Just another week at the Beans

Aloha.  

I think maybe I just endured this week and didn't really live it to much.  Do you ever feel like that?  Living actually takes effort, while enduring you know... you can just... get through things.  Goin' through the motions...Haha... but seriously.  When you are not sleeping like you should, you do a lot more enduring.

However!  It is good to recognize when you are making the mistake of just enduring.  I recognized this about half way through my week.  Maybe because Logan brought me a bouquet of flowers and some bon bons because he was like "Kayla, you need sleep.  And since I can't give you sleep I can give you something to make you feel at least a little better!"  (Thankfully he left out the part where he could have said "You are an emotional wreck get it together" even though we know he was probably thinking it! I'm kidding, he is way to nice.)  Its when things like that happen you think a) "Oh my gosh I have the best husband ever" *kiss*kiss *smooch *smooch and then b) "Oh gosh is it that bad?  I better  get my life together!"  I did some thinking and realized I (again!) needed to slow down and focus on what is most important.  Stop freaking out about cleaning the house and making decorations for the RS dinner and just let your kids bounce on your tummy laughing for a while and enjoy it.  So I did. :)

We went outside and chalked up the sidewalk.  We read lots of books.  I let Elsy walk on the treadmill with me.  We played patty cake.  Sang songs.  That kind of stuff.  And you know?  Its actually fun when you aren't rushing.

In other news, Tommy is a total boy.  I guess that's not really news, I mean we knew he was a male.  But he is SO different from Elsy's princess pinkness.  He tried to climb the stairs this week. And he is really good at making messes.  But it is kinda fun to see him getting into everything.  He learned to pull himself up into the standing position this week and he has been really excited about that.

I told Logan that we have a definite boy and a definite girl.  I burped (yuck I hate burps I really do but this one slipped out) and Tommy started laughing while Elsy said "EWWWW!"  Actually, today while Logan and I were kissing in the kitchen Elsy came up behind us and said "EWWW! again.  We asked her where she learned to say that and she said Aunt Kelsy.  Thaaaaanks Kelsy.

We went to our friend Navy's birthday this week (she is in the middle).  There are two girls in our ward who are Tommys age.  It is going to be fun as they all get older.  Elsy is one of six 2 year olds in our ward.  We have been getting together once a week for a toddler play group and rotating mom's houses.  Elsy is loving it.

Elsy has become quite the singer lately.  She found a maraca and has been using it as a microphone.  Really I had no idea she knew so many lyrics to songs.  She is a little flat and of key at times but I really try to encourage her.  I love singing and I am so glad she is picking up on it.  She is always singing the Ariel song from the Little Mermaid, you know, the part where she gets her voice take away? Kinda goes like this: "Aaaaaaawwwwwwaaaaa!! Aaaaaaawwwwwwaaaa!"  Yeah, she sings that part a lot.  She sings the same lines "Beauty and the Beast" over and over again.  "Beauty and the Beast".  She sings "Uh uh oh! Woke up today, feeling the way I always doooo!" (Good Morning Baltimore from Hairspray) and "Boys only want love if its torture" (Blank Space by Taylor Swift).  She knows primary songs and play school songs and songs that come from my Grarndma ("Oh my mother and my father go to church Sundays!  Ak-ya! Ak-ya!!)  I just love it.  Today Logan had the Tabernacle Choir music on while he was doing the dishes and Elsy danced ballet to "Come Thou Fount."  Totes presh.

My husband is a very accomplished fellow.  He can play piano, guitar, ukulele, the kalimba, and the trumpet, and the tin whistle (that LOTR hobbit music is ta die for).  He even rented a cello for a time while we were dating.  I love how he will sit with the kids and play them songs.  Tommy has started whining though every time Logan gets out the ukulele because he just wants to touch it.  Logan gave a talk in church today and he did an excellent job.

Here is my scripture I picked for this week.  My brother-in-law Matt made this and posted it on Facebook.  He didn't know that this was the scripture I had picked to Ponderize this week.  However, I didn't do as good this week with trying to memorize.  I have to remember that it is going to take at least 6 weeks before Ponderizing becomes a habit.  I just have to make the effort.  Oh, and remember the chalkboard I got last week to write my scripture on?  Weeeeell, the chalkboard marker I got is kinda more permanent than I thought.  So I am stuck with last weeks scripture on it for the time being.  Ah well, its a good scripture.

I asked Logan if all my blog posts sound like a 'oh woe is motherhood' kinda thing.  And maybe they are in some respect.  But I want to be honest with what is going on in my life.  This blog is my family journal, after all.  Each week really does bring new, sometimes old, challenges.  But I am trying to learn how to maneuver my way through them.  So sorry if they come off as doomsday. Really, I am happy!  I will try to make a better effort to tell about the positive.