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It has been a rollercoaster of a month! We  I decided we should move to a bigger house. We started that whole process and Jess went out to visit family in Utah. While he was gone I worked my tail off and got all of the projects I have been procrastinating finished so we could put our house on the market. We started looking at houses when he got home and then decided just kidding we aren't going to move after all. There is more to this story, but this is the short and important of it.

 

Zeke has been feeling GREAT!!!! Yay steroids!!!! He has been back to his bubbly, giggly, running and bouncing off the walls self. I missed his sweet personality so much, I dread the next flare. He is getting ready to go back to school on Thursday and is so very pumped to see his friends again. He is going to miss playing Skylanders during naptime everyday. He beat the bad guy "Chaos" and his face was priceless, so proud just grinning from ear to ear. "I wonder if any first graders have beat Chaos?" Because you know he is in kindergarten and that is super impressive.

Pantera got in trouble for not cleaning her room last week. I have to get creative with her punishments so I grounded her from Taylor Swift. No listening, no singing, no even talking about Taylor Swift. This nearly killed her. She is so obsessed and she calls herself a "Swiftie" like 50 times a day. She has all the other kids hooked as well. If Seneca hears "Shake it Off" she comes running and starts dancing like crazy. It could be worse.

 Katurah may have a career as a detective in the future. Her last mystery she solved was one of intense intrigue. You see she has been sometimes interested in toilet training and on this particular day she went into the bathroom, lifted the seat of the toilet and behold the water was BLUE!!!! She yelled for me and was quite upset with her finding. She first blamed Zeke, then Amari, then Pantera, and of course insisted I send them all to time out. When I explained that I was the culprit she did not believe me, how could her own mother do something so foul? Her favorite color is green and I told her that if she peed in the blue water it would turn green. She has yet to dabble in that witchcraft.

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 The kids were all playing "Super hero academy" outside last week. They all chose special powers and had backstories. I was listening to their conversations and Amari told Zeke "Ask me if I use doors." "Do you use doors?" she replied "I don't use doors, it's easier to just rip walls." She is that tough. When Jess was in Utah his niece colored him some pictures and Amari found out about it. She was PISSED. "Why is she taking my spot?" Apparently Amari is the only one allowed to color for Jess and she takes that very seriously. I was making dinner the other night and Amari asked what we were having. When I told her she said "I am not obsessed with that, please make me spaghetti and meatballs."

 Seneca is a MANIAC!!! She is into everything all the time. Today I went to the bathroom, like just a quick pee, and when I came out she was drenched with water, head to toe. What the heck!!!! She found a water bottle and decided to dump it all over herself. Then an hour later Pantera was yelling, I came running and I guess Seneca opened the toilet and jumped in head first! Luckily someone was down there. Now I have to figure out how to keep her out of the toilet while still letting everyone else in! She tells knock knock  jokes all the time. She just says "Bop bop! ghgmgmlskd;lfhllkl, hahahaha!" She is so funny. She has a special sound for when she wants you to wrestle it is the dreaded "BAAA" she says it with a deep raspy voice and when you hear it you know someone is going down!

Pubescent mood swings

Oh my goodness, you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at this sweet face, but this girl has got an ATTITUDE!!! She is either really happy or really mad, no in-between for her and stubborn as all get out. If my parents read this I can just see them laughing and perhaps high fiving each other while shouting "Payback!" She was the spotlight kid in primary today. I interview them and write down their response then read it out loud until the whole primary can guess who I am talking about. Her favorite color is: green, if she could go anywhere on her mission it would be to: Colorado to see her "Papa and her Grandma cuz she is cool". One thing you might not know about her is: "I am a baby and it's cool." She was so proud to stand up in front of everyone and be the center of attention for a bit.

 Seneca no longer uses a high chair, nor does she use a booster seat most nights. This leaves her to move around the table and take food from whomever she chooses. Ok, so it's ALWAYS my food. She will take everything off of my plate and pile it onto hers and if I try to take any back she cries like I am hurting her. Her current favorite word is "Uh-oh" this comes in handy for many things such as: unplugging the vacuum cleaner repeatedly while mom is trying to clean "Uh-oh!" Or maybe throwing a soaking wet wash  clothe out of the bathtub at mom's face "Uh-oh!" Or perhaps dumping a cup of juice on the floor then sliding your belly through it "Uh-oh!" She is just accident prone.

 Amari is such a good helper. She is always willing to lend a hand and loves it if I let her get involved with any project I am doing. She was all dressed up the other day and was looking so beautiful and informed me "I am the Belle of the Bald!" She and Katurah switched beds a week or so ago, and pretty much every night one of them comes to me and asks "Can I have a sleep over?" They love to hang out in bed together and color and laugh, and fight, and stay up too late. I turned 30 this past week and Amari was all about what kind of cake I should have. I have made them some fun ones in the past so she wasn't going to settle for any old cake. "I know mom, we can make you a treadmill cake! So you can remember to exercise." Thanks Amari.


Zeke was officially diagnosed with Crohn's Disease this week. He had to have a colonoscopy and an endoscopy done. The day before he had to fast and he was such a trooper about the whole thing. He didn't complain once, but before bed he said "Mom, I do wish I could have a grilled cheese sandwich." So on our way home from the hospital we stopped and got him his grilled cheese. He has been eating like crazy since they put him on a steroid and I couldn't be happier!!! He has been himself again, and oh how I have missed my sweet little boy. He tends to get upset with himself very easily. If he spills something he gets really frustrated. When he spilled his cereal and was upset I said "Who ya gonna call, Zeke Hammond!" and I handed him the vacuum. He thought it was pretty fun to pretend to be a ghost buster and vacuum up ghosts aka cereal. The next time he spilled he automatically said "Who ya gonna call?" and ran for the vacuum. Here he is getting his ghosts...

I once again don't have any pictures of Pantera, I am a failure as a mother. She has had some pretty killer pubescent mood swings lately. She loves to call me up to her room at night time when she is supposed to go to bed and talk about puberty, I know this is just to get out of going to sleep but I have a hard time not answering her questions when she has them. She is also currently obsessed with wolves and ending aerial hunting, whatever that means. So Jess and I tease her and tell her we are pro wolf hunting and hope they become extinct. This throws her into a tizzy and she leaves us notes with pictures of wolves all over the house saying "What did I ever do to you?" Or "I am beautiful, I am strong, I am wild, but soon I will be dead." DRAMA, DRAMA, DRAMA.