Usually you hear this question in reference to hitting multiple Disneyland Parks in several days.  My friend, Racquel, and I decided we were going to take this to the extreme and take our kids to 10 parks around the American Fork area in ONE morning.  I made our list and we loaded the kids in to the van and started at the Northern most AF park.  The kids each had a camera and took great pictures from their point of view at the parks.  We spent about 15 min at each park and had a blast.  We made it to 7 parks in a 2 hour time period.  We went to some parks that we have never been to and revisited some that we don’t get to very often!  The end result: tons of pictures, parks we want to go back to and spend more time, sprinklers coming on in one (in the middle of morning–LAME!), tired mommies, happy kids, and lots of fun memories!  Here are a few of my pictures of Spencer, Josey, Kira and Olivia:

He did it!  One lost tooth! After months of telling me he had a loose tooth (thanks to the unit on teeth in Preschool) and then weeks of realizing he finally did have a loose tooth, wiggling, pushing with his tongue and hanging on by one little root.  I told him to take a deep breath and I was going to just push it back into place, but I pulled it forward quickly instead and it popped right out!  He was so very excited to go through this right of passage!  To celebrate we had to read the book “The Night Before the Tooth Fairy” at bedtime and he wrote a note to the Tooth Fairy telling her where his tooth was hiding and went to bed only to wake up and find a silver dollar under his pillow!  He was thrilled!!  He had to call the grandparents and tell them all about it.  Grandma Teeter couldn’t believe the going rate for teeth now a days.  “Inflation!” she said.  Then for the next week he would walk up to people and pull his lower lip out to show them his missing tooth…he was just a little enthusiastic!

There is a really supportive group of women in my area who have also adopted transracially and I am so glad that they have learned skills and are willing to teach them to others.  They had a hair class and so I went with Josey to learn how to do the braid extensions to save us some money.  I am so glad I did!  5 hours (broken up into 3 sittings over a Saturday), $7 worth of microbraid extensions, a couple of movies, and lots of treats later we had a little girl that had aged a few years and loved all of it!   She woke up the next morning, looked in the mirror and said, “Mommy, I have princess hair!”  The best part?  I don’t have to do her hair for 5-6 weeks!  Wahoo!

Josey LOVES to dance!  Whenever music comes on she gets her groove on.  She shakes her hips and shoulders and gets down! She asks me just about every day when dance class is.  She is so darn cute at her class and is getting ready for her first little dance recital at the end of the month.  She practices her dance moves anytime and anywhere and is really good at remember what comes next. 

Every parent has to go through the tediousness of t-ball for the sake of a kid learning a sport…you have to start somewhere, right?!?  Spencer’s team was the St. Louis Cardinals.  He learned to bat left handed and half way through the season he figured out how to bat without using the tee and wasn’t happy when he had to use it to hit during the games.  In fact he preferred practice to the games.  He complained that the games were TOO long!  They were sure cute though. I have decided that Spencer is too busy of a kid to play t-ball…too much standing around time. He is a kid that needs to be on the move all the time!