Monday Afternoon,

May 28, 2012

Brian finished putting the truckload of sod in the back yard after it decorated our driveway for several days, maybe weeks. He's so great. We have had good intentions to take care of that, but the weather and our being elsewhere at the times we could've gotten it done put off the job.

While he was working outside, me in, Emma was playing a game of her own on the swingset. We could both hear her yelling,

"I'm the king of the world!

Top of the Sea!

King of the universe!

You see!"

She kept at this game for quite a while, yelling other orders and talking out loud her story as it unfolded. I went out to see how it was going at one point in the game. She said that she was the king and the swings were her servants. I left her to it.

Neighborhood BBQ

Earlier on Monday, we were leaving to go up the canyon at the same time that our neighbors were taking their boat out to the lake. Jacob asked if they were leaving forever. I told him "no, they will come back later today." Then he said, "I wish I went with them!" Then he went on to say that he loved fast boats, unlike our slow rowboat trips that we like to take down the Snake River. So he got to play on the boat all evening. He stayed on it for probably an hour, and he would have stayed on it longer if it hadn't been time to go in.

It was fun to get together with neighbors for a delicious BBQ! We stayed out laughing and talking until after the kids bedtime. I had said before we started tonight, that we had to come in at a certain time because it was a school night. I'm still working on sticking to my word. I tend to get caught up in the moment... 

The kids enjoyed playing, and all but Tyler got an injury as a souveneir to remember the night. First, Kaylee wiped out on her scooter, scraping skin on her elbow and hip. Both swelled up and bled a bit - Brian bandaged her up good. Then Emma was showing off her rollerblading and biking abilities at the same time. It was an accident waiting to happen, especially when she stood up while pedaling in her rollerblades. When she sat back down, she wiped out. But she came up smiling to show that she was o.k. Only a few scrapes from that. On our way in, Jacob somehow rubbed his big toe along the cement and scraped off quite a bit of skin. I bandaged him up while he told me that he almost got dead. I asked him how, and he said that you can only lose so much skin before you die. I'm very grateful he didn't lose enough for that to happen!!