On Thursday I got out the paint, ribbon, scissors, glitter, and paper plates and we made paper plate jellyfish. My mom took this picture as we were starting out with the first round of neighborhood kids:
A couple hours later we were still going strong. In fact, we started this craft before 11am, and it only ended around 3pm. At that point, the girls thought they day was over and so they climbed into the bath and then changed into pj’s!
I had to get them back in regular clothes because Mary had a piano lesson in the evening. I handed Mary completely over to Abe about a month or two ago in terms of practice. I gave up. He has been doing a great job with her, though, and she nailed her lesson.
After her lesson, we went to Orem’s Summerfest and met up with the Kehlers. The lines were really long for all of the rides, and on the last ride Eli and Lydia climbed into a teacup, and Eli took the wheel. He spun and spun and spun until Lydia got sick. As soon as the ride stopped, I saw Lydia’s ashen face and yelled to Abe to grab her because she was about to throw up. He brought her to me and we walked away from the crowd to a place where she could puke.
I was so sad that Lydia felt sick, but my favorite part of the evening was sitting on the grass with Lydia and Mary waiting for Abe to get the car and pick us up. Lydia was such a prim and proper little puker! She kneeled on the grass with her hands neatly folded speaking softly about her life’s history with carnival rides and nausea. (Apparently, the nausea has worsened each year of her little life!) Every so often she would interrupt the narrative and turn around to gag. It was sad but, in my opinion, so cute. In the meantime, Mary was cuddling with me. Then Lydia came and cuddled, and Mary objected to the puke smell and so had to figure out how to attach herself to me but somehow keep her nose as far away from Lydia as possible. She was admirably contorted by the time Abe picked us up.
It was a full evening!