Kid happenings

Jacob:

The little boy we carpool with for school broke his arm at recess a few weeks ago. When I told Jacob that his friend broke his arm in three different places Jacob's response was: "Oh no! So, he just broke it at recess and where else?" :)

Jacob with his finished game of dominoes. He was pretty proud of matching up the number of dots.

For several months Jacob has used the word neither in place of or on occasion. "We didn't have a book last night, neither a CD."

One day last week he asked some interesting questions: "Mom, why do we believe in Jesus?" and "Mom, why did Jesus create the world?"

He used a Justice League plate for breakfast before church yesterday and said he wanted to wear his red shirt so he could look "just like Flash" for Sunday.

Jeff helped Jacob make this papier-maché house for his Gingerbread Baby in September. He loved taking it to school to show his classmates!

I found Jacob at the table one morning with a pencil. He was drawing some different shapes and I asked what he was coloring. "This is a cylinder. I'm making this paper as a busy bag to help Rebecca learn her shapes." (we have a bunch of busy bags with little learning activities in them to help with colors, numbers, fine motor skills, etc.)  When he was done with the shading he got up from the table and sat with Rebecca on the floor and pointed to the shapes and had her ring a bell to say the answer. She said, "skirkle!" for the round one and I figured that was correct but he then kindly corrected her and said that it wasn't a circle, it was a sphere.

Rebecca:

"Yesternight we just did that." - in reference to jumping in our bounce house in the basement

We were at a preschool playtime at a gym today and she was bouncing with me and said something: "It's a Miracle!" is what I heard, so I asked her what the miracle was but what she said was "It's Gym America!" She kept laughing that I'd misheard her.

Upon discovering some clay dough that had been left in a little shape maker for a while she said, "Oh no! It is all dried! Like a mango!"

Rolling out and cutting the dough to make homemade cheese crackers. 

She is starting to use more grown-up sounding words and it always takes me aback.  Yesterday she just repeated something I had said a few moments before but for some reason when she said the word "realize" I thought it was so cute.


Here is Rebecca holding the picture of shapes Jacob made her. You can see how well the photo shoot went...

Sarah:

This one is smiling more and more and occasionally coos. She'll be two months on Wednesday this week and I can hardly believe it. Three kids is tricky, to be sure, but we are all so glad to have her in our family. The older kids are so sweet to her and I've loved having a tiny one to snuggle again.

One month!  

She's usually very alert when she's awake!