Family Weekly Digest

 ~ Week of 9 October
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~When counting heads to make sure all the children are safe and accounted for I catch myself counting, “1, 2, 3, 4,5,6,7, and 2 in Spokane”. For you older moms…is this something I’ll do the rest of my life or will I adjust to counting 7 and knowing all is well?

~** Air show – perfect day for a great air show – 8 October

~**Sunday Finery – picture and blurb about our visit to the Gospel Service

~**Nolan learns to “ride” a bike

~**Zander learns to ride a Tricycle – he rides like the wind

~Watched Wallace & Gromit – We were disappointed with the adult humor

~**Stacia tries to roll over, has a 2 month baby check up and a VCUG this week. We are still waiting for VCUG results but the doctor says she is now at the 50% for weight and is very advanced socially. He didn’t believe she interacted and did the things I said she did; so he tested her. He said most babies aren’t beginning these things until 4 months. I explained that she was the youngest of 9 children. He said she was “socially and developmentally advanced”. Not sure that is a trend we want to continue. Pictures uploaded of Stacia learning to roll over.

~*Alex’s potty training adventures (see Zanderisms)

~**School continues on. We enjoyed math manipulatives this week. We also found some favorite websites for exploring space.

~Jamin’s team wins last year’s champs 14 – 7; if they win one more game they will be in the state play offs. This is pretty heady stuff for a team that didn’t win a single game in the previous two years.

~Friday Fun Day – The younger ones and I went to Kids Kingdom while Josiah ran to the library and Jamin went to football practice. It was a great day to visit the park. It was much cooler than it was on 4 July when it was 105*. We fed the ducks and geese. We were all taken aback when an ugly muskrat swam into the midst of the ducks and geese. It had big red teeth and red eyes. It was cute the way it scooped up the food we were throwing. I forgot the camera.

~**When faced with the age old “eat what I fix or don't eat at all" mother lecture” Alex finds a solution (see Zanderisms)

~**Zander discovers that Oompa Lumpas live in the computer? Nah – those are MEN! (See Zanderisms)