randomness.

we've gone two years in this house with a little girl and so far there has been zero princess paraphernalia. a little bit of floof entered the house as grandma sandi gave senny a yellow, sparkly, fluttery butterfly magic wand for her birthday. I'm pretty sure she has no idea what it is as she has so far treated it as a light saber or something similar, jabbing it around and making "shoo"ing noises. Cooper, however, understands its magic and keeps telling me, "mom, I'm going to disappear you!" sandi, thanks for trying to make my girl girly.. we'll keep working on it.

cooper said the prayer over dinner tonight and included that we would have a happy world. that all the countries would be safe and all the people in the countries would be safe too. what a little diplomat. does he know something we don't?

beckham is doing his best to hang onto his goods these days. the play kitchen seneca got for her birthday is proving to be a great hiding place for all the things she can take from bex. he keeps losing his sippy cup and then remembers that his sister hid it in her microwave. I think he can't wait for the day when he's bigger than her. look out, sis.

the first session of swimming lessons is almost over and it was so worth my moola. cooper can competently do the front crawl stroke mostly breathing to the side, elementary back stroke, back crawl stroke and yesterday he put his legs and arms together for breast stroke... the natural coordination is awesome. I'm so grateful that he enjoys swimming and that he finds confidence in his successes to try hard things. yesterday his teacher asked him if he could do a somersault in the water. I could see where this was going and was wondering if she was out of her mind (no offense erin). he did one and she proceeded to teach him how to do a flip turn. my first thought was, "a flip turn? uh, he's FOUR!" and then he did it, so I shut the mouth in my head and let my little fish go. I'm also grateful that he has a teacher that knows when to push him and what his abilities are. She is so positive with him and they work so well together. Of all the things there are to love about south phoenix (read: sarcasm), our swim teacher is truly awesome.

until seneca's lessons begin next week, senny and bex have been getting mini lessons from yours truly. so far we've eliminated all tears when going under the water, finally accomplished back floats without freaking out and denten taught senny how to monkey crawl the wall back to the big step. little bits of progress every day- the main point being that they really enjoy the water and have so much fun together out there.

seneca, denten and I are off to utah for the weekend, leaving the boys in rachel's capable care. we will probably not see each other as we are all individually occupied... I'm attending my sister's graduation from westminster (go harrie!) and ben and linny are going through the temple. Denten is spending the weekend with his brother doing boy things and senenca is going to be loved on by grandma and grandpa robinson. cooper keeps telling me that he's going to miss me a lot and in the next breath he tells me all the cool things he's going to do with rachel. I'm pretty sure he'll be just fine.

better go, senny is serving me plastic cookies. mmmmm. delicious!