This is one of my favorite Neil stories. For lunch I made him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and then cut it out with a penguin sandwich cutter. He loved it. So I set the penguins on his plate and set him up to the table. I went back into the kitchen and grabbed the cut-off crust and put them on a plate for me and then joined him at the table. He was happily playing and eating his penguins when he looked at my plate and asked, “What is yows? Is yows a snake?” 
Huh, another picture?
Mark LOVES to be goalie, although he’s quite good at most positions. After one game where his team did a fabulous job at not being a ball hog, but didn’t really score many points, I had to remind him that someone has to be the star and kick the ball into the goal or they'll keep losing. Mark’s loves to check pictures after the games to see shots of him blocking goals. His coach worked with him helping to get his drop kicks just right. He improved a ton. We really liked his coach this year.
I stayed and watched the end of Mark’s game and then we joined Ken and the others at Spencer’s game. Then is started to rain! We were getting soaked, but there was no lightning so the game continued. This super sweet lady took pity on Isaac and me and shared her umbrella with us. Unfortunately while she was sharing her umbrella with us her chair got soaked so she had to stand the rest of the game after the rain quit. Jessie composed her silly poem, The Sky, at this game and you can check her blog for it.
Ken and I had put the kids in bed and gone back downstairs; we heard some clumping some time later and went to see what was making all the noise. You’ll never guess who we found on the stairs and you’ll never guess what he was wearing……Neil in Ken’s boots. Silly boy. Will he ever learn to go to sleep at night?
A sweet moment of family time.
Mark will do almost anything to get Neil to play with him. But they both had fun this time.
Spencer really wanted Ken to come out and walk in the rain with him and the others.
Neil found Abbie’s flip flops….they were the pair of shoes closest to the door.
Isaac learning to sit up. Needless to say some of the kids were quite distracted while we read scriptures watching Isaac.
For FHE we watched Jonny Lingo on YouTube because the kids had never seen it. Now, it’s quite popular with them. Spencer was watching it in bed on the iPad and one by one everyone else joined him.
Reading scriptures at night.
Just a happy baby.
C is for cookie.
Take a picture of me toooooooo!
Memorial Day weekend: a game, some food… Neil still loves to fill water cups for people over and over again. And Mark wasn’t missing out on any fun with his double decker burger.
Abbie helping Isaac to sit up.
I stopped nursing Isaac this weekend. And we tried out a bunch of different bottles. The kids were sure excited to get to help feed him.
Coming back from a walk.
Hummmm. What do you think our secret agent is up to?
Isaac saw one of the kids water bottles from soccer and just loved it. We let him try a drink of water. Definitely not his favorite.
Spencer and Neil played so well together at Abbie’s soccer game. It was so cute to watch them running back and forth; Spencer slowly chasing Neil.
Lastly, for treats at Mark’s soccer game I made rainbow cupcakes. Biting into these is just fun. I dropped Mark off and then drove Spencer to his game. It started raining again and then the lightning started. Darn. So both games were cancelled and I ran around picking everyone up again. At least everyone on the team got a cupcake!
