So, this week we had a few good one-liners from some of the kids.
When I was walking William home from school (which he is immensely
enjoying) on Friday, he was telling me about the game he and his
buddies are playing during recess. Apparently they have gotten up to
level 4! I don't even remember having levels in the games I played in
first grade, but there you have it. :) Anyway, he was telling me
about how level 1 was easy, level 2 was pretty easy, and level 3 was
hard. "And level four is really, really hard! It's as hard as eating
pickles!" There you have it, the epitome of difficulty in life. :)
(We use pickles as punishment for waking us up early on Saturday and
Sunday mornings, if you get us up before we want to, then you have to
eat pickles before you can eat what you want for breakfast.)
On a more religious note, today in Sacrament Meeting, while the
congregation was singing a hymn, Carly decided that she'd like to sing
along! Normally we encourage this behavior, and people have
complemented us on the verses that our kids have made up to go along
with the hymns (since they don't have the memorized yet and can't read
them). Usually their hymns are something like "I'm happy, I love
Jesus, I love Mommy" etc. Anyway today for some reason Carly decided
to sing about a boat. So she sang "Ship! Ship! Ship! Ship!..." in
a very happy loud voice. One tiny problem was that her vocalization
of the final consonant was a little ambiguous, so needless to say
Jenny and I were quick to try and get her to shush. But she was quite
determined, and sang out quite loudly several times. Usually while
there was a lull in the hymn, or at least that's how it seemed. :)
So, as you might guess, Jenny and I had a hard time singing the rest
of the hymn since we were busy trying hard not to bust out in
laughter. :)
Michael is getting excited about Halloween. Who wouldn't?
Candy! So, today he was trying out costumes. He was quite pleased
with the scrubs that he tried on, until he found out that we didn't
have the cap or mask. So then he tried on the Batman jumpsuit, and
has enjoyed running around the house in that for quite a while now.
He's even willing to wear it in spite of the lack of a mask. :)
Okay, there wasn't really a quote of the week for Michael. Sorry.
But he has also been getting really good at his lego skills!
Yesterday he built, by himself, a very cool looking space ship which
comfortably housed a pilot, two passengers, R2-D2, and a handful of
prisoners in an enclosed prison! The sucker was very recognizable as
a space ship with very nice wings, and packed quite an arsenal of
weaponry as well! I was very impressed!
Oh yes, William has lost another tooth, which has won him a lot
of attention from Mom, Dad, and the Tooth Fairy. Seeing this, Carly
has decided that one of her teeth is loose and insists that it will
fall out at any moment. :) We're keeping her away from hammers and
pliers just to be sure her prediction doesn't pan out.
Finally, we just wanted to let everyone know that we're doing
well in spite of all of the wildfires in the area. In the past four
weeks we've had at least four fires in Leander. One of them was right
across the street (we had to maneuver around fire trucks in order to
get into our driveway.) Three families in the Ward have had their
homes burned to the ground, and our neighbor across the street had
part of their fence burned down. So, needless to say we're still
praying for rain and hope that we can get some relief soon.
Specifically, we'd like a hurricane to smash into Houston, destroying
the entire city, and dropping several feet of water on us. :)
Luckily our yard is so dry that it's mostly just gray dust at this
point, so I think the only thing that could bring fire to our home
itself is the fence.
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