First Grade

I assume most of my readers do not want every particular about Isaac’s school experience, but in the interest of family history, I will be more complete than I would be if I were just writing this post for casual blog readers.
The first day of school was August 17th.  We met his teacher the night [...]

Out of the mouths of Isaac and Charlotte:

Charlotte announced one morning that she had three dreams last night.  One was good and two were bad.  The bad dream was that ants would turn her socks into “sticky socks.”  The good dreams were (1) watching something change colors that is not sticky and (2) sleeping in a downstairs room.
One day Isaac excitedly [...]

Isaac’s Summer Journal

I started tutoring the kids this summer at the gym.  Isaac has done really well at reading so I tried to focus more on his writing.  I asked him write a sentence everyday and while he wrote, I worked with Charlotte.  I had him to compose the sentence, then I’d write it out so that [...]

“Wide Seat for Passengers”

Isaac doesn’t always take the time to add much detail to his drawings, or at least he hadn’t in the past, so when he came home from school with this drawing, I was impressed and decided it was worth hanging on the wall.  I asked him the name of the picture and he said “wide [...]

First Grade Fears

Tomorrow is the first day of first grade for Isaac.  He wasn’t very excited about going back to school as we talked he told me that he was worried that in the first grade they would skip playtime and lunch and do math all day.  He later said that he thought they would just get [...]

IHOP in Charlotte, NC

Isaac and Zach at the beach

Isaac and Charlotte Perform a Puppet Show

Isaac and Charlotte and Trains

Worth a Thousand Words. . .

Isaac Discusses Spaceship Construction

Keeping Kids Quiet in Church

Lets face it, that hour of Sacrament meeting is challenging on Sunday morning when you have young children, possibly when you have older children too, but I don’t know about that yet.  I spend a lot of time and energy fretting about how I can keep my children in their seats behaving well and [...]

Injury Update: The Grisly details

We’ve been on the phone detailing injuries to families for the last few days, but I know we have some close friends and family members who get their updates here, so for the benefit of them and for our written record, I will write the details of the injuries sustained during our car accident on [...]

Paying Attention

Note: I know it’s probably a little gauche to blog so soon after an event like this.  However, I want to get my feelings sorted out and writing is a good method.  Might as well update everyone while I’m at it.
I left the house this morning in a somewhat grumpy rush.  Often I’ll forget my [...]

Independence Day

I reflected back to July 4, 2004 during testimony meeting today.  That year, the 4th also fell on a Sunday, it was when Zach blessed our first Child. 
Our celebrating mostly took place on July 3rd this year.
Video = While throwing Snaps, Isaac shows off his missing tooth, Jackson shows off something else.

We lit sparklers [...]

Dress-ups

Nicole has been walking into the living room wearing other people’s shoes so frequently, that I thought she might enjoy playing with the dress-ups.
She put everything she could possibly put on, notice how she is trying to pick up a 3rd glove to put on.Once she was all decked out, she didn’t smile [...]

Isaac Lost His First Tooth

Isaac was excited when the dentist told him he’d start losing his teeth when he was six.  On Tuesday evening while our home teacher was over, he discovered a wiggling  tooth.  A look of shock quickly turned into a look of excitement when he announced that his tooth wiggled.  He was very excited and [...]

Balloons

I just find this series of pictures slightly amusing, so here it is: The End.

How the rest of his day was spent.

After the birthday party we had some time before our evening activities.  I took Isaac and Charlotte to the library, then helped Isaac build a Lego set (Ila supervised in her Bumbo).  Isaac and Charlotte played Uno with grandma Bunny and uncle Bryan as I unloaded the dishwasher and prepped for dinner.My Aunt Dee and [...]

Isaac’s 6th Birthday Party

Isaac requested a chocolate cake with a picture of the inside of a machine on top.  My mom and I created this the night before: After failing to make little broken wires to go in the broken cable we just put the cable back together.  It was suppose to be a water pipe, but the [...]