We are enjoying some nice fall weather. I have even gotten Caleb to walk with me, not just ride in a stroller. Yesterday while we were walking hand in hand he was asking how to spell words. We had fun looking at things and spelling them, grass, leaf, dog, bark, etc. He was a cute companion on my walk. This morning we were enjoying all the leaves on the side walks as the stroller rolled through them.
Last weekend we had Stake Conference. Neal and I were able to go to the Saturday evening session together, first time in years. Usually we have taken turn of who attends and the other person is with the children. This time we decided that Ruth has been doing a good job baby sitting and we could let her be with the boys. They did great. In fact the boys were all in bed asleep when we came home. Ruth is sure growing up and taking on more responsibility. We enjoyed the meetings. Sunday was a satellite broadcast for Stakes in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. It was nice to listen to Elder Bednar and Elder Scott speak. We are thankful for the church in our lives. There were many good messages about following our Savior and living a good life.
Saturday Ruth and Andrew were able to go to the library for a special Chemistry activity. They had lots of fun. I had signed them up to go to this free event, for kids 9-14. They were able to do some little experiments and see some neat demonstrations. When I went to pick them up they were finishing up a demonstration on liquid nitrogen, so I saw that one. They had fun learning and seeing fun things. They both enjoy science so it was a good thing for them.
Ruth is enjoying playing the clarinet and also working on the guitar. She likes to sing too. Sometimes we hear her singing in her room. She has discovered that 6th grade honors math is hard and takes some extra effort. She still loves to read and goes through books rather quickly.
Andrew is a hard worker. He is always so willing to get his chores done. Sunday it was Spencer’s turn to make a treat with me but he didn’t want to. Andrew jumped up and said he wanted to do it. He even got out his scout book and showed a page that said “make a dessert with an adult.” So we made brownies from scratch together and I signed off his book. He is working hard to earn things in scouts. Last week in his den meeting they were doing knots. Andrew already knew a lot of the things they were doing, so he was helping the other boys learn. His leaders complimented him on his kindness and hard work. He is enjoying school and loves reading the National Geographic for kids books his teacher has in her room. He is also enjoying his math, I think it is because he likes his teacher so much. He is a nice teacher and matches Andrew’s personality well.
Spencer likes to get out of bed quietly in the morning and get dressed. Then he sneaks down quietly and likes to surprise me with a big hug. The funny thing is that I wake him up. I will go in his room and wake him, then he says to me, “I’m awake, now go away.” Then he gets out of bed when I am not watching, he doesn’t like me to see him getting up. He is having lots of fun socially with friends in the neighborhood. He says he is bored at school and isn’t giving it his full attention some days. I keep encouraging him to do his best and do the work his teacher is asking him to do.
Caleb had noticed that the park closest to our house had a slide that was broken, it was that way when we moved in. He told me they needed to fix the slide. Some mornings he would ask to walk by the park, just to see if the slide was fixed. He said they needed to make a new park. I would tell him it might not happen that way. The slide was boarded up, maybe that was all that would be done. Then this week it happened. There were work men who tore out the old play ground and today when we walked by they were in the process of putting in new play equipment. So Caleb will get his new park. Caleb doesn’t like getting his hair combed. Yesterday I was trying to convince him to comb it before going to the library. It was sticking up on the side and looked unkept. He looked in the mirror and touched his hair and said “don’t touch my hair, it looks beautiful.” I laughed and gave up combing it that day. We usually don’t get him to cooperate on the combing expect on Sunday when we make sure it is combed before church.
Neal had a nice lunch with a friend last week, another man who was laid off. They got together and enjoyed a good visit. He has been busy with job hunting and applying to many jobs. Now we just need a job to want him. On Friday Neal took off into the mountains for a little hike. He hiked up to a lake and camped over night, exploring around some too. He said he went to the “great divide” and even got into a little snow. He enjoyed his adventure.
While Neal was enjoying the mountains I had an adventure of my own to deal with. Saturday morning the kids told me that the toilet in their bathroom was plugged. I thought I would try flushing it before plunging it. Well it was plugged and the water wouldn’t stop running, anyway, it took me a few minutes to get it unplugged and the water off. Then I had about a half inch of dirty toilet water all over the bathroom floor. I was standing in it, so I had the kids go get me the cleaning supplies. Thankfully I had thrown a towel in front of the door way and the water didn’t get out of the bathroom. It was awful though. After throughly cleaning the bathroom I didn’t feel like doing much more on house cleaning and didn’t do anything in the kitchen this week. I try to keep up with it all.
Sunday afternoon I enjoyed some time with the kids playing games and I do try to relax each evening by reading. It isn’t all work around here.
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