busy busy busy!

fortunately, the long silence here on the old blog is due to fun busyness, not sickness.

and what fun we're having! on saturday night erik, isabelle, and chester came up, and on sunday night (late, so we didn't see them until monday morning) vanessa, micah, ethan, wyatt, and bider came up! we're having such a great time!!! the weather is perfect (actually kind of hot, but it's finally heating up the pool), so we're swimming and boating. yesterday we took the kids to the railway village and wyatt got his first train ride. it was the nina's first ride of the year, and maggie didn't want to go. the whistle was too loud and really startled her.

today i took the girls into town in the morning. we hit up the library (nina checked out the witches by rold dahl. i had seen it on the shelf and told nina that it was the scariest book i'd ever read, and she insisted on getting it. i'm not sure if it's too difficult for her, but she's pretty determined, so we'll see!). then we rode the trolly and did our (boring) errands. but we got to spend the afternoon in the pool! nina can stay in all day, she loves it so much. maggie's spent a total of maybe 5 minutes in there, most of that yesterday while she was riding on the inflatable alligator (serena is her name in case i reference her again).

monday of course was the 4th, and we all went to the town common where we drank lemonade and browsed the craft fair. there were some kids activities that we didn't get to, because the kids mostly just ran around. maggie wanted to throw balls at the dunk tank and dunk someone, but we forgot about that. sorry maggie. no wonder she's such an angry child.

maggie has been quite the handful lately. a few days ago, when nick tried to put pants on her (the horror!) she told him to die and stay dead forever. nice. she just turned 3. then today she called me an "old dummy." ouch. when we were home and she did something, i don't even remember what, and i scolded her, she yelled, "fine, i'm going into frikkin' time out!" as she marched over to the bottom of the stairs (which is where i make them sit during time-outs). i'm not actually sure what f-word she used the first time she said it, but when she repeated herself (in case we missed it i guess), she definitely said frikkin'. we all managed to totally ignore it, which hopefully means she won't repeat it. she really does like to use words that get a reaction. sigh...

oh, and today at hannaford she stuck a sticker on my dress, right on top of my bosom, and said "you have a sticker on your nipple!" and i told her, "it's just a dress sticker" and moved it a little higher. she repeated "nipple, nipple, nipple" for a few minutes, i told her not to, it's inappropriate, perhaps i threatened or raised my voice, i can't say for sure but it's certainly not out of the question... regardless, the incident blew over and she forgot about it, until i was paying for groceries and the cashier (who of course i've known my whole life) says to me "oh i like your sticker!" and maggie says, loudly, "it's her nipple sticker!" and the cashier bursts out laughing as i try in vain to explain that i don't know why she keeps saying that... sigh, the woman's going to think i wear pasties around the house or something.

that child!

nina has been a perfect angel though. wyatt LOVES her, it's too cute. and she's so adorable with him. she was pushing him on the swings today and tickling him, and it was just too much cuteness.

well, nick's home with the new laptop (the old one is finally done for. it was a fan issue that did it in, but the broken screen didn't help keep it out of the junk pile). the girls told nick to get a good color and he said he'd try. maggie said if he got a boring color she'd paint it pink. i told nick to see if the warranty covers that kind of thing, since she probably will try. good thing she's so darn cute!!

ok, more sooner than later i hope! i've got to take some pictures too.