Housekeeping

The holidays are fast approaching. School is out on Thursday, Sarah arrives a week from tomorrow.  I love that we'll have so much family time in the next few weeks. Maeser closed the week by sleeping for days as he fought a bug... he is improving fast is now eating. On Friday he had his holiday concert with Valentine, they were adorable and couldn't stop waiving or blowing kisses. I loved that the programs were made by the children and each was different. 

Mary read 5 books this week and made the school variety show. It's a bigger show than we (her parents) anticipated- with daily practices for two weeks prior. She is ecstatic.

Abe began a coding class after school on Fridays. We had a family policy that all after school activities would be team sports... his enthusiasm for the class makes me think we should have been more flexible and let the children help choose. "Mom! Coding is more fun than basketball or swim team!" He sets an alarm twice a week, Fridays (for coding) and Sundays. He walked down to breakfast today completely ready for church. (A Christmas miracle and something I'm going to ask for as a present this year.)

New words for Moses: later, dad shoes, dirty. And he showed off when Dan named body parts and Moses pointed to them. He understands so much... directions and even parts of conversations to others, but he has a hard time verbalising anything. (He turned two last month and has just started calling his bottle ba-ba. He uses less than 20 words on his own- but has begun repeating what we say this week.) 

Scout loves to play. With anyone. She begs for friends everyday and by the time Valentine and Maeser get home she can't wait to have someone to boss around. Val and Maeser have been quite patient but began hiding from Scout this week. Poor girl.

I am posting the last of our Christmas cards tomorrow- here's a teaser. It's absolutely fantastic this year.