Birthday Girl

Our little girl is four years old! And I know exactly where the time went, so don’t even ask. It starts with diapers and bottles and endless nights followed by early mornings, continues on to solid food fights & potty training. Then, suddenly, it’s off to pre-school in a week.

I spent Friday making a birthday cake for Eden. I wanted it to be dairy-free so that Lars could enjoy it with us, and for the most part, it was. He just can’t eat the race track portion of the field. Everything else was fair game to all. While I made homemade ice cream for the majority of us, I whipped up a strawberry banana sorbet for him. The cake turned out so cute, I felt like such a good mom!

Saturday, we waited anxiously for daddy to get home from work to hitch up the camper and take us to the lake for swimming, campfire food, cake & presents. We got to the lake in the middle of the afternoon and while Daddy sat on the beach with an unhappy Lars, Eden & I took the inner tube out to swim. The water was perfectly refreshing, with a few boaters on the pond to give us some ripple effect.

The Douthits came to join us soon after, and we grilled out burgers and dogs, called 911 to report a big fire across the lake, and continued on to the presents & cake. All in all a productive day, I’d say.

Among Eden’s gifts was a school bag, fresh made from blue jeans and decorated with the remnants’ of her favorite T-shirt from last summer. As she has done for hundreds of children before, Aunt Janet made a pre-school bag for Eden.

For the sake of sharing a sentiment, I still have my blue jean bag that she made for me when I flew with my mom to Texas the year I turned four. Ahh…memories

The rest of the week was spent taking care of Lars. I thought we’d see a miracle once we took him off of dairy, but it seemed to get worse. He cried in the night every night and whined most of the days, clinging to Mom at every chance he could. It’s exhausting to listen to and even as I type, he’s sharing a chair with me, crying and climbing up my back, hoping for a piece of lap.

On a positive note, we are hearing more babbling sounds from him that seem to almost make a phonics sound at times. Eden got a pirate card from Grandma Great and when she said, “A pirate says ‘arrrr’, Lars repeated her ‘arrr’.” (It’s our favorite Backyardagains episode of all time, so he has heard it before, but it was still cute).

Because his fine motor skills evaluation averaged out to a 15 month old baby, he started Occupational therapy on Friday and will continue with that one day a week. Still waiting on the rest of the results to come back from the school.

School has begun here in the west, and I have begun piano lessons again. I picked up two new students this year, so I’ll be twice as busy, but I enjoy it. My EMT class will finish the end of September, so the next month is going to be very busy with Sunday School Music beginning, as well as Confirmation & Mid-week. I’m not ready for summer to be over, but I am enjoying the harvest from my garden.

Since I spent Saturday fooling around with my family, I need to get some serious laundry and lawn mowing done today before the preacher heads to the nursing home. Anybody know how to clone wives?