By beautiful Daughter.

These are from yesterday. Evelyn looks SO GOOD in that shade of blue!

The school is hard at work preparing for a production of 'Peter Pan'. Evelyn will be a mermaid called 'Moonglow'. She has memorized her lines, and last night we worked with her on knowing when to say them. She is SO excited about being in a play.

We had a disagreement about what she wanted to wear yesterday. She picked out a nice outfit that matched for colour and was weather appropriate, but the shorts had gotten WAY too short. They were like little hot pants.

So, I had to try to explain to her why she could not wear them to school. I don't care if she wears them at home, or under a dress, but not paired with a t-shirt. This was trickier to explain than I thought it would be. I did not want to bring in the concept of 'sexy' or anything like that. That was not the issue for her anyway!

She could not understand what the issue was, because usually, my objections are that her chosen outfit is too warm, or cold, or way too un-coordinated for her to wear. This outfit was none of those things! So, she eventually, after some pouting and sitting curled up among the clothes in her laundry hamper for a few minutes, allowed me to chose an alternate outfit to wear. She apologized for being rude (without prompting!) and stated she decided to change her attitude, and will like the outfit I chose for her. She has really matured lately in her self control and emotional control. I'm so proud of her when she stops herself from totally loosing it and pulls herself together.

This last photo is from playgroup yesterday. These are Ethan's closest friends in the group. The boy in the red shirt is Nicholas. He and Ethan are inseparable when they're both there. The girl on the far side is Nicholas' twin sister Julie and the little guy in the striped shirt is Corstian. The group took advantage of the nice day to head to the park.

At one point, Ethan tossed some sand in the face of Corstian. Sand throwing is a big 'No-no' for obvious reasons. Thankfully, it did not go in Corstian's eyes. Ethan immediately fessed up to his misdeed and apologized without any coaxing on my part. For that, I am very thankful! Later, when Ryan asked him about his day, Ethan told Daddy that we went to the park and he played with Nicholas, but he threw sand in Corstians face and that was not good. So, I think he really internalized that lesson!

In other news, the house showing on Monday went really well. The wife, apparently, loved the house. But, they want to build a HUGE garage and are not sure where they could put it... So, we are trying to figure out exactly where our property ends on the treed side of the lot, to see if they could stick something over there. Alternately, at the very end of the property, in the back, they may be able to build something, but they'd have to be careful of the septic field and would need to put in quite a long driveway to access it. Ryan and I have both tried to find the survey stakes with a metal detector, but we have not been able to find one yet. So... we wait. When I talked with our realtor yesterday, she said the husband is away to work now for a couple weeks. So they likely would not move on the sale until he returns. In the meantime, our listing was the 'featured property' in the LLB paper, and also had an add in the Athabasca paper. I am hoping that we may be able to show it again this weekend.

This afternoon, I am planning to take the kids to a co-workers house to see her baby lambs. The kids are so excited to see a farm.

Ryan is still waiting to hear back from the position he applied for. He is hopeful that he will get a call soon.