July 1: Just home from "Brave," which we loved. It's not often we take the whole crew to the movies. The big screen obviously made quite the impression upon Elyas. After Dawson intoned, "Feast your eyes" in his best Scottish brogue, Elyas promptly pulled down his pants and diaper in order to moon us all. No prompting required. Oy.
It's happening!! A young man's voice begins to alter. . .
July 3: To the vocal woman at the lab whom I chose not to engage in a debate: Given your very opinionated statements on the length of appropriate nursing time, number of appropriate children, and the amount of appropriate toys and activities, is it truly any wonder that your children are not interested in your appropriately timed visit offers?
July 3: Woot woot!!!! Our Big Red Bus has passed inspection with flying colors. It's a great feeling to go prepared to spend oodles and leave with just the cost of the inspection, the oil change, and rotated tires. On days like today, being a grown-up isn't so bad.
July 7: Woke up this morning with a bed full of Little Rutherfords. 4 to be exact. It was cozy!
July 7: As I am large enough these days to have my own gravitational pull . . . I must say that a pool which induces weightlessness is a Godsend. The same pool providing activities all day for my children? Well that's just a taste of perfection.
July 9: Whew - I'm thinking it's going to be a tired day, regardless of the amount of caffeine I pump into my pregnant body. That poor, leeching boy. He isn't going to know what hit him.
July 10: Conversation at the library tonight:
Rude Girl (approx age 4) to Abigail (4): "I don't like your skirt."
Abigail says nothing, so I choose to sit quietly.
RG: "And I don't like your shirt."
Abigail remains quiet.
RG: "I don't like your shoes. And I really don't like the little boot on your shoe. And I don't like your hair."
Abigail: "At least MY heart is beautiful." And she walked away.
Thanks for the valuable lesson tonight, sweetie. I needed it.
July 20: I was putting the dribs from the batter bowl into muffin papers and it always takes me forever. I don't think I'll ever be able to wield a scraper with the deftness of my mother.
July 30: Last swim meet of the season tonight. A few more practices to go before Counties on Saturday and then our schedule slows waaaaaaaaaay down. I'm quite ready.
It's happening!! A young man's voice begins to alter. . .
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| July 2: 1st meet of the season, Elyas perched upon daddy while cheering on Tucker. |
July 3: To the vocal woman at the lab whom I chose not to engage in a debate: Given your very opinionated statements on the length of appropriate nursing time, number of appropriate children, and the amount of appropriate toys and activities, is it truly any wonder that your children are not interested in your appropriately timed visit offers?
July 3: Woot woot!!!! Our Big Red Bus has passed inspection with flying colors. It's a great feeling to go prepared to spend oodles and leave with just the cost of the inspection, the oil change, and rotated tires. On days like today, being a grown-up isn't so bad.
July 7: Woke up this morning with a bed full of Little Rutherfords. 4 to be exact. It was cozy!
July 7: As I am large enough these days to have my own gravitational pull . . . I must say that a pool which induces weightlessness is a Godsend. The same pool providing activities all day for my children? Well that's just a taste of perfection.
July 9: Whew - I'm thinking it's going to be a tired day, regardless of the amount of caffeine I pump into my pregnant body. That poor, leeching boy. He isn't going to know what hit him.
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| July 9: 30 weeks |
July 10: Conversation at the library tonight:
Rude Girl (approx age 4) to Abigail (4): "I don't like your skirt."
Abigail says nothing, so I choose to sit quietly.
RG: "And I don't like your shirt."
Abigail remains quiet.
RG: "I don't like your shoes. And I really don't like the little boot on your shoe. And I don't like your hair."
Abigail: "At least MY heart is beautiful." And she walked away.
Thanks for the valuable lesson tonight, sweetie. I needed it.
~ mom comment: I should note that after Abigail went to join her sister, I looked at the little girl and quietly said, "That wasn't very polite of you." Her mother swooped in and grabbed her daughter's hand before loudly speaking, "How dare you speak to my daughter that way." Hmm. Hello tree that produced the apple.
July 11:
6:30am: wake Isabelle & Tucker for math/typing before breakfast
8:30am: drop Isabelle at swim practice; return home to finish Tucker's school
10am: Tucker in the pool for practice
10:15am: Abigail & Elyas in the pool for swim lessons
11:00am: Tucker out of the water, Keats & Aidan into the water.
11:45am: home for lunch, start twins & Isabelle's school.
1:45pm: take Isabelle & Tucker to piano lessons; Isabelle takes school with her & we go home to finish twins school
2:30pm: Scott leaves for double shift
3:15pm: pick up Isa & Tuck
3:45pm: kids make Spirit posters for tonight's swim meet.
4:45pm: be at pool for warm ups
6pm: swim meet starts
9pm: anticipated return home after meet & moonlight swim
9:30pm: tuck in swimmers $ write letters to Shelby & Dawson, who are at Camp Manatawny for the week.
10pm: pretend to read for a few moments before expected collapse into slumber.
Only 19 days to go!!!!
July 13: It's a wondrous thing when your son becomes your brother. Our Dawson was baptized tonight and while there were plenty of tears from others, Scott & I could only cheer for the sheer joyfulness of it all.
July 16: "...then we got the call that Dawson was being baptised too, and I thought 'Aww. We can't be the cool ones for showing up, because now it's not optional.' " Tacy to Sarah Gemmell, who was also baptized with Dawson.
July 11:
6:30am: wake Isabelle & Tucker for math/typing before breakfast
8:30am: drop Isabelle at swim practice; return home to finish Tucker's school
10am: Tucker in the pool for practice
10:15am: Abigail & Elyas in the pool for swim lessons
11:00am: Tucker out of the water, Keats & Aidan into the water.
11:45am: home for lunch, start twins & Isabelle's school.
1:45pm: take Isabelle & Tucker to piano lessons; Isabelle takes school with her & we go home to finish twins school
2:30pm: Scott leaves for double shift
3:15pm: pick up Isa & Tuck
3:45pm: kids make Spirit posters for tonight's swim meet.
4:45pm: be at pool for warm ups
6pm: swim meet starts
9pm: anticipated return home after meet & moonlight swim
9:30pm: tuck in swimmers $ write letters to Shelby & Dawson, who are at Camp Manatawny for the week.
10pm: pretend to read for a few moments before expected collapse into slumber.
Only 19 days to go!!!!
July 13: It's a wondrous thing when your son becomes your brother. Our Dawson was baptized tonight and while there were plenty of tears from others, Scott & I could only cheer for the sheer joyfulness of it all.
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| July 16 : Another Pre-Niner project is completed: coffee center stained to match the mug holder. We Rutherfords take our coffee consumption very seriously |
July 16: "...then we got the call that Dawson was being baptised too, and I thought 'Aww. We can't be the cool ones for showing up, because now it's not optional.' " Tacy to Sarah Gemmell, who was also baptized with Dawson.
July 19: Elyas is being a terror today. I actually checked for a fever, hoping to have something to blame it on!
Another Pre-Niner project complete: the filing cabinet has been officially sorted. I go through it every year, but BOY does the paperwork pile up in that time! Between sorting, giving away, breakage, and warranty expirations, we have to empty our recycling bin.
Lowest Common Multiples take down another Rutherford. Grrrr.
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| When you find such a note on the white board, you realize that yes, almost 4 hours on one lesson was time well spent. |
July 20: I was putting the dribs from the batter bowl into muffin papers and it always takes me forever. I don't think I'll ever be able to wield a scraper with the deftness of my mother.
July 21: New level of movie-nerdness. Leaving for Sam's Club:
Self: What would you like to listen to on the iPod?
Kids: Lord of the Rings the Two Towers.
Self: The book?
Kids: Nope, the movie. We want to see if we can quote the whole thing.
July 25: Elyas learned to swim! And t wo Little Rutherfords made it to counties: Tucker for diving and Dawson for freestyle! Popping buttons!
Self: What would you like to listen to on the iPod?
Kids: Lord of the Rings the Two Towers.
Self: The book?
Kids: Nope, the movie. We want to see if we can quote the whole thing.
July 23: So the secret to getting Elyas to do everything during swim lessons he'll do when playing with the fam? Have Keats & Aidan join him so he competes. Boys.
July 24: So I've recently discovered my penance for my flirty school ways. It is NOT that I have boy-crazy girls. It is that I have the Swoon-worthy son.
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| Cousining at the dive meet |
July 25: Elyas learned to swim! And t wo Little Rutherfords made it to counties: Tucker for diving and Dawson for freestyle! Popping buttons!
I have fully enjoyed our afternoon "off." After making certain our afternoon was free for another activity, we learned that it wasn't going to happen. Instead, we lounged about in new sleeping bags, read, played piano, and FBed. It was a lovely change.
July 26: Thunderstorms, Harry Potter 7 Part 1 on BluRay, baby sampler to stitch, and tea. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Bliss.
July 27: Project to project to project. Just keep swimming . . . Thank goodness for Dory and her ever cheerful encouragement!
Busy weekend ahead, so we've stocked up on Rutherford Fast Food: lunch meat, store bought bread, carrot sticks, & cold cereal. The kids all said they feel like they're on vacation!
July 28: 2nd Place Best Girls Camper at Manatawny for our Isabelle, 7th Place Diver in the County for Tucker. Banner Day for the Rutherfords!
July 29: Dawson was 3rd Place Best Boys Camper for his week at Manatawny!!!!! (It was pointed out that in our joy over Dawson's baptism, his other achievement was overlooked.)
July 28: 2nd Place Best Girls Camper at Manatawny for our Isabelle, 7th Place Diver in the County for Tucker. Banner Day for the Rutherfords!
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| Tucker, post ceremony, clutching his trophy but already asking how much longer til he registers for Camp!! |
July 29: Dawson was 3rd Place Best Boys Camper for his week at Manatawny!!!!! (It was pointed out that in our joy over Dawson's baptism, his other achievement was overlooked.)
After changing a really gross diaper, Scott scowls at my lounging self and says,"Next time, I get to be pregnant!"
What is it that has enthralled the Little Rutherfords this Olympics? Gymnastics, swimming, cycling Nope. Female weight lifting. Weirdies.
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| Stand Up Paddleboard, Manatawny style |
July 30: Last swim meet of the season tonight. A few more practices to go before Counties on Saturday and then our schedule slows waaaaaaaaaay down. I'm quite ready.
July 31: From women's weight lifting to white-water canoeing. These Little Rutherfords have bizarro likes. We're finding their favorite olympic coverage is constantly the final 60 minutes of every day.
The Littles have retired to the basement to watch Disney's "Robin Hood" on the usually-reserved-for-exersice-
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