Day 10

Once a month, Jared helps out in the sound booth of our church.  He used to do that as a teenager and I helped recruit him this past year.  We have to get to church early, but it's well worth it to hear the praise music twice and to watch Abishai dance and play throughout both song sets.  He's been helping Daddy since he could sit up.  Abishai is obsessed with music!  I love my boys!

Day 9

Keturah's reading is taking off! She's read several chapter books today!

Benaiah and I watched the first episode of this version of "Great Expectations" miniseries and he was asking to watch the rest! He originally said, "Mom, do I have to watch this?"

Look what the "middles" found!

No smile, but, Abishai is very intrigued by these two plush animals.  They have sensors and play off of one another, singing back and forth.  Unfortunately, the penguin finally broke this year after the first couple of times through the songs. They  originally belonged to Jared's parents and have been enjoyed for over 13 years by the grandkids.

"Big brother, is this the way you do it?"

Day 8

Keturah doesn't play with dolls, but she does enjoy her play mobile from time to time, and littlest pet shop, along with my little pony.  She has to be aware of when her room is available to play in because Abishai shares a room with her and she can't go in when he's napping.  She's been very accommodating and understanding about that.  I also have to say that I'm proud of Keturah for keeping it fairly neat after our semi big clean out a couple of months ago.  Having less stuff in there helps though.

Day 7

So this happened today:

'Nuff Said

Day 6

Yes, I haven't posted in a few days, but I'm not worried about it.  The point of all of this is to share some daily life on a somewhat consistent basis.  And yes, both of these pictures have Abishai in them.  I just can't help it!  He's too cute!

The start of a musical career?  Abishai is obsessed with music!  He starts dancing even when it's just a drumbeat!  He's a wild man on the piano.  And I'm back at teaching Justin his piano lessons after a couple of years off.  Hopefully we can keep it up!

Jared loves playing with the kids, always have.  Abishai loves being tossed around on the bed by Daddy.

Day 5

Although Abishai is the one who changes nearly every day or does something cute, my goal is not to feature him every day.  It's so hard though because he's so cute!  Although he did get up at 6 am this morning to start his day.  He's been very fussy because *drumroll* he has two new teeth! His front top ones have come in making the total to 4 teeth! That explains his picky eating and messy diapers.  Yeah!
So it was such a rough start to the morning, that he and I ended up taking a nap from 9:30am until 11am while the middles quietly worked on their studies.  It's always a gamble to see if they will stay quiet and not fight and actually accomplish their work, or misbehave.  Thankfully, they did extremely well.

Today's picture features Keturah and her My Little Pony boom box.  She bought it with her own birthday money plus money she gets from Grandpa for reading.  We also chipped in a bit and I'm so glad we did.  She listens to it every time she plays in her room.  She has many kid and worship cd's and because Abishai's baby monitor is on, we often here it downstairs as well.

What is even more exciting is that she found a CD with a song of the books of the Old Testament in the Bible.  She's memorizing them for her Bible class for Grandpa so it's perfect timing!  She knows how to use the repeat button on her boom box so I often have to tell her to move on to another song, but at least this one is helping her learn.  Here she is with her boom box!

Day 4

So far, I'm not doing such a great job at posting.  Jared's been gone and that means I have to keep an eye on Abishai more often.  We've had to find all kinds of ways to block him from getting into cupboards, bookshelves, the dog's water dish, the nasty, wet winter boots, and even the stairs! That doesn't leave much time for writing and keeping up with email.  Or even school sometimes.  We did manage to get most of our work in today, despite lots of these little interruptions.  We also got more snow.  The skies opened up a couple of weeks ago and now it's flurried almost every day since.  In the words of my husband, "Just stop it, Sky!"

For the reccord, I've always had a cupboard that they are allowed to get into.