Triumphs

The triumph this week is that the Scout no longer has an oil slick under the body of the car. L4 put all the nuts, bolts, and parts together and has driven it every where he goes since late Saturday afternoon. He said, “It’s a great relief. The Scout is fully operational. Let’s accentuate the positive!” The smile has not left his face.

Our garden has grown beautifully especially with the rains that we have received. While L4 built the pergola, I planted an assortment of vine plants (zucchini, yellow squash, watermelon, Galia melon, cantaloupe, pumpkins, and gourds). The gourds have gone crazy. We’ve seen a watermelon and a few Galia melons but besides that it is just green with flowers. We have even hand fertilized. Nothing except green. We don’t dare go venturing into the jungle it has created because we don’t know what critters are in there waiting for us. The tomatoes have continued, and the basil has replanted itself throughout our yard.

We had a movie moment from the movie “Mr. Mom” last night while shopping. K2 is our helpful child by pulling out all the toilet paper, filling the toilet with random objects, pulling out all the food storage containers, emptying the garbage cans plus more helpful tasks. In the movie, the Dad goes on his first shopping trip with 2 little children. There are frequent aisle clean ups. K2 threw a glass jar of pickles from the cart followed by an “Uh oh.” Then came the announcement “Clean up in aisle 3.” It was very comical and embarrassing. L4 held K2 for the rest of the trip.


We continued with swimming lessons. Hopefully it should be done by the end of this coming week.

Underfoot has talked about going camping since he and L4 went on the church Fathers- and-Sons camp out. On Friday, I found a tent for $10 at a yard sale. Since it has been raining a lot, the tent has been set up in our front room for the last 3 days. Underfoot and I have slept in the tent the last 2 nights for most of the night. K2 ends up crying at some point during the night rousing me from the floor to take care of him. Last night all 4 of us tried sleeping in the tent. K2 spent most of the night rolling from one side to the other and finally just sat up and cried for what seemed like forever. We fed him a yogurt after he had nursed for quiet a while. We ended up in our bed at 4:30 am. We have decided it might be a while before we really go camping in the wild.