Catch up

Here's a quick summary of the last two months. Bought a house, moved in, Isabelle got the stomach flu, then Brad and I got it, Clark had roseola (high fever for three days, then benign rash), Cora broke out in mysterious hives for 3+ days. All while moving boxes, unpacking, trying to be create a place for everything and putting everything in its place!! It's been 6 weeks sine we moved, but we feel like we've been here forever. It's a beautiful house and we feel really good here. We're still organizing things and trying not to feel the pressure to have everything all set and perfect right NOW. Sigh... School's out, so everyone is home and asking to go to the pool every minute. I don't blame them, today's high, for instance is 97. I really really really have a hard time with the summers here :-) We're planning fun things for the summer, though, a weekend with some friends cabin-camping in San Antonio, a big trip to Idaho to have a siblings-with-kids get-together (although hopefully we can get some of the siblings-with-no-kids-yet to come too!). Isabelle will go to a theater camp again and Cora's got an art camp she'll be attending as well that she is really excited about.
We'll start at a new school in the fall, which is really hard, since the girls really liked, and of course are use to, their old school. I went to visit their new one and felt all the apprehensions of a kid going to a new place and felt so empathetic to their little selves I wanted to cry!! But it's a good school, they will see some familiar faces of kids that are in our ward, since at least the move didn't take us away from our church family!

So it's a stressful, good time here. Clark is crawling and still so happy all the time and trying to grow some hair in addition to all his teeth! 6 1/2 so far :-) Soren has started to be less crazy, although we'd really like this new maturity to also include a more completely potty-trained little boy... Isabelle and Cora are just getting so old! They can do so many things now, getting independent and proud of their accomplishments...

Yesterday we went blueberry picking. I don't know why it's so great, even sweating in the sun it just feels so good to look through the rows of tall bushes and spot beautiful bunches of nice fat blue blueberries and plop them into your bucket. The kids just loved it. Soren couldn't help wandering and finding his own places to pick, although he always came back when I called him (a new development in his ability to obey the "come here" command!) Cora said, "I'm so glad I'm alive." When I asked why she said because she gets to pick blueberries.

Look at Clarky's little red face! This was 9:30am. We didn't stay very long, it was just too hot. Next time we'll head out a couple of hours earlier :-)