I'm trying really, really hard to add a slideshow to my sidebar, but so far it is not working! Grrr! Keep checking back, though, maybe I will figure it out! (Cross your fingers!)
Guess what horrible, profane thing is happening today in Springville, Utah?? IT IS SNOWING! Argh! I have had enough! I know that I go through this every year, but really, when you have some days in the 60s, you just start to really believe that you might be done. Not only that but it awakens your memories. You remember summer. After that, you just can't go back, and if the weather goes back, well, you just have a hard time forgiving it.
Yesterday, though, the weather was lovely. Kevin had to work during the day teaching a class for singles, so that evening, after an early dinner, we went over to the track for some family running! We had a great time. Savannah is running on the junior high track team this spring. They've only had about a week and a half of practices and she hasn't decided on her events, yet, but we know that she will do great and the experience will be good for her. Sarah signed up for the 800 (two times around the track) for the grade-school track meet that is held every year. The difference is, Sarah has decided to practice for it. She wants to WIN (or at least do really well!) The pictures in the slideshow are from our evening at the track. It was a beautiful evening wasn't it? It was even full of beautiful kids!
Beth is still not crawling, but she is doing "the log roll" and can get from one side of the room to the other. She only gets frustrated when something is straight in front of her -- then she can't roll to it! She even got herself back into a sitting position from a laying down position this week! Pretty impressive I'd say!
I bought the twins some little plastic clogs and Cheyenne decided to write her name on them since her and Cali's are identical. She is writing her name really well and likes to write it on paper and in the fog on the door and in the snow on the car -- you get the idea. I didn't at all mind that she wrote her name on her shoes. I didn't mind at all that is until I realized that she had written her name on two right shoes. Ahh, the funny thing about having two of everything! Anyway, I did manage to get her name off one of the shoes (hairspray gets out ballpoint pen, if you ever need to know!) and she wrote "Chey" on a left shoe to make a pair with the other right. Marvelous!
Cheyenne has also started to pronounce Calianne's name correctly. Previously, Cheyenne had managed to consolidate all three syllables of Calianne's name into one. I think that is quite a linquistical achievement. The hard 'C' sound was hard to pronounce, too, so Cheyenne referred to Cali as "Tan." Cute, huh? I actually always thought so. Calianne, however, did not. She started yelling at Cheyenne and telling her, "My name is not TAN! It is CALIANNE!!!" It didn't take much of this before Cheyenne was saying, "Okay! Calianne!" And so ended a lovely little period in the twins' lives. Hopefully, we will always remember it, though. (Cheyenne also calls the library, the "strawberry." She knows she's not saying it right, but she has a hard time remembering the right way. I think it's adorable.)
I hope you all have a great week!
Guess what horrible, profane thing is happening today in Springville, Utah?? IT IS SNOWING! Argh! I have had enough! I know that I go through this every year, but really, when you have some days in the 60s, you just start to really believe that you might be done. Not only that but it awakens your memories. You remember summer. After that, you just can't go back, and if the weather goes back, well, you just have a hard time forgiving it.
Yesterday, though, the weather was lovely. Kevin had to work during the day teaching a class for singles, so that evening, after an early dinner, we went over to the track for some family running! We had a great time. Savannah is running on the junior high track team this spring. They've only had about a week and a half of practices and she hasn't decided on her events, yet, but we know that she will do great and the experience will be good for her. Sarah signed up for the 800 (two times around the track) for the grade-school track meet that is held every year. The difference is, Sarah has decided to practice for it. She wants to WIN (or at least do really well!) The pictures in the slideshow are from our evening at the track. It was a beautiful evening wasn't it? It was even full of beautiful kids!
Beth is still not crawling, but she is doing "the log roll" and can get from one side of the room to the other. She only gets frustrated when something is straight in front of her -- then she can't roll to it! She even got herself back into a sitting position from a laying down position this week! Pretty impressive I'd say!
I bought the twins some little plastic clogs and Cheyenne decided to write her name on them since her and Cali's are identical. She is writing her name really well and likes to write it on paper and in the fog on the door and in the snow on the car -- you get the idea. I didn't at all mind that she wrote her name on her shoes. I didn't mind at all that is until I realized that she had written her name on two right shoes. Ahh, the funny thing about having two of everything! Anyway, I did manage to get her name off one of the shoes (hairspray gets out ballpoint pen, if you ever need to know!) and she wrote "Chey" on a left shoe to make a pair with the other right. Marvelous!
Cheyenne has also started to pronounce Calianne's name correctly. Previously, Cheyenne had managed to consolidate all three syllables of Calianne's name into one. I think that is quite a linquistical achievement. The hard 'C' sound was hard to pronounce, too, so Cheyenne referred to Cali as "Tan." Cute, huh? I actually always thought so. Calianne, however, did not. She started yelling at Cheyenne and telling her, "My name is not TAN! It is CALIANNE!!!" It didn't take much of this before Cheyenne was saying, "Okay! Calianne!" And so ended a lovely little period in the twins' lives. Hopefully, we will always remember it, though. (Cheyenne also calls the library, the "strawberry." She knows she's not saying it right, but she has a hard time remembering the right way. I think it's adorable.)
I hope you all have a great week!
1 comment:
Ah the days of children saying things in their own way and writing their names in interesting places! I will long remember seeing "Katy" written on the underside of the basement stairs (which I didn't mind at all), but she claimed she hadn't done it. I will also always remember "hangeborgs," even tho it was Maggie's word and not yours. . . .
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