the not yets will fill their childhood until it's gone

I posted over here today as well.

The kids and the farm have me on my toes for sure. I wake up early and basically fall into bed at night utterly exhausted.

One thing I keep in the front of my mind is that their childhood is fleeting and the not yets will fill their childhood until it's gone. So I leave the dishes to sing and dance with them. I make sure we have clean clothes on and combed hair and just scowl at the laundry instead of spending my time with it. My house could be picture perfect, the walls the perfect colour, the floors perfectly shined, but the loss is too great. I only have precious years to spend with them and then it will be gone. So much can happen in a lifetime, too much not to make every single wish flower and kiss blown on the wind count.

the not yets will fill their childhood

  until it''s gone

My babies will have their childhood filled with laughter, frogs, and silly kisses from their mama. 

Baby Zap at the Park

Baby Zap is sitting up on his own and finally past the point where he has to concentrate and strain to do it. Look at that smile!

Blueberry Girls fixes things and stuff.....Rattle Nuts

Our chicken delivery day from the kids' point of view.....

The car and the cooler. That was our mission......

Rolling out of the farm. A beautiful day that we did not intend to spend in the car, but Daddy needed our help!

Dressing cute is not optional.

First we met Sarah and she got baby cuddles. She's one hardcore customer to wait for an hour in the heat! 

The girls all played in front of the shops while we waited. Chad was delayed due to weather and traffic accident  travel slowdown on I-80. 

They played train mambo.....

And hide and seek.....

We went from house to house delivering chickens and it rained and we got lost and finally we ended at a friend's birthday party! Water balloon madness was in full swing!

This is Jen. She almost DIED last Spring. I'm not being dramatic either, there was BRAIN SURGERY involved. 

She's an amazing friend and mama. Baby Zap LOVES her. When we were on bedrest and after he was home she'd come and cuddle him and keep me company. Not long after that she was in intensive care with a bleeding brain. So scary. 

Zap says, "It's all good now! I got the cuddles!"

Yes, it is all good.

The kids were good sports about being in the car all day. From the backseat I could hear them concocting plot lines for episodes of She-Ra, "FOR THE HONOUR OF GREYSKULL! I HAVE THE POWER!" Blueberry Girl decided her power sword saves dino-dragons because she is a dino-hero-saurus.....

We had quite the weekend here at the farm. Remember the flour incident of 2010? The girls still have to have their hair deep conditioned weekly from the damage that the flour caused....well, not anymore. Daddy was "watching" them play outside. He was changing the oil.......and they found the cone filter "hat" irresistible. Let's just say they have VERY conditioned hair even after 3 washings. Thanks dad.

The heat wave continues. Heat index still in the 100's. Chad had a minor accident with the tractor, a part wasn't attached and when he went to attach it, the implement pinned him. The motor was running so we couldn't hear him screaming. He's fine, not a scratch. Still freaked me out and Chad got an angry lecture about farm safety and adding insult to injury, I am blogging about it. Sorry Chad! Following our scare last week with Lily......oh my. I better blog that too.