My Loves

I have been horribly neglectful of the blog lately! Things have been clicking along at our house. Nothing too exciting but I still try to post more often than I have. For record keeping purposes at the very least. Someday my kiddos will appreciate all these cute stories about when they were young... right?

Andrew has been very busy this month doing several things. He is currently working on a book club at school and is reading all the books by Arnold Lobel (He wrote the Frog and Toad series). It has been fun to watch Andrew push himself to meet a goal and then exceed it. Plus it ups the difficulty of the reading to a good degree. Fiction is not his favorite so it has been nice to have a reason to push him to read more.

Andrew also started baseball last week. Right now they are just practicing but the games will begin right after Easter and it will be nice to see how he does. Eric has been taking him to practice on his own and I have been hanging with the kids. It makes it really nice to not have to think of things to do at the field yet. Games will begin soon enough and it is kinda cold out in the evenings still.

Zane has been a swimming fish lately. He still working on Preschool 2 at swimming lessons. Honestly I think he will be at that level forever but he enjoys the lessons and swimming is just one of those need to know type of things. He recently discovered that he can touch the bottom of the pool in the shallow end and still keep his face above water. It has been a slightly unhealthy realization. Now I worry that he will get over confident and drown himself at the first opportunity. Even with the swim instructor there.

Zane has been working really hard on his letters both writing them and saying them. We are working on the sounds of the letters too. He is getting it slowly but surely. By the time he hits kindergarten he should be good to go! Art work has also become a big pass time with Zane. I am starting to wonder if he doesn't have some natural artistic ability. He drew me a picture of a heart the other day that was pretty stinkin' good and he also draws his people as "mat men" rather than stick figures. And I know that is something they work on in kindergarten. Seems pretty good for a 4 year old.

Missy Ma'am Lucy Lu has been in rare 2 year old form the last few weeks. She is getting more and more verbally expressive which is wonderful. She also has been more and more stubborn. This morning we had a huge fight over what barrettes to put in her hair. Since I was running late to Bible study I told her she had to pick or she wasn't getting any at all. She continued to take her time. I carried her (kicking and screaming) down the stairs and put her shoes on. She ripped them off her feet and went back upstairs. I carried her down a second time and wrestled her into her shoes. Eric carried her (kicking and screaming like a feral cat) and put her in her car seat. By the time we made it to church (all of 3 minutes down the road) she had removed both her shoes and her socks. And then she sat and screamed that the socks were off. Good times. It is just a sample of what any day can look like with her too. Ahhhhh 2, you are so fun!

On a more positive note Lucy is singing these days which is adorable. She particularly loves to sing Happy Birthday and will break into song at any given opportunity. She is also very sweet with Gwen and loves to play mommy to her. Some days I think she is confused who the real mommy is!

As I mentioned in the last post Gwen got her first tooth this week. She has also become extremely mobile. Not exactly crawling but certainly mobile enough to be concerning. She moves from her tummy into a sitting position easily and has been fun to watch scoot around after everything that her siblings have and then set down. Also she pushes up onto her feet and her hands and kinda looks like she wants to do the bear crawl. I am choosing to believe that walking will not be something she does early! Gwen adores Zane and Lucy (Andrew too, he is just at school for so much of the day) and watches what they do carefully. Soon she will be chasing after them!


Just had to do an update. I will try to be better in the next few weeks. It has just been not on my mind to sit down and blog!