Mr. Mom Day who knows what

So life as a kid is pretty sweet.  You can go on a road trip without ever leaving home.  When I was home being Mr. Mom on Friday the kids really enjoyed this "road trip" they went on.

The day as Mr. Mom didn't go particularly well, but we made it through and the kids said they had a good morning when Mom asked at lunch. :)

Making a girls and boys room

The boys in their new room setup

Just in case you are wondering if these posts are in order...they are not.  I am posting lots of stuff I have been intending on posting for a while.  :)

We made a boys and girls room early this semester.  We removed the bottom bunk from Emmanuel and Elena's bunk and put james race car bed under it.  We use the bottom part of the bunk in the girls room.  I think they were pretty excited about the change.

Valentines Day breakfast

The kids and I made breakfast in bed for Jenny on valentines morning.  We really had a fun time cooking together.  It gets quite interesting trying to think of enough things for 4 kids to do to help with breakfast in bed.  Several times I sent them up just to see how mom was doing. :)  This is a picture of all of the cooks. :)

Elena and her "Mansion"

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Elena had a great time building a "mansion" in her room during quite time.  As you can see she is quite proud of her creation...and with reason.

Car Show in Springfield

Emmanuel and I went to a car show in Springfield along with my brother-in-law Grady, his son and Sarah.  It was a great time to spend together and just hang out just as guys.  They gave out a 1934 Ford snap together model.  When we got home we put the models together.  Hope you enjoy the picture slideshow....oh...I almost forgot.  The highlight of our time was seeing Spiderman.  It was a seriously long line, but for the boys it was the highlight.  Also the motorcycle emmanuel is in front of has a 502 HP motor on it.  That thing was crazy.

Mr. Mom....I wish!

So this is a little late, but on Tuesday of this week Jenny was off of class and stayed home with the kids and they made Butter together.  We get raw milk from a farm here in Missouri and along with that comes a lot of Cream.  One of the things we can do with it is make butter, so she did that with the kids.

What an awesome idea and something so fun for the kids, enjoy the picture slideshow of the kids enjoying making butter.

Hanging out near St. Louis

Emmanuel Enjoying watching TV

All the kids enjoying a TV show

Getting in their corners for a wrestling match while the mom's were out getting pizza

The wrestling match -- one of many

Sometimes beauty comes at a great price, causing even the most simple things in life to be difficult.

The Kids were really enjoying dressing up a LOT!

Jenny and I and the kids came up to St. Louis to go to the Dr. today. On Facebook we found some old friends from Bible School days. We ate a yummy dinner...pot roast and potatoes. Yummy!
We are hanging out with Tim and Tiffany Conner and their two kids. Our kids were so glad to visit a house with kids their age. The kids spent the evening running around the house together and getting dressed up in costumes. I even got to play some ping pong with Tim.
Below are some pics of the kids hanging out together Saturday morning.

Mr. Mom goes to school

I have started helping out teaching the foundational Bible teaching class to the 1st semester students.  This has added some craziness to the schedule, but it is a great opportunity.  Today I taught my first lesson of 5 that  I will be teaching.  It went pretty well all things considered.
Monday- Thursday I am in the class so that means that I take the kids to childcare first thing, go to class for two class periods, pick them up and come back home.  Or after the two class periods I go to work in the IT office for the rest of the morning.  Gets a little crazy.
Tomorrow we leave for St. Louis about mid morning to see the Dr. and we are spending friday night with some friends from Bible School.  That should be a pretty awesome time.
The balance of the morning today was kind of crazy with the kids.  It definitely did not go as well as it could have.
Jenny is continuing to work hard on her linguistics and is in the middle of a longer problem right now.

Mr. Mom

Mr. Mom day whatever this is has been going pretty well.  This morning it  was warm enough that Jenny put the kids in shorts.  Nice weather for February. :)  We hung out this morning around the house, Emmanuel helped make the grits for breakfast.  The kids all seem to enjoy "helping."  James and Jada set the table.

We have started giving the kids an allowance.  This money goes into three categories, giving, saving and spending.  They enjoy going to the bookstore on campus and purchasing gum or nice treats like that.  The weather was great so we made the walk down to the Bookstore.  They REALLy enjoyed purchasing their gum.  We had several races on the way down to the bookstore and different ones won.  After we came home they have been playing outside enjoying the front hill.

Meanwhile the Jenny is in class cracking her brain on a big "problem".  She said she is particularly having a hard time figuring out something to do with stress in the words.  Not stress like life, but more emphasis on one syllable or another.

Today we are going to have spaghetti... :)  My favorite.  Better get back to the kids before someone hurts someone. :)

Mr Mom Day ???

So today has been "one of those days". It did start off good with the kid sleeping in. Then Jada was kind of laying around her room etc. I brought her down for breakfast and set her up to the table, she starts like heaving....yuk. I rushed her to the bathroom and she ony spit some in the toilet. Who knows what that was all about. Kind of scary though when you have a "heaving child". It could turn out to be quite the mess.
Breakfast went OK with no major mishaps after that. Then I had to get the homeopathic remedies made up for james and jada. I had to put these pellets in water and stir the glasses for 10 minutes each. LONG TIME. Anyhow, go through that and the older two kids were waiting to start "school". Elena loves to work in her school workbook, but she does not like to do the pages in order ,she wants to go through the book and pick a page that looks fun that day. The twins were supposed to be coloring, but ended up rolling crayons back and forth to each other...not all that disruptive.
The remedies have to be sipped over 4-6 hours so that means every 15 minutes or so...that put an interesting twist into working with Emmanuel and Elena. :)
My attitude has not been the best today either and that does not play out very well with the kids. They have been outside playing now for a while and I go the floor swept and moved the laundry that Jenny washed into the dryer.
I REALLY need to get some sleep tonight. Last night I told Jenny I was going to get to bed early because I really needed sleep...so much for that. I was visiting at the neighbors until almost midnight and then and then...you get the idea. No failures tonight though...I NEED some sleep.