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It has been over a year since we have posted on the blog. Each time I post lately, I am reminded of the fact that Facebook has taken over the bloggosphere. I miss being able to share about our family in the manner. So I will share and likely no one will end but years from now we can come back and read about the funny things that our children did that made us laugh, or fume, or realize anew how fragile life is.
Abigail is an amazingly brilliant, hard-working, book-loving young lady. She devours ever book she can get her hands on, makes pictures and drawings tht are becoming more detailed by the day. She has taken a shine to acting and will participate in her second play of the year in a couple of months. We have noticed a little bit more of an attitude and impatience when talking to the boys but she continues to show them amazing things like lego creations, and how to make movies on her phone, and th beets dance moves in town.
Nathan grows in height and strength. He loves to build lego creations and can look at picture to figure out the steps in building helicopters or houses or robots or what meets his fancy. He is super physical, able to climb up anything and having little to no fear. Some day he might make it on American warrior challenges. We are struggling a little at preschool with his behavior and making and keeping friends. We are really hoping that this will smooth out as he enters kindergarten.
Aleks continues to be our sensitive child. He still needs his think time and sometimes help with word retrieval but has finally found interest in reading. For the last couple of days, he has brought down chapter books to look at while at the fire. He has less interest in writing his name than Nathan. Lately we have noticed that he tends to write his name backwards. Something to keep an eye on as he moves into kindergarten. Aleks loves to play with cars and play games.
Jason completed a kickstarter a year ago and has built a music studio in our garage. His music has really taken off and he is playing at a number of different restaurants in the area. He is pretty excited about this.
I am still doing the same job and trying to be crafty when ever possible. Also trying to fit in exercise and staying fit.ill be happy for spring to come so that we can spend more time outside.
Family picture to quickly document our continued growth.
We got some new toys from church today. The kids are loving them...along with the candy!
Easter was so much fun this year! We started by having visitors...Matt & Ruth can up with there dog Toby. Then we went to the hackett's Easter egg hunt. Followed by dinner with the whole family. Sunday included Easter breakfast, sunrise service, our family egg hunt, church, & then the church egg hunt. Mary & Paul came up on Sunday. Easter stuck around a little longer with some homemade Easter baskets the following weekend! Such fun!
The boys got their 2nd hair cut!
And we tested out their balance bikes at school on the hill.
We are starting a new tradition this year. There are 25 wrapped christmas books sitting in our dining room. Each day we open a book together and read about what makes Christmas special. We are up to book 4. We have read Santa Mouse, Jimgle the Christmas Clown, The Magic of Christmas & Flamingo's First Christmas.
We have been having dance parties stour house lately. Nathan and Aleks love to dance and run around. I can only wish to have that much energy ever in my life. I took some video but haven't figured out how to upload it from my iPad using the blogger app, so I will have to try again some other time. The boys work so hard while dancing that they frequently break a sweat. It has become our nightly routine to have a dance party. Last night was a little more difficult because both boys wanted to be held. Dancing with two babies in your arms...way difficult!
