Hum drum....

Another uneventful day with Damon gone. 5 more days but who is counting. I am chomping at the bit to get our house started so hopefully when he gets back we can move forward. We are hoping to have 70 grand saved up to put as a down payment which is why I can't complain too much about him going on these fires.

We did work hard on Elle's potty training today. If she doesn't wear a diaper she never has an accident. But if I put big girl panties on her she can't resist that old familiar feeling of being covered up. So she has been commando the last few days. I could never get tired of squeezing her cute fat bum. Damon laughs every time she runs and it jiggles. Nothing cuter. Just like her mamas I say!

I did go to book club tonight. I have been so pleasantly surprised at how much fun it is. I really enjoy all of these girls so much. We talk and laugh hours. And to boot, we are all so different. One girl (who I guessed wasn't far from being translated) opened up and told us about her pot smoking, boozin' days. She can't hardly go to the grocery store without taking a walk down the liquor aisle just to get a whiff of the alcohol. Haha. CraZy! We just read a book about the salem witch trials. This month we are going to read a series by an lds woman. My book is entitled lemon tart. Should be interesting.

Well, Tessa is officially asleep. I type this on the iPad while she nurses. Better get back to the other monsters. :)

What a day!

We officially have a bike rider in the family. Daxton rode without training wheels for the first time at Doo-Doo and papa Bob's house. Grandpa took the wheels off of his bike so he would glide while pushing with his feet. Once he got comfortable with that we put the pedals on and away he went. He has a rough time starting off though and gets really frustrated because he can't grasp the concept that the bike needs to be moving to balance. He thinks he should be able to balance while just sitting there. We laughed our heads off because he blamed all his frustration on Stratton. If Stratton was anywhere nearby it was his fault Daxton couldn't get going. The madder Dax got the more it was Stratton's fault.

We are at grandmas because Damon is elk hunting. Daelun got an archery tag and so just the men went. Today when we went swimming Dax said " Doo-Doo this water makes my tallywhacketr hurt". It was cold!

I am on cloud 9 because I bought an island for our "kitchen to be" in Pima. It's 12x5' brazilian mesquite butcher block on top of black stained cabinets. It was selling for $900 and I got them down to $600. It's so beautiful. Makes me really excited to start building. I also ran into an old friend from high school, Michelle Burnham Garn. It's been almost 20 years since I saw her. Why do we have to get old?

The purple pill

Boy does this bring back the memories. It's almost a right of passage for starting preschool/kindergarten to get your "purple pill" to see how dirty your teeth are. The boys were bragging as to whose were worse. BOYS!

Artist or mess-maker? Undecided for now.

Damon took the boys to Show Low today to get the rest of his dental work done by Uncle Keith. Once Daxton was sucking the "laughing gas" he turned to Damon with a big grin and said he felt like he was floating. A 5 yr old on laughing gas...scary! Elle pee-pee'd on the potty 3x today which is why I can't get mad at her for getting paint all over the kitchen. When the kids got home, Elle was so happy. She loves her brothers. They got out of he car and immediately started catching frogs.... In the process of writing this text Elle just stepped on her baby frog. It's dead! Poor frog.