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Ollie is still not walking. But he’s very creative in his methods of getting around. He LOVES this trike. He scoots around on it happily whenever we are all outside. He’s also doing what we have termed “knee walking”. It’s basically walking, only on his knees instead of his feet. It’s kind of hilarious actually.

 

His first officially word is “ball”. If I say, “Go get your ball.” He goes and gets it, brings it back and says “ball”. He also tries really hard to make a monkey sound, “eeeeehhh eeehhhh” when we hand his monkey to him.

 

He loves to be outside. He throws a huge fit if I make him stay in when the other kids are out. And then he’ll sit at the sliding glass door and watch them.

 

 

This last week was Spring Break in our area. We still did school most of the week, because we are headed to Goblin Valley at the end of the month, which will be our official homeschooling “Spring Break”, but we did take Thursday off to go up to Hooper to visit my mom. On the way there I got a flat tire. Luckily, I had just gotten off the freeway in Provo to get gas. And thankfully, I have the world’s most wonderful husband. He was quick to borrow a car from someone at work to come and rescue us.

 

He got the spare put on, and we drove over to Les Schwab, and spent the morning in their waiting room eating popcorn, while they patched up our tire. Then we were on our merry way to Hooper. It was lunch time when we got there, so Mom and I took the kids to Chick-fil-a so that they could play on the play-place while we chatted. It was a really nice afternoon. I love spending time with my mom. I wish we lived closer to I could see her more often.

 

After lunch we went back to her house, and she put some highlights in my hair and cut it. I was in dire need of a haircut. Mine was getting out of control. I keep thinking I’m going to grow my hair out, but every time I try, I hate it. I think I’m just a short hair person. I like it short. I like the way it looks, I like how easy it is to take care of, I like that it’s never in my eyes. And I like my stick-straight-up-in-every direction morning hair. My mom did an excellent job doing the cut to fit my new DYT adjective which are, choppy, chunky, textured. I’m really happy with it overall. Thanks Ma!

 

On Saturday we went to the neighborhood Easter egg hunt. I got to follow Miss Del around. The older boys pretty much did their own thing, which is why no pictures of them hunting. But we did get everyone together at the end for a group photo. It’s kind of nice to have the egg hunt out of the way a week early so we can just focus on the important stuff.

For Family Home Evening tonight we got chickens! Well, some of them at least. Meet Charlotte and Crab Apple, Lincoln and Adelia’s Buff Orpingtons. Lincoln decided to name his Charlotte after the spider in Charlotte’s Web. Adelia chose a whole bundle of names, but most of them were nonsensical like Gabldin or some such, Crab Apple was the first one that was even in English, so that’s the one that stuck. The store didn’t have any Black Sex-Links or Americaunas, but will be getting a new shipment in on Wednesday, so we’ll be picking up the rest of them then. So stay tuned for the rest of the awesome names that are sure to be coming to a chick near you. ;)