Week of February 7th

There isn't as much to report this week...maybe a weekly update will prove useless.

Parker and Tyson continue to surprise us with their genius. This week we finally broke down and went to the library.  Seems with how much the boys read, we would be taking them regularly, but nahhh, too much work.
Since going, the boys have done almost nothing but read. The house is quiet. Kinda nice.  I've been wondering if it is bad to set a limit on the amount of reading your children do...like you would TV watching.  Parker probably reads 3 hours a day!

Spencer has had a good week.  I prayed he would start talking or communicating. The next day he signed the word, "help".  It was fantastic.  He has also said, "bye, bye."  And he has done really well trying to form other words too.  It's great.

Kaden has been talking like a regular kid.  Using nice, big words and making full sentences.  He's such a smart guy and since he has these brothers to learn from...it's always fun what comes out of his mouth.  My personal favorite this week:  we have been using gel on his hair because the poor kid's hair is naturally, permanently poofy.  One morning he had me rewet his hair so the gel would keep it down.  Later that morning he was sitting quietly on a chair, then out of nowhere frustratedly said, "my hair is FREAKING out again!!"  It was awesome.  Josh's favorite was when he said, "Parker's bein' a turd."  But that's mostly cute because of HOW he says it.

I made our monthly trip to Tri-Cities yesterday.  The temple was wonderful, but I HATE shopping all day.  And then when I got home (9 hours later) the shoes I bought the boys were the wrong size...oh yay. Not sure what to do now!  They were on clearance so I'm not so sure they will have the size I need whenever we get back down.  The joys of small-town living.
The boys LOVED having a sitter for a couple hours when Josh went to a meeting. Basketball was played and ice cream was eaten after lunch...they love the sitters!

The boys are all over their illness of last week.  Herbs are amazing.  Spencer and Kaden still have stuffy noses, but who doesn't with all this heated air blown around all the time??

And that's the week.  I'll try to do better about taking pictures of the kids and what they do during the week to make this more interesting.

These are pictures of Spencer after I found him crouched behind the counter with a butter knife and jar of nutella.  He loves the stuff. (We all do.)

This also shows how great his hair looks on a daily basis. Ralph, the night hair dresser, is great with him.