Lincoln and lights

I think Lincoln's favorite things are light switches. He could be in the worst mood and become so happy to turn the lights on and off. He will do it as long as I will hold him up to reach them. He recently discovered the foot petal to turn on our living room floor lamps. So many exciting new things in life when you are 10 months old!

temple trip

We had a nice trip to the Oklahoma City Temple last weekend. The kids did good in the car and had a lot of fun by the fountain. We also went to the Olive Garden for lunch....yummy!

camping

Joseph had a fantastic idea to go camping on labor day weekend in our backyard. So, we had a lot of fun playing in the tent and pretending our shed was a haunted house in the woods. I think that game was a little too scary for Ansel, but he wanted to keep doing it.....so, I don't know. We REALLY enjoyed having Isabel and Joseph home for an extra long weekend.

toilet paper

Several times I found Ansel putting a LOT of toilet paper in the toilet or the garbage can. I decided to buy the cheapest toilet paper I could find because I was tired of wasting our nice, soft stuff. Well, I went into the kids bathroom and I found a roll of the cheap stuff almost full and setting right in the garbage can. Ansel had thrown it away and replaced it with charmin. I guess he likes the good stuff too.

family game night

I missed some games that joseph and the kids were playing tonight. Joseph was just telling me about them and I thought it was pretty funny and wanted to document it...First, Joseph said that Isabel isn't very good at tic tac toe because he beat her every time. Isabel did beat Ansel, but then he didn't want to play anymore. Isabel told him that he might win the next game and they should keep playing. But Ansel said he was full, he didn't want to play anymore. Isabel insisted that he hadn't eaten anything and couldn't be full. Isabel also did a game of hangman where she picked the word. She did her name. I thought that was pretty funny. I also think it's funny that Isabel knows how to play these games because I never taught her. On Sundays we always asked her about her class at church and most of the time she'll tell us something she learned. A few times she told us they have played hangman. I wonder how many times they've actually played it, since she seems to be almost an expert at it.

new family picture

Since our last family picture did not include Lincoln, we decided it was time to get a new one. Here is our family: Isabel just turned 5, Ansel's almost 3 and Lincoln is 9 months.

spanish

I've been meaning to write this down before I forget. Isabel seems to be handling or enjoying the spanish she learns at school. We were driving to a friend's house and Isabel said "we are leaving our casa (house)." Then she said wait a minute that's wrong. I can't say something and have just the last word be in spanish. That doesn't really make sense and she started laughing at herself. We thought it was pretty funny too.

Early Sunday morning Isabel and Ansel were hanging out and eating breakfast. When I got up Isabel said she had been teaching Ansel spanish. I was intrigued. Isabel said, "Ansel, how do you say 'red' in spanish?" He replied, "rojo." "How do you say white?" "blanco." I was really surprised! It seems like she is picking things up and not hating spanish like she did when I tried to teach it to her when she was little. (For those of you who do not know the story I would speak spanish to her all day and after a few days she started crying and said, "mom, please speak english to me." My heart broke and I decided I would/could not teach her spanish. So, I'm glad that we are finding another way to teach it to her.)

Also, last night we practiced a few of the Spanish sight words she needs to learn for the year and I was surprised at how many she already knew. I just made some flashcards with the color names on them. She practiced and was learning them pretty easily. I was afraid after 30 seconds, she would say something like: i'm too tired of all this hard work. But she didn't. So, hopefully she'll keep up the good work. We are so proud of that girl!