In fact, the two have taken to riding bareback with only a bit and bridle so they don't need us at all. Thank goodness our horses are so well behaved these days.
The kids also got to do a little entertaining as Amanda's friend Abigail came to play. Abigail is on Amanda's soccer team, is in the grade between Nick and Amanda, has a horse and is in our 4-H club. She's an all-round good kid and the kids were happy to have her over.
The BIG excitement, though, was giving Ella and Saxon their first riding lessons. Actually, that's a bit of a stretch. They each sat on a horse. But the horses did not move and they were only there for a minute if that. No sense rushing into things.
(Saxon isn't quite ready to take the reigns from Nick.)
The weather has been great, so we've been trying to get the babies out a bit. We've been to soccer and church mostly, with trips to Wal-Mart as needed. I know it isn't so, but I feel like I'm buying diapers and formula almost every day. Those things just seem to disappear.
(Amanda and Ella, team ropers of the future? It could happen.)
In amongst all the activity of maintaining the house, trying to reclaim the yard from the overgrowth of summer and all the other myriad of activities the kids had going on, Callie and I also did some entertaining ourselves as several groups of friends bringing gifts dropped by.
In addition to dropping off Abigail, Andrea also surprised me with a portable crib. This gives us a crib to use in the living as the one in our bedroom is too big to be moved easily between the two places. Then, unbeknownst to us, the ladies at Bothwell Hospital had a baby shower of sorts for Callie. One of her friends from there brought the presents to us this weekend. We were overwhelmed by the volume of clothing we received.
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