No blogging tonight!

You all know that Annie had a bad ear infection last week - this caused great angst among the Harding-Wheeler family members because Annie, who is otherwise the perfect baby - was screaming and crying and in obvious pain for several days. It was awful! The result of the week of ear infection hell and subsequent guilt on the part of the Mama who missed the ear infection for over a week and a half resulting in red blisters underneath the infection was that Annie's true personality has come out. She never wants to be put down, she whines for attention CONSTANTLY and she does not want to go to bed at night. It is 8:30 - at least an hour and a half after her normal snooze time and she is wide awake and causing a ruckus. She has her Daddy wrapped around her little finger so he goes in to her room every time he hears her do anything and has now resorted to bringing her out to the living room "to relax" when she has trouble sleeping - translation - a little extra play time for Annie and Daddy and then he rocks her to sleep in his arms and lovingly places her in the crib! AHH the life of this kid! So our perfect baby is on the floor playing and cooing with Bob while I was about to blog - guess what? There is no way he is going to get her all to himself while I upload pictures - I promise a blog filled with our coconut cracking experience and more red white and blue pictures tomorrow night!

GNM - ILY!

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

We had a busy, fun weekend ending in a picnic with Grammy and Papa at the beach today! All of the kids are already in a fitful sleep preparing for going back to school tomorrow and I am sitting on the couch with my feet up dreading going back to work tomorrow!

The girls ready for a parade!
Molly and Abby in their matching red white and blue outfits!
Hanging with friends waiting for the parade to start - Auntie Karla brought chairs, donuts and juice boxes for everyone!
Annie munching on a donut!

The parade is finally starting!
Tyler, Peter and their 2 coaches - Daddy and Uncle Pat.
Annie was so cute - she waved to every single person going by who waved to her!


Annie Bananie smiling for her Mama!
My three beautiful babies dressed for Memorial Day!
Grammy, Papa and the kids celebrating Memorial Day!

Katie slept through alot of the picnic! The big kids hanging out on the porch eating ice cream!
Annie got Papa to give her an ice cream cone!
Papa and the babies!
Grammy and Katie - I think they sort of look alike!

As usual my mom cooked a great meal and Karla added lots of great stuff too - I, on the other hand, showed up empty handed after buying all of the stuff to make pasta salad and fruit salad only to find out that Karla and my mom had already made both of those! Theirs were much better than mine would have been anyways.

The kids spent lots of time on the beach with their Dads and Papa and got showered and in jammies before we came home - makes me excited for the summer! Happy Memorial Day to everyone!

I have always loved this prayer

and use it to end a group that I run at Oasis every Wednesday -

I thought it was appropriate for today.

I asked God for strength,

that I might achieve,

I was made weak,

that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked God for health,

that I might do greater things,

I was given infirmity,

that I might do better things.
I asked for riches,

that I might be happy,

I was given poverty,

that I might be wise.
I asked for power,

that I might have the praise of men,

I was given weakness,

that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things,

that I might enjoy life,

I was given life,

that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I asked for -

but everything I had hoped for.
Almost despite myself,

my unspoken prayers were answered.

I am among men,

most richly blessed.

Found on the body of a Southern soldier1861-1865

Molly's Big Day!

My little Irish beauty had her dance recital today. She was absolutely glowing and knew every step to her dance by heart. She had a big smile on her face the whole time - our little star!

Molly - Girl ready for the big recital!
My gorgeous daughter ready to leave for her performance - she had a little bit of lip gloss on but otherwise it is all NATURAL beauty - amazing!
After this one she asked if this could be enough of the pictures - little did she know!
Papa and Peter in position for the performance!
Molly-girl ready to dance her little heart out!
Molly and just some of her adoring fans!
Sister Ancie has a soft spot for Molly and couldn't stop talking about how well she did!
More time with her fans and Auntie Beth getting to know her new neice, Katie, a bit!
Look at that crowd - I think Molly had the most fans of anyone there!
Molly and her Papa!

Molly and Peter
Molly's teacher, Mrs. Nelson, came to see her perform - is that a great teacher or what????

Mrs. Nelson has three boys so I think she may have been happy to do something other than hockey and karate!
Grammy and Papa with Molly-girl! Grammy brought Molly beautiful flowers!
They were begging us to leave but we just kept taking pictures!
The whole Harding clan - poor Katie got cut out!

Auntie Beth flew 3000 miles to see Molly dance - okay - she had a few other reasons to come home but mostly it was Molly!
Trying to get a picture with Auntie Beth and Molly but Peter kept sticking his head in - good thing he is cute!
Auntie Beth and Auntei Meghan with the star of the show!
Molly and her good friend Korin after the show!
We stopped at Friendlies after the show and Annie had us all cracking up while she ate her crackers! Too cute with her big bow!

Took some video - illegally - of the show for KK and Auntie Kake - Auntie Kake sat through last year's show - the whole shebang - book reading, tears, dedications and craziness so she should at least get to see this year's somewhat normal show right????

The kids have matching red white and blue outfits for Memorial Day so you know there will be plenty of pictures to post tomorrow night!

GNM-ILY!