Daddy's helper

This morning Haley, Emily and I had BSF.  My group was in the children's classes today and I was assigned a class in the age level between Haley and Emily; most of them were about fifteen months.  Those babies seemed so much older than Emily and so babyish compared to Haley.  I guess that would make sense since they are between them.  There were only four kids in there so my job was pretty easy.  It was cool to see the program they have for the kids, even for ones that young.

After BSF we came home and started on lunch.  David had borrowed a pick-up truck to work on picking up logs in the yard.  You may remember that a tree fell in our yard back on good Friday.  David had borrowed a chainsaw and cut it up and today he hauled it off.  Longview has a place called Longview compost where you can take trees and leaves and stuff and pick up mulch/compost soil for your gardens.  David took two loads to the compost place and then brought back some mulch and mulched the garden.  Haley was so excited with all of the activity.  She insisted on going outside to 'help' daddy.

Jon Creech helped David do a lot of the work so I made both of them quesadillas for lunch.  While they were sitting at the table, waiting for lunch, Haley started singing 'Jon is crazy' to the tune that she usually sings 'pee pee in the potty' to.  It was pretty random, Jon didn't seem to offended so that was good.  After lunch I put Haley to bed, Emily had already been sleeping about an hour.  Emily woke up first from her nap after about two and a half hours so I played with her until Haley woke up.  Then we all went outside to help David wash the truck he had used.  Then we washed the van.  Haley loved 'helping.'  She would get her arms all sudsy and then wash the cars with her hands.  She also liked pulled out the rags from the bucket and laying them out on the picnic table.  Emily was content just to watch.  Well, she was content for the time it took to wash the truck and half of the van, then I just held her.

After the vehicles were washed we came inside and I made Mexican rice for the potluck while David and Haley showered.  Haley was pretty much soaked so we figured we might as well make it an official washing. When it was time to go to church we found ourselves in a bit of a crisis when we couldn't find Emily's paci anywhere...ANYWHERE.  Just picture us crawling around the house trying to get at eye level for a paci.  Finally David reasoned that we were driving separate so he would stop by Wal-mart on the way and pick up new pacis.  He had to return the truck so that is why we were driving separate, it was Dr. Mason's.

Both of the girls did well at church.  Haley ate a bunch of pizza and at least two cookies.  Emily did not last long in the adult part, she kept spitting and screeching so I moved her to Haley's class.  She only took that one nap today so she fell asleep on the way home.  I changed her into pajamas and fed her and then she went right to sleep again.  Haley fell asleep as soon as she had her applesauce snack.

Haleyism:
It is quite a process to get in and out of the church at BSF.  I have my bag, Emily's bag, and Haley's bag.  Plus I am carrying Emily and holding hands with Haley.  I would get out a stroller but I am usually a little bit late and I always feel like that will take forever.  Anyways, today we were walking back to the van after it was over and Haley told me she had to use the potty.  We had already left the building, walked the driveway and were about to cross the street to get to our van.  So, picture me with three bags, holding Emily and holding Haley's hand who is now holding herself with her other hand.  I should have made her go before we left but I forgot, oops.  Anyways, while I was trying to figure out what to do she peed right there in the street.  I was glad that I didn't try to make it back to the bathroom because I think we wouldn't have made it.

Emilyism:
Remember how I was nervous that Emily would wake up super early because she went to bed at six last night?  Well, she dashed all of those fears by waking up at 8; she slept 14 hours!  I think she holds the record in our family (Dave, Haley, and I) for longest consecutive sleep stretch.  Anyways, I personally think she deserves a medal.

Loving the high chair

She actually looks kind of tired here

That's a little better

Daddy's helper

This was mostly how she helped

This one was not as much help

Spreading out the rags on the picnic table

Oops, has to use the bathroom!