OTHERS April 2009

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McCrary News,

written by Carolyn

John: has been to Utah, Idaho, Montana and Spokane several times. He came home early when the basement flooded, moved all the furniture out of three rooms with the help of friends, tore out what was left of the carpet pad and relayed the new pad in the three rooms and hallway after the carpet and floor dried and was sealed up again, painted two bedrooms, transplanted many of our raspberry vines so they are in a straight row and not so close to the fence, cleaned and reorganized the garage, took out part of the chain link fence, then re-cemented in the posts on the back of the house so we can put a gate there instead of on the middle of the driveway, pulled weeds in the garden that are still alive from last fall, planted two new peach trees and fertilized all our fruit trees, pulled a tooth, helped a friend relay all the carpet and then helped put everything back in the basement in a new location according to my directions. What a great guy!

Katelin: went to achievement days and learned how to ???, I can’t remember right now what she learned, but it was really fun. Got good grades on her 3^rd quarter report card. She also tried out for a few different solos in the school choir and is waiting to hear if she got any of them. She took charge of a lemonade stand and earned $5.00 in which she went to Wal-Mart and bought stick on fingernails. They were French manicure. Oooooh ! Beautiful! She helped paint her bedroom and after the furniture got put back in she cleaned out both her closets in her room which is an amazing feat and the thrift store loves us now. She went shopping with mom and bought new fleece blankets for her room and pretty sheets to match with a soft fuzzy pink pillow. Now all she needs is curtains and wall décor. It’s a great start.

Jacob: lost his first tooth. I told him that if he let daddy pull it out that I would give him $5.00. Well, it took a while, but he let daddy pull it out. It was very stressful. Then he put his tooth under his pillow that night and the tooth fairy brought him four quarters. You need to read our blog about his tooth. http://mccrarylife.blogspot.com/ He doesn’t really know what he wants to do with the money so he is saving it for now. I actually paid up and gave him the five bucks…from John’s wallet. (Not making that kind of deal again.) His other tooth is loose now and he asked me the other day if I would give him $3.00 if he let daddy pull that tooth. I said no. Jacob also got good grades on his 3^rd quarter report card. Woohoo! Jacob had this to say about what he did the other day, “ I was rolling a rock, like, not really a rock, but it looked clear and sparkly, in the bathtub.” Don’t ask. I don’t know what he is really talking about either, but it must have been fun and now everyone knows that he took at least one bath this month.

Ella: dumped pink bubbles on her bedroom carpet, orange jell-o on the carpet in the kitchen, smooshed play dough into the carpet, breathed heavy so she could see her breath and licked the front storm door several times, wore various outfits daily (none of which matched) but she knows she is a princess, climbed up the shelves in her closet and threw all her clothes on the floor, opened up a box of Scooby Doo bandaids and shared them with her friend next door in which they managed to cover their legs and one for each hand, then they took them off and put them on the walls, sofa, floor and bed frame, continuously gets caught using the sofa and loveseat as gymnastic equipment and trampolines, wrote her name backwards on her little tikes table with a pencil, redecorated her yellow and white dresser using a black crayon, pulled too hard on the tape measure and broke it with her friend next door, convinced the same friend next door to use colored sidewalk chalk on her toy wooden kitchen and pantry and then climb on top of them to color the walls (she must have forgotten we have a chalkboard), used a pencil on the inner etching of the panels on her three panel closet doors (it’s still there), had a pretend tea party in her room with the twins down the street but seemed to forget that you don’t really put water in the cups. Ella did a lot of cleaning this month as well.

Carolyn: threw all the bubbles away she could find, hasn’t made anymore jello, keeps the front door locked up high, threatened to throw away all Ella’s clothes, moved what’s left of the bandaids and other medicine to the top of the kitchen cupboard and above the washer and dryer way up high, threatens to put Ella out front in the snow if she jumps on the couches again, has confiscated all pencils, and the crayons and chalk are on top of the fridge. I love my carpet cleaner and my magic erasers. Oh no! I forgot to buy a new box of magic erasers today when I went to Wal-Mart. On top of that helped clean up the flood in the basement, helped paint Jacob and Katelin’s bedrooms, went through all their clothes and toys with them before putting them back in their rooms, reorganize our food storage, made a lot of thank you gifts for all our neighbors that helped when the basement flooded and am learning how to use facebook. I seriously can’t wait for spring break.

Two questions: Am I the last one on earth to get on facebook? AND Does anyone want a cute little princess for a week or so?

Carolyn McCrary