May 17
Current Elisa next to infant, one-week-old Elisa. She's grown quite a bit since then!
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May 17, 18, & 19
Ian had such a fun last week of school! They had bubble day, glow day, and enjoyed Kona ice and a movie the very last day! Ian loved being in Mrs. Dew's class for first grade
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May 21
A "rough draft" of the boy's piano duet, Praise to the Man. Gabe worked really hard on his part-that was much trickier than Ian's. They played it mostly perfect in church and also at the piano recital (I will post on that later)
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May 21
It's probably a better idea to take before/after pictures of organizational projects, but I never remember to. I did remember to take a picture during the organization of our pantry, as you can see it was quite the project! I had Erik pick up a few can organizers and shelf organizers while he was at Walmart, I'm not sure why I didn't buy them when we first moved in, that would have been smarter of me but better late than never! I also organzied the closet in the guest room...that was an all-day chore. I really need to remember to take before and after pics!
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May 22
Cute Ian pressing the scariest key he could find on my new piano. Haha!
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May 22
Erik decided to make use of my new dehydrator by making beef jerky. He used ___ from our beef hoard in our freezer, made a marinade, sliced the meat thin, smoked it for a bit, and then put it in the dehydrator for a couple hours. It was a little chewy but very flavorful. It didn't last long, especially not with Elisa devouring it!
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May 23
You know its time to cut Ian's hair when we can make him into a unicorn!
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May 24
For some reason of another, I was asked to help out with the activity day boy's Tuesday activity. I'm still wondering why I out of all people was asked, who knows. Anyway, I took Ian, whom I made change out of his swimsuit, only to find out it was a swimming activity (with some memorization of some church motto). Luckily we were able to borrow a suit for Ian! He was bit hesitant at first but he quickly warmed up to swimming and hanging out with the older boys (Elisa's age). He enjoyed the swimming, and surprisingly, he loved playing basket ball! He tells me that was his first time playing. I'll have to find more opportunities for him to play! Ian made 7 or 8 shots in the hoop.
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May 28. A day out with the boys! Elisa refused to come so she stayed home. I don't usually go out on a Saturday, but I needed to go to Music & Arts and Gabe really wanted to go to DI and Michaels. Our first stop was DI. We didn't find much but it was fun to look around. I spotted a weird keyboard thing. I'm thinking its a postive organ that was possibly homemade. It was in bad shape and the keys wouldn't even press down. The bellow was torn about and it looked like a hot mess that probably should be in the trash, but hey maybe someone knows what they're doing and can fix it up!
After DI we went to Music & Arts. I needed to return Elisa's clarinet rental and rent a French horn for Gabe. He wants to switch to French horn from trumpet. I emailed his band teacher and she told me to sign up for the Music Rocks Camp (for kids switching to new instruments), but it wouldn't let me since Gabe was past the age limit. She emailed the guy in charge and he emailed me to get my number to call me to work something out. He never did call, but if he did he didn't leave a message (my phone automatically blocks unknown numbers). So I never did get Gabe into the camp, but no matter, as his Young Men's campout coincided with the last two days of the music camp. The cost of renting a French Horn was more than double the price of the clarinet. Luckily, the school has one he can borrow, so we will only have had this horn for a month.
After Music & Arts, we headed to Michaels. In the same parking lot, a Farmer's market was going on, so we browsed that for a bit. I bought Gabe (Ian mysteriously didn't want any) some shave ice to enjoy. We didn't buy anything else at the Farmer's market. Then we walked over to Michael's and I let the boys pick out a couple of things. They found a teeny tiny miniature instrument pack, which included a French horn, trumpet, and a flute. They boys obsessed over those for awhile.
We almost went all the way home, but decided last minute to stop at Cracker Barrel for lunch. Ian ordered cheeseburgers off the kid's menu, and Gabe ordered himself a full cheeseburger off the adult menu, and didn't finish it of course. Good thing he's good at eating up his leftovers! I let the boys pick out a few things to buy in the Cracker Barrel store with their own money.
May 28
The weird, sad, and broken organ at DI.
Ian enjoying the drums at Music & Arts
Shave ice at the Farmer's Market
Cracker Barrel for lunch!
Gabe was happy with his new French horn! Now, to figure out how to play it...!
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May 29
Elisa giving the scripture in primary. I like sneaking videos and pictures of the kids in primary! Might as well, while since I'm there already!
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May 31
Silly Gabe made a Plushie shop so he could make some money making little plushies out of felt. Actually, he had been taking a few orders from school kids and made a few dollars even before this. Elisa and Ian soon followed suit and made their own little shops, mostly trying to "sell" stuff they found around the house, and Elisa made a couple of things out of pipe cleaners. It was funny to me, that for a while there, the kids were passing their money around and around, just buying each other's things! This is what they do when they're not on screens---they create and socialize with each other!
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