Catching Up

Thanksgiving:





Check.

Christmas:







Check.

New Year's:




Check.

Now. That's better.

Jack-o

Lukey

Tonight Luke was quiet for a long time while I was rubbing his back in bed. I actually thought he was asleep. But eventually he started talking in his high little voice and said, "Mommy... stupid, shut up, you idiot, and butt are not nice words. But may I and please are good." I said "mm-hmm that's right" and pretty soon he was asleep.

I'm sick of those eggs!

I haven't had time to download my camera in a long time, but I feel the need to get the picture of those eggs off the blog so I will tell you about a brief conversation I had with Luke this morning. We had about an hour before we needed to pick up Jackson at school so we ran to the mall to get a Christmas present or two. On the way Luke kept asking me if we could get a smoothie, and I said we could if we had time. So he asked me, "What does time mean?" I said, "Time is how you measure how long something takes." And then he asked, "What does 'measure how long something takes' mean?" I thought about it for a second, and then just told him we could get a smoothie.

For those of you following the saga of Luke's foot...He broke it last Thursday afternoon jumping off the stairs. Here's a proud picture of him with his cast.



And here he is getting the cast removed four days later after an unfortunate dunk in the tub.



We all hated the cast, and he's got a boot now so the bathtub incident was probably a blessing in disguise. Hopefully this will be our first and last broken bone. More pictures to come!

Last thing about the animals...

The chickens had a half a dozen eggs ready for us when we went to take care of them tonight, so we had breakfast for supper.

Dottie

Finished scooping donkey poop and we're about to drop off the boys and head out to the movies.

Kindergarten Update

I can't believe how fast the last few months of school have gone by. I was thinking back to the first week of school and how worried I was that we would never be able to get there on time. Amazingly, we have completely adjusted to the new schedule of getting up early. I was also worried that Jackson would eventually get tired of going to school, but really the opposite has happened. This morning at breakfast he even told me that he thought school was too short and sometimes he wishes he could stay longer! Jackson is loving school. The children in his class have grown so close that it's hard to believe they've only known each other for a few months. It turns out that Jackson takes all the schoolwork very seriously which was not a surprise to me, and he behaves very well in class which was. Here are some highlights from the last few weeks.

Jackson's class was chosen to recite Psalm 23 at the school open house. I was nervous...he wasn't.







Grammy and Papa came to watch the open house. Jackson enjoyed showing off his reading to them while they were here.



Last Friday the Kindergartners and First Graders celebrated Thanksgiving together. The Kindergartners were native Americans and the First Graders were pilgrims. The pilgrims hosted and served a real Thanksgiving dinner with turkey, pumpkin pie and all the usual sides.







And we have enjoyed having Caleb as our carpool buddy. I love talking to the boys about school on the way home.



One of the things I'm thankful for during this season is all of our friends from church, school, and our neighborhood. God has blessed us with these relationships (old and new) and with a smooth transition into this new phase of our lives.