Kris Kross Olivia

Olivia has been putting her pants on backwards a lot lately. But, the other day, when she got her whole outfit on backwards, I couldn't help but think of my favorite song back in 6th grade (you are probably listening to it right now).

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Olivia has gotten into photography lately. She loves using the camera. I love that it's digital and I can delete when I feel like it. Anyhow, these are the pictures that are popping up on my camera almost every day now.

And occasionally I get a picture like this:

One happy girl (that has cut off half of her face) taking a picture of herself!

Olivia has started doing her own hair too...she can't figure out why I won't let her go running errands when she's done though. And boy, oh boy, is it fun to take out (NOT). And don't worry, she likes her curling irons cold.

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For Memorial Day we took the kids to view their first parade. It was fun...for about five minutes.

Daddy & his cheeseball.

Tent's & Stepping Stones

Aaron and I have been dealing with different kinds of tents this week...

I spotted the home of many tent caterpillars in our crabapple tree last week. It's kind of gross looking. I think my sharp stream of water did the trick at breaking it apart though.

Aaron had another scout campout this weekend. This is not my kind of camping...it looks like the tents are piled on top of each other.

This was the highlight of the campout for Aaron.

Fishing was probably the highlight for the boys though.

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For Garden Group this week we made mosaic stepping stones. This is something that I've wanted to have since we moved into our house last year.

Olivia got to arrange the stones by herself. She liked the squiggly glass that looks like worms.

Since I put them in a bare spot by my front door, I'll have to make more for my actual garden.

They are always watching

It's always interesting to see just how your children try to emulate everything you do.

Carter and Olivia giving each other haircuts. I had to give Olivia a long explanation on why she couldn't really use the clippers. (Carter was actually enjoying this...just making a silly face for the shot.)

After Carter observed Olivia cutting out pictures for awhile, he tried long and hard to do the same thing himself.

I know he's concentrating really hard when he doesn't even react to me taking a pictures of him. (Aaron - don't get mad about him wearing Olivia's gym shoes...it's a constant battle at our house.)

Carter loves his Daddy! He wants to be just like him! Carter has seen Aaron with a towel around his waist several times after getting out of the shower. One morning last week, he took off his shirt and then brought me a towel to put around his waist. He was grinning ear to ear when I asked him if he was trying to be like Daddy. (The red stuff by his nose is from a fall on the driveway.)

I'm still learning a lot about my yard. I learned about a month ago that I have four dwarf lilac bushes. They have bloomed in the past week and it smells so good everytime I open my back door!

"The Princess that got Baby Moses out of the water"

Last Saturday we had our Quarterly Primary Activity at church. Scripture Adventures was the theme and the kids were asked to come dressed as their favorite scripture character. So, last Monday I asked Olivia who she would like to be and then quickly gave the idea of being Mary (Jesus' mother) to her. I thought she would love the idea and we would be set. But - I was quickly shut down! Her response was, "No, I want to be the Princess that got Baby Moses out of the water." (It was like she had known I was going to ask the question and was all prepared with her answer.) So, feeling a little ashamed that I didn't know the story all that well, I called Aaron to be sure that this princess was a good princess (I didn't want for my daughter's "favorite scripture character" to be wicked.). So after taking a good look at the Gospel Art kit picture of Olivia's favorite scripture princess, this is what we came up with...

Olivia as Pharoah's daughter! Olivia did want to carry a basket with a baby Moses in it, but I had to turn her down because it would have been too much to keep track of with four different activities going on.

Now to Carter - I'm pretty proud of my little boy. Althought his vocabulary is VERY limited, he has been going potty ON THE POTTY quite a bit. So, any advise on potty-training boys?