Melanee and our kids and I went on a walk. We went on a different part of the Murdock Canal trail than we'd been before. In the past, Mark and Cormac go ahead on their scooter and bike, respectively. They stop when they get to a crosswalk and wait for us. The system worked well until yesterday when there were no crosswalks on that part of the trail. They got WAY ahead of us. We ended up walking about 1 hour and 45 minutes. Cormac crashed twice. After, Mark kept telling me how terrible he felt about Cormac crashing. I said, "Did you...make him crash?"
He said, "No! I just felt bad that it happened."
Mark is in this middle ground between learning how to be a nurturing older cousin and learning how to not be the youngest spoiled child (which role he has comfortably played for many years). He's slowly getting it.
Our morning of school was pretty much wrecked after all of that. We salvaged as much school as we could and then we went early to pick up the kids (Mondays they get out early) and all three kids got shots. There are different requirements here than in Washington and we, you know, want them to be able to continue to go to school. Taking infants and babies and toddlers to get immunizations pretty much makes you gun shy as a mother. This was easy though. They each sat on the chair when it was their turn and pulled up their sleeve and that was all there was to it.
Deseret Industries, the thrift store extraordinaire, was on the way home and Mark has been wanting to go look for costume pieces for his Halloween plans. And of course Braeden has never met a thrift store he didn't like.
Mark found a pin stripe suit that fulfilled his Dr. Who wishes and Braeden...
Well, Braeden found this baby blue suit. The pants are too big around and too short but it's a combination that works because he can just let them be baggy.
This one got a double dose of his aunt Olivia. That's all I can point to when I start wondering, "What happened here?"
Braeden declared it the best day ever.
I won't go that far, but any time I hear all three kids giggling together (even in the aisles of DI over a baby blue suit) it's a pretty good day.
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I can't answer your question about what happened here, but whatever it is, I love it!
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