No Nap!

Every day I hear, "No nap, Mommy. No Nap!!" But this is what I find:

At least he almost made it into his bed!

Horribly

Jocelyn said, "I horribly want to eat my meal in the car."
"I don't horribly know."
"I horribly love my sister."

After hearing "horribly" several times I inquired where she heard it. She replied, "Nowhere. I just figured it out on my own. I have always known 'horribly,' even when I was a baby I knew it."

There you go. She horribly knows a lot. Isn't she fun?

Little River

Here are some photos of River at 9 days old

(taken June 28--the day before her due date)

"We were just. . .

painting a pretty picture, Mommy!"

While visiting our friends, the Castles, the 4 kiddos (Jocelyn, Kal, Carter, and Jensen) went downstairs to play. A while later, Kal came up the stairs looking like this:

The 4 adults ran down the stairs to find this:

(The black stuff is acrylic paint)

As we arrived at the bottom of the stairs, Jocelyn informed us they were "just painting a pretty picture, Mommy!" We all just sighed. The mess was way too big to worry about getting mad, so someone just suggested we get the camera! Then off to work--Brandon took care of the two babies upstairs, Brent started clean the carpet where Kal walked, Angie went for supplies and started cleaning, I manned the 4 kiddos in the shower. What a mess! The kids cleaned up nice, though!