Here is Stacey next to a large, concrete, ear of corn. Very beautiful. Nice curves. Soft features. Reminds me of a real ear of corn. Stacey is also good looking (she always asks me not to call her hot, so, I won't, although she is). She also boasts the corsage she got for Mother's day, which she was able to protect through an entire 3 hour block of church from all of her children. An amazing feat.
Jacob and I, as the standing committee to designate the World's Greatest Mother, held our meeting yesterday. The vote was close, but, Stacey came out on top as the World's Greatest Mother. Congratulations to her on an award well deserved. She will get to wear her sash throughout the year at official family events, but will have to return it next year on Mother's Day, when the committee will meet again. Perhaps most entertaining is that when I was asking Rebecca who she thought might win, Rebecca was very convinced she would win. She was sincerely distraught over losing the title to her mother, and in this picture, is sobbing uncontrollably behind Stacey.
Blurry, but, one of Hannah's tricks. She also gets up on her knees. I forecast she will be crawling many, many months before any of her three older siblings did. They didn't really have anywhere to crawl...
Rebecca's very sad face after she was not awarded the World's Greatest Mother award.
This Mothers Day, I changed Sarah. Hold the applause until the end of the paragraph. I was pretty amazed that they make these things in bathrooms (I am told they are also in female bathrooms) to change babies. I was astounded when I first used one yesterday. They were thinking of everything with these little things. A flat surface, rounded so babies can't roll off as easy when you need to go get a drink in the middle of a diaper change, and all right there in the bathroom where everyone else does their business. All this time going into bathrooms, and I never really noticed them. Hopefully they don't take them all out before next Mother's Day, when I may have to change some baby again. Hopefully, though, Stacey can just potty train them all by then.
Rebecca made a handful of small gifts and put them in this very large box for Stacey. While Stacey and I were still in bed, we heard what sounded like a wounded animal climbing the stairs..."thump, thump, thump, thump." It was Rebecca, carrying the vary large box up from the basement, to delivery the handful of papers that were in the bottom of the box.
Rebecca matching her doll. Very cute.
And, as I was putting together dinner yesterday, I had some stuff out on the picnic table. Rebecca was sitting at the table with Sarah, and Sarah was eying the chips on the table. I was going to go inside to get something else and I told Rebecca she was in charge of making sure Sarah did not steal any chips. When I got back, this is what I found. I rounded up Rebecca, who said that she had left Lindley (her doll, who, like Rebecca, had changed clothes since church) to watch Sarah. And there she is, Lindley, watching Sarah, eat chips.
Rebecca and Jacob with the garden that we put in a week and a bit ago. 28 tomatoes, and some other stuff. My crop yields are about 1/7th what a normal persons is, so, it is as if I planted 4 tomatoes (which should be just about right to give us some nice tomatoes during the summer).
Jacob climbing on some rocks at the Fathers and Sons camp-out this weekend.
There are no accompanying pictures, but, here are the two quotes of the week:
1. I did some errands with Rebecca, and, she got tired. She was complaining about how her legs were very tired, and she could walk no further. Then she said, "Why didn't Jesus just make us so we could hop or skip or jump instead of having to walk?"
2. Jacob and Rebecca had been fighting, and he was very upset about being told he had acted improperly. He said, "I wish I was Sarah so I could just do whatever I want."
Regarding Sarah, Jacob's understanding of the situation is basically correct.
