Life

Two of my sister-in-laws do a weekly thing on their blogs where they tell what's going on in their family that week. While I love to read theirs, I'm not disciplined enough to come up with stuff to write about every week. But periodically, I can do it :) So, here's what's going on with us . . .

Dan: Dan is getting geared up for Senior Portrait season. He has committed to taking Sn. portraits again this year for an International school in the area. Zeke's preschool also asked if he would take portraits of their students, but a time hasn't been set for that yet.

Tami: Yesterday my friend invited me over spur-of-the-moment. So I grabbed Kaiyah and we went over. Well, when we got there, my friend's 3-year-old son started opening the front door, yelling and crying wanting us to leave. I watched for awhile and then asked my friend, "Do you want him to have to learn, or do you want us to leave?" She said, "I guess you should go." So we left. Culture is a funny thing.

Zeke: Two or three days ago Zeke got home from school. A few minutes later I heard him messing around in the kitchen. I went in and he was drying the dishes. He said, "I just wanted to help you by drying these dishes mommy!" So sweet. I've been reading a book called "Raising Real Men." One thing it talked about was looking at a chore and deciding who the youngest child is that could do the task. I've been trying to do that more and include both Zeke and Kaiyah in on more of the tasks around the house. Now I know drying dishes can be added to that list :) Zeke is also doing an amazing job reading. We're really proud of him.

Kaiyah: Kaiyah is the pretender in this family. I love it. Everyday I catch her with her toys in the middle of some discussion. Recently I caught her with my pick that I use for my hair. Each of the prongs (is that the right word?) was a different character. One prong was telling the other they were going to get a spanking with the naughty spoon! Ha!

Sierra: Sierra is teething again. She seems to suffer more when the big canine teeth come in, running fever, up in the night, lots of dirty diapers. BUT, she gives lots of sweet cuddles too, whereas she's normally too active for such things! She now has added nah-nah (night-night) to her vocabulary and uses it when she is tired and wants to go to bed! Still no mama though!

Have a great day!