September 2009

As we are nearing the end of September, I thought I would just post a bunch of pictures to capture our month. It has been a good month with school starting and lots of sunshine.

The Orange

Lauren was playing with an orange. Pretty soon I could smell it so I decided I better check on her. When I noticed all the little holes in the skin, I asked her if she ate it. (She had spent most of the afternoon grazing in the kitchen and putting things in her mouth that didn't belong in her mouth.) She said, "yes". I decided to look and see if I could find the missing pieces and luckily she had not eaten it all. I found the little pieces all over the living room couch.

It's a Frog

Colin has figured out a way to make a really weird sound from his throat...kind of like a burp, but kind of a croak. We were in the car this afternoon and he made this burp-like sound and quickly said, "That wasn't a burp. It was a frog. The little frog is trying to find its mom and dad." Then he continues to explain that the mom and dad are not outside, but they are in his tummy.

Boy, I sure hope he hasn't really swallowed a frog family and that the little one didn't get stuck in his throat looking for the mom and dad. ;-)

Faith of a Child

Our children can be such good examples for us. Last night after we had gone to sleep, Jordan came in and said to me, "Mom I am scared and having bad dreams. Can we say a pray so I can sleep." I had him climb up on our bed and sat up. I asked him if he wanted to pray or whether he wanted me to. He asked me to say the prayer. I said a prayer and asked Heavenly Father to help him sleep with good dreams. When we finished I gave him a hug and kiss and he jumped down from the bed and went back to his room. We didn't hear from him for the rest of the night.

Then this morning, the boys noses seemed to be a little stuffy and I was encouraging them to use a kleenex and blow their nose. Instead, Jordan asked Colin if he would pray that their noses wouldn't be stuffy. Colin said, "Thank you for our stuffy noses and not be stuffy anymore."

It is great to see that the boys have a basic understanding of prayer and the important role it can play in our lives.

My Little Lady

This morning at breakfast I was watching Lauren eat and thought it was rather entertaining.

Eye checkup

Today, the boys had an eye checkup. Both boys did great at reading the letters on the screen at the other end of the room. When the letters started getting smaller, both boys would say, "They are too far away." Then they would be encouraged to read the letters again and they would read the whole line. When it was Colin's turn, he started by reading every row right to left instead of left to right. It wasn't until the doctor started putting a pointer under the letters and asking him to read the one with the pointer that he started reading the lines left to right. Both boys have really good distance vision and fall in an expected range for close up vision. In the end they were both happy they didn't need glasses.

Lauren is Nursery Age