Woolery Ways

So I've decided being Auntie Amy is quite fun! I do love being a teacher, but having my summers off is the best since during them I can spend more time with Rylie, Saige, Cole, and Olivea!! We read books, play outside on the swings and in our pool! I sure do love these kids and can't wait to add one of my own to the clan!!

Today, I had all 3 of the Ehat kids! Jill was getting her hair done by Val, so I volunteered. Val has been going in to school on Fridays to get a few more hours and I usually watch the girls, but today I had Cole, too! They are so dang cute! I wish I had a camera attached to my forehead so every time we do something I could get the smiles and expressions they have!!

After bringing up all of my toys and putting away unnecessary snacks, I turned on some music and we all danced. Saige was actually trying to snap with me! Then I decided it was time to head outside..but then they saw the pool...so I pumped up the pool. That was a task. Rylie kept pretty well entertained helping me with the pool but the other two, especially Cole, was another question! So I finally turned on the hose so Cole could just barely get a trickle of water. He sprayed the grass and the cement and stomped in the puddle! Totally a boy! And like Taylor...."loves" to do yard work!!

So, then we came inside to get changed...Rylie first, then Saige, then Cole. When I took off Colies diaper Rylie and Saige both stopped and cocked their heads and Rylie says, "Colie has a funny bum!" So I said, "Yep, because Colie is a boy." Then Rylie tells me that Jack, her friends baby brother has a funny bum, too! Rylie calls everything "down there" a bum...so it was too cute! LOL moment! I almost thought she might say that her Daddy has a funny bum, too! But she refrained or doesn't know yet!


Well, we finally make it out to the pool. The kicking and splashing of water finally begins...but Cole, who is fearless in water, starts the flopping. He raises his arms high above his head and flops straight down into the water!! A couple times he must have inhaled at the wrong time and sat up gasping for air...but then kept on going..just loving it. He didn't have a swim diaper on so slowly, well rather quickly, the regular diaper got bigger and heavier and bigger. When he would walk around he'd look down and I'm sure he was wondering "what the heck!!" But about the time Coles diaper was holding 1/2 the water from the pool Rylie starts doing the potty dance. And I'm thinking well..hmmm, she can't get her suit off... I have 2 toddlers that I can't leave alone.... so I grab Cole ,wrap him in a towel to try to contain some of the water (which Rylie saw dripping out at one point and said "Colies peeing") , get Saige to follow me up the stairs, get Rylie on the potty. She sits there...and nothing happens. So we go back outside...few minutes later...she's doing the dance again....so I grab Cole and Saige...same thing, nothing! By this time I'm drinched and sweaty from lugging kids in and out, up and down! We did this one more time and then I was done....we came in this time for good and Rylie finally went potty!

So now you're sure I don't want my own, right?? Whatever!! Bring it on!
Above are some pics from the summer.

When we arrived in San Diego, Chris told us about the bird nest in their backyard. The nest is nestled back in between some of her planters. The cool thing is that there were 4 eggs on Thursday and by Friday 2 birds had hatched. Then on Saturday the 3rd had hatched and then on Sunday all 4 had been hatched!! We had fun avoiding the mother and father birds when we sneaked peeks at the cute things!!

Olivea (long a) is very busy...always walking around... so, I got some pics of her adventures in the backyard!

We just returned from our annual summer trip out to San Diego to see and visit Silas' family. We had such a fabulous time! We went to Mission Beach, Sea World, Shelter Island, a Padres game (they lost) and most importantly, we were able to spend lots of time with "littlest girl" Olivea!! She is so cute! She says my name all the time "Amy, Amy, Amy. . ." She calls Silas...Silas, Sigh and Amy...guess she's still working on that one! Here are some pictures from the trip!

P.S. Shelter Island is where Barry (my father-in-law) goes on Sat. & Sun. to an Art Show to sell his paintings.

So, I have entered the new and exciting world of blogging. I suppose my true intension for doing this is that I will actually write about things that happen in my (our) life. I am not a good journal writer. I used to be. I'm not sure what changed. I am sure it has to do with how busy life has become the past few years. (Hasn't it for everyone?) Maybe it has to do with the fact that I would much rather email then write someone a handwritten note. . . or I've just become super lazy and it makes me crazy how detailed I want to be about EVERYTHING, thus it takes me hours to write about "yesterday". Well, here it goes.

So . . . welcome to my blog!