Another Sunday night....

For whatever reason, I didn't have our camera with us at all this weekend. It was chock full of activity, so I wish I had...but oh well. Lily was sick on Friday so Barclay stayed home with her in the morning and I stayed home in the afternoon. I already had a doc appointment scheduled for myself so I brought her along with me. Turns out we're both healthy (I haven't been having a heart attack for a month, I'm just super stressed hence the heart burn, elevated blood pressure and fatigue - getting old rocks!). Lily just had a bad cold. Apparently only 2 kids made it to day care on Friday so there must be some sort of virus going around.

Yesterday I went with Jessica to see Tony Dungy and some others speak at a motivational type speaking series. It was fabulous. There was one speaker named Bill Dallas who was my favorite. I was so intrigued by his story that I think I'm going to buy his book this week - it's called Lessons from San Quentin. He was a big financier/mortgage guy in the San Francisco Bay area who was convicted of embezzling and spent 5 years in prison. As much as I am a complete pessimist about the prison jail experience (from my experiences, I've yet to see a person spend a significant amount of time incarcerated and come out reformed...and these are parents with a huge motivation to reform. All we see at work is recidivism recidivism recidivism). Anyway, I digress...I'm buying his book...maybe it'll make me an optimist again.

Then we went to Kai-Wen's birthday party at Bounce Zone. Lily jumped like crazy despite her cold. Addy was a riot this time around. She really knows how to jump now and was very impressed with herself! Plus, nobody barfed from all the bouncing this time, so that was a plus!

Afterward we went over to Brent and Angie Toney's to let the girls hang out with the Toney boys. We're attempting to arrange marriages early. The boys are very cute so I think the girls will be pleased with my decision :) Then last night we went to Ichiban for John's birthday. It was the usual Ichiban experience - delicious, but the service was no good and the girls behaved in less than stellar fashion.

This morning I taught Sunday school again. We had father Bill come by and the kids were hilarious with their questions. They mostly wanted to know what happened to their dogs when they died. THEN, when the girls were napping this afternoon I finally went to see Slum Dog Millionaire! I've been trying to see it for a while now. It was FABULOUS. Very best movie I've seen in a long long long time.

I blew another crock pot dinner - it basically turned to mush and was disgusting by the time the 6 hours of cooking time were over. Gross.

And in other news....a few recent funny quotes from the girls....
Lily was asking me about some picture and I couldn't figure out what she was talking about. She said "Mom, you know, the one where you swallowed me!". She apparently thinks that's how she got in my belly when I was pregnant with her. So funny!

At dinner tonight (my mush meal), Lily cried at the site of it and said "I don't' want broccoli, I want the Backyardigans".

Addy has also been talking up a storm lately. She's starting to combine two words - most often "Lily too." She's always got her sisters back and wants to include her in everything. She also said "I pooped" all the time...mostly she hasn't.
That's about it from these parts...I'll try to post some pictures later this week.