"God doesn't give children with special needs to strong people; He gives children with special needs to ordinary, weak people and then gives them strength. Raising a child with special needs doesn't take a special family, it makes a special family."--Author Unknown

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Mission Impossible--Trying to Keep the House Spotless

After breaking up far too many fights from the boys every night...Aaron and I have decided our house is too small and that we are going to attempt to try selling it to get something bigger. We have been working all weekend long to get everything ready. Our work has been hampered a little by having 4 feverish kids--Matthew, Daniel, Sarah and Noah. Every time we would sit down to take a break, we would get swarmed by sick kids needing loves. However, despite that, we still managed to get a lot done. The carpets got cleaned, the basement got cleaned out as well as all the closets and laundry room. Now comes the hard part--trying to keep everything spotlessly clean while the house is on the market. Easier said than done with five kids creating messes faster than you can clean them all up. As soon as you clean one mess up you turn around to see they have created three more. Anyway, if anyone is interested in a four bedroom, four bathroom 2100 square foot home send them our way please!! Here's some pictures of the house:
Sarah's bedroom:The master bedroom: The living room: The kitchen:
The family room: Main floor bathroom: The basement bathroom: The basement bedroom: The basement family room:
Here's to hoping I don't go completely crazy by the end of all this--that part would truly be mission impossible!!

Thursday, February 24, 2011

The BYUers and Extreme Shopping

I was out shopping with Sarah, Noah and Daniel on Tuesday. We were at Hobby Lobby which, so happens, has A LOT of breakable stuff just sitting out on the shelves. Sarah and Daniel started playing the game "Chase Me" around all these breakable things. I kept telling them to stop. I lost track after the first 20 STOPS I said. I finally gave up and grabbed Sarah and put her in the cart to try and contain her. Wow, did she get MAD!! She started screaming so loud. It was so loud it scared Noah and he started crying because of Sarah's screaming. You could hear us from anywhere in the store. I guess it was pretty bad because a Hobby Lobby employee came over to us and handed me a handful of candy. She called them "self preservation" candy. I was a little embarrassed by my kids behavior, but very thankful for the self preservation candy. I gave Sarah some, but as soon as the "self preservation" candy ran out the screaming began again along with her trying to climb out of the cart. About this time I decided it was time for us to leave ASAP!! Later on I thought I would be brave and try another store. Things didn't turn out so well there either. I picked up a few things and was standing in line waiting to pay for them. It so happens I got in the line with the new employee who was in training and didn't know how to work the cash register. Holy cow, by the time she had rung all my stuff up, more than 6 people had checked out through the other line. Waiting for her to figure everything out and I paid, Sarah had worked herself up in to another screaming fit. After this tantrum I cut my losses, gave up and went home. I have a dream that someday shopping with my ONLY GIRL will be fun at some point!!

Yesterday Aaron got tickets for him, Josh and Daniel to a BYU basketball game down in Provo. We did have enough tickets for our family to go a few weeks ago, but something came up and we couldn't make it. Unfortunately, between then and now the ticket prices had doubled so we could only afford to take the kids that would really appreciate the basketball game instead of the whole family. I stayed back home with Sarah, Matthew and Noah and Aaron took Josh and Daniel. Aaron decided to check Josh out of school an hour early and they all headed down to Provo decked out in their BYU shirts and hats. They stopped and grabbed some dinner and then headed over to BYU campus. They got to Provo early so Aaron walked around and showed them all of my and Aaron's special spots around campus that we hung out while we were dating. The kids didn't seem to care too much so Aaron gave up and headed over to the Marriott Center. They had some nosebleed seats, but that didn't deter Daniel too much. Josh was not too excited about anything at this point. Josh was somewhat lethargic and just wanted to lay down. That's when Aaron felt his head and he was extremely hot all over. He had spiked a fever. Poor kid! He was fine when Aaron checked him out of school, but by the time they had gotten to the game, he was definitely sick. Luckily, Aaron asked the lady behind him if she happened to have some ibuprofen which she did. Aaron got that into Josh and by the time the game was over, Josh's fever was going down. In the pictures you can tell he doesn't feel very well.
During the first half of the game Daniel was crawling all over Aaron and playing with the kids sitting next to him. Aaron was getting tired of being wallered so he bought Daniel some cotton candy. Afterward Daniel was so busy eating the cotton candy he didn't even move or make a peep the rest of the game. Too bad Josh didn't feel good enough to enjoy the game much this time around. Aaron is convinced he will need to take Josh to another game when he feels better so he can really enjoy it. Anything for a chance to go to another game right?!?

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Loves Carrots and Noodles

At dinner today Sarah was downing the carrots. We were quite impressed that she would rather eat carrots than salad or lasagna. I was patting myself on the back about what a good eater she was until I found this after dinner:She was just stuffing the carrots in her drink. Oh well--what can you do?

The dinner conversation today centered around what the kids learned at church. When it was Daniel's turn to speak, he told us what he learned in primary, but then he brought up what he had been learning about in preschool as well. He said he was learning about the letter "W". I asked him what words started with "W". He said wasanya (lasagna). Josh corrected him and said, "Daniel, vasanya (lasagna) doesn't start with 'W' it starts with 'V'!" Aaron and I had a good laugh about that. Good thing he is still in speech therapy!!

At dinner we did find out Noah LOVES noodles. He would get them in his mouth and slurp them right up then scream for more. He must be my kid because he LOVES pasta as much as I and the rest of the kids do.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Double Ear Infections and Matthew's Excellent Day

Poor Noah has been not very happy ever since he got the flu bug a few weeks ago. I took him in two weeks ago for his Synagis (RSV) shot and that's when I found out he had an ear infection. He got started on an antibiotic, but he never got over being fussy and irritable. After two weeks of fussiness and that includes multiple night wakings/feedings, I was a zombie. Monday night he woke up every hour on the hour. You could seriously set your watch by it. I was a total zombie Tuesday morning. About this time I was missing my happy-go-lucky Noah so I decided to take him back to the pediatrician to see what was up. We found out that not only had his ear infection in his left ear not cleared, he had developed a worse ear infection in his right ear. So I was given a different antibiotic and got to make another trip to the pharmacy yet again. However, so far so good. I think he is actually starting to feel better since I was able to put him down yesterday afternoon and he stayed happy. Hopefully his ears can both clear up--poor kiddo. If not, I will be making another trip to the pediatrician's office in two weeks for another Synagis shot so he can get checked out again at that time. I am getting to know my pediatrician a lot better than I ever wanted too--that's for sure!!

Matthew is on a behavior plan at school since that is his biggest struggle in his education right now. Every day he gets a rating on how well he did for that day. His daily behavior can get rated Excellent, Good, Fair and Rough. Lately he has been having far too many fair and rough days. I tried to bribe him to get some better behavior. He got a coupon for a free kids meal at a local restaurant a few months ago and I told him if he could have an excellent day at school I would take him out to redeem his free kids meal coupon. I made that bribe about two months ago and was starting to doubt if we would ever be able to use it. That was until he came home Wednesday afternoon just beaming. He ran all the way off the bus inside the house screaming that he had an excellent day. After we got so excited over his excellent day, he made sure I would take him for his kid's meal for dinner. I guess a promise is a promise so I got to have a mother/son date for dinner. During dinner I was asking him about school. That's when it came out he had had a substitute teacher that day who has never worked in his classroom before. Hmmmm. That's probably why he got an excellent rating because the substitute didn't know how the daily ratings worked. Oh well. We got so excited for him that, hopefully, he will actually want to work for that excellent rating when the regular teacher (who knows how the rating system works) comes back. Good thing I have another free kids meal coupon all ready to use when he, hopefully, has that excellent day.

Daniel has been working on his writing skills at preschool. He loves to draw pictures as well. Yesterday he was working on this little number for a little bit when he came and got Aaron and me. He was so excited to show that he knows how to write his name (with an extra "z" in it). He also spelled out the words Mom and Dad and was able to draw hearts next to them. I love kids at this age!! He used his baby picture magnet to hang it up on the fridge with, but not before he wrote his name to the side of his face on the actual picture. Maybe they can take this writing thing a bit too far--but it is still cute! Sarah has been watching and copying me lately. I was cleaning up yesterday when I put my cleaning rag down. When I went to use it again, I couldn't find it anywhere. I just happen to walk past Sarah's toy kitchen and found that she had draped it over her toy faucet just like I do on the real faucet. There are also a few of Noah's baby spoons in her toy sink that she has used to feed her baby Montee (Monkey). If I ever need a baby spoon for Noah I just have to check her sink because that's where I will find most of them. Sarah loves to get her picture taken. She found these sunglasses and put them on. Then she handed me my cell phone and then said, "Cheese!" and waited until I took her picture. What a ham!!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Fancy Pants Valentine's Day 7 Course Dinner

It has been such nice weather lately. Because of the nice weather, we were able to walk to Daniel's preschool this afternoon. We all loved it!! It makes for some serious Spring Fever!! When we left the house Daniel saw me wearing my sunglasses so he insisted he needed his, too. As for Noah, he started off with socks on, but after about the fifth time of him kicking them off I gave up. I took them off and he went barefoot on the way back home--crazy kid!!For Valentine's Day Aaron surprised me with some beautiful roses Saturday evening. They are starting to bloom and look very pretty.
I surprised Aaron with a candy bar poster. It said (the red words show what candies I used): "To my Hot tamale and Sweetart, For Valentine's Day I wanted to tell you how much Extra I love your Snickers. They make me Rolo-over and fall to Pieces. Even when I can be an Airhead or if I am going through a Sour Patch you still make living life a Joy and a Bliss complete. You are truly a Lifesaver. I love your Kisses they send me into Orbit even as far as the Milky Way. I love how you can be social when I am not. How you can be the Ice Breaker in a conversation. I love how much you love our Jr. Mints and how much they Mento (mean to) you. I love you a ton even if you can be a Nerd. I am happy to be your spouse and eternal companion! I wouldn't have it any other way!! Happy Valentine's Day! Love Becca XXOO" This is kind of a two fold gift since I get to enjoy some of the candy as well!! Always a good thing! For Valentine's Dinner I wanted to do something fancy. I decided to try out a seven course meal and teach the kids some appropriate manners for nice dining. We started out in the living room with an appetizer including crackers, vegetables, rye bread, hummus and cheese spread. The first lesson I tried to teach the kids is to not complain when they see food they don't like. This will always be an ongoing lesson, unfortunately. We also tried to have polite conversation that didn't involve any bodily noises or complaining about the food. They did pretty well, considering.
Moving on to the next course at the actual dining table. I wanted to have nice some nice ambiance, but the only candles I could find were my Salt City smelly candles. At least if the food didn't smell good the candles did. I also wanted to have a proper place setting, but Sarah has been pilfering all my silverware to use in her toy kitchen. That meant we didn't have enough clean utensils for a proper place setting. Doh!! Oh well maybe next time. We ate off of paper plates with plastic cups on top of plastic place mats because we are such high class. Just joking! I did it as a little Valentine present to myself to make clean up a little easier for me. The second course was salad with their choice of dressing. The third course was chicken and rice soup with some rolls. The fourth course was Chicken Cordon Bleu. The fifth course was a small fillet of fish. The sixth course was some Raspberry Sorbet to cleanse the palette. The seventh course was some brownies baked in heart shaped tins. I am glad to say the whole dinner was Daniel friendly, too, except for the cheese appetizer and the Cordon Bleu. I think Daniel liked most of it, too, which is surprising. After dinner we went around the table telling everyone one thing we loved about them. The kids loved it.
Noah was just happy to be in the high chair at the table. Noah's favorite thing was the roll. Once he got that, we didn't hear another peep from him. After eating/sucking/playing with the roll I don't think he could have smeared it much further if he had been trying. What a messy boy!

I think the kids had fun with dinner. I learned that learning and developing manners will always be a work in progress at our house. Maybe by the time the kids start dating they may have learned a few manners. Here's to hoping!!

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Curls, New Library Cards, Geocaching and a Big Boy

You know how many nights I slept in curlers growing up? A ton! I feel it is a right of passage that any little girl have to sleep in rollers at some point. I tried Sarah out in some rollers last night. She didn't mind too much. I was surprised she left them all in during the night.However, I took them out this morning and now I don't know what to do with her new fro. Hmmmm--maybe rollers weren't a good idea for her....Love the silly face she is pulling. Maybe she doesn't like her new hairdo either. Aaron thinks it looks funny and keeps teasing me about it all morning. Next time maybe I should try some bigger rollers so her hair won't be as....um....fro-ish?


Yesterday Aaron wanted to check out some books from the library. The boys wanted to get some books, too. When they got to the library Aaron asked if the boys could get their own library card and they could. Aaron was a little relieved since his card has a few overdue fines on it that he didn't want to add to. Anyway, Josh, Daniel and Matthew got their own cards. Josh has already lost his card this morning, but Matthew and Daniel still had theirs. They are keeping it in their treasure chests for safe keeping. Here's the boys showing their new cards (and yes I gave everyone haircuts yesterday): The boys even got to write their own names on it. Daniel was fine with it until he realized he didn't have his last name on it. He came to Aaron in a panic once he realized that his card didn't have his last name on it. We reassured him that it would be ok and that he still would be able to check out books with it. Let me just say he wouldn't have had room to write his last name on it anyway since his first name took up the whole space. Yesterday was such a beautiful day so we went outside to enjoy it. We did some geocaching and then stopped by a park to play. Sarah's brothers really watch out for her. Daniel just grabbed her hand and was helping her along even though no one asked him too. I love that!! We weren't too successful in finding the geocaches yesterday, but the kids had fun playing at the park. Let me just say Josh absolutely refused to wear his coat even though it was still a little chilly outside. We tried to get him to wear it, but, as you can see, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink, right?! In his defense he never did complain of being cold, though. Daniel and Sarah wanted to swing, but there weren't enough swings open. They decided to share the baby swing with some help from Aaron. It was fun while they were swinging, but getting them out was not so much fun. Matthew wanted me to get on the teeter totter with him. I obliged and once the kids saw us on it they all climbed on, too. Noah was just happy to be there and didn't mind all the bouncing. You really don't see many teeter totters anymore. That's a shame because they are lots of fun. Daniel found the pole you slide down. Sarah wanted to do the same, but you had to make sure you were there to help her. She jumped whether or not anyone was there to catch her. Good thing we made it just in time for every jump!!While we were there the kids loved going down the slides. Daniel kept telling saying, "Watch me, watch me, Mom!!" Of course that got old after a while and I didn't pay as close attention to him. When he went down the slide and saw I wasn't watching, he was upset. He yelled, "Mom I saw you not seeing me!!" I had to pay a little closer attention from then on so I wouldn't get reprimanded again. When we were done we raced back to the car. Matthew will be starting track and field with the Special Olympics in the spring so this is a good start. I brought up the rear because I was carrying Noah in the front pack and didn't want to give him shaken baby syndrome.
We put Noah in the cart for the first time the other day. Noah loves being in the cart instead of his car seat. My baby is getting so big!! Good thing for double seater carts. That way I can try to keep Sarah contained, too. Noting that TRY is the key word. However, Noah hasn't been all smiles this week. He has been a little constipated. He was going on about 6 days without any relief so I gave him a little Mirilax to help things along. After the first dose didn't work I gave him another one about a day apart. When that one didn't work I gave him a third dose. We had success after success when all three doses must have all kicked in at the same time. I can't tell you how many outfits and diarrhea diapers we went through. At least now he is definitely NOT constipated anymore--that's for sure!!

Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Fridge Door Fell Off and Tantrum Riddled Story Time

I decided to try and take the kids to story time at the Library yesterday. Our last experience there about a year ago didn't turn out very well. Sarah ended up ripping a page out of a book in front of all the parents and throwing many tantrums and wandering off--all in all not a pleasant experience. Since it had been a while I thought we could try it again--even if I had an extra kid in the mix than I did last visit (Noah). When we got there Daniel sat down and participated. Sarah stood right in front of the book the librarian was trying to read. Every time I tried to grab her she would step just out of my grasp and then move back in front of the book when I sat back down. Of course Noah started getting fussy about now, too. After awhile she lost interest in the book that was being read and went over and started crawling on top of the children's furniture while I was trying to quiet Noah. After that, she started wandering around pulling random books off the shelves. Then she found one of those rolling stepping stools. She was in heaven. She carried and rolled it all over the place. About this time Noah decided he was absolutely starving and refused to take a bottle. He was pretty mad. I stood up with him and tried bouncing him to stop the crying. Sarah followed me with her stool and then her shoe broke. Oh she was upset. Just the small strap broke so it was still wearable, but she HAD to have the strap fixed. My hands were full with Noah so I couldn't help her right away. She would hand me her shoe, but I couldn't do anything with it so I would set it down and she would SCREAM, pick it back up and hand me her shoe again. This fun screaming shoe cycle continued until she saw a little boy start crawling on HER rolling/stepping stool. She immediately tossed her broken shoe aside and headed over to defend her stool. She pushed the little boy away and crawled on top of the stool to mark her territory.She stayed perched on top of the stool until the little boy wasn't a threat to playing on her stool anymore. Notice the pile of books on the floor along side her broken shoe? Yup, Sarah again. During this time Daniel was right in the middle of all the kids at story time so I couldn't easily grab him to come home. Unfortunately, I just had to wait until story time was over. I was completely worn out by the end of the 40 minute story time!! I think it will be another long while before we attempt story time again...

Sarah loves apples. She even ate a whole apple as part of her lunch a few days ago. Yesterday apples weren't on the menu for lunch. However, Sarah tried to remedy that. She got an apple and the apple slicer and tried to cut the apple. She was getting pretty frustrated because she couldn't get it to cut. About this time I noticed what she was doing. (However, I have no idea what Daniel is doing in the background of the picture--just being is crazy self I suppose.) The reason why her apple wouldn't cut is because it was actually a tomato and it is now covered in bruises around the top of it. Poor tomato!! Today I was getting lunch ready. I opened the fridge to get the lunch stuff out when the door just up and fell completely off the hinges while I was still gripping the handle. It spilled everything from the door all over the floor. REALLY?!--who has ever heard of a fridge door falling off?! About this time I saw the humor in my predicament. I tried to put the door back on and get it to stay on, but it was to no avail. You can get the door mostly on, but if you look at it the wrong way it falls back off. Let me just tell you that door is heavy!! I had to tip it over to see what held it in place and whatever held it in place was broken. Laughing at my problem I said, "Stupid door!" Now every time Sarah looks at the fridge she says, "Toopid!!" (I am just glad I didn't say anything a little stronger than stupid!!) I then called Aaron at work and could hardly stop laughing enough to tell him what had happened. I started out, "You will never believe what just happened. The fridge door just fell off hahahahahaha" He came home from work to see what he could do. He actually found the broken piece and looked it up on the Internet. He found a place that sold the same part and luckily it was only about $3. Unfortunately we need a working fridge RIGHT NOW so we had to ship the part overnight which added an additional $30 to the cost. Hopefully tomorrow sometime we will have a working fridge with a door that won't fall completely off every time you want to open it. Breakfast tomorrow morning should be fun..... We did try to prank Josh and Matthew when they got home from school. We asked them to get something out of the fridge. When the door fell off after they opened it--their faces had the classic "Uh-Oh" look. After the door fell off in their hand we said, "WHAT DID YOU DO?" When they didn't have an answer we just burst into laughter. They didn't think it was as funny as Aaron and I did. "TOOPID DOOR!!"

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Superbowl, Washing Bakugans and Miracles

We let the kids stay up for a bit to watch part of the Superbowl with us. To make our Superbowl party complete we had hot wings, mozzarella sticks, pizza, chips and guacamole. Everyone was excited to watch except Matthew who would rather listen to his CDs. Sarah loved dipping the chips in the guacamole and eating them. Actually, I think she just really liked the guacamole because she smeared a whole bunch all over her pizza while we weren't looking. Yummy. All I can say is thank goodness for DVRs!! We didn't even reach half time until about 7:30 pm even though the game started at 4:30 pm. We had to keep pausing the game to attend to all the kids' needs. We finally had to put them to bed around 8:15 because by the rate we were going it would have been midnight be the time we would have finished. After the kids went to bed it only took about an hour and a half for just me and Aaron to finish the second half of the game.
In other happenings Daniel got a Bakugan for Christmas with some action cards that go with it. I picked it up to put it away this afternoon and it was soaking wet. I asked Daniel why it was wet and he said it was because he washed it. He said it was on the floor so therefore it was dirty and so it needed to be washed. The Bakugan action card just happens to be PAPER so I don't it fared too well. At least it's clean, though--right--even if it is falling apart from being washed....Will wonders never cease. Lately I have been quite dehydrated so my milk supply hasn't been as plentiful. Noah has been thirsty and was not being satisfied so I pulled out a bottle. Low and behold he actual took part of it!! Wow, never thought I would see the day. However, it makes me a little sad because my nursing days are coming to an end. It is sad to think I will never nurse another baby ever again :(. My baby is getting too big too fast!! Noah is sitting up and rolling around really well. He hasn't done much scooting, though. However, I think he may just skip scooting and move straight to crawling because this is what he has been doing a lot of the past few days:
Again...he is getting so big so fast!!
Sarah has started doing a lot of pretend play lately. Today she was taking care of Montee (Monkey). He is her baby and she likes to take him wherever she goes. Today she went and got a poon (spoon) from the real kitchen drawer and mixed up some pretend cereal in a cup to feed him with. Afterward, by the time I got to the camera, she was finishing off his meal with a drink. What a good mom! Then I saw her get her stethoscope out and listen to Montee's chest. She did that on her own with no help or suggestion from me or anyone else. I was impressed she knew what to do with it. All those doctor's visits the kids have had haven't been in vain--she actually learned something from them. Then again, she may want to be a nurse like her momma :). Even with all the craziness and mayhem our kids put us through, it is times like this that make everything worth it: Kid loves and snuggles are the best!!

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Faux Hawks, Science Saturday and Bearing of Testimonies

To try and downplay the beany flavor of the homemade soy milk, I tried adding some strawberry syrup to it. Daniel hated it, but Sarah loved it as you can tell by her strawberry milk mustache.Yesterday was "Science Saturday" over at Weber State University. It is a free activity for families to help the kids learn about science. We took the kids and I think they had fun. However, Aaron and I were frazzled by the end of it trying to keep track of everyone since it was pretty crowded. Sarah and Matthew had their own agendas and kept wandering off in opposite directions. We definitely had our hands full!! I have no idea what we are going to do when Noah gets mobile!! Maybe that's why the early saints instated polygamy just to have a few extra hands to help :).

Anyway, the first station we went to was about the Water Cycle. The teachers were asking questions about the Water Cycle and Matthew actually answered one of the questions correctly without any help. Maybe he occasionally does listen in school!! Yay for Matthew!! At the end of the mini class the kids got to make their own terrarium in a plastic cup with some soil, a seed, some water all covered with plastic wrap. I don't know if Sarah's seed will sprout since it got a bad case of "shaken seed syndrome". I am glad they put a rubber band around the plastic wrap to keep it in place because she really was shaking it for all she was worth. Even with the plastic wrap she still managed to spread the soil pretty far. The kids got to get close up to watch. In the picture Matthew, Josh and Daniel are in the front of the crowd wearing their hats.
In another class they learned about plants. They got to look at some leaves close up with the microscopes. Josh, Matthew and Daniel loved that.
Sarah was just a little too short to see, but she screamed and screamed until someone lifted her up so she could see, too. She had to do whatever her brothers did no matter what. At the end of the class the kids got their own mini plants to take care of. I personally think it will be a miracle if they happen to survive with all the abuse they got during the day.
In another class they learned about molecules. They got to build their own molecules with toothpicks and gumdrops. The boys had fun building theirs while Sarah just shoved the gumdrops in her mouth as fast as she could go. By the end Aaron and I really had our hands full of all their handouts because the kids refused to carry their own stuff. Even though I snapped the picture my hands were pretty loaded down as well. Noah was just happy to be there as always.
After Science Saturday we went home and changed into our Sunday clothes to attend the kids' cousin Annika's baptism. The kids did pretty well for the most part during the program. Josh was especially interested since he will be baptized in a couple months, too. Sarah started out being pretty good, but then she got antsy. She started climbing all over me and then at a very quiet moment she tooted quite loudly. I am just hoping people know it was her and not me. It was a nice baptism despite the extra distractions from Sarah.
Today for Sunday I was excited for everyone to finally be healthy enough to attend church. This is the first time in over a month that we ALL were able to attend together and STAY for the whole thing. In getting ready for church all the boys wanted faux hawks. Aaron asked me to try it out on Noah's hair as well since he finally has enough to do it with. Noah thought he was pretty handsome.Here's everyone sporting their faux hawks and church clothes:
Today was fast and testimony meeting. Matthew LOVES to bear his testimony and he was the second person at the pulpit. Daniel wanted to bear his as well. He got up there and started, but his mind went blank in the middle of it. After a few seconds of silence he recovered and finished. Later on Josh went up and bore his as well. They all did really well. Sarah tried to sneak up there, but she got distracted. She was distracted by a hard, dark brown substance stuck on the bench. Before we figured out what she was doing she had scraped it off with her fingernail and ate it. YUCK!! I don't know what it was, but what you don't know won't hurt you right?! I did, eventually, need to take her and Noah out to the foyer for the latter part of Sacrament meeting. Other than that we had a pretty good day at church.