Turning 10 means that Jeremy moves up to Webelos! He is so excited. 🙂
Category: Jeremy
Jeremy’s tenth birthday
Jeremy requested a jello cake for his birthday. So I made a white cake, and then when it was cooled I poured the peach jello over it. I think the jello saturated the cake. We let that chill till it was set, and then I covered it with whipped cream. That made it look funny. I probably should have left it and just served the whipped cream along side the cake, but too late now. We saw these cool candles at the grocery store and got them for Jeremy’s cake. The flame burns the same color as the candle.
Jeremy was just watching the last candle burn, but his face when Kyle blew the last candle out:
His birthday, being on a Sunday this year was a very long day. With preparing for church all morning, church this afternoon, making the cake and dinner then eating dinner and the cake this evening, it was quite late when we were done with that. A couple of the little ones fell asleep before everyone else could put jammies on. So we decided to save the present for tonight so everyone would be awake for it. Jeremy was rather upset by that but he tried to hide his disappointment. He got over it tonight when he opened his present and saw what it was.
Looking at the Bright Side
Things that I am grateful for as we are cleaning up vomit in the middle of the night:
1) I am grateful that Adam was on our bed when Jeremy threw up all over Adam’s bed and their room on his way to the toilet. Otherwise, Jeremy would have thrown up all over Adam’s bed, the floor, the wall, a bit of Ethan’s bed AND on Adam!
2) I am grateful that Adam didn’t stay on our bed like he was instructed, because he was next to throw up while we were working on the first mess. If he had stayed like I asked him to, he would have thrown up on our bed and then Kyle and I would have had no bedding on our bed when we were all done cleaning up and were ready to go back to bed.
3) I am somewhat grateful that we have two kids throwing up (and one more going between her bed and the toilet as she complains that she feels like she is going to). I know this one doesn’t sound like much of a blessing. But Seth threw up Tuesday evening and if it took three days to get from one person to the next and if it only ever hit one person at a time, it could literally take a month to get through our family of 10.
4) I am grateful that despite all the lights that were on and all the noise with kids crying because they don’t feel well and the noise of the carpet cleaner, Seth and Lydia slept through it all.
5) I am grateful we own a carpet cleaner. I don’t even want to think about how we would have cleaned it all up without one.
Oh and it’s amazing what a happy sound barf going into the toilet is… After waking up to the sound of barf going everywhere BUT the toilet.
Jeremy’s Attempt at Feeding Seth
Seth is getting better at eating food. It’s amazing what a difference a little bit of time will make. Jeremy on the other hand…..he seems to need more practice feeding babies. He wanted to feed Seth, but Seth tried to take the spoon away from him and baby food got all over the place. 😛
Four Corners
We continued our drive heading northwest through New Mexico. The land was mostly flat, then there was this huge rock sticking out of the ground. We thought it looked pretty cool so we pulled over and took a picture. I had to put on my big lens to be able to get a close-up.
We got all the way to the Four Corners monument, and found out that they charge $5 a person (over a certain age, I think it was 5 years old) and they ONLY TAKE CASH! We don’t carry cash, so the lady told us to drive 5 miles back up the road from where we came from to use an ATM to get some cash. So after going back and getting cash we went back to the monument.
The clouds looked ominous, but it didn’t start raining until after we got pictures at the monument.
Jeremy was upset when we let Ethan take a picture of us in front of the Lubbock, Texas temple and that we didn’t let him take a picture of us too, so we decided to let him take a picture of us at Four Corners.
The wind picked up while Jeremy was trying to take a picture of us and it started to sprinkle as we went back to the van. We got the kids loaded up and were changing diapers when the lady from the entrance drove in to tell us they were now closed. We told her we would leave as soon as all the kids were buckled, and that’s what we did. We drove back towards where we got the cash and saw this cute little LDS church building. It was so TINY!
We had just driven away when some of the kids announced that they needed to go potty again. So we found a gas station and while Kyle was taking kids in shifts, to the bathroom, I made sandwiches for everyone for dinner. Then we hit the road again. We drove pretty much for the rest of the night.
We filled up again in Monticello, Utah, and we drove by the temple to see it in the dark, but we didn’t get out or take any pictures. Most of the kids were asleep anyway. So we just continued on our way home. We finally made it home about 3am.