MIchael's birthday

 

Michael is eight! His birthday requests this year were: Star Wars legos, a third Wii remote, and a lock for his bedroom door(Sarah and Rachel go in his room while he's at school and break his lego creations). His "party" wasn't till Friday, which was also the night of the pinewood derby. His car is the silver rocket car-which came in second in most of it's races. He was very happy to be there! His friend Joseph came over after and had cake and ice cream with us and they had a sleepover-Michael's first ever.

Easter Morning

 

In front of the church on our way in to the Sunday morning session of General Conference.

Easter Egg hunt

 
All the fun happened this year in between the sessions of Saturday's General Conference. The kids helped us put the candy in the plastic eggs-I really liked that part, especially since our neighbor gave us a big garbage sack of plastic eggs that they don't use any more. Then we ate lunch while Daddy hid them in the back yard, and the kids went out and found them all in about 5 minutes. I think some of the kids are getting too old, or we've got to hide the eggs better.

Bekah's all day birthday

 

Bekah's birthday fell over spring break this year and we had fun all day long. First the Anderson's took us bowling and brought ding dong cupcakes(Bekah is pretending to blow out the candles on her Birthday girl headband). Then Sister Harvey took us out to Golden Corral where the staff sang a birthday song to a very embarrased Bekah. Last she had the Anderson's come over for birthday cake and ice cream and got to open her presents from her family. This is a mermaid barbie the kids got her.

Short hair

 

 

Bekah has been crying too often and too loudly lately when we brush her hair, so we cut it off! She loves the way it looks and how easy it is to brush.

How Rachel eats an orange

Rachel scooted the chair over and got herself an orange and a butter knife. She "asked" me to peel it for her, but I was busy reading to Bekah and told her she had to wait. Instead, she did it herself.

About the kids

Hannah has had a few friends over to play and a sleepover or two when I've seen a glimpse of a pre-teen, but thankfully those occasions are still few and far between. For the most part, she is still very young at heart; sweet and innocent. Her and Michael have been spending a little too much time on the Wii (Christmas present from Nana and Uncle Bill), but she still loves to read and to be read to more. She joined the book club at school so she gets to spend even more time reading.

Michael, as stated above, loves to play the Wii (especially Super Mario Bros). I often get impatient with the time spent on the Wii, but I can't complain about how it motivates him to get his chores done-usually without being asked. His love of this pass time has spread into his love of drawing and he makes very realistic drawings of different worlds and characters in Marioland. This last Sunday he went to a Baptism Fireside at church and has become very anxious not only for his baptism, but also to join cub scouts.

Rebekah is practically perfect in every way. We just did Parent-Teacher conferences and her teacher couldn't say enough about her good behavior and her educational progress. One precious story Mrs. Cribbs told me was about what Bekah said on the 100th day of school. Everyone was supposed to tell the class something they wished they had 100 of (100 jelly beans, 100 toy cars, etc). Bekah's answer was 100 Sarah's. She just loves Sarah and talks about her in class all the time.

Sarah has a great imagination! She is always playing with different objects as though they were people (2 forks become 2 friends playing in an obstacle course, mini bottles of lotion and hand sanitizer are a girl being chased by a tiger). She loves "Littlest Pet Shop" animals and has a little backpack full of them that she carries around all day. This weekend, Bekah slammed Sarah's finger in the bedroom door and she got hurt pretty bad. She screamed for at least a half an hour it hurt so bad, but once the Tylenol took effect and she had calmed down it was nice to have that story about what Bekah said at school to tell her and show her that Bekah does love her and didn't mean to hurt her. It was so sweet, she cried when I told her (not the screaming kind of cry).

Rachel has been using a few more words and can understand everything and follow directions. It's so exciting to see her becoming her own little girl. She still does her signs for more, please and thankyou. Some of the words she says alot are no, go! (usually to the dog), ink (drink), num nums, and nigh night.