Well this last week and weekend have been an adventure!! Last week we were busy every evening preparing Keith for his annual fishing trip. During the day it was beastly hot so we were in the sprinkler a lot...our neighbors were on vacation so we weren't so lucky to get to swim. On Wednesday Gideon decided he wanted to dress up like a soccer player and go to the soccer field to kick the ball in the goal so we took a walk with about 5 different sized soccer balls in tow to the soccer field to play. I figured....open field....perfect place for the kids to run....well.....it kinda backfired on me....see...behind the soccer field there is a cement factory.....M&R Ready Mix....yah.....and you see where this is going.....Lucy decided she wanted to run to the other end of the field with her ball....I figure that was fine (first mistake) she ran with her ball and sat in the goal. When it was time to go I called for her to come and she wouldn't budge. I asked Gideon to run down and tell her to come thinking maybe she couldn't hear me. As soon as Gideon got to her and told her to come....she ran ......and ran.....and ran.... I yelled at her to stop and come back....I think my exact words were "LUCY ANN MYERS MOMMY SAYS COME BACK RIGHT NOW" she just looked at me with a smerk and kept running.....I took a few more steps toward her and yelled again. She stopped again and looked at me....laughed and kept running....right toward the cement factory. I freaked out as I realized she was not going to stop. There was a cement truck running back and forth and a fork lift lifting up pieces of concret as big as my couch off of a pile that Lucy was running right toward. I took off in a full sprint to try and catch her while yelling at Gideon to go stand by Ella who I had abandoned at the other end of the field. When I was little kid...out of nervousness I would always laugh before I got spanked......I found my self starting to laugh as I was running but the sound out of my mouth turned to crying at the end.....I was watching Lucy as she rounded the corner of cement blocks heading in the path of a "couch sized cement block" and a cement truck coming at her. They would never expect a kid in their work area so I knew the chance of her getting hit or a block crushing her was high.....it seemed like my legs could not run fast enough...as I neared her I looked at the cement truck driver I realized that he had seen her and was frantically cb-ing back to the fork-lift to tell him to stop there was a child there.....I grabbed Lucy's arm spanked her and carried her screaming and crying back to the other side of the field where she got a major talking to and another spankin. When I got back to the house I called Keith and just bawled on the phone.....You would think that she would have learned not to do it again but the next day when I was babysitting for a friends foster son at the park she did it again. I don't know what we are going to do with her. At the park I made her sit by me and she couldn't go play with the other kids. I just can't trust her anymore and it's really scary!! We'll have to see how this all plays out....I may not be able to go anywhere by myself if she continues to act like this.....oh....when I grabbed her at the cement factory....she just looked up at me and smiled and said....no....no I don't wanna go......yah....she knew she was doing something wrong....she just didn't realize she almost got killed disobeying mommy!!!
Well anyway Keith left on his trip and we headed to Grammy and Papa's and the Bullthistle festival where we got lots of candy and had lots of fun at the parade and festival rides and got to see some great fireworks. It was so hot that I actually climbed in the lake and swam...Keith always gets grossed out by people swimming in that lake but it was so hot I got desperate and took the kids in and it was actually a lot of fun! On Sunday we packed up and went to my mom and dads. I was suppose to work on Monday but got called off Sunday night so mom and dad and I and the kids headed to Grand Rapids for the afternoon. We ate pizza, shopped at some neat places took a walk played in the park and get this......rented a canoe.....and canoed down the canal.....yah....we are crazy.... Dad sat in back, me in front and mom had the three kids in the middle...all in one canoe....before we even got two feet Ella was screaming and Lucy and Gideon were scared we were going to tip....I must admit with the unsteady and wiggly children in thereI was a little afraid we would tip too....but we survived...it was fun but hectic and didn't last very long. We decided to end the trip early and go to the ice cream shoppe down the road before we left town. We spent the night that night and enjoyed corn on the cob, fresh tomato, broccoli, lettuce and cucumber salad, and homemade bread for supper. It was a really fun day despite the chaos on the canal!!
So that's our latest lives in short. Oh...I did register Lucy for a Mini Dance class this morning. She will be taking ballet,tap and gymnastics for 7 weeks. It's her birthday present. I am so excited to see her go...I think she'll love wearing her too too and ballet shoes.....we go for sizing next week. It should be great!!
Hope all are well! More from us soon!
Just the Good Ole' Boys....Colin I hope you're proud! Well-we are makin' our way...the only way we know how without daddy! Everyday's rough but everyday gets us closer to when he comes home and we are keeping very busy so that's great! We spent the weekend at Grammy's house with cousins Andrew and AJ and had lots of fun! Then yesterday Grammy got the day off work and had spent the night at our house so she stayed to help me and my dad set up the kids rooms! They ended up looking great and working out well with the furniture switch and all. It did take dad from about 11:00-1:00 to get the crib torn down, moved and set back up again. But that's not because he's not skilled it's just that crib is a big pain to disassemble. Anyway the kids slept well in there new rooms last night.
