Yard Work

This past week Chris+ kids have worked really hard to get a spot in our yard leveled enough for a swing set. Chris has been putting in a French drain of sorts in the middle of what we call "the river" when it rains. We had a lot of lava rock in the front that we wanted to dispose of so he's dug up the back yard to bury the rock. Now we need it to be dry enough to actually level the ground out, but today they started putting the main section together. GMan is super excited that he will get a swing set. He's been asking about it since it was delivered a few weeks ago. We now have slightly fewer rocks in the front flower beds so hopefully we can put in some new plants and things in the coming weeks.

We also started some container gardens. We put strawberries in them so hopefully they will grow. We repurposed some carboys from work into plastic containers. They should be good so hopefully the plants will grow. A says she loves strawberries so hopefully they will be eaten.

Other than that the twins are getting big. A goes back to school after spring break and has decided that being a mom is hard work. She'll just keep her baby doll for now. 😃 

MoBot + Sehorn visit

This past weekend we introduced the twins to Mimi & Paw Paw and Grandma Sehorn. They made the trip up from OK and we had a good couple of days. We managed to get to the botanical garden and see the orchid show again. Miss A remembered a shocking amount from the scavenger hunt they had to help keep purple occupied. She also did a significantly better job at writing the parts of the orchid in their scavenger hunt booklet. GMan became PawPaw's shadow and refuses to stay further than a shadow would the entire time they were around. PawPaw didn't realise that GMan light take him seriously so he told GMan that if HMan picked his nose deep enough then he could touch his brain.

Last week we had student led conferences at school. The teacher has been great and helpful all year. She's not ever quite sure what to do with Miss A, but that's normal and what I'm coming to expect. We discussed the advanced/gifted/whatever they call it these days program and her teacher thinks she is definetly a candidate. Hopefully curing her of the boredom will help her get past the learning to read hurdle she's set up for herself.

We've also really started fighting with GMan about wearing his glasses. He is slowly getting better but has had to miss out on things because of not locating his glasses.

Work continues to be good for me and Chris is doing well with 3 guys at home. They make a few jaunts a week and it is getting easier I'm told.