February Updates

Gunnar made his first basket at Jr. Jazz basketball on Thursday night! We were so excited!! He dribbled the ball from the other end of the court and put up this fantastic shot!

My sweet baby who is almost 5 months old. He still hasn't rolled over, but likes to sit in the bouncy saucer and watch tv. He especially likes Little Einsteins and basketball. He truly is his father's son!! He is such a sweet baby, we're sure enjoying him!! I found this cute onsie with a tie sewn on. I couldn't resist taking a lot of pictures.

How you get roped into things is beyond me - since I can't seem to say 'NO' - well this was a fun activity. We rode donkeys trying to get the ball from one end of the court to the other. Basketball is not my strong suit - but on a donkey, everything seems somewhat fair. The only downside is trying to get off and back on - something I chose not to do. It was way too much work to get on - let alone get off and get back on. You may as well try anything once! Well, within reason.

Frozen Corndogs and other stuff . . .

Last night I wanted to grab a quick picture of Cannon - since he's the big 4 months old and Ryker was eating his standard frozen corndog - yes, I did say frozen. I figured this was a great moment to capture one of his strange eating choices!! Whenever he is hungry and can't get a peanut butter and jelly, he'll grab a corndog out of the freezer and munch away. Gross, yes! I always ask him if he wants me to warm it up - and occasionally he wants it warmed up, but most of the time, he eats it frozen. Who knows why, it's probably in the mysterious realm of why peanut butter and jelly sandwiches can sustain life. Blah . . .

Well, my sweet baby is officially 4 months old. Time sure flies by fast. He is smiling and laughing so much now! It's so much fun! He also loves to cuddle - some nights that's all we do. Sit on the couch and cuddle (perhaps a little tv watching, or nintendo ds playing goes on too). We watched a special on the lady that just had 8 babies - there are days one is plenty of work - I certainly can't imagine 8.

So, last night we got this insane amount of snow - since it never snows in Wendover (at least snow that stays for too long) and wow! This was a picture that I took this morning of our driveway (that's Jaxon next to the mustang). The snowdrifts were incredible!! Jaxon, Jared and I shoveled the driveway tonight. The large pile in the middle of the driveway took forever to move to the lawn - but now we have quite the corner pile just waiting for a snowcave. It remindes me of good old snowy Logan!! I certainly don't miss shoveling snow - it took about an hour and I'm sure tomorrow I will be very sore. I'm just thinking about all of the weight watchers activity points that I earned. Too bad I'm blowing it since we're going out to the Steakhouse for our Valentines Day dinner. That deep fried lobster is just too wonderful to pass up. The real work starts tomorrow. I've just reached my 10 percent (20 pounds - only 40 more to go) - this is the one definate negative of having a baby!! I wish I was one of those women that walk out of the hopsital in their pre-pregnancy jeans. I walk out in full blown maternity clothes. I'm just happy these days that those maternity clothes are put away!

I think that's all the updates. We're ready for Spring! (and an elf to come in and do the laundry - do leprechans fold clothes?) - we have one that comes on St. Patricks day and leaves us his gold coins, of course we leave him lots of pennies (and sometimes dollars - in case someone leaves out their wallet) - that story to come!! I've got a dinner to get ready for!! 14 Valentine's Days and six kids later - where does the time go . . . good thing I still love him!!

Homework

With four kids in school it seems like most nights we spend several hours doing homework. Our time is mostly focused with Gunnar and Jaxon, they seem to be the harder grades!! Okay, maybe not, but they are the ones that like to have full parental support. Which means, Jared and I both sit at the table with Gunnar and Jaxon and shoo the other kids away while we try and get them to concentrate. I think we need a divider between the two sides of the table, since we get sidetracked frequently!

Gunnar has been learning about 're-grouping' which is the new terminology for carrying/borrowing. It's been a hard concept to learn. I finally found an idea on-line and brought out my supply of buttons. Large ones that represent 10 and small ones that represent 1. It has seemed to work well. In all of our struggles, we're learning how great he learns when he has something visual to touch and learn with. It's amazing how much progress he's made with such a small simple thing.

I guess the thing that has amazed me the most, is how different each child learns and how you have to change your approach. Although this amazes me, this is the most frustrating thing. But, it is so great to see them succeed. Jaxon made silver honor roll for the very first time last quarter. He was so proud - it was so great to see him succeed. Now, we'll have to work for the 2nd quarter!!