Week before last I got an awesome new cast iron crock pot for making roasts. Sunday it got to make it's first roast. A roast cooked in a yellow pan automatically tastes better than one in a boring old pan.
Right?
It really did turn out yummy. I always feel like I did something right when I can actually manage to feed the kids something I made. Not something that happens too often in my life right now, so we enjoy it when it does.
Here's Lucy and mom. I think this was Monday afternoon. Yes, that sounds right. Sandy didn't feel well on Monday and so he was lying on one of the couches watching movie and after movie, and at this moment I was keeping Lucy company on the other couch while she had a snack. Monday was a bit of a long day, but Sandy was feeling better by the afternoon, so that was nice.
Sandy did some awesome creative lego building this week. This was a star destroyer. I love all the details and small pieces he put in there. In the back someplace is one of batman's throwing bats. He was very proud of this creation.
I think this was also the day he decided to draw all over himself with a black marker--bones. He's certainly not the first kid to do that in the history of the world.
I feel like I spent most of this week either working on work stuff until my eyeballs fell out, or cleaning up people's toys. But I guess I did do some taxiing, driving people around to where they needed to be.
On Wednesday between school pick up and when we had to take Max back out to go to swim (which is only like an hour), we took a quick detour through the McDonald's drivethrough for some ice cream cones. By Sandy's request.
This made Lucy very very happy.
Very very VERY happy. And look how impressively long her tongue is.
It's honestly hard to say no to these cute little faces. Max had already inhaled his, and was probably off doing something instead of his homework at this moment.
Later in the week Max and Sandy did some more movie making--This was while they were working on "Tickle Me Sandy." It turned out super cute and hilarious.
I like it when Max includes Sandy and Sandy is actually willing to play along.
Max's cinematography and editing are slowly getting better.
On Friday Max didn't have school, which was lucky because we watched little one year old cousin Cole for most of the day. Max was the one in charge of watching him, and was excited to work and make some money, as he's saving for a new ipad.
Unfortunately after a really great start at the babysitting job there was an injury. Max had already started the day by taking Lucy and Sandy and Cole all in the living room and playing with them. Then during breakfast Cole was wandering around. Max went to retrieve him from the laundry room and on the way slipped on a baby toy and fell pretty hard. He hit the back of his head on the door jamb when he fell and really bruised up the back of his head.
Youch! And that was when it was pretty fresh. When he was passing the sacrament today I could see behind his ear and it looked totally black and blue. Poor guy!
This took all the starch out of him for a while and I had to nurse my babysitter back to health. Eventually he got it back together. He was a real big help for me that day because I still had a lot of work that had to get done (of course, as usual!) so it was nice to have such a helpful guy to lean on.
Saturday morning I got to go on a bike ride downtown which was super fun, then we ran a bunch of errands, did laundry and worked hard on a bunch of other saturday type stuff. Ignore the toys all over the floor behind me!
One of our errands included Target where we found some mystery minifigure packs. Sandy was such a good sport when he got this adorable ballerina. He actually really like her (much to my disappointment--I was hoping to trade him for her!) He took her right over to the lego table to play. Max got an poor injured guy on crutches that had slipped on a banana peel.
Sandy spent most of the day Saturday playing with our playmobil collection. This made me happy because they boys just don't play with those toys that much. They're just so cute, they deserve more attention!
These kids were all out on a trip in the camper. I think the one in PJs with bare feet is Sandy. Not sure who anybody else is.
I'm glad we survived this week. It was even a good one from time to time. Mostly because of our cute little family. They drive us crazy and they're a lot of work but they sure make life better--in all ways.
