no. 4

yippppeeee! we have another one on the way and we're so excited-i didn't think i'd get pregnant this soon(especially without the clomid, seeing as it took a year to get pregnant with nani) this is a wonderful blessing for our family and we're truly grateful. the kids (and mason) are already calling him(yes they say it's a boy) tau(we're naming it tautagi if it's a boy-if it's a girl her name will be luana). i see the dr. next week so i hope i can get a better idea of when the baby will be here. oh- and tiare called me today-she's pregnant too! this will be no. 5 for them and so congratulations to the terrills! we love you guys.

monday, monday

what a lovely weekend we had! grandpa, grandma, and glenna came for shawn's graduation and we had a wonderful time with them-thanks for the fun guys! mese and sila could hardly wait for them to come and they can't wait for them to come next month for mason's graduation-yippppeee!!! it's always nice to have family over and it's always a hard thing when they leave. congratulations to shawn for graduating from law school and to darcy too. it's difficult, i think, to have to work your way through 3 more grueling years of intense schooling. but it helps to have a super wife who supports you through it all-so kudos to you both and we love you! (and orin too of course). well, on a sour note, the stinky, hot weather is here-yuck! the only thing good about it is, the pool is open-yeah! some relief for us. tip for the summer: eat more otter pops to stay cool-or you could try these really good popsicles dixie got; they're blue bunny pomegranite cherry-yummy!

mother dear i love you so...

mother's day turned out to be fun. i did have to do sharing time in primary, but it was fun. i really only wanted two things for mother's day. i wanted to eat crab and i wanted my bedroom to be cleaned(it's difficult keeping my room clean when i share it with mason, aka makes lots of piles) in any case, i was spoiled and got both-and then some. sila made me some beautiful cards with her name and handprints and footprints, and she did it all on her own-she told me she did it when the sun went down and everyone was sleeping(that would explain the numerous red marks on her hands and arms i saw in the morning and weren't there when we went to sleep the night before.) mese also wrote me a lovely letter wishing me a grate mudrs day(kindergartner speller). and he also wrote me lettler from nani-too cute. they gave me some delicious german chocolate and lots of gum. my sisters and dad came over for dinner and we had a scrumptious feast of coconut shrimp, tri-tip roast, green salad, fresh mango, strawberry,and pineapple salad and of course my crab-YUMMY! oh and baked plantains which i love so much. and for dessert, island sorbets from costco-yes i'd say mother's day was pretty darn good. i also got lots of yummy chocolate from my sisters and a mini muffin tin which i tried out today. i hope all the wondeful mothers i know had a fantastic mother's day-you certainly deserve it!

valid question

apparently with all the talk last week about mother's day, sila was beginning to feel a little left out...

sila: mom, when's mother's day?
mom: it's on sunday.
sila: (after a moment of silence) when's father's day?
mom: next month, in june.
sila: (after another pause) well, when's it going to be sister's day?!

a valid question i thought.

"not good buddy"

conversation in check out line at albertson's yesterday-

melina: (to mason) hey, what should we make for dinner on sunday?
mason: what's sunday?
(melina glares at mason)
mason: are we feeding the missionaries? someone coming over?
melina: HELLLLOOOOO!!!!! MOTHER'S DAY!
mason: oh, yeah- i got it taken care of-don't worry. (???)
melina relates this conversation to the check out lady to which she responds,
"ooohhh, not good buddy!", and melina agrees.

sila keeps telling everyone(it's a secret of course) that she's getting me a new pack of gum(hhhmmmm-maybe it's because she keeps taking gum out of my purse and devouring it at record speed)...i take that back-she used to take gum out of my purse, until she got the spacesaver in her mouth so now she can't chew gum. nani has discovered that she enjoys taking gum out of mom's purse-still not cute, so i gladly welcome a new pack of gum sila girl!

countdown

wohhhh-we found the warm weather! mason's thrilled-i on the other hand prefer cold weather over warm any day. but i must admit, the warm weather is long overdue and i'm glad it's here-for now. the kids get to run and play outside and we can make more frequent visits to the park. mese got the calendar out last week and wanted to know how many more days he had til school was out so we counted-34 days , 7 weeks. not much time left. time really does seem to fly right past us these days. we're anxiously awaiting mason's graduation from high school(just kidding, that's what the kids call it), i mean college. and we're just so excited for him. i can't believe how much my kids have grown and little orin-gosh, he's crawling! so exciting. i can't dwell too much on how fast my kids are growing up cause then i'll just be sitting at the computer crying, and wishing they would stay small-for a little bit anyway. sila's in big trouble for filling up her toy kitchen sink with water-twice! and there's water all over her floor. she's got a hearing problem, right? i did take her to the dr. yesterday and she has an ear infection, maybe i should give her a break. i'll discuss it with mason. nani and sila are always fighting, and most of the time, nani ends up crying. so we ask her "who did it nani?" and she always responds with"Sida!" (she can't say the "L" sound yet) so last night in the van during our family home evening drive, sila was trying to get nani to say mese did it, but nani wasn't budging. i think nani just likes saying sila's name-yeah that't it. anyway, life is still good here at the pattersons. and soon the pool will be open and then it'll get even better! stop by and see us!!!

always nice

another beautiful wedding! congratulations to cameron and vivian(also our new neighbors)! we had a lovely(and too short) visit from grandma & grandpa patterson and glenna this past weekend-it's always nice to see them. and the kids just love it when they're here(except nani had a little adjusting to do before she warmed up to them). but we can look forward to seeing them again next month when shawn graduates and then again in june when mason graduates. we also got to see grandma gardner with her daughters-that was a treat! the kids loved chasing the grasshopper with grandma gardner-too cute and too funny! i wish we got that on camera. it was a very nice and enjoyable weekend-and i got to see my aunt and uncle and my cousins i haven't seen in 4 years-they stopped by my dad's house on sunday after church-that was fun to see them all again. and i'm sure it won't be the last. this week has been eventful with nani's fever and cold-she's got some teeth coming in and it's hurting her-poor thing. maybe tomorrow will be better for her-i'm hoping.