November 2016
The Kids Said…
Brooke (after a couple especially trying days where she was having a hard time getting along with siblings): “Don’t be surprised when you see a lot of improvements in my behavior around Christmas.”
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Madison: “Mom! I look just like Mickey Mouse!”
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Me: “Brooke, smile!”
Brooke: “Why?! So you can capture my embarrassment that I’m stuck up here and can’t get down?”
Apparently. And blog about it, too!
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This is more of something a kid does than says, but I’ll include it anyway. Apparently when I read books, I often use my thumb and pinkie to hold the book open. I have never realized that’s what I do until Madison started protesting anytime I situated my fingers any differently. Now when she’s reading books, every time she turns the page she has to take time to similarly hold the book with those same fingers in that same position:
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Spencer: “Madison, you’re a midget.”
Spencer’s friend: “Spencer! You can’t call her a midget! You’ll hurt her feelings!”
Caroline (matter-of-factly): “It’s okay. She doesn’t have feelings yet.”
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Finishing Up Our Week of Fun
After our beach days we’d bring the kids home and dump them in my parents’ jetted tub. They loved the bubbles:
Madison: “Mom! This is so exciting!”
Then it was time for books, bedtime snacks, and bed:
We counted ourselves lucky the mornings that Grandpa fixed French toast for us:
We were also lucky every night when my parents provided dinner:
We went to a discovery museum with my parents and had fun discovering:
We had to go on a walk to punch some trees. My parents learned there is a certain kind of tree that has soft bark and it doesn’t hurt if you punch it. We tried it out and they were right!
All too soon our vacation ended and we had to say good-bye.
I didn’t think my kids would ever stop hugging Grandpa long enough to get in the car:
We had such a fun time. It’s nice knowing that if my parents can’t be close to us, at least they are close enough that we can go visit and have a fantastic time. We’ll be back!
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Picture of the Week
Rebecca has started work on turning our older blog posts into another book, so I was looking through the first book we made. I used to be good at posting picture of the week so I’m feeling inspired to begin posting again. I’ve got plenty of pictures to post to get caught up.
This was last spring at the state capitol. Luck would have it that there was a high school dance there that night.
May God bless our civic leaders as they work to govern our state and country.
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