Sept. 29th 2008

Well here goes the day:

* Woke up at 7:40
* Johno and Jess and Piper watched a show while I showered
* Got Johno dressed and fed and to the bus stop (Jess took a bath and Piper went with me)
* Fed Piper and Jess and got them dressed.
* Piper, Jess and I read books in Piper's roomPiper has a favorite ABC/numbers/shape flip book. She is trying to repeat what I say. She is starting to remember the sounds of the pictures (i.e. a pig snort, horse sound, and ice-cream licks). Jess and I read out of The Friend magazine.
* Put Piper down for a nap.
* Jess worked on drawing and cutting out caterpillars. Jess and Mom time was was spent playing with his darling caterpillars.
* Brooks and Gage came to play with Jess. They hung out in the sandbox.
* Johno came home from school. We had Johno and Mom time. Johno decided he wanted to go exploring around the house. So we looked on top of the ledge downstairs (we found a bag of foam letters and a safari hat from his 4th birthday party). Then we searched under John's and my bed. We found pens, legos, wrappers, etc.
* Lunch. Peaches and mac and cheese.
* Robyn stopped by for a short visit.
* Johno filled out his first tithing form. He paid $3.47 in tithing and 53 cents toward temples.
* I took the kids with me to the fabric store. We got the pleather for our halloween costumes (we are going to be bats) and bought halloween decorations. They were good kids and earned themselves tokens.
* Took a breather--kid's watched a show/Piper's down for another nap.
* Jess played in sandbox again. Johno and I went to Ann Carluccio's place and borrowed her steam canner. We'll be doing our second batch of peaches tomorrow.
* I made dinner (John brought home a pheasant from a shooting outing. We had that and mashed potatoes and peas). We played the dinner game. It is really fun and makes dinner time very smooth and entertaining.
* I cleaned up dinner and prepared for FHE. I talked to the boys about chores (I know--torture). Johno's current chores are to make his bed and take their laundry to the laundry room. Jess's chores are to make his bed and pick up the floor. I told them that sometimes I need a little more help, OR if they want to earn tokens they can pull a chore out of the jar. They helped me brainstorm chores. I wrote them down and they cut them in to strips. I think it will work out well--especially with Johno who is very motivated to earn money. Then we wrestled and played horsey (I was a delightful horsey/cow). Piper really enjoyed it. She really liked when we sang "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam". Johno and Jess really enjoyed watching Piper mimick us. We did a round of Ring-Around-the-Rosie" and then I let them watch a show until John got home. We also had a bowl of ice-cream.

* To bed, to bed. Always a joyous occasion.

P.S. You don't read much of John in all this, but he was working hard bailing hay in Spanish Fork. It took him a lot longer than expected (story of our lives:)