Happiness is:

Watching Robyn push Gracie on the swings and teaching her to pump.

Life is Good!







Everyone has become a bit more self sufficient this week. I am very excited.

Colin learned to vacuum and use the can opener!! Wahoo!!

Robyn learned to ride her bike WITHOUT training wheels and go across the monkey bars at the park! Hooray!

Grace told me last Sunday that she doesn't like to play toys at nursery class - no wonder she always cries at the very end and gets brought to me during Relief Society. We talked about it and decided she could ask her teacher if she could read books instead. She tried it and after class she told me, "I didn't need you today." Her teacher read three books to her during toy time.

It is very, very nice to not be needed quite so much. I got a lot done this week! I was able to study for two or three hours each day and the house has stayed clean! That has never happened before. I even had time to sew a mei tai for the new baby. A Mei Tai is an Asian baby carrier. We went to The Baby Place for our monthly midwife visit and one of the girls there was wearing her 11 week old in one on her back while she checked me. Her Mei Tai is a Kozy Carrier (http://www.kozycarrier.homestead.com). I decided that for $85, I could build one myself. I made a mock up in Robyn's size first to practice - it's straps aren't quite in the right angle, but it works pretty good for her dollies. Then I made one out of a piece of fabric left over from when we recovered the couch. I put Grace in it and she said it was too hot! It was also too wide. So I found some lighter fabric and shrunk the body by three inches. I haven't actually tried it with any children yet, but it works great with Robyn's "sleeping baby" that is about the size of a real three month old. I was thinking I would have Randy try it with Grace tonight - he's not pregnant.


The final Mei Tai



Robyn modeling her Mei Tai.