that off his conscience.

No One Likes a Frowny Face. . .

Tonight Rachel was having several tantrums for various reasons, so I decided to take pictures of her during her tantrum and then take a picture of her making a happy face so I could show her right on the camera how much better she looks when she's happy. She agreed.

I think she was a little shocked at how "un-princess-like" she looked during her tantrum. If I get out my camera now when she's being grumpy, she is very quick to "put on a happy face."

I can't believe I'm posting such unattractive pictures of my child. When she's older she's probably not going to be very happy with me.