January 21, 2019

Time is already racing by in 2019!

CC and Bible Study are back up and running. All of our evening activities (including Wednesday evening church, basketball and ballet) are happening too. All systems are go!

William had his first basketball game on the 12th and second game on the 19th. He did great! He is working hard on covering his man and being aware of the ball (hard to do at the same time!). He is enjoying himself and we happy to get to see him grow.

Robert is in the middle of a growth spurt, both mentally and physically. His comprehension and reading are beginning to snowball and I know very soon he'll be reading novels like his brother. It is so cool to see it all click. We went back to the doctor for Robert's finger last week (a check-up, it's healing great!), and found he's grown to nearly 44 inches when he was right at 40 back in September at his annual. I thought he was getting longer and it's not my imagination!

Hannah is loving her dance class, CC class, Bible Study class and pretty much any group setting including just being with the family. She loves playing with her friends, her brothers, Francis or me and has a ton of ideas. She has such a sweet little light inside her. Also a bunch of sass. Hannah is growing too and spends more nights staying in her own bed now than waking us up trying to climb in ours. She will be three and a half on Thursday. How did that happen?!

Andrew's second tooth popped up Wednesday evening. He was fussy in the church nursery (unlike him) and when we got home I discovered it had poked through. He is eating all kinds of food (mostly a version of whatever we eat, and loved most all of it. He is getting great at moving both by rolling and by going around in the walker. The big kids have to watch their toys now or they will be taken as Andrew passes by. He's pretty sneaky too. Oh the joys of being the youngest...so many cool things to explore that your siblings don't want you to have!

We did take and get back Andrew's six month photos. They turned out completely adorable! Andrew was pretty cooperative and even though it rained and the rest of the kids were squirrely, an amazing group shot also resulted. I've already printed them and put them up in my house. Francis jokes that we will need a bigger wall soon to hold all the pictures. He doesn't mind though. He also loves the wall full of our blessings.

Well, that's all I've got for now. Till next time!