Becky's posting - The pool is FINISHED?!

The kids were up too late tonight, so Becky gets to post for today. Today started a little late as we were all exhausted after the pumpkin carving last night. Even Jess came home and went back to bed after Seminary this morning. And worst of all, we forgot to start the dishes in the dishwasher last night and so alot of the dishes were dirty this morning.

After breakfast and chores the kids started working on schoolwork as I (Becky) started painting the pool. It was soo close to being finished that I really wanted to get it done. After Jess finished her schoolwork she helped me paint and together we think we did it. (Granted, it still has to be approved by the parents before we can fill it with water and start using it).

Peter and Wyeth (a friend) came to help but they decided it was too difficult to paint the skull so close to the bottom of the pool and opted to watch a movie instead.

Rachel helped a little, but more or less supervised the work.

(The video feed of the finished pool was supposed to go here, but I stayed up putting the finishing touches on Peter's costume and thought to myself "I will do this until the video loads"...two hours later I cancelled the video upload and now am going to bed)

Paul did us a great favor by watching a movie instead of trying to help as his little hands and feet probably would have gotten into everything!

Nicole was my steady worker, as in school work. She stayed at it for much of the day and after that was finished she went on to Rosetta Stone to learn Italian. She seems to me to be the most determined to grasp the Italian language of all the kids. However, when she struggles with the spelling she comes to me and asks me how to spell certain words. I really think she would do better guessing as I didn't even know how to say "hello" in Italian until two days ago. But I try to be a good sport and help her spell it by helping her sound it out. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Tonight Terri (a friend) came over and offered to take the kids so I could have an afternoon/evening to myself. She has been so helpful these past few days. I let Rachel, Paul, and Jess go with her. Nicole went to Achievement days (they went to a cornmaze). And Peter and Wyeth and I went to Walmart to get the final stuff for Peter's costume. We also had to get candles as last night after carving the pumpkins we realized that all the candles we had left were birthday candles (which don't stay up very well in pumpkins).

All things considered, I think we had a very good, very fun day today.

So tomorrow we hope for fun & maybe spooky things, because it is Halloween!