Well,
For the big news! We're expecting #5 in April. That
has us going through a lot of changes right now. We
are re-painting our house, 2 rooms at a time to fix it
up in order to sell. And that means a lot of
de-wallpapering, which is a lot of work. We haven't
even come to the kitchen and dining room yet which
will be even more work. We've just outgrown our
little house. Charles is still sleeping in a
port-a-crib which rotates room to room depending on
where we're working.
Charles is now not just walking, but running
everywhere. His favorite toy is the phone. He's
always talking on it - the real one of course is
preferred, but remotes and other flat, retangle
objects also work well - sometimes they're by his ear
and sometimes on the top of his head, but he's talking
on the phone. He also loves reading books. His
favorite birthday present was the board book from mom.
He carried it everywhere and had the binding broke in
less than a week.
Marah was finally potty trained the 1st of September.
We kept trying to convince her it was a good thing,
but when Grandma Hayes got her some cool big girl
underwear that's all it took. No diapers ever since.
She's even a lot better than the other girls had
hardly any accidents. We did have one when we were
hiking in Zions a couple of weeks ago along the
Riverside walk and that wasn't much fun. Marah loves
to read books as well -- I could spend all day on the
couch reading to her. She always has to go if
anyone's going anywhere. She just likes to try to be
like her big sisters - she loves to play computer
games when they're at school. It's hard to believe
that I will have 3 years let before she goes to
school.
Alaina is in 1st grade and is learning to read even
more. She is our drama queen - already at age 6 - we
have our hands full when she gets even bigger. This
was her 1st year of soccer and she did really good.
She was always right on the ball and very much in the
middle of things. Alaina is very responsible and
always makes sure her things are in her backpack for
school, her library books etc, I don't have to ask
her like Keturah, she takes care of it herself.
Keturah is in 4th grade this year. It's hard to
believe. She has a male teacher which is kind of fun.
She still struggles with math - it seems to be her
fate and she often has a lot of homework because she
daddles or daydreams in class so has to do it at
night. One night this past week we were up until
10:30 getting all her assignments done because it was
the last day of the semester. She is enjoying piano,
though. Her favorite song so far as been Edleweiss.
Blair is enjoying his work. He's been setting up a
webserver. He had it all finished and then they
wanted it set up more user friendly so he had to
re-program things and make changes. It's been hard
but he's really enjoyed it and is getting a lot better
at it.
I've just been helping everyone with their stuff - the
kids with homework, Blair with fixing up the house. I
did get some canning done though, 66 quarts of
applesauce 1 weekend and 36 quarts of pears another
weekend with tomato sauce another.
Hope everything finds you families well.
Martha
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