Well, the new rage at the Skinner house is Webkinz! The amazing thing is that from Savannah all the way down through the twins -- they all like to play and want their own Webkinz from the store. These little stuffed animals are available at the store with a code that allows you to sign on in the website and create a home for your pet and play games with your pet and dress your pet, etc. etc. Apparently, it's great fun and of course, you can't have too many. On Friday night, Kevin took me out so I could pick out my mother's day gifts and we passed a display of said toys. When I showed them to Kevin he said, "Should I buy one for each of them?" I said, "If you do, they will think you are the best dad in the whole world!" So he did and they did. He is a softie. He says it was for Mother's day since they will all be mothers some day. That's one nice guy, huh? Calianne was playing Webkinz the other day and she came running into the kitchen and yelled, "MOM! GUESS WHAT! GUESS WHAT! I GOT AN 80 ON WEBKINZ!" Then she ran in and said, "SARAH! SARAH! GUESS WHAT! GUESS WHAT! I GOT AN 80 ON WEBKINZ!" Finally, she ran to Savannah (we were all within about 15 feet of each other) and said, "GUESS WHAT! GUESS WHAT!" Savannah decided to wager a guess, "You got 80 on Webkinz?" "YES!" Calianne gushed. Then she ran back toward the computer and we heard her say, "She is a good guesser!" Funny, huh?
I can't show you any pictures this week since the camera is still broken, but I can describe Bethany to you. She is crawling everywhere now, including up the stairs, but not down. When she wants me to pick her up, she does this thing where she shows me how distressed she is by crying and squeezing her eyes shut. The funny part is when she opens her eyes to see if I am watching and if I am, she squeezes her eyes shut again with more crying. Such drama!
Last week, when we were on our way back from St. George, we stopped in Beaver to see the gravesite of Daniel Tyler, an ancestor of Kevin's. As we walked through the cemetary, Cheyenne had her hand in mine and she was talking about when people die and then God will bring them back to life. She said, "God just needs to put the batteries back in. Right, Mom?" That sounds pretty close to me.
If I had the camera, I would have taken pictures at Sarah's Hershey Track Meet which was this week. She ran the 800 and the 200. She has been running all the way around Brookside (about .7 mile) for two months so that she could do well. It was so exciting to see her work hard at something and want to do well. She ran it in her best time ever. She didn't place, but her dad and I see a winner in all her hard work and her personal victory.
Savannah had her last track meet this past Friday in the form of District finals. The meet was all day long. Savannah ran the mile in 6:35 and then ran the final leg of the medley which is 800 meters. It was fun to watch her. I think she had fun, too.
So today was Mother's Day and it's been nice. I love the cards the most. Mariah's card says she loves me and thanks for lunch and dinner and sometimes breakfast and then tells me of the card, "You better take care of this safely." It is a very pretty card. I think she worked very hard on it!
Megan wrote on her card, "Hope I can do any thing to help since you always help me. Love, Megan." After I read it she said, "I was going to put that I'd even help with dishes, but then I decided not to because I really hate doing the dishes!" You gotta love that unconditional promise, huh? Funny!
Savannah and Sarah wrote me very nice things, too and, of course, my Kevin B. who I love very much.
I hope all is well with all of you. Happy Mother's Day!
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So fun to hear what is happening in your lives! Congrats on the track stars!! I didn't know you had a sister in Cedar City. That is my home town. My parents and a brother and his family still live there. We go there every summer (that my parents are not on a mission). We had a webkinz phase at our house, too!
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