Little People

The last two weeks have gone by quickly. On April 19, the seminary had a Field Day. I don't realize how small my children are until they're with the big kids. Annika and her friend Audrey were in a "potato sack" race--the next tallest kids were about double their height.



And, with spring here we're trying to get the kids outdoors more often--some for the health benefit, and most for the go-to-sleep-at-night factor. Our first day in the park this year, I ventured out with Megan in my arms and the other three running. To my surprise, Emily, the 15-month-old, went straight to the ladder of the playhouse. I hadn't counted on that since I had another infant in my arms and was ill-prepared to do more than supervise. She made it up the stairs just fine--and down the slide many times, too.


Megan is now 3.5 months old and experimenting--she hasn't rolled over yet completely, but does 360s on the ground. Obviously, she has found her tongue. She also knows how to spit out the nuk with unfortunate regularity.

As for Em, she also likes pushing buttons (figuratively and literally). Thus the usage of anything that looks like a remote, a cell phone or a computer keyboard.

Lauren, despite our many warnings, kept bringing me lovely yellow flowers--from the seminary's landscaping. So we decided to plant our own garden for her to pick later. As with many "pets", Dan is the main one taking care of it, I think.

Lauren is still our night owl. She's still wide awake and it's midnight. Last night, we had her in our bed so she wouldn't keep her other sisters awake. I was doing one last Sudoku before bed (at midnight) on my side of the bed when she looked at me and said, "Mother, read to your child." And tonight, I called her "dear heart" to which she replied, "Mom, don't call me that. I'm not a heart. I'm your daughter."

Annika is excited about her trip to Disney World in June. Tonight, she made me tell her what I remembered about my trip to Orlando (when I was 14, I think). I actually remember bits of my visit to Disneyland when I was 5--just her age--with my parents and Great-Gramma Svenson. We all have Elizabeth in our name. Annika thought that was cool.