Kool-Aid and Curls

While there are many things that I can do while holding a baby, typing coherent sentences is not one of them.  I can pour cereal and milk, click a mouse, type in passwords, sort laundry, dial a phone number, hold a book open (depending on the size of the book), and of course nagging my kids to do their chores can be done without any hands.

The Kool-Aid stand.  (a friend helped too)

Last weekend our housing development sponsored a neighborhood yard sale.  Boy was Elizabeth excited! Nothing is more wonderful than the thought that she could actually get money for things that she doesn't want any more.  It has been hot out and so she asked if she could do a kool-aid stand sometime.  I suggested that she do the kool-aid stand during the yard sale since a gathering of several families to sell things was a bigger draw than a table outside our house on a dead end street with little traffic.  But Saturday came and there was not one single other person out to have a yard sale in the big field!  We decided they could still set up a kool-aid stand on the common road (not very busy) that we see from our back yard.  The kids did all the work and even cleaned it up.  They made the kool-aid, kept track of the sales, even divided the money evenly and spent it all on ice cream from the ice cream man. :)  I stayed inside with the baby while my other girls were entertained for more than two hours outside.  Lovely!




Erica is smiling a lot now!  We love it!  She will start to fuss and one of the girls will go to her and start talking and Erica will stop fussing, look at her and smile or coo.  I love that.  I am trying to get a good picture of a smile, but you will have to be patient.  I do have a picture of her cute hair that curls after her bath.  Adorable!  It goes straight when it dries, but we'll see what happens as she gets older.