Pig tails please

Harper has really surprised us the past couple of days.  At naptime, she just grabs her baby and blanket, jumps in her bed, cuddles up and falls right to sleep.   Today she slept for almost 3 hours.   Ava still wants to sit with Papa and fall asleep, then he puts her in her bed.  Both girls continue to do really well with potty training.  Harper has even gone on her own without being reminded.  Ava seems to like it when I set the stove timer to remind everybody.   Ava said something today that was so remarkable.  She found a book in the cupboard that she had not seen since last year and she was so excited, she told me "Grandma, this my favorite book when I a little baby"!  It was a book of baby Sesame Street characters at the zoo and all the animals were babies, too.   She carried that book around all day.   

Auna and Parker were over this afternoon since they were both riding to Vancouver with Papa and the girls.  Auna was going to meet her Dad and head to her last volleyball tournament in Springfield.  Parker was going to spend the night with Luke and go bowling with him and his friends for his birthday.   Parker and Auna entertained themselves by setting up accounts on Parker's and my Kindle so they could play Scrabble against each other.  About the time they had to leave,  Parker was threatening to quit and never play with Auna again since she had just used a triple word score and went ahead of him.  Rielee came and stayed with us later in the evening for a little while.  She didn't want to do anything but play volleyball with a beachball, so that's what we did.  Rielee really likes volleyball, and is already working on her jump serve. 

Charb sent me this video from his phone of Harper bowling:

Flower arranging

The girls stayed in their beds about half of the night, not too bad for their first try.  When we put them down for naps today we wondered if they would even stay in their beds, but they didn't get up once, they didn't sleep either, but they stayed in them.  Just a lot of talking going on, then I would hear them kicking in unison,  then Ava bonked her head on the side of the bed while she was squirreling around...that kind of stuff. 

Rielee had early release and she was helpful in getting them to go potty this afternoon.  She would either go first so they would follow her, or she would sit and read books to them.  They had the best afternoon yet, both stayed dry.  We even  took the potty chair out to the play fort while they played, just in case one of them needed it, and I was surprised when Harper actually used it.

Toddler beds

We found the girls toddler bed frames off Craigslist this morning and then added a couple of new mattresses.  They were so excited when we set them up and they played in them all afternoon.  Come bedtime they both tried to go to sleep in them but just couldn't quite do it and had to be rocked to sleep instead.  Hopefully, they will sleep through the night in them.

We had quite a successful morning of potty training, Ava stayed dry all morning, and Harper almost made it.  The afternoon was a different story with all the excitement of the new beds and the other cousins coming in and out.   But all in all, we had more successes than failures so it was a good day.  It was cute after naptime, Harper had gone potty but Ava didn't want to even try and was sitting in the playroom.  Harper went in and sat down beside her and said "Ava honey, you go try to potty, I did it, you try it, honey."  But Ava wasn't interested.                        

Monday part 2

 Rielee was thrilled when the Dolans invited her to go for a hike down to the creek on their new section of trail.  Parker and I went down later to check it out for ourselves and  to see how things were going.  We could hear Rielee yelling at Sam as she threw sticks for him way before we could see her.  She and Auna were both in the creek with the dog, boots full of water and having a great time.

Parker was first to go across the bridge like this( he is the picture below), like Bond, he said, and then Auna did it..  Rielee thought she could probably do it, too, if we would only let her try.

 

It was the perfect warm April night to be down by or in the water, and Auna even found me a couple of agates. 

Bug! Bee! Spider!

They were studying a lone little ant which had Harper very nervous, this was their second trip outside and they had to wear their boots to "stomp" any troublesome bugs. Harper was upset by many insects the first time out, and when we came back in the house Ava told her "a little bee landed on my arm at Luke's ball game yesterday" and she told Harper she wasn't scared of it. We talked about how to "shoo" away bugs and "stomp" them if you have to, and Ava was giving a stomping demonstration . So when we went out, they didn't want to wear their tennis shoes but went right for the boots instead.

No bugs at the big swing!

Logging adventures

Parker and Papa were up early and cut down a couple trees that were in the way of an alder that Papa has been wanting to cut down for a long time. The top of it was rotten and he was afraid it was going to break off and fall on someone.

They had a good time all morning and got the other tree rigged up with a wire hooked to Gabe's truck so they could pull it and it would land in the right spot. Since I didn't want any part of driving the truck they had to wait until David got home in the late afternoon to do it. The only problem was that the truck didn't have traction and wasn't pulling the tree and it went over on the road. Fortunately, it didn't hit a car.

We had a mad scurry to clear off the highway, Laury had come down to watch so with Parker flagging traffic and the 4 of us working, we got it cleaned off really quickly. The CR cop showed up and parked with his light on to help out.

Another interesting chapter in the story of Robinson logging.

Emmy's spring volleyball

We went to the U of Portland this morning to watch Emmy's team play spring volleyball, Parker is spending the weekend so he was with us. Auna and Laury were there, too. CWU won 2 sets vs. Central S. Idaho and split with Montana State. We left there and grabbed some lunch and then dropped off Luke's birthday card since we had missed his party last night. Luke is 11 today. We decided to head for home to cut firewood, with a quick stop at the mall so Parker could buy himself an Air Jordan bag. As soon as we got home he and Papa got busy and cut down a tree, we worked until 7:30 getting all the brush hauled to the burn pile and the wood cut and stacked. After dinner, we had to go out and play a few games of basketball, Auna and I vs. Parker. For some reason they seem to get a lot of laughs out of my style of basketball.