Parks!

Baby loves his splash pad! 

So we found the splash pad in Eagle Mountain yesterday, it was quite nice! It doesn't have a little river, but it does allow the water to pool so you can wade. Owen just LOVES the water. He is so content to walk around, doesn't love getting sprayed by freezing cold water (can't blame him there!) but loves wading. He also loves the baby areas in the Museum of Curiosity, the one with balls and holes for the balls to go in and slide down are his favorite. He LOVES holding things in his hands. Its how I get him to keep his sun hat on:) We also discovered the playground outside at the museum! How did we not see this before?! SOO cool. And tires for the ground, which is the best playground ground out there! See saws too. thought those didn't exist anymore;). Summer has been fun. Today tho, not so much. Owen was up from 2:30 until 5:15. Dan gets up at 5:45 and the kids woke up around 6 i think. I was able to keep them out of my room until close to 7, but I am dragging. Just finished a zip fizz, but still a bit tired. We had to miss our playdate at the splash pad with our neighborhood today. Kids just didn't really want to go I suppose, they each had a couple jobs they simply refused to do, and made a big mess of train tracks and legos instead. I'm all for play, don't get me wrong, I LOVE seeing them build. But not so much when its just to get out of jobs and its a great distraction from mom telling them to get their stuff done. THAT is just annoying. I love these children and each bring something great and wonderful to our family, but today its not shining thru as much. I am trying my best to keep it together today, and be the mom they need, especially when they are so disobedient and disrespectful, and just don't seem to care one bit. Thats really hard for me. But I have faith our Lord can help me become a good mother even on hard days. Andrews friend just came by with his dirt bike but Andrew can't play. that one hit hard for andy. Hope it helps him today. I do love natural consequences, I do hate seeing andrew get so sad, and I gave him a big hug and said how much it makes me sad to see him miss out. But that doesn't change what he has to do... anyways here's to tomorrow!