Band, Books, and Doctors

Leah is in the band at school - she plays the flute. Last night was a band concert and some of us went to see it. The band was really good! I forgot my camera, and my cell phone camera is pretty bad (no zoom) - I couldn't get a good picture at all, so I don't have any pictures to post. We had a great time - can't wait for the next one. I love seeing (and listening to) our children making music. What a great talent!

Leah got her braces off earlier this week. I took a picture and will post it later.

Nathan was at his weekly Young Men's activity and the girls were at Activity Days making Halloween crafts and playing games, so they missed out on the concert, but had fun doing their own thing. Wednesdays are always our busiest days.

I finished reading Twilight on Monday and gave Eve the go-ahead to read it. She is so excited, that I find her reading it all the time. I think she will be done by Saturday.

Today I finished reading New Moon, so I have to get to work on catching up on the missed housework. It's not too bad. Just need to do some extra tidy-up in the living rooms and wash some extra dishes. I also have to correct some assessment tests for Eve's teacher. He gave them to me to do on Tuesday and didn't tell me when he needed them back, so I hope that tomorrow is good enough. I think so, because he goes over them at parent-teacher conference and that is still 2 weeks away.

I usually don't read books as much as I'd like to. I knew this Twilight book series would be one that I couldn't put down, so I waited for a couple of months to read it (waiting for a time when the famly could get by with me doing minimal work). It's been fun to get a mini vacation at home. Yesterday I was almost at the end of New Moon when I couldn't concentrate on the book anymore. I hit my vacation limit. I thought doing a few dishes in the morning and playing with Joshua for a few minutes every half hour would be enough work to keep me from feeling like I needed to be doing something useful. I found out I can't sit for 5 hours reading without feeling like I was shirking my responsibilities, so I am taking a one day break and starting up book 3 on Friday afternoon. ( It's 10 o'clock now and I've already started catching up on everything, so I'm tempted to change my thinking. In my head I find myself saying, "Maybe after I correct those tests, I'll peek at a few pages tonight, but not get sucked in." Ha! Ha!)

Joshua had his wellness check-up today and is 40 inches tall, and weighs 30 pounds. So he is very tall and very slender for his age. On the elevator to the Dr.'s office we noticed the emergency button on the panel inside had a red firefighter's helmet picture next to it. We noticed it and Joshua said, "It's a firefighter's helmet! It's just like mine, except for mine is black." I said, "Your right!" He is using such big words and phrases now. If he didn't still have his little boy pronunciations he would sound much older than he really is. He's been really doing a lot of growing lately. He's really fun to talk to - I love to find out what he's thinking about.

Kids Have a Different Way of Thinking - I Love It!

Joshua did a cute thing two days ago. He saw me making a shopping list, so he decided to make his own. He got a pad of paper and a few pens and started "writing". When he was done he told me that he had a list and that it said we needed to buy paper towels. I asked him what else was on his list and he said, "Let's check." He opened up the pad of paper and started writing something new, then he read it and informed me that we needed fruit snacks. I thought it was so funny that he had to start writing in order to know what the list said. Very cute!

Thanks Eve!

Here's a picture of Eve and I. She was showing me how to take pictures on the webcam and then post them on a blog.