Bath time

Boyd and Lucy were in the bath and doing the usual splashing each other thing. Lucy stood up, hands on her hips and said in her most stern voice, "Boyd Martin! That's Enough Already!" The funny thing was that he actually stopped, gave her a hug and said, "Hug and feel better, Ucy." She sat down and he patted her on the head, "There we go, so nice." Then, of course, not 30 seconds later they were back to splashing and bickering. Silly kids. Here's an old picture of them in the tub, maybe just over a year ago and a new one. I think they've changed so much, mostly Lucy's hair is so long now. But, they are still little hams for the camera.

Tweeky's in the sky

Tweek "loved" baths
Tweek was a sweetheart with the kids. I think she just loved being by them. Boyd and Lucy both called her "Kweeky."

Poor little sick Tweeky just couldn't get better, so she was put down yesterday. Trying to explain this to Boyd and Lucy was a little tricky, but who knows what they understand quite yet. Basically, Tweeky went to the kitty doctor and isn't coming home, she died and went to heaven and she's happy there and not sick anymore. Then Boyd said Tweeky went up into the sky. I think the kids know a little more about eternity than we think. They really loved that cat, and she loved them. Tweeky especially picked Lucy as her "pet," and would very often snuggle Lucy in her bed and enjoy her pets as Lucy fell asleep. When Lucy started crawling and then walking, Tweek would play chase with her and stop and run at the right times, making Lucy laugh. It was so cute.

We will miss our little no-tail kitty.
Tweeker-Doodle-Bunny-Butt 2002-2009

Happy 4th!

Maybe one of these days I will get a blog on the actual day of an event, but not so easy on a weekend because I'd have to fight off Boyd and Ken for some computer time. :) Not worth it!

Anyway... We had a crazy weekend that went by too fast as usual. My vacuum exploded the other day with some mean sparks and sounds and then died. Sad! But then we got a new one that picked up so much junk in one use to make me gag a little. I guess that means it works well, but ew to how much yucky stuff was on my carpet. Hooray for clean carpet now!

We went to the mall to get Boyd some new shoes. He was having one of his "that boy aint right" days. We got some snooty looks from people at the mall for our disturbances. What? Don't all parents have to sit on their screaming 4 year old in the shoe store to get his shoes on? Lucy wanted some attention and new shoes too, of course. So we ended up spending too much money on kid shoes because we didn't have time to think. We just had to grab the light up ones that Boyd didn't throw, and the the name brand pink ones for Lucy because they were the closest on the shelf, and then scram out of there. The baby was good though.

We also drove out to Spring City to see Grandma and Grandpa Hansen for a nice visit. We got some homemade blackberry icecream (which was awesome!). So good to make us late for the fireworks show at the Martins'. Poor Boydie was soooo scared of all of it for some reason. He was worried about the baby getting hurt, even though she was asleep inside. We ended up just hugging on the couch for most of it. He was really shaking out of fear and truly sad! That kid just breaks my heart sometimes.

Church is always an ordeal for us. The kids will go to nursery class only with me or Ken. Boyd is finally liking the nursery, even though he's a giant in there. Lucy was crying every 2 seconds the whole time. But thanks to Papa and Grama, they took her over their house after church. Lucy was good there I guess because she can pretend that she's an only child. Poor middle child!