Infirmary

I don't know what is going on at out house lately. Usually we are relatively healthy, but over the last month we (and our guests) have had everything possible. Today Kim has some stomach/nausea thing and Dan has a fever.

Here was my view during dinnertime this evening... 104° outside and Dan sitting out in it, hoodie up, and still chilled.

Cousin Addie

Calvin has been in heaven these last couple days with his cousin Addie in town. This is the first time Cal and Addie have played "with" each other, and it has been pretty amusing to watch. There is a constant fort somewhere in the living room, and last night Dan asked Cal what the fort's name was. Cal said, "Head Fort." To which Addie chimed in, "No, it is a headquarters!" Needless to say, Calvin is learning a lot from his 6-year-old cousin!

Maybe Calvin's favorite part so far has been playing school! Of course, Addie is the teacher, and Calvin LOVES it! He keeps asking Addie to do more spelling and reading. Spelling consists of the two of them scribbling circles on paper (thoughtful Addie explained that she chose to do that instead of actual letters because 3 year olds would not have fun trying to write real letters).

 Reading time is spent by Addie reading her books to Calvin. So sweet!

Kim took Addie and Calvin blueberry picking yesterday morning. They had a blast!

Jack just enjoyed eating their plunder!

Addie has also been really sweet with her youngest cousin Luke. 

Kim and Addie went to Kroger and Aldi for me during naptime and brought back frozen strawberry lemonade for Addie and I to share together. Yum. We were both complaining of being cold in our 75 degree house on a 100 degree day, shivering with goosebumps together. Sweet Bonding!

How we roll!

Just finished our first walk to the fountain pushing/carrying Cal, Jack, and Luke all by myself. I am so thankful to feel strong enough to try it and be without pain now that we are home!

Thank you Lori for the walk and the picture! Today was a big victory that I'm glad to get to remember!

It's a small world after all

The world has gotten much smaller for me and the boys over the last month. Most of our time is spent within the bounds of our tenth of an acre yard. Today we were entertained by this little tree frog for a good while.

We then had snack and read library books on the bench outside. This is about the only way to hold Jack's attention for more than 3 pages!

This afternoon Jack spiked a 103° fever, and our neighbor came to the rescue with some ibuprofin...so thankful to not have to pack the boys into the car or wait for Dan to bring some home!


When we are adventurous we head a half mile away to the neighborhood park or pool.  Unless Dan is home and we trek a whole three miles to go blueberry picking our something.

This little man has made our world really small and really sweet!

A shameless plug for Aldi

Got this sprinkler for $8.99! The boys are loving it, and maybe our grass will survive this summer...except for the patch at the bottom of pour new "water slide!"

It's 8am...

And what a morning it has been!
While nursing Luke at 6, Cal came out of his room, where he had already woken up Jack, to poop in the potty. I could not wait to tell Dan that Cal was doing this of his own volition when I saw a huge bug crawling across Luke's floor. Thankfully, Luke was done eating just in time before the bug reached safety under the crib. I heroically squished the bug and peeked in on Cal who announced he pooped.

Unfortunately, he then used the whole roll of toilet paper to wipe. I'll spare you the details, but in the end I had once again saved the day by fishing excess paper put of the toilet before Cal clogged the toilet with his prize.

I went to get dressed before getting the boys up, and by the time I went back, Cal had peed in his bed...of course on the sheets and comforter, so we took care of ask that.

At this point I noticed some spots on Jack's sheets. Then I looked down at Dan who was about to unzip Jack's fleece jammies...there was poop all over! So, Jack showered with Daddy,I started a couple of nasty loads of laundry, and now here we are having breakfast and napping (Luke anyway) at 8:00.

Man, I am glad Dan is home this week!

The Rocke Boys

We have been so blessed with people sharing meals with us since Luke was born. On Sunday some friends had us over for some steak....yeah, awesome! While we were there, Jen took out her sweet camera and starting taking pictures of all three boys. She caught their personalities in this first picture!  I asked the boys to come give Luke a kiss, and all three boys were within the same frame for all of 1 second, and Jen caught it! Thanks, Jen!