Big Kids

My kids are growing up! Last week the kids helped make cookies and I thought it would be good for them to help wash the dishes we used. They thought this was a great idea. Talmage washed and Anya rinsed and they did every dirty dish they could find and were still looking for more.


We have been having more doctor fun again lately. Talmage is being watched for asthma and is doing breathing treatments with the nebulizer like Anya has been doing. But Anya, who always likes to outshine her brother at the doctors office, is our real worry now. She is on another antibiotic and has two weeks to get her breathing/coughing under control or she'll need to visit the Pulmatologist for more tests. Yesterday she got to have her blood drawn for a RAST test to see if she as an allergy to something she's eating or breathing at home. We'll get those results in two weeks. She was excited to get her blood drawn and have a gauze and tape bandage just like Mommy gets. She did really well and didn't even cry or try to pull away. The tech was amazed that a 2 1/2 year old could do so well. Anya was so pleased with her bandage that he insisted on keeping it on until Daddy came home from work and could see it.
She has been growing so tall lately. Look at those long legs! She is still 30 pounds and hasn't been gained any weight since Easter. Maybe she's just letting Talmage have his turn to grow. He's packed on 6 pounds of muscle since Easter and is 41 pounds of compact solidness.

Family Pictures

Here are some pictures we took with Aaron's family while we were all in Washington. For those of you familiar with the area the pictures were at the Ridgecrest Building. I love all the green!

Just the four of us.

The whole clan-- all 16.

A little cousin fun. We still miss cousins!

Talmage Quotables

This afternoon Talmage ran outside to go play in the backyard and then not even a minute later came back in exclaiming, "It's beastly hot out there, I'm not staying out." It has been in the 90's all week and humid so I can't blame him for not wanting to stay out but where did the expression beastly hot come from. I later found out that in one of the books Aaron read to him someone had a beastly temper and so he was trying out new ways of using the word beastly.

Then tonight after Talmage brushed his teeth, Aaron was helping Anya with hers and asked Talmage why there was water in the tube of toothpaste. Talmage told him "It's called Chemistry." Aaron then tried to explain about acceptable and unacceptable Chemistry-- like he's one to talk. So my 4 1/2 year old feels like he's lacking chemistry in his home school curriculum. I'm in trouble.

Tall Anya

Yesterday I was vacuuming and Aaron came downstairs to show me how tall Anya had suddenly grew. It was so funny I had to get a video of it to share. Talmage loves watching the video -- he laughs even harder watching it than he did while videoing it. Anya was wearing one of Aaron's shirts and Talmage had on a pair of Aaron's shorts. I was trying not to laugh because I was videoing and a lot closer to the microphone. But it was too funny so I sound like I'm crying instead of laughing.

Park Reunion

While in Washington we got to see a few friends. We met up with Carley and her two girls and Tarah and her daughter at Bradley Lake Park. We enjoyed watching our kids play and reminiscing a little about high school and filing each other in on who has married who.

The moms. We don't look like we've changed a whole lot since high school. I wonder if I'll be able to say that in another 10 years.

This is the girl Talmage tells me he's going to marry. She is 4 months younger and they have known each other all her life. He was so happy to be able to play with her again.

Here are all the kids. They had a lot of fun.