Visit to the dentist

Natalie was such a big girl today at the dentist! This was her second trip to the dentist, the first trip didn't leave me much to blog about. Josh and I have been talking this up for 2 weeks, telling her how fun going to the dentist is and the goodies you get to bring home. She wanted me to go first, which worked out well, as she was able to walk around and familiarize herself with the office and the hygenist. She was very excited about her turn!

She hopped right up and asked for the Mickey Mouse bib! She knew how many teeth she had and helped count them. She layed still during the exam and the cleaning and was very cooperative.

After her cleaning, Dr. Mike came in and talked to her and did his exam. He told her she has beautiful teeth and he can tell she does a good job brushing..."Keep up the good work!" She was so proud of herself and I was too! As we were leaving she said "When do I get my ice cream" The girl has a good memory. Josh told her last week if she did a good job, he would take her to get ice cream. Guess where we are headed this evening!

"Be completely humble and gentle; Be patient, bearing with one another in Love" Ephesians 4:2

Latest project

This spring our grass is in a real strugglefest...actually it is pretty pathetic. We are not sure just what happened but it it is brown, hard, and has spread and is oozing it's way into Mr. Merideth's beautiful yard (yikes). I have asked Josh a few times if we could seed it or something, but we never did anything, until Friday afternoon about 3:45 pm, Josh decides to rent a sod cutter and order 16 yards of top soil! (Let me just say that we had plans Saturday evening and all day Sunday) Now I am not complaining, I did want to fix the problem, it's just that 1. He is is no condition to do such physical labor at this very moment (a different blog) and 2. we just didn't quite have the time this weekend. I think he realized this about 30 mintues into the job. He rented a bobcat this morning and had that dirt spread in a jiffy!! Now we should have grass...sometime soon, I hope! Nat helped him use his "toy for the day". Posted are pics of our new yard and my loves in the bobcat!

Thanks Joshie!!! You are a wonderful husband!!

Lesson learned

Thursday, we woke to a beautiful morning and decided it would be a perfect day to visit the zoo. We have been wanting to see this new baby elephant and have yet to go this spring. If you didn't know, they have viewing times to see this little celebrity and we arrived just in time to stand in line to see him. Yes I said stand in line. The zoo has the line gated off starting at the rhino exhibit ending at the elephant exhibit as though we were about to get on an amazing ride at an amuesment park, time markers and all! The start of the line marks an hour wait from there. We ended up only waiting 30 minutes, which turned out very educational. Along the way, facts about elephants were posted, so we learned all the uses for trunks, what they eat, they consume 25-50 gallons of water a day and much more exciting info! I am not complaining about it at all, it was well worth it. I was skeptical at first, when I saw the line, but it was so organized and there are plenty of views and plenty of time for you and the little ones to see little elephant. He is so cute!! You must go visit him!

We continued on around the zoo, when Nat saw the merry-go-round and just had to ride it. We jumped line and picked our horse. Normally, she needs me to hold on to her the entire ride so I was right by her side, even though she was telling me I didn't need to ride with her. I couldn't let her do it by herself just yet. Usually once speed is picked up, she gets real nervous. She did just fine this time, but since I wasn't focused on holding her, I learned that it is not in my best intrest to ride something moving in a circular motion. I was ill from that ride the rest of the day. Thank goodness we were nearing the end of our day at the zoo. She was very sweet and understanding. She even put her little hands on me and asked Jesus to make her mama feel better.

Lesson learned!

Babysitter

On Wednesday, Josh tells me we have an FOP function to attend on Saturday evening and need to see if someone (aka mom and dad, grammy and grampy or aunt ne ne and uncle Nic) can watch Nat. Well saturday nights are hard to do that as we live just far enough away from all that she would have to spend the night. This occasion would be ok if we did not have church on Sunday morning. Yes she could go to church with one of them ,but I want her to come to our church with us. So in a jam we were, when the thought occured to me!

We have a sweet little neighbor girl, Bailey, who Natalie just loves! She is a good girl and has a great family. Those reading this know I am very picky about who has my child, but I thought it was time to give this "hired babysitter" a try. I asked her if she would be interested and how much she charged. She gives me the obvious answer and respectful 13 year old answer..." oh whatever you want to pay" I asked a neighbor standing by what the "going rate"is. She said anywhere from $3-$5 /hour. Josh chimes in to say "I think $10/hour is good!" Now I could never put a price tag on who cares for my baby, but wow! that's alot for babysitting. I sure never made that.

Later, we were figuring out what time we would need her and for how long, when Josh realizes that we would be paying her from about 4:30 to 9:30...5 hours?...equals $50! so then he starts figuring......
We went to our event, had a great time and returned to a sleeping little girl and a good report from the babysitter. Josh walked her home and paid her...$50...oh boy!