Dane, 3 months old
Friday, November 20, 2015
Fall Fun
Jocelynne's first time baking a cake.
Dog Pile on Daddy
Wonder Joss
Jocelynne's first ukulele concert at school.
Halloween party at Logan's preschool. He goes every Tuesday and loves it. His teachers say he behaves well and he makes them laugh.
Going to Trunk or Treat at the church.
Dane's Look. (photo by Sari)
Dane's first haircut. I kept thinking, "Your hair! Your beautiful hair! Oh, Dane, how could you? Your one beauty!" But he was getting baby mullet in the back because he'd rubbed a bald stripe around the mid circumference of his head.
Dane, 3 months old and ridiculously good-looking.
Joss likes to serenade Dane with her ukulele. It calms him down and gives Joss a captive audience. (click on the picture to enlarge it enough to see Joss. I don't know why the photos are wonky this time.)
Halloween fun.
My two who are still at home. I'll miss Logan when he starts school next year.
Dane's 20 minute sleep-over with his sisters. Joss sleep-smothers and Chloe kicks, so it just wasn't meant to be.
The boys. So much handsomeness in one place. Aaaawww.
Joss has moved from ukelele to guitar in class, although she still plays both at home. She's progressing well in piano as well. She plows through books as fast as I can bring them home from the library, with Nancy Drew being her current obsession. She's rocking a new short haircut that she loves and has a few good friends at school. Her teachers enjoy her and her bus driver gives her special treatment, like picking her up in front of the house instead of at the bus stop if it's cold and giving her lollipops. Last night after studying her science book, she told me that she preferred matter in a liquid state over solid or gas. "The molecules are just moving medium-fast, not too slow and not too crazy -- like thousands of people walking around each other on the streets of New York City."
Chloe is in a funny face phase, where she loves to contort her beautiful features into freaky lines. She plays "war" and "go fish" with her brothers and helps with Dane. Her teacher assigned Chloe to work with the blind boy in her class because she is good with him. Chloe tells me she loves to help people. Her other class job is to monitor the drinking fountain and help people take turns. She has an aptitude for this as well, says her teacher, which is nice because the last one was too bossy and had to be fired. LOL
Tristan is doing great in school and has an aptitude for reading, like his sisters. His favorite books are the "Fly Guy" series. He roughhouses with Logan and plays cards with Chloe. He has an infectious laugh and a cute dimple, and is usually quick to smile and slow to take offense. The school nurse called me a couple of weeks ago and informed me that Tristan may have a form of color-blindness. He has to go to the doctor for further testing. Because good color vision is imperative to a birder like Landon, he was particularly upset and kept trying to discover the guilty gene-carrying party in our bloodlines.
Logan is a math whiz and likes to ask me addition questions, especially in the van when we are driving somewhere and he is bored ("What's 100+99, Mom?"). He and Tristan play war with math flashcards to supplement Tristan's homework, and he has learned his math facts pretty well up to 10. Logan was the only kid who recited his primary program part from memory last Sunday. He said it with gusto and confidence, and left the podium with a dramatic flourish. He was the loudest kid in the bunch when the primary sang the songs, too. His slightly nasal, 4-year-old voice penetrated the entire chapel and back into the overflow. Volume, a slight lag in timing, and dissonance all contributed to distinguishing Logan from the rest of the pack. The amused congregation kept turning toward Landon and I in our pew to check our reaction. I hope my smile looked like that of a proud mother, and people didn't see the tears of laughter smudging my mascara.
Although Logan still needs an afternoon nap, he's always trying to find ways out of it. Today's ploy was trying to convince me that, although he was walking and talking, he was actually asleep. "I am sleep-walking, Mom," he said hopefully.
Dane is crying less that he used to and will let me put him down sometimes. He just started getting interested in toys and likes to gum everything. People remark on how strong his core and neck muscles are. Survival of the fittest, I say. With 4 older siblings
Landon's staying busy with his US Geological Survey job and his TA job. He is also the Sunday school president at church and a great home teacher. He's still chipping away at that first chapter in his dissertation and planning to graduate next summer.
I'm enjoying being the secretary in the primary, although I miss playing the piano. It's going to be fun to spend next week with the kids, as they have a week off for Thanksgiving. Part of that fun will be handing Dane off to the girls in the morning and sleeping in. So exciting!
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Fun update! I love reading your blog; you are so witty, particularly around the midnight hours when I'm stuffing my face with tortilla chips and my brain function is around 58%.
It's fun to look at Dane's face and see all your kids in it somehow. In a cute way, not a creepy way.
Hi to the Bird Nerd from the Hemenways! Merry Christmas!
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