Swimming In The Yard

My kids have been awesome this week. Usually we are on their cases to get things done around the house, but they have been so cooperative this week. It is so nice! Yesterday after working in the shop, cleaning the cars (I have a story about that in a minute) and weeding the garden, they decided to go for a swim. The water started clean and ice cold. Our dog Oreo decided to take a swim with them. EWWWWW! It was so gross, but they didn't seem to mind. In fact Ghavan loves Oreo, so he invited her in!!! One of those things I have to say "It doesn't matter", walk away and pretend like I don't care. I am so thankful for soap and water!
Obviously Ky thought it was pretty funny when Oreo jumped in too! She (Oreo) is very obedient and gets out when we tell her, but then she jumps right back in!
I just realized I didn't get any pictures of Chloee in the pool. I started taking video right after I got these shots. Shoot!

OK, Now For The Cleaning The Car Story

I really debated about putting this story on here, because it may show neglect on our part and we really don't want to go to jail. Actually, this would fall more on Eric's head I think. He was raised on a farm and was driving a vehicle at a young age. The boys have driven the riding lawn mower before. Eric taught Ky how to move the vehicles at an early age and thought it would be a good idea to let Ghavan pull the car forward. He needed to vacuum it and the extension cord wasn't long enough. Eric gave Ghavan a great lesson on where the brake and gas pedals were and let him go. I was in the shop working when all of the sudden I heard Eric yelling. I looked out the shop door and saw the car coming right toward me. Thankgoodness I was looking through the open door (so I was protected by the wall). Eric was chasing the car from behind still yelling. All of the sudden I saw our shop shake as the car ran into our shop. It bent the door pretty bad and put a big old crack in the shop wall. I went running out to look at the damage and saw Ghavan just sobbing. I jumped into the car to see if he was ok and he was SCARED TO DEATH! He thought the gas was the brake (easy to confuse when you have never driven before). Thankgoodness he wasn't hurt. I think he bumped his lip because it was hurting a little, but there was no blood. He just hugged me and cried after. I took this moment to tell him how much his Heavenly Father Loved him and that is why he was protected. I also explained that is why we have Family prayer every morning asking our Heavenly Father to protect us and keep us from harm. We were spending the day together, so our whole family was outside. Our dogs were running around too... and nobody got hurt. After he quit crying and the day went on, we started cracking jokes about it. Ghavan said "Well Mom, I might as well make a joke about it so we can laugh!" That's my Ghavan.

The cracked Wall!

I didn't want Ghavan to be afraid or be scarred for life about driving, so after he ran the car into the shop, Ghavan and I sat in the car for a minute... I told him we needed to back the car up. His side of the car was right next to a fence that is by our drive way and there was no way he could get out. He yelled "No Mom". I looked him in the eye and told him he could do this. I told him to put his foot on the brake. (I showed him again which pedal was the brake. I didn't want him confused again.) I shifted it into reverse and he slowly backed the car away from the house. We got out of the car and all was well. After it happened I thought to myself.. "This will be one of those things we laugh about someday". I just had no idea it would be so funny so soon. Eric took the kids fishing this morning. After family prayer I said to Eric.... (so Ghavan could hear) don't let Ghav drive the boat. We just laughed. Oh, The Joys Of Raising Kids!!

Oh... by the way - No damage was done to the car!!! Whew!