Week in Review...

It has been an interesting week...but when isn't it an interesting week in my house!?!?!?

Let's see Jesse and I returned from our big weekend away on Sunday evening, exhausted, and by Monday morning I was sick! I think it was just allergies but I completely lost my voice. Do you know how hard it is to get 3 toddlers to listen to you when you can't talk or when you can get your voice to work you sound like a smurf on helium? I must have looked like a lunatic as I tried to come up with ways to get their attention so that they would listen... you know the clapping, jumping around, waving the arms....not one of my prouder moments... but at least by Friday I was feeling better.

Let's see what else happened....um....oh, Aidan has learned to put on his socks!!! YEAH!! I know for most people this isn't a big deal, but for me it is huge since we have been learning how to do this fr about a year now... this means that he is completely capable of dressing himself, with a little prompting of course...

Also I finished my semester at School on Thursday night. I am pretty sure that I earned a 4.0 this semester which is great! I an just looking forward to a few weeks off from school, my summer classes don't start till June 16. I love school, but it will be nice to have a little break!

Cora attended her first Gymnastics class on Saturday and she LOVED it. She was laughing and running it was great! She made up until the last 5 minutes of the class without having a meltdown! That must be a record! She was scared of a lot of the activities, but I modified them so that she would do them and she had fun. It was also a big day for Aidan because he was in the same class but he has taken this class before. The last time we were enrolled in this class a few weeks ago, Aidan did really well except he couldn't make it all the way through warm ups without running away at least once and he usually didn't make it through all of the station rotations without running away at least once....but on Saturday he made it through the warm ups and all of the rotations without running off and without many promptings from Jesse to return to task!! The only thing he really had to prompt about was for Aidan to wait his turn and to not cut in front of the other children. It was such a nice morning!

Then of coarse yesterday was Mother's Day and Aidan greeted me in the morning with a very loud "Happy Mofers Day, Momma" which made me smile! It was also great because I made my Mom a great gift this year. I took a picture of Rick, Dan, and I and I super imposed a Poem that I wrote over the picture and gave it to her, it made her cry....it was great! If any of you get over to my Mom's house you should ask her to see it -- I'm proud of it.

And then of coarse because it was Mother's Day we got to talk to Rick on the phone! It was so great to talk to him. Though talking to him makes me realize how much I miss him! I know he only has 5 months left on his mission, and that that time will go by really fast, but I miss my little brother and I want him home know and I want him to live in the area and not go back out west!! OK, that was my little selfish rant -- but he sounds really good on the phone, and I know he is doing the Lord's work and he will be home in no time!