Here are some pictures from our summer activities in Utah. The kids took swim lessons at the Lehi Legacy Center for two weeks. They LOVED it! The swimming center there is lots of fun and they got plenty of swimming time. They were always sorry to leave. John and I took a Mommy and Me class and my mom watched Emma.
Emma learned to sit up since we've been out of the house, which is great!
Here is John reading her a story.
Emma really likes her baby food. Anna often volunteers to feed her. Emma just can't get enough.
We made marshmallow and toothpick structures a few times. Matthew made a pyramid.
Anna always wants to wear matching clothes with me and do my hair.
John is not always getting his regular naps since we are out and about a lot.
Here he is collapsed on the couch.
Anna made these felt owls for her and Emma (from a craft kit from Michael's)
Emma can't really play with it yet. She might destroy it and eat it.
Playing with water a lot outside
Talking with Emma
Emma likes water and baths now. She is so cute!
These three took a bath together in the tub. They were having a great time but the whole thing ended abruptly when John threw up in the tub. Ew.
Traveling and all the changes has seemed to make Emma's separation anxiety even stronger.
She cries a lot when not being held by mom. Poor Emma!
My mom made some invisibility cloaks for some people.
They loved them.
Our stick jars - this is our newish reward system.
Each kid has a jar and they earn small popsicle sticks (half size so they fit in the jar) when they do good things. They get them for putting on clothes without being asked or doing a helpful job for mom, doing workbook pages, 20 minutes of reading or jobs etc. They get sticks taken away for breaking family rules, disobeying, being rude etc. They can exchange sticks for screen time or sweets. At first it worked great, but then I ran into a problem. They would spend their sticks as soon as they earned them so they couldn't have them taken away later for being bad. So we had to introduce negative numbers. If they have no sticks and do something bad/negative they get a small black rock. If they have a black rock in their jar (a minus) they aren't allowed to have any sweets/dessert/popsicles or screen time until they earn it out with jobs. It's been working really well. I left the jars in Utah when we traveled to Oregon, so I've just had to keep track in my head.
John always has a ton of sticks 'cause he never spends them.
Emma is teething and wants to bite everything
The kids like playing with her
Anna helping me cook and make a mess
John is interested in being potty trained, but I think I'll wait till we are done
traveling around for awhile.
John looking at some rocks...and us
Grant wanted me to do his hair, like Anna
Matthew feeding Emma (he earned a stick for helping) while I cooked
Grant also earned sticks for entertaining Emma
Grant is very entertaining
More summer adventures to come
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