Today my little J is walking all over! I am so grateful! He still has bandages on both feet, but today he was not just carried out to the waterfall to play in the water, today he ventured to the sand pit to my chagrin! He loves to play tractors in the sand pit, but it's not clean! I had to change his bandages as soon as he came in, but he loved it! I suppose the sand all over the house is worth it for those cute smiles! B & I took him to the wound clinic yesterday, and they could not believe that it had been just a week. All of the staff thought they looked like they were to the two week healing stages! I know that this is a result of modern miracles right before my eyes! Thank you H.F.! xoxo
My big J is walking too because he was riding UP the stairs after basketball practice on his mountain bike that we shipped back as his only mode of transportation, and the main shock bottomed out and started dripping oil. He called to explain, so cute, that he took it apart in his dorm room, because "there is NO way it would fit in his roommate's car!" Then he begged his roommate to drive him to the neighboring town, Lexington to the bike store to have them look at the shock! They wanted $500 for a new one, or $150 and two weeks to ship it back to the factory. He told them to ship it back, and he is walking until the part comes back in. He was pretty bumbed! Finally the team has been selected for Southern Virginia, and there is no surprise that he is on the Varsity team. He is there on basketball scholarship, he really wasn't worried about basketball tryouts, but he said they lasted for the last three weeks, and that there were more than 40 kids trying out for the team. He is excited to get down to real practices with the team, meshing the camaraderie into the game instead of being defenders of turf trying to make the team. He is struggling with Spanish right now, spending lots of extra time in the lab working on it so that when the season begins, he won't find himself behind. He had two midterms this week, and Spanish was towards the end of the week. We are praying for him to have confidence and do well.
L & J are loving the High Tech High classes they are taking this year. They are both doing well in school. We have decided to go back to see J in Virginia for Thanksgiving, and so we counted the weeks Sunday in our Family Planning Meeting. We have only seven weeks until we go, and L & C will miss about four class days of school. We have asked them to check with their teachers early so they know they will be gone, and not be penalized for missing those classes, but to find out what the assignments will be so they can be ahead when it's time to go.
S is such a hard worker! He is constantly finding something outside to work on, blowing the rocks off the driveway, mowing the lawn, cleaning the garage, putting away the bikes, and moving them out of the sun, etc. etc. He is amazing! I don't know how he can get so much accomplished! I have to push him to read, but I keep telling myself that if I let him come to it, he won't resent it, and he will become a better reader than if it is forced. He is pretty good right now, reading several verses everyday in our family scripture study time. (BTW we finished the BOM a few weeks ago, and so we have just recently started over! Yea!) B wants to read a couple of verses every morning as well. That requires a little more patience than most (family members) have in the mornings usually, so she usually gets only one verse/chapter. I am glad she wants to read!
Other than that, not much happening right now. Kind of strange! This weekend C is running in the Las Vegas Ragnar (wish I was :)) and then C & K are blessing R in their ward in SLC Sunday morning. Politics, but I think we are heading up for the blessing anyway.
My big J is walking too because he was riding UP the stairs after basketball practice on his mountain bike that we shipped back as his only mode of transportation, and the main shock bottomed out and started dripping oil. He called to explain, so cute, that he took it apart in his dorm room, because "there is NO way it would fit in his roommate's car!" Then he begged his roommate to drive him to the neighboring town, Lexington to the bike store to have them look at the shock! They wanted $500 for a new one, or $150 and two weeks to ship it back to the factory. He told them to ship it back, and he is walking until the part comes back in. He was pretty bumbed! Finally the team has been selected for Southern Virginia, and there is no surprise that he is on the Varsity team. He is there on basketball scholarship, he really wasn't worried about basketball tryouts, but he said they lasted for the last three weeks, and that there were more than 40 kids trying out for the team. He is excited to get down to real practices with the team, meshing the camaraderie into the game instead of being defenders of turf trying to make the team. He is struggling with Spanish right now, spending lots of extra time in the lab working on it so that when the season begins, he won't find himself behind. He had two midterms this week, and Spanish was towards the end of the week. We are praying for him to have confidence and do well.
L & J are loving the High Tech High classes they are taking this year. They are both doing well in school. We have decided to go back to see J in Virginia for Thanksgiving, and so we counted the weeks Sunday in our Family Planning Meeting. We have only seven weeks until we go, and L & C will miss about four class days of school. We have asked them to check with their teachers early so they know they will be gone, and not be penalized for missing those classes, but to find out what the assignments will be so they can be ahead when it's time to go.
S is such a hard worker! He is constantly finding something outside to work on, blowing the rocks off the driveway, mowing the lawn, cleaning the garage, putting away the bikes, and moving them out of the sun, etc. etc. He is amazing! I don't know how he can get so much accomplished! I have to push him to read, but I keep telling myself that if I let him come to it, he won't resent it, and he will become a better reader than if it is forced. He is pretty good right now, reading several verses everyday in our family scripture study time. (BTW we finished the BOM a few weeks ago, and so we have just recently started over! Yea!) B wants to read a couple of verses every morning as well. That requires a little more patience than most (family members) have in the mornings usually, so she usually gets only one verse/chapter. I am glad she wants to read!
Other than that, not much happening right now. Kind of strange! This weekend C is running in the Las Vegas Ragnar (wish I was :)) and then C & K are blessing R in their ward in SLC Sunday morning. Politics, but I think we are heading up for the blessing anyway.