Day One in El Paso

 It's pretty late tonight, but I thought I'd just post a few pictures quickly before retiring for the night. I arrived in El Paso early last evening, and it's been nonstop activity ever since. We all got up bright and early this morning to walk Emma down to her bus stop for her summer school classes. She has one more week of summer classes, and then she is off school until the fall. 

This was the day that Diana was scheduled for induction, but when she got to the hospital, the physician felt it wasn't in either Diana's or Kaitlyn's best interest to induce ... so ... we're just going to have to wait until she shows up on her own! I'm still hoping that she is born before I return to Michigan one week from today.

The boys and I did a bunch of cleaning projects and simple art stuff while Emma was in school this morning, and then this afternoon we all played together. We played a bunch of UNO games together, as well as another fun card game that Emma taught us to play.

 Here, we're just making funny pictures with a sticker book by Melissa and Doug that lets you change the eyes, noses, mouths, hair, hats, etc.  And then Christopher decided to put the stickers on his own face ... hence the pose below ...

 Emma was showing me the little rocking swing for baby Kaitie. Emma is pretty pumped up about having a little sister. 

 We played for a very long time on my computer with the photo features that it has. We even made some crazy videos together, but they aren't really the kind I would share on a blog.

 This is me, pretending to be a bad guy and Chris being a "super hero" to stop whatever wicked thing I was up to ... we took a picture of ourselves and edited it to look like this ... Chris thought this was great fun.

Christopher was practicing cursive writing while I was making some dinner tonight. I think he does a really good job with it! And we read a bunch of good books together last night and tonight ... so far, nothing out of the usual, but a very good time!