A budding artist...

Today was kind of an exciting day....actually really exciting for Luke! He was chosen as one of two artists of the week at school. It was he and a 2nd grader. So this morning Matt and the kids and I went to the school and he was on the Sunrise Morning News (the school has the cutest morning news broadcast with 2 anchors, a weather report etc.). I was very impressed with the set up they had. Luke drew a "self portrait". I've attached 2 pictures, one is of the t.v. screen during the broadcast, and the second is his work of art so maybe you can see the drawing of himself. The blue things all around are clouds....there is a robot, a mountain, a balloon, and a monkey in a tree. They framed it and it is hanging up right next to the principal's office! I was so excited for him! He was the first artist of the week for this year!




Luke is doing so great at school. I got to go and help with the Kindergarten Fall Festival last Friday. I helped the kids frost and decorate cookies. Luke was so excited to have me there helping, and I loved it even more seeing him interact at school. He is such a good little boy, he has really learned to make his own choices and not follow the crowd....going on yellow a couple of times helped him learn that lesson quickly. He is now learning to read and he is trying to spell everything. He loves to spell things out to me, kind of like Matt and I do to each other so Luke and Emma don't know what we are talking about. Luke likes to do it to Emma. He'll say "Mom after dinner can we B-O-O-K?" Meaning can we read a book.... And Emma gets all bugged because she doesn't know what he is saying, and Luke is beaming because he spelled, but most importantly because he knows he got to Emma! Oh the joys of sibling rivalry! It's a good thing I never bugged Kim when I was little!!!!!! I was an angel! :)

Emma is my little helper. She picks up Gavin CONSTANTLY! Which drives me crazy! But sometimes she can be helpful. Like when Gavin has his daily treat of toilet paper in his mouth, then she goes and squeezes his cheeks and he spits it out for her! :) Our new thing that has been fun is that my friend who lives about 1.5 miles up the road rides her bike and meets us with her little girl in the trailer behind and then I ride my bike with Gavin and Emma in the trailer and we ride to the grocery store and the girls get a free cookie from the bakery and then we ride home and they play with each other at either our house or our friend's house. It is so fun! The girls like to stick their little hands out of the trailer and wave to each other.

Gavin is my little Energizer Bunny! He is into EVERYTHING! And he is quick! He now has eight teeth! He is so happy and fun. His new thing is that he shakes his head no. The kids laugh so hard at him. His other new thing that cracks me up is that he loves when we go into a public restroom because it echoes! So as soon as I walk in he starts with these funny little screams so he can hear himself! It never fails...he did it Sunday in the church restroom and again today at the Library! Funny kid!

Well that's about it folks