Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Monday, May 16, 2005

Playing Catch Up

OK the plan is to post a new picture or story every week. I have been behind! I will post a bunch of picks in the coming weeks, but tonight I am just posting a quick update.

1) We have been blessed with a couple financial gifts that have allowed us to buy a mini-van! It is really sweet. Martha and the kids love it (and so do I, but I will not drive it so much). I was joking with one of my neighbors that God but us just over half the van and He is making payments on the rest.

2) Martha has become a Mary Kay consultant. She is really amazing. Martha is like watching the Tasmanian Devil in reverse - a whirl-wind of organization and activity. This will help out in various ways, but an unplanned side effect it that it has transformed me into a "Mr. K." That is actually what we husbands of the Mary Kay revolution are called. I feel very included.

3) Aidan is trucking along in his reading lessons. He loves it, and is very upset if he misses a day reading with me. I love it too. It is so exciting to see him learning and having so much fun doing it. As well as how great it is when he is sounding out something at the edges of his ability and just before he is about to quit he gets it and we celebrate! Good stuff.

4) Hope loves to try and sound things out too; so, if Aidan's word is "mat" and he is sounding it out like "mmmmaaatt" Hope will say "mmmm." Is she reading? No? Is she a monkey see, monkey do? Yes. Is she so incredibly cute? YES! Hope is also nearly a fruitatarian. What redeemer her is the much on your food factor - she wants to eat whatever someone else is eating - she often finishes Aidan's breakfast, eats part of Martha's breakfast and eats much of mine too... all in the same morning! She is a great eater. We have no idea were she is putting it because she is quite small. Technically she is about average (50%) in all her dimensions, but the doc said she is very advanced in her development.

TTFN - Ta Ta For Now (as "Tigger" says)

More pictures coming soon, and weekly updates should be back on track after my last Platonism paper. Two weeks until summer break!