Happenings

Jonah keeps looking and acting more grown up every day.  He was the star student of the month at school.  He was so excited to tell me after school.  They give him a tag for his dog tag necklace and his picture is hanging up in the hall.  He told me he was chosen because he is nice and always follows directions.  I am so happy with how this school year is going for him.  I was able to go into his class last week and I just love his teacher.  Jonah loves school and is learning knew things and developing good study habits.  Jonah is such a sweet boy when he wants to be.  Today he has been asking me what he can do to help all day and doing a lot of extra jobs for me.  Tonight he said, "mom, you know how you have done a lot of things for me, I think it is time for me to do that many things for you."  I told him that might take a while, so just keep being a great helper and we will call it even!

We have had so much snow this week. Jonah has been helping with the shoveling.  He is either so sweet to everyone or teasing Caitlyn and Wyatt mercilessly.  He does have a little problem with lying lately.  The other day I was asking him why it didn't seem to bother him when he told a lie and Caitlyn said, "Oh, I remember when I didn't used to worry about things, that was the life."  That gave me a good laugh.

Caitlyn had fun outside in the snow until she hit her face on the side of the house.  I'm not even sure how you would do that.  She had a little bump, but of course she milked it as long as she could.  She came in very dramatic and asked if she could please have some hot chocolate and relax.  We didn't have anything going on today and it was so nice.  We got some cleaning done and had a lot of time to relax and play.  That is exactly what I wanted to do on a snowy day.

Wyatt fell asleep looking through our blog book.  I thought that was so cute.

Caitlyn has been playing with Hallee all of the time lately.  She is getting a little too comfortable and trying to carry her all over the house. 

Wyatt and Hallee were so cute together the other morning.  I love how the kids can always get Hallee to smile.

Hallee loves to play with dad.

Yesterday I took the kids to an activity at the library.  They learned about Egypt and made these Egyptian hats (well I made the hats because they were way too complicated for kids). We met up with our good friends and the kids loved it.  We should have known that they would talk us into a play date after.  We took Grace home and Jonah went home with Max and we all met up for dinner at Cafe Rio.  It was a lot of fun.  Keith and I were able to visit with Allison and Adam and the kids had a great time.  It was nice to get out and have fun.