Zac watches the kids on Friday, since he doesn't have to go to work. Friday's are when Jennifer gets into things. She is not allowed on the bunk bed by herself. She has fallen down the ladder several times. Zac couldn't hear Jennifer playing, so he went into the kids room and saw her on the top bunk watching t.v. The next picture is what she looks like when she prays. Another Friday experience is Jennifer getting into the Desitin aka butt cream. All over her face and inside her mouth. Lovely. I think Zac needs to pay a LITTLE more attention to her when he watches her. She hasn't gotten into any markers/cream/bunk beds/etc while I am home.
Eric turned 7 on May 23rd. Wow! He really wanted a chocolate cake for his birthday, and he wanted Zac to make it for him. For some reason the cake overflowed in the oven so it's not the prettiest looking cake. Eric thought he could fix it with the decorations. He really wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese for his birthday. Zac HATES that place. So we went there, spent only $5 on tokens between Eric and Aubrey, and were out of there in 15 minutes. The kids were just excited they got to go. Eric is REALLY into Legos right now. He bought 2 lego sets with the birthday money from Grandpa and Nana Powell, and he got another Lego set from us. He got a Lego castle from Grandpa Nielson. Lego's are the best babysitter. Eric spent over 10 hours at the kitchen table putting together all his sets. He wouldn't leave, and he was SO QUIET the entire day. He was really proud of himself for putting together the castle all by himself. The box said ages 8-12, so he made sure we knew that he was only 7 and did it all by himself. At Christmas, for some reason, Eric really had his heart set on getting a dolphin pillow pet. Of course, he doesn't say anything to anybody until Christmas when he didn't get one. So I ordered one for his birthday back in April. I got an e-mail 2nd week in May saying they were on backorder. Really? Dolphin pillows are in THAT high demand? Luckily it came right before his birthday.
I went to South Carolina again for work last week. Unfortunately, it was during the last week of school, so it's busier at home than usual. Zac really played super Dad well - except for doing the girls hair. Aubrey had her dance recital. I tried to tell him over the phone how to put her hair in a bun, and I guess it look ridiculous. I'm glad he at least pulled it back into a ponytail. The owners of daycare on the 2nd day asked Zac if I was out of town again. Zac said yes - and they responded by saying they could tell by the girls hair. Zac said Aubrey did great during her dance recital. Jennifer really likes to dance also, so he spent a lot of time calming her down during the show, I'm glad he was able to get some pictures for me. She did a ballet dance and a jazz dance.
Eric's class gave out the 1st grade awards. Zac took a long lunch to watch it. Eric received the Pony Express Riders Award (he worked on it all year) and the Best Boy Smile Award. It's funny how they make up awards for kids. I started thinking back and one year I got the "Loudest Singer" award. Now I'm not so proud of it. Nathan said that one year he got the "Smallest Bladder" award. Eric was excited for the award though.
This weekend we headed down to Spring City for Zac's family reunion. This house the kids are sitting in front of was built in 1894 and Zac's great-grandparents (?) lived there. It is now called the "Osbourne Inn" and is a bed and breakfast in Spring City. Every year during Memorial Weekend the city puts on home tours, and this house is always open for tour. The kids had fun exploring the house. The night before we headed down, Eric woke up saying that his stomach was going "bakka bakka bakka" so he must have the chicken pox.
Zac always asks me when he cuts Eric's hair if he can give him a mohawk. Zac convinced me to let him do it for just Sunday and he would cut the rest off, he just wants to see what it looks like. So here is Eric's mohawk. Nice and redneck. Goes great with the guns, and the old car in our garage.
Since Zac is at work all day today, I loaded the kids up and went to Mom's grave. Thank you to whoever already put flowers on her grave. I wasn't expecting to see anything, and her grave was covered. We got to the cemetery right when they were putting on the Veteran's Service. Eric loved watching them and the music.
