We have a 6 year old in the house!! Wednesday was the big day, and he was thrilled when he opened his gifts of a fart gun (yes, you read that correctly) and a magic loom. The fart gun lights up and makes farting noises when you pull the trigger (thanks to the minions of Despicable Me for that!) and the Magic Loom loops small elastics together to makes rings, bracelets, and necklaces. The two things he'd been talking about for the last few months were finally in his possession, and he is loving them!
We had a cake and movie night that night, birthday party will be tomorrow with some school friends, and he is so excited. This morning we went to the dollar store to pick up goodies for the loot bags. So much fun!
More big changes here. Hubby finished his course, had this week off for leave, and then a week from Monday he'll be sailing again on the Halifax from the 31st to the 25th. After that he flies from here to Borden from the 27th of April to the 31st or so of May. At least this time he'll be home for a day or two in the middle!
Last Saturday was busy and fun. We got Girlie into a big girl bed (yay, because now she can get snuggies in her own bed!), moved Monkey into a toddler bed (yay, because now I don't have to get out of bed when she starts crying at night, she can just crawl into bed with me), got our spare room set up downstairs, and we picked up and set up a new bed frame for Hubby and I. Saturday night was absolutely horrible, but the nights after that seem to be much better. I think we're all sleeping better now too.
It's been neat this last couple of weeks listening to the kids. Smarty is getting so big and responsible, and super creative. Last night Sergeant picked out a book to read before bed and I was going to just read it, but Smarty asked if he could sing it. So I told him to go ahead. He made up a little tune to sing the story to and did great. Held the attention of the other three.
Sergeant has broken out into random songs lately. Usually this one or this one and then those songs get stuck in everyone's heads. And he'll stand on the hearth, jump up and down, singing his heart out. Girlie gets into it, Monkey starts dancing along, Hubby and I smile at each other.
Blankets all over the girls' room floor as they play at putting stuffed animals and dolls to sleep. Moving the rocking chair, stools, pillows, they get little aprons on when they see me getting mine on so they can "help". Monkey is starting to rock the wardrobe changes. Girlie used to do it, need to change her clothes if they got wet or dirty. Monkey just has to see another pair of pants and she'll try to take the ones she's wearing off and put the new ones on. Lots and lots of laundry.
Our snow is nearly gone, I've been hearing bird song that I haven't heard in t few months, but the wind is still quite chilly. Yesterday was raining, pouring even, all day long. No letting up, river running down our street. Made me glad we live on a hill and there is no water in the basement!
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