June Highlights

Yes her hair just does that! She has an awesome spike most of the time. One day Gorden was telling Spencer how cool it would have been if when she was born she came out with a spike. Spencer looked at Gorden and said, "She did. It really looked like that when she came out." Gorden excitedly proclaimed, "Oh She's Awesome!!" He thought that was seriously amazing.

Well kindergarten was over June 3rd. On June 8th Gorden told me he was ready to go back. He was missing his friends and starting to get bored at home. Adelaide and I were loving having him home again! He wanted to lay around for a few days and watch cartoons and sleep in and not do much of anything. I was fine with that. A couple of weeks later he was really missing his buddies and kept wishing we would run in to them at Wal-Mart or some place. I was wishing I had their moms' names and phone numbers so we could have them over to play or something. Just last week, mid-July, I was in the kitchen talking to Spencer's mom and Gorden came up to me crying and fell into my arms. Then he whispered in my ear, "Mom I miss school! I miss my friends!" So sad!!

One day in early June, Adelaide asked me, "Could you turn her down??" Adelaide was watching a movie. Camilla was fussing and she and I walked through the room.

At the very end of May we had a ward picnic at a local park and when Adelaide was getting something out of the car, she slammed her finger in the door. It hurt her so bad and really looked horrible. The worst I'd ever seen. I wish I had a picture of it. It is looking so much better now a month and a half later. The doctor said she likely will not have a nail on that finger once the damaged part falls off, but it is starting to grow back! I'm so glad! She's been a good sport about it and hardly complained at all. Although, one day, Gorden and Adelaide were sword fighting with markers stacked end to end to end, and he hit her in the finger where she slammed it in the door just a week before. She stopped and sternly told him, "This is not acceptable!"

One night Adelaide came into my room at 11pm because she was hungry and still awake. She has had a hard time getting to sleep lately, as have I. I was finishing a sudoku puzzle by flashlight in the bed so I didn't wake Spencer. I gave her the flashlight to look in the cabinet in my room to find a little snack. I think she was surprised that I didn't mind if she ate something. (I thought it might help her get to sleep, and I'm sure she really was hungry because it had been a while since dinner.) So she puts some Club crackers in my lap and says "I'm not going to eat these; I just need to move them for a second." Then she gets out the Cheezits and while she's starting to open them I put a Club cracker in my mouth. She stopped what she was doing and looked at me and with the most surprised sounding voice said,

"You're eating crackers in the middle of the night?!!"

Adelaide, not wanting to put the antibiotic ear drops in her ears at bedtime, said,

"It makes my ears soggy!"

She has a new friend named Rachel who is so sweet and looks at Adelaide like she totally adores her. Sometimes Rachel forgets Adelaide's name though, and calls her "that cute blonde girl" or "that cute pretty girl." Once when we were leaving their house after dinner and saying Bye at the door, she says to Adelaide,

"Bye! You're pretty! I love you!"