"I can't take it anymore!

Picking Berries

One of favorite activities with the kids is going to pick fruit, so in my time off, we chose to devote an afternoon to berry picking. I would like everyone to take note of the bottom picture. I am in it!!! Hurrah! The kids have loved having their mom back. Isaac keeps sitting next to me and then scooting until he is almost on top of me. This is sweet, but it does make it a bit hard to spread butter or eat when a three-year-old is lying on your right arm.

Ashton Meets Elmo

Ashton loves Elmo, and so for his birthday we decided to get him a tickle-me Elmo doll. As we were unexpectedly out of town for his birthday, the left the present wrapped at home. The original plan was to wait until my parents came into town, but Aukai simply couldn't wait to surprize Ashton.

FREEDOM!!!

Yesterday I finished Step I! For those of you fortunate enough to be clueless as to what that means, think 2 months of studying (with a few traveling interruptions in my case), half of which was spent with 12-14 hour days!!
I now have 5 whole days to feel like a complete human being before starting back at the books. WAAAHOOOO!!! Just thought I'd share.

I'm Cute!

Yesterday, I was teasing Isaac because he can't stop talking about the little red-headed girl that just moved in. I asked him "Do you have a crush on our new neighbor?"
He suddenly got very serious. "What's a crush, Mom?"
"Umm." (I struggled with this one.) "It's when you think someone is cute."
"Oh." he said. "Well then I have a crush on you, Mom."

It's always nice to know your son is your biggest fan.