Laundry Duty

Today I told Ben to go fold the clean laundry, but of course I was only kidding. His response was “I already did it. I help Uncle Tean with the landries.” It took me a second to figure out what he meant. Last week we were at the Torkelson’s (Marie’s sister’s family) house for their son Danny’s birthday. Apparently Ben helped his Uncle Dean with the laundry while we were there, thus his reasoning that he was exempt from laundry duty, because he had already fulfilled his obligation by helping Dean last week.

Entertaining Exercise

I had the best workout of all time today. I managed to combine exercise with one of the all time laziest of lazy activities- playing Nintendo. I ran on the elliptical runner in my parents’ room, and I plugged my Nintendo into the TV, and played a game of NCAA Football ’05. I ran for 55 minutes, and they flew by.

Working out while watching TV is fun too. Yesterday, and the day before I watched The Sixth Sense while I ran. I’m gonna borrow “Lost” from Doug, and watch it during next week’s workouts.

Bye-Bye Big House

We moved out of the Big House last week, and into my parents’ house. It was a load of fun living in the Big House, and we’ll miss it. Ben still talks about Jack and Gabriel everyday, of course it’s only been five days.

Life at my parents’ is fun. The house is way smaller than the Big House, so it’s a little cramped, but on the upside everything is always really close. In the Big House if I needed something from the kitchen it was like “OK I need to pack a bag for the trip to the kitchen. See you in a few hours Honey.” Here if I need something from the kitchen I can probably reach it without leaving my seat.

Koonya’s not diggin’ it here though. He spends his days chained up outside. I’ll be happy for him when we have our own house again, and he can have the freedom to go in and out whenever he wants.

Camera Shy

Jared crawled for the first time a couple days ago. Of course, when we got the camera out to record it, he decided that he was done crawling.

They’ll Be Out of the House Before You Know It.

Ben pooped on the toilet two times last week. Jared is getting really close to being able to crawl. He can get up on his hands and knees, but he doesn’t go anywhere yet. He is also getting really good at sitting up by himself.

The boys and I went swimming yesterday with their Grandma, and Grandpa Linford. We went to a place called Warm Springs. It’s about a half hours drive north of town. Ben had loads of fun swimming. He really liked the slides. At first he insisted on being held even if he was in water that was shallow enough for him to reach the bottom, but after my Mom dunked Jared a few times, (she even dunked him and let go, so that he had to get himself back up to the surface) Ben got a little more brave. I started pushing him a foot or two away from me, and letting him swim back (he was wearing a floatie). After a while he was having so much fun swimming that he wouldn’t let me hold him anymore. He spent about a half hour swimming around the pool without any help.

Then on the drive home he had to pee, but we were in the middle of nowhere, so I had to make him pee on the ground. At first he refused, but when I started to put him back in his car seat he relented. The lesson learned here Ben is that if you’re a boy, the world is your potty.