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The other morning, Tim left for work early.  He had a few minutes to spare after picking up the dump truck so he swung by home again to let the kids see the huge truck.  They thought it was the BEST. THING. EVER.

Levi wanted to stay in the truck forever.  He loved “driving” the big wheel.  And of course, Maddie needed her turn as well.  It really struck a chord with her, because she talked about it for the rest of the day.  She kept saying, “when I grow up, I’m going to have a dump truck!”

We had a gorgeous Mother’s Day weekend here.  Originally it was supposed to be rainy for most of it, but we didn’t end up with any rain!  In fact it was sunny and lovely most of the weekend.  So, I took advantage of the sunshine and mowed the lawn for the first time! It’s always a little weird on the first mowing, since parts of it really don’t need to be mowed yet, but others REALLY need it… but it felt good to get it done anyway.

Then on Sunday we enjoyed a lovely day:  going to church, a delicious cup of Caribou Coffee, eating Chipotle (my choice!) for lunch, I took a nap (I know!  Super strange for me!), we went on a walk/bike ride/roller blade/skateboading as a family and then Tim took the big kids to swimming lessons while I stayed home and called my Mom and made waffles for supper (and for the next few weeks.  I actually made 6 batches of waffles.  What would that be called?  A Sextuplet batch?  Either way, it was a lot of waffles.

The kids made me cute cards in church and school.  Here are the ones from church.  I love seeing what things they write about each year.  My personal favorite this year is “She give good hugs”  😉  Oh and “Her voice is beautiful.”

Maddie somehow got the wrong impression at church and thought when we got home that she was going to open a bunch of gifts.  She was devastated when we told her there were no gifts for her.  Ha!

Tonight after supper Levi walked up to me and looked me straight in the eye and said in his nicest, sweetest, softest voice:

“Mama, I have a piece of candy from my candy bucket?”

🙂

(We have a rule that you can have a piece of candy from their bucket after supper if you’ve eaten all your food AND have had a vegetable.)

But I was just mesmerized by how amazingly polite he was in asking.  He can often be quite loud and demanding, but not tonight.  He was so gentle and sweet.  It was amazing.  I love that boy.

It’s teacher appreciation week and for the first time ever I had a student bring me a gift!  Isn’t it so sweet?!

Today was crazy hair day at school.  Both Chloe and Josiah had very specific ideas on how they wanted their hair and I did my best to make their dreams a reality.  Ha!

Chloe even made that little tea cup and attached it to a clip so it would stay in her hair.

When I have a few minutes to myself I enjoy scrolling through Facebook and watching videos of food.  In particular, desserts and cake decorating.  I know, I’m such a nerd.

I just love how beautiful the frosting can turn out with a simple swipe or smoothing motion.  I suppose it’s the same way that artists feel about watching people paint.  But I like this so much more, because after creating a masterpiece I can then EAT IT.  🙂

Although the other day I watched a video of Steve Irwin’s son… Do you remember Steve Irwin?  I really liked him.  He was on Animal Planet all the time.  He had such a passion for animals of all types and was crazy daring with them and knew so much about all of them.  Unfortunately he died a few years back–sadly from a stingray striking him.  But I saw a video the other day of his son, Robert (about 13 years old).  He is just the spitting image of his dad and has the same adorable Australian accent.

AND he has the same amazing passion for animals of ALL KINDS.

The videos that caught my attention the other day were of Robert appearing on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.  I think they are hilarous.  Robert is so cool and collected and comfortable with the animals/reptiles/insects and Jimmy Fallon is clearly not.  I just love how many fascinating facts about the animals Robert shares and how he always introduces each animal with excitement.  Even if it’s a bug!  He’ll say over and over, “isn’t she amazing!  Isn’t that amazing!”  😀  I love it!