June Family News Letter

WOW


That’s about how I am going to sum up this last few months, and boy has it been crazy. Let’s see since the last news letter our family has been to Baltimore Maryland and I went by myself to Richmond Virginia all for work. (The nice thing about the various trainings that I go on the family can come too! That means lots of new experiences for all.) This is not to mention the week I was in Arizona while Chantelle was at home with the older kids and her mom was visiting.


In Baltimore Chantelle was a real trooper with the kids. She took them swimming all by herself which is a real feat when you figure that Brokton usually melts down just with anticipation of something like that. (Which by the way we have learned that has a name called anticipatory anxiety.) She also took the kids on a big adventure on a Water Taxi which is a pontoon boat that they take you around the harbor. They got to see fells point which is an area with cobblestone streets. Then she took them to the Maryland Science center which was incredible. She was able to get in for free because it is a reciprocal museum with the Air and Science Center that we belong to. The kids even got to into an area of the museum called “Grossology” which is supposed to be an additional fee. The man running it was so impressed by how polite and well mannered they were that he let them in for free!!!! Score one for us!!!!!!


The kids keep getting bigger and smarter. Brokton has now figured out how to blame his mischief on someone else. However, he didn’t try and blame his sister, he blamed two little monsters for eating all the dove chocolates, Reeses mini cups and half the ice cream. Needless to say he’s been a bit wired lately. Brokton is graduating from kindergarten and we can hardly believe it. He got an award for most improved behavior today. He had a class party and Mom shed a tear for her boy growing up.


Evelyn is really growing in her imagining and has been having pampered chef shows. She made two pennies. This is now down to one because she decided to swallow one yesterday morning. That was a pleasant way to be woken up at 6:25 with Brokton yelling that it was an emergency, “Evelyn swallowed a money.” Unfortunately I’m not so sure that she learned anything from the experience because she couldn’t even answer the question of what she SHOULD do with money. Needless to say she gets NO MONEY for a LONG time. We were finally able to get her pictures taken today (we’ve been trying since November) every time we were about to go for pictures she had a major sore break out on her mouth and they take WEEKS to clear up all the way. Chantelle curled her hair all pretty and Evelyn sat SOOOOO still. She really wanted to look all pretty and grown up. She is such a doll baby.

Jenai has been pretending with her dollies too. She always has a baby that she is feeding or singing to or pushing in her stroller. She also loves to lead us around by the hand and say “feed you” this means either she is going to feed us her pretend food or we are to feed her. WAY cute!!! She also has cute names for us. Daddy is Daddie-O Mama is Mama-No and Evelyn is Onion (which Evelyn has now proclaimed as her nick name ) Brokton sometimes sounds like Don-ton and sometimes sounds like Donkey. Take that one however you want it ! She also calls her cousin Alexia Sisi because Alexia is a harder name. Our favorite is when she prays for cute things like “bess cousins” or tonight when Chantelle said for her “help my rash not hurt” (she has a BAD diaper rash from something she ate) and she said “help rash better”.


Overall our kids are becoming more of a joy everyday, except when they’re not but aren’t they all like that??? Brokton looks forward to tossing the ball with his Daddy every day in the back yard. Evelyn looks forward to her story time and Jenai loves when she cuddles with Mama and gets sung her very own song that Mama wrote called Cuddle time.


Steve has been busy putting in the garden. He did manage to get his foot stuck in the mud about six inches up his leg and lost a shoe which he had to dig out. This of course while he was home alone with the Jenai and Evelyn. Jenai was attacking Evelyn (our guess is she wanted Evelyn to be quiet). And to top it all off the sunroom door locked so Jenai couldn’t come out which also meant he couldn’t get in! Of course being a dad he called his wifie to get help/reassurance then he handled the situation like a real trooper.


Chantelle got to model her wedding dress that Josette made her for a Stake fashion show. Steve and the kids even joined in. She is also venturing out of her comfort zone some. She entered a “American Idol” type contest at Wal-mart to sponsor a children’s hospital. She sang a song she wrote for Steven called Six in the morning. She is working on the music for it as well as some other songs. She also went beyond her comfort zone by returning to a counselor that we had met with once about Brokton that had made her feel like she was in the wrong about “Waiting for the other shoe to drop” when he was doing well. Well she put it behind her and now we have gone back and gotten some good advice. Maybe the lady was having a bad day that day.


Other than that we have been struggling with our would be buyer of our Tooele house who is currently renting. Chantelle spent the better part of the day yesterday working on it and talking to attorneys. We found an attorney who gave us a free hour and a half phone conversation. He picked through all the legal garbage and we hope to be able to move forward without any more drama.


Oh, we have also gone to a minor league baseball game the “Tides”, participated in a free fishing day where we caught 2 bite sized fish, gone to an emergency preparedness fair at church, as well as a super cool Harbor fest with some amazing sail boats, and taken out our canoe multiple times.


Hope all is well with everyone else. If you want to chat and don’t mind kid noise

just call. 757-636-1760 if we don’t answer we will call you back.


Link to view Steve family pictures http://skyalbum.com/showAlbum/77129


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