My LIttle Helper

I really wish that I had a camera handy today. Terina is my little helper. She took it upon herself to help me wash the dishes... I was already done and she emptied the silverware drawer put them in the and then came and got me to help her wash them. She asked for some cheese tonight and brought me a slice. While I was in the bathroom she tore it up into small pieces, got the vacuum out and was trying to sweep it all up... it didn't work (because it wasn't plugged in) and it just smashed it into the carpet. Right now as I'm typing... she's rearranging all the food in the fridge, taking everything out of the bottom cabinet and putting it in the fridge.... and for some reason it's not bothering me. EXCEPT WITH THE EGGS!! She's broken so many eggs theses past couple days. She keeps acting out a Backyardigans movie called "The Mighty Knights" that has an egg in it. I think tomorrow I'll boil an egg and we'll color it so it looks like Eggbert. Anyways... Terina is doing FABULOUS!! She's loving school and she comes home singing all these new songs. We're still having a problem with the whole sharing thing but as she gets a little older I'm sure she'll learn. I'll try to take some more pictures soon and post them. There goes Eggbert... and 2 more eggs.

The Sweetest Sound I'll Ever Hear.....

And for once it's not the sound of silence!! It's Terina! I love to listen to her laugh. She's so silly and goofy almost all of the time. When she laughs it just fills my heart. It erases all the anger that she may have caused me that day.... I love hearing Terina talk about Tabitha, Emma and Sydney. I try to talk about them a lot and show her pictures all the time so that when we go home she'll pick up right where they left off. I love it when she plays with her little people and says that its Malichai or Tabitha or Emma...... It makes me cry and just fills me with great love when Terina gets tired and she climbs up on my lap and simply says, "I love you mommy"..... that's the sweets sound I'll ever hear.... my children telling me that they love me, that they love daddy, and Grandma and Papa and whom ever else that she may be thinking of.

I'm just to lazy

I didn't put a diaper on Terina after I bathed her this morning because I was to busy looking at homes for sale in Richland but she just went to the bathroom on the toilet! We're getting close to being potty trained! She knew she had to use the toilet and she started to run to the bathroom so I ran after her and she sat down and peed!! Hopefully we can get out of diapers soon... they cost to much money.

Random...

I have been walking to pick Terina up in the afternoons and earlier this week noticed some beautiful flowers that someone had planted in front of their house. I didn't take time to look closely at them the first day but today I actually stopped to look at them because some of the flowers looked like daffidilsd! I thought to myself, Wow... I didn't know those grew out here but they are so pretty. They're pretty because they're PRETTY FAKE! Who plants fake flowers on the sidewalk flowerbeds? I thought it was kind of funny thou......

Labor Day!

It was so nice to spend yesterday with my family. I had an extra long weekend because we did not have school Friday but Monday morning Terina and I got up and made breakfast, watched one of her new favorite shows My Friends Tigger and Pooh and then played around waiting for Kasala to wake up. We decided that we should go to the beach early before all the students woke up and went so by 10am we were out the door to the beach. Every beach we drove by was completely packed! There were so many people who had camped the night before and then also some of the clubs from BYU were having activities too. We finally decided that it was going to be a crowded beach or no beach so we parked, unloaded and were off. It felt like the hottest day ever... or at least the hottest since we have been here and the water was nice a cool. It felt great! About 10 minutes after being in the water Terina and I were stung by some stinky little jelly fish. They were seriously everywhere! I had never seen so many jelly fish at the beach!! But we kept playing anyways. We also, for the first time, saw turtles in the water! At first I thought it was just drift wood but then they started poking their heads out of the water. The waves were really big and I didn't want to take Terina to close to them but we stood on shore and watched the turtles. They stayed around for quite a while. We stayed at the beach only long enough to get more tan lines and a little burn then headed home. We spent the rest of the afternoon inside playing games, reading books, and cleaning. Overall it was a really relaxing day and as soon as I find the camera cord I'll post some pictures. Oh... can you tell we're working on using "colorful words" in my 3rd grade class to help the reader "paint mind pictures"? :)