Latest Happenings

Holy cow, I am totally behind on posts. I thought that I better put something down before Thanksgiving, tomorrow. Because I'm sure it'll be a while before I post that. In the last little while, we have been crazy busy. We took another trip to FL for veteran's day, which was super cool and fun. I'll have to post about our adventures with alligators and the blue angels air show later.

Today I just want to talk about some of the funny things that my kids do, what's new with them.

Lillie has really loved our co-op preschool and we're hoping to get into an actual preschool in January. Fingers crossed, we're second on the waiting list. She has improved dramatically over the last couple months. She can write her name, color in the lines, cuts much better, and has started to read and spell. She recently has spelled words like "seven" and "spoon" all by herself! (She can spell words that sound like they are spelled). Except for sometimes she says the words wrong, like the other day she spelled "apple" "abl". I think she's always said "apple" with B's and I've just never noticed. She even spelled "violn" one day on the fridge, when she was trying to spell "violin", pretty close! She's getting really good at sounding out words too. She read the word "lunch" yesterday. Sunday night I was out visit teaching and Eric put the kids to bed, and before she went to bed, she wanted to write me a note. And it said "Mom" Dad" "Lillie" "Iluvu". I thought it was the best thing ever!

Henry's vocabulary has improved by leaps and bounds. Every day he's got a new word. I love how he says "Lillie", it sounds like yeeyee. He can say words like "chair" and "pizza" perfectly, but then he also has other words like "airplane" that only I can understand. It sounds like airpuhtay. And it's his favorite word to say. That boy is crazy about planes, trains, and automobiles. He flies his planes all over the place, making them do cool tricks like we saw at the air show. He is most crazy about cars and drives them all over the place, on walls, tables, and especially on the window sills. We've got quite long windows and the sills are a good height for him to play on. He knows how to climb onto the couch and our coffee table and loves to run around on them and often falls off. Drives me crazy, I know we're going to be going to the ER soon.

Eric has been really busy at work. He was on call this past weekend and had to work on 5 different patients, so I didn't see him at all. Thank goodness this is a short week and I'm so glad that he's not on call this weekend. He is determined to make the perfect turkey for Thanksgiving. We've got to start brining when he gets home for lunch. He doesn't want me to help him... this is stressing me out.

I've been busy making clothes for the American Girl doll Lillie is getting for Christmas. It's really fun. I was in charge of preschool last week, so it was filled with cleaning for preschool, planning activities, and cleaning up after preschool. But it's been really fun doing our own co-op, I think I'm going to miss it... a little. I've decided that I want to make Henry a train table for Christmas, so I need to go scour some thrift stores to find a good coffee table to convert. I've always got to have a project. I started taking piano lessons again, and wow, am I rusty. This will be good for me, it's just hard to find time to practice.

That's kind of a synopsis of what we've been up to recently.