Last Sunday night we were greeted by a Texas snake coming in under our back door. It was part way in the house when Todd called me over to see if it was a real snake or what (b/c it wasn't moving at the time). It clearly was a snake as we pushed it back outside with cardboard. There is no doubt that "fully sealed doors and windows" will be on our list for when we purchase a house. Eeek!
By the end of the day Monday, our house was closed on in Virginia. Henry was pretty sad to hear that. It's tough for him to hear that someone else will be living there now. He misses his room there and from what I can tell, he'd prefer not to have bunk beds (even though he has bottom). So, I think we'll unbunk them when we move again. Right now there's no room with all 3 in the same room. We all want a house "with stairs" (two stories). We're making out our wish lists for the house hunting come spring.
For school, we learned about pioneers heading west to explore. We read some great books about the wagon trains and so we decided to make covered wagons out of popsicle sticks. It took much longer than I anticipated, days to complete, mostly because we'd have to do all our gluing when Caroline was sleeping and allow it to dry in between. I thought the boys would enjoy pulling things around in them, but Josiah played with it only for about 10 minutes. I don't think Henry ever played with his. Although, he had to put his up high because Caroline had woken up just as he had finished.
Even though he didn't like the covered wagon, Josiah did like gluing the popsicle sticks together to make things. He ended up making this helicopter using popsicle sticks and cardboard. It turned out really well and ended up being his presentation at CC this Friday. It was a rescue/fire helicopter and when the back opened up, he had cotton balls fall out as the water.
This was our last CC for the semester. To celebrate they had a cookie decorating & pizza party after school time was over. The boys had a very good time decorating their cookies and eating an unknown, but far too large, quantity. The best part of the cookie decorating party was that the whole day exhausted the kids so much that by the time we got home they were all asleep. And they stayed asleep for about 2 hours. It was bliss. :)
This cute little girl loves to copy every thing the boys do. And I cannot emphasize EVERYTHING enough. If they run around, she runs. If they sing or talk a certain way, she copies. If they eat a certain way, she follows. When we're outside playing and Josiah sits on the sidewalk, gets back up and runs around, she will do the exact same thing. It's been a lot of lessons about, "See if you make good decisions, Caroline will too." (and vice versa) She can now say "no" which is always fun. She loves applesauce. For every meal she will go and get herself a spoon; even if she's eating a piece of bread, a spoon is required. I am very happy that all she can reach so far are the spoons because she can leave a mess in the drawer. She also likes to count, "2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3..."
We got an explanation for all of her screaming. I was finally able to see that her two back top molars were pushing their way through. At least there's an explanation and the screaming isn't as bad when I give her some Tylenol. :)
Saturday was nice enough to play on the playground. Caroline thinks she's a 5 year old on the playground, so she requires extra supervision!
And the best part of the week was the boys' Christmas concert tonight at church. The boys were so excited. Josiah wanted to shine his shoes beforehand so that they were nice and shiny for the concert. Henry followed suit. Josiah also decided not to wear his suit because he wanted a cupcake afterwards and didn't want to get his suit dirty.
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| Shining their shoes with baby wipes. |
Henry's group went first and sang two songs. There were five kids and for the most part they stood there slightly frozen, not really singing and not really doing the hand motions. All except Henry. He did all the hand motions for his songs and he stole the show. I was videotaping it and my video kept shaking because I was laughing so hard because he was doing such a good job. Josiah did really well. He sang both of his songs, but neglected to do the hand motions. He told us beforehand that he wasn't going to do them and that he was going to focus on singing. So we praised him for the singing. They had a dessert buffet afterwards which is always awesome to give children a bunch of desserts at 7 p.m. After two spilled drink cups (separately) and Caroline running away twice it was time for us to make our exit.
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| Chillaxing and eating a few desserts afterwards |
Josiah woke up early Saturday morning and made the Grinch before the others had woken up. He and his 5:30 a.m. wake up calls. When he was younger I thought he'd grow out of it, but he's been waking up in the 5 o'clock hour for almost 6 years now so I'm thinking it is never going to change.
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