Bryce is doing well in school. I'm impressed with the amount of information he needs to learn in Kindergarten. He's in school ALL day long and when he gets home, sometimes he has a hard time keeping his eyes open. He has been learning lots of songs at school and the neat thing is that he has taught them to Ian and Spencer. I can often hear all three of them singing one of the "color" songs. Bryce has learned a song for each of the colors to help him learn how to spell the different colors. He become such a big helper. The other day I had mentioned that I needed them to pick up so I could vaccumm. Anyhow, I went off to do something and when I came back the room was picked up and he had started vaccumming. What a joy he is, I love him so much! We are so grateful to have him in our family!!!!!!
Ian is doing super well. He is healthy and strong. He learns so much from his big brother. Now that we have him potty trained, I'm going to enroll him in preschool this coming year. I'm so proud of Ian, he was trained in one day and hasn't had any accidents since the first day of training and hasn't used one pull up! It's neat to see how proud he is of himself! On a funny note, Ian as many of you know, can become quite attatched to things. Well, his latest love and attatchment has been the Toys R Us toy catalog that arrived a few weeks ago. It goes every where with him. It is well loved and he wants to make sure that everyone knows just what he would like for Christmas. Mike and I have learned a very useful parenting tool called "ignoring". Quite often Ian's requests have become whining fits and demands. He has a hard time understanding that not right now doesn't mean never. Anyway, we sure love him and think he's a neat kid, whining and all!
Spencer will be two years old in one month. I can hardly believe it....what happened to my baby. I've been holding off on giving him his first haircut...somehow he won't look much like a baby anymore once his hair is cut! He is now sleeping in a big boy bed and he loves it! He is so good natured, loves to play with his brothers, talks a ton and is just a joy to have in the family!
Mike and I are doing well. Mike was recently diagnosed with sleep apnea and he is getting that all figured out and fixed. Thank goodness! He has been so tired for soooooo long! And as everyone knows, a person who has been sleep deprived, they aren't terribly cheerful! Ready to have my sweetheart back. On December 1st, Mike sewed on Tech. We are all pleased with his achievement. In the fall he will be starting school at Weber State. He wishes it was BYU, but Weber will do.
For my part, I keep busy with housework, kids, appts, sewing projects, church callings.... I day dream about owning a home in a state I want to live in, being completely out of debt, going back to school for my masters or perhaps a nursing degree. I think of all the projects I'd like to start work on and yet don't have the time or money. I often have to remind myself that I can do it all, just not all at the same time. Such a hard concept for me to accept. I'm not known for my patience. LOL!
Last weekend, we wanted to get out of the house and just go for a ride. So we went down to Draper and visited IKEA. That store is so much fun to just walk around. I love it! The kids even have fun! Anyhow, after we were done, we went to the Harley Davidson dealership just a little further down I-15 to look around. Mike would love to own a motorcycle one day. For now it's just a dream. The boys have also expressed a love for motorcycles. We took some pics of the boys with daddy on a motorcycle and this photo below came out the best! Too bad Bryce is looking the other way.
