on our mind

I cannot comment on these pics at all because they do not show up on my screen, just a bunch of random letters. But I think the collage is on there, a picture of Rosas Happy Birthday card to our friend Jerin, Rosa is realling loving learning to write her letters. She can write hers and Logans name on her own and everyonelses if we tell her how to spell them. she is going to love school some day. There is also a picture of the kiddos in their feety p.j.'s it is getting colder! I think the other is of the kids playing dress up. There is not a ton going on around here. Colby spent 3 days at a preachers retreat this week so the kids and I were on our own. But we survived great (we might have had a little help from Lyneil!)

Life in pictures

These are some pictures our friends Sherry and Katherine took while in OK, arent they great. I love their expressions. SO here are some funny things my kids have done lately.
We have started our nightly charts for behaviors we appreciate AGAIN! On there is having good manners at the table. So this means not saying “I don’t like .” They do not have to eat it but they cannot complain. So the other morning Colby gave them oatmeal and before she saw that she had fruit coming to, she looked at it and almost cried, but she bit her tongue! And one morning this week while we were at the beck house, Braxton ran out to greet us and took one look at Rosa and said “Good morning sweetheart.” So sweet!
Logan is still potty training so one day this week he decided that it would be good if we could pee at the same time, I have no idea where he got this, but I chalked it up to him being a boy. Anyway in my trying to explain the problem with this he said “Mom you are not a girl! Not a girl! You are a mommy!” I thought this was hysterical.
Bryant is an funny boy and he loves to laugh so last night while we were reading books I asked him how old he was.. I said “are you 1?” and he says “no 2” it is so funny to hear him say No because of the way he accents it. But he continued for the next 30 minutes to insist that he was 2.
Peyson may be my orneriest one yet because the boy refuses to eat for Colby or I, he will sometimes eat for others but seldom. So this morning I tried to feed him cereal for breakfast and he clams up and sticks his tongue out, he is not budging. I give up, now his loving sister comes along and says “I’ll do it mom” and sure enough the boy at the whole bowl!

What can I say

Sorry it has been so long! Well what can I say I have 4 kids which for the most part equals no time! No not really, we just have had a busy couple of months. We went to Oklahoma for 2 weeks while Colby was at camp and had a really good time. We got to see family that I have not gotten to see in a while and just hang out with them rather than be on a few hour time slot. This is something I REALLY miss living away. Just being a part of the every day time. The kids had a really good time. We went to my Dads and they got to ride Grandpas golf cart and 4 wheeler. We only had a small mishap when a goose bit Logan on the pants at the animal center. It was actually pretty funny, especially because my kids are terrified of all animals that could actually touch them (we are considering getting them fish for Christmas) the funniest part was that the goose was missing most of his top beak. The sad part is that we use to enjoy going to the park to feed the ducks and geese and now Logan screams his head off the entire time. Later in the week my Dad and JuJu (Julie) came and we took the kids fishing. They loved it, Rosa caught one fish and Logan was proud to have got nothing. My mom, phillip and angela got to spend some time with the kids. Logan got to have his first sleep over with Aunt and Uncle. We were lucky enough to get to keep Ellison for a couple of days while Angela was at work and she is a doll. So beautiful and sweet. Since returning we have had boughts of sickness and then we had a lockin for the teens at church. Last year after the lock in Colby so kindly suggested that maybe next year I might not want to stay up all night. So this year I got an hour or so nap and tried all day to control my grouches. Rosa is doing great, she is very sad with Colby and I for not allowing her to go to school this year. She wants to go so bad. She is learning to write her ABC's and #'s and this week learned our phone number. She loves to learn. She is also taking a very motherly role towards Peyson, she tries with Bryant but when he bites her she throws that sisterly love out the window. Logan is also doing well and his latest lead test came back at an 8. The goal was to get it below a 10 so he will no longer even have to have it checked except at his yearly appt. and that is just a finger poke, not more vein draws. Colby and I almost did not believe it when the called, because his last#'s only dropped 1 point and this dropped 8! It has been a long few months but we have learned a ton, not only about lead but alot about our family and about our brothers and sisters in Christ here. We are so thankful for the work they have done for our family. Logan is in the process of potty training. This is a much harder process than with Rosa. It seems to be taking forever! Bryant is growing a ton, I think he has grown inches in the past week. He is trying so hard to be likes his brother and sister. He wants to be just as talkative and informative as they are so he almost out talks them. We will be in the car and he will say "MaMa! MaMa! MaMa" and when I respond he just lets out a stream of words for several minutes. The only reason we know he is repeating Logan and Rosa is because he always stresses the last word of what they said. He is a doll, despite his love of biting and throwing things! Peyson is starting to crawl and while he has gone forward in this area we are going backwards in the eating department. He refuses to eat anything but a bottle, no baby food, no table food, no solid food. Nothing. I am not worried because he is still growing strong, but he is going to have to change that to survive in this family! He is such a good baby, he really only fusses if he is hungry or tired. He is actually so good that I took him to the Dr. this week because he was sick and she said he had a double ear infection that was pretty bad. But she said it in that great voice like"hey why did you not bring him in last week you terrible parent." But he does not run a fever and was only a little fussy so who knew. He is also a very pretty baby, not that my other kids were not, but he looks so different from the others that I think maybe I notice it more. What a lovey.