Tim took the older kids to the store the day before, to shop for me, and while I wasn't looking Charlotte dumped out a bag of sunflower seeds. What fun!
She was pretty happy with her accomplishment :D
On Mothers' Day, I told Charlotte that her gift to me was to let me put her hair in pigtails. It took some collaboration (Jack and Lily sang for her and shoved cheerios into her mouth to help her sit still), but I accomplished it in the end!
And isn't she cute?!
Exploring the parking lot outside of church. It's so empty b/c we're always some of the last to leave. Ward Council happens after church almost every Sunday, and there are two families with small children that have both parents in Ward Council. Tim is also in Ward Council, so I get to supervise 9 children for an hour or so after church. I love it, and Jack loves the extra playtime! It is literally an answer to prayer. My homeschooled kids don't see other kids as often as schooled kids, and Jack was really feeling sorry for himself that he didn't get to play with other kids very often. Within a month all those parents were called to leadership positions in our ward and Jack started getting to play with those kids. And they're awesome kids, very polite and sweet and kind, and I love watching them all play together!
She's walking back and forth from me to the car and back...
And now she's bringing me the "treasures" she finds in the car!
I had a fabulous Mothers' Day. When we got home from church, the kids ran to the couch to watch a movie and said "Bye, Mommy! You're going to take a bath!" Tim added some homemade scented bath salts that a sweet friend from church had given us. THEN he came and fed me chocolate-covered cherries while I soaked! After I got out he gave me two more bags of chocolate-covered fruit, and a box of cookies. I felt very loved!
We got our mothers collage prints of our family photos, and framed them and hung them up on their walls for them. The photos didn't arrive in the mail until after we got home from San Francisco, so on Mother's Day we put in pictures that Jack had colored and gave them a promise of more.
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