I know, I know... It has been a long time since my last post. Life just seems to eat up all of my time lately. We haven't really been doing anything exciting but let me just give you a little update on everyone.
Tamzen is so very excited to turn EIGHT and get baptized. Her birthday is next month so she will be baptized in May. She can't wait. We went to her cousin Emma's baptism earlier this month and she got a bit of a taste of what it was all about and I think that just made the excitement that much bigger for her. She is enjoying school and LOVES to read. She has worked very hard in the Accelerated Reader program this year and has read so many books. She is in a group of kids that will participate in a Chinese Jump Rope demonstration at Parent Night at school tonight. She has a field trip to Valley of Fire today that she has been looking forward to for a few weeks now. She is so excited about the fact that she is going to be gone ALL day from school for their field trip.
Olivia is loving school and is learning to read also. She loves to sound things out and figure out what they say. With the weather changing now, she loves to play outside and jump rope or ride her bike. The minute they get home from school, they are outside for as long as they can drag it out. They come in and eat dinner and right back out they go. It is nice that it stays light outside a little longer now so that they can enjoy the beautiful weather. Olivia had her first field trip last week to a local family's farm and she had a blast.
Harlee is herself as usual. She goes to preschool twice a week and absolutely loves it. She has an awesome teacher that she loves and she is learning so much. She knows her colors, is starting to learn the alphabett and tracing her name. She loves to be outside also. Olivia got a new bike for Christmas so Harlee got the hand-me-down bike. Steven put the training wheels back on it for Harlee and she loves that she can ride bikes with the big kids. She is a pro at it. She will have an appointment with her eye doctor next month to check on her eyes and how they are doing.
Iken is on the go at all times. He has been walking for about a month now and has pretty much mastered it. He is becoming a climber and is discovering that he can pretty much get what ever he wants. He has figured out how to get on the chair and up to the table and even how to climb up to almost on top of his high chair tray. He loves the fact that we have a doggy door cause he thinks that he can go outside when ever he wants. He gets really upset when he heads for the door only to find when he gets there that it is blocked so he can't use it as an escape. He now has five teeth and eats pretty much whatever he wants and is ALWAYS eating something. At his one year appointment he weighed in at a whopping 17 pounds. So, you would never know that he eats so much.
Steven has been working on a BIG home improvement project. YAY for tax return money!! We used some of ours this year to put new flooring in well, most of our house. We now only have two rooms in the house with carpet in them. We have put laminate wood flooring down in the kitchen, living room, den and hallway. It looks AMAZING and I LoVe it!!! I am so happy with it and so glad that the gross carpet is gone. I only have a few before pictures of the kitchen and didn't take any before pictures of the other spaces but I will post some after picutres in a few days. It has made such a huge difference in our house.
Myra S Tobler (October 31, 1916 - March 22, 2010)
