Cann Man is 7!!!

SEVEN YEARS OLD!

 

Oh we've had a busy week! Saturday I had meetings in Nauvoo but all I wanted to do was get one room painted. Well the meetings went about 2 hours longer than I thought so I didn't get back until 4, and Isaac had to be to something at 6:30 but I was determined so we still headed out and started to paint. Frustrated we didn't get very far when he got home that night (Kids were in bed) I told him I wanted to go back out, and he said "We can both go." So we hired a babysitter and had ourselves a little paint date. It was fun. And we made a little progress too.  

Then Sunday I had to snap a quick picture of Teagan doling out treats. ha, my boys LOVE Teag--and he loves to help me walk them out to the car so its actually a pretty great.

Monday, back to the house. Tan loves to get to "drive" little green out there, Isaac wasn't very thrilled when he bent his key... which might beg the question why was the key in there? But that's just details. Right? Monday night the Vorkinks came an helped us, it was awesome! Most we've got done in the painting AND tearing up the floor departments for sure!. Corinne was helping paint then asked if it would be more helpful to just play with the kids--YES! She was awesome, they had a BLAST and we actually made progress! Yay!

The boys asked if they could finger paint (this was when Corinne was trying to help paint) and I agreed to it...somehow I was thinking the tip of a finger...silly me! Stinkers! Then the next night when Colt asked, I said No, but he proceeded to do it anyway (because it really doesn't matter what I say- Sooo frustrating) anyway he did use just the tip of one finger the 2nd time but he wiped his finger clean on his shirt and shorts...again, so we ruined more clothes. And as of now I have "Paint clothes" on the front seat of the van, hoping we get changed into them before it happens yet again.

Oh Tan, loves to walk to the bus stop with Cann if he's awake. Its pretty cute.
And Thursday Cannon told me while I was making his lunch that he wanted me to come eat lunch with him for his birthday (because I did last year -be careful what you start I guess right?) Anyway I figured we could pull it off so we went for it. We had to go yesterday because there was no school today-lucky kid, random day off school for your birthday! While it sounded good in the morning Cannon was actually pretty disenchanted with us being there. He really just wanted to sit with his friends. Luckily Lucas' dad came that day to, so he slid over and was happy and all the while I was wondering "Why am I here????" oh well. He also told me at 7:00 that morning that he wanted to give his classmates something for his birthday, he wanted to make them t-shirts. I started to say no and that he needed to give me more notice but then I realized...eh, we can pull it off and its 20 shirts I already have and won't have to move. Sure. Happy Birthday, he helped me and we had 10 of them down before he even went down to the bus stop. I finished the rest and took them with me when we went to eat lunch with him.

Also that evening Cannon got the side of Colts head with Isaac's electric razor (after being asked to put it away SEVERAL times) I was furious and ready to cancel his birthday completely! Instead I sent him to his room until Isaac got home and dealt with it. He came home, but deal with it? Not a word...then all of the sudden I wasn't very happy with either one of them. ...Sigh...

BUT I tried to remember what its like to be a kid and anticipate your birthday.
And hair will grow back.

And today we celebrated!

I think he had a good day. Isaac left town at noon but came by the park and bought pizza before he left. We had Cannon's buddy from school over for a long play date. (Cuz I'm lame and don't do birthday parties but seriously that was the BEST advice I every got...maybe we'll do one next year, cuz 8's a big deal, but I've stuck to my guns so far ...)

 

And instead of making another cake we went for cheesecake. Which he didn't even eat he was too in the zone of putting things together, but whatever, we'll have desert for when the missionaries come for dinner tomorrow.

And while I didn't write I did throw some pictures off my other camera on here earlier in the week: (I guess you can tell Mr. 7 wasn't participating in my Sunday morning photo shoot)

But that afternoon he was game. When he's cooperative, he's a lot of fun.

We went for a walk that night. Its kinda skipped spring and turned to summer on is, but its SO GOOD to see the sun, we'll take it!

 

Oh and I almost forgot about this. Isaac...was dead meat! This was Saturday when we slipped out to paint before his dinner thing in the evening. Well the boys were a handful and he decided he would keep them out of my hair. Well its about time to go and he comes in and cheerfully asks if he'd done a good job. I said yes and then we walked out. NO! No no no! He created a bunch more work for me and taking pictures might be the only thing that kept me from killing him. He'd had the boys all out in that nasty swamp of a swimming pool (drained so covered in all the green nastiness slime that was left) If I would have realized the water was on and we had a hose I would have took it too them--and probably him too. As was strip them down was about all I could do. And I'm still learning how to shoot in manual, so Tanner's overexposed, and you really can't see the black in his eyebrows in either picture  that is actually dark green slime--but it was there, I promise. So gross. And scrubbing them off at home in the tub was no picnic either. Sure honey-go enjoy your award banquet. (Actually I went to that with him last year and it was painfully boring so it wasn't like I wanted to be there, I just didn't want to be scrubbing green swampy slime off little boys either.)

And a few more off my cards just because I've been taking more lately...mostly of Tanner-he's my most cooperative subject at this point.

Until next week...