Catch Up

Why is it that the summer days just fly by and the winter days go so slow? I can't believe that we're coming up on the end of July. Kerri is on the plane right now heading to Calgary. Cousin Ross got married today. Last week when I returned home form his now wife's bridal shower Livy asked me where I went. I said I went to a bridal shower and she said with a very confused look on her face... did you get wet? Erik is crawling everywhere and the bumps and bruises have begun. He already fell down one step, fortunately just one step. He has also started to pull himself up into a standing position and hold on to things. Yesterday he was standing and holding on to a toy piano and then he let go.... he fell right over and hit his cheek on the edge of the toy piano. He had a nice big red mark but it's not bruised. Erik has actually slept threw the night for 3 nights in a row. I'm probably jinxing it by talking about it. I decided to let him cry it out one night and that seems to have helped him give in to sleeping in his crib. He probably only cried for 5 minutes but in felt like 20. We have accomplished quite a bit in the last week. We went through all the toys, threw out lots of junk and made a give away pile. Then we rearranged Sommer's room, and in the process of moving her desk it completely collapsed. One side of it tore right off and it fell over, wood chips flying everywhere, all the contents spilling on to the floor. All three of my children were looking at me in horor wondering what the heck Mom was doing. Sommer likes her new arrangement much better. It seems more roomy. They started working on our backyard this week. It is very fun. Sean took the entire bottom deck apart by himself and then he-maned the railing off the top deck. I heard the girls screaming and he was banging the rail and then it went flying off onto the ground below. Andrea and the gang took apart the rest and they almost have the new deck finished. We'll have to post some pics. I finished all the Harry Potter books. The books are really good and way better than the movies. I admit it, I'm hooked. I just hope she makes the last one nice and long. So You Think You Can Dance is all I have left now. We're getting ready to go to the lake and we are very excited. Erin and I bought bathing suits at Walmart today. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Don't you love bathing suit shopping. I'm down 24.5 pounds now but it's not enough. Must....keep.....going..... But we'll worry about that after the lake. Hopefully I'll be able to heave my body out of the water and up onto some skis. Well time to run. I would like to get the kids to bed before 11. "But it's not dark outside" Anyone else heard that lately?