We have been pretty busy lately. I guess I need to blog more but the days seem to pass so quickly. Can you believe it is already June? YIKES. School gets out on the 11th. This year, as always, has flown by. My kids continue to grow and it makes me almost panic. Pretty soon Caleb will have his license. Zachary will be turning 14 and will become a Teacher at church. Rachel enters middle school in the fall. ACK. Ethan will be a 4th grader and Mayah.......my baby....will be getting baptized. OH geez. Part of me is excited for their new adventures but the other part of me gets sad and doesn't want them to grow up. I don't know what I will do when the time comes when they start leaving the nest. Makes my heart ache a bit.
Caleb is done with drivers ed. He can get his license at the end of Sept. He loves to drive and jumps in the drivers seat every chance he can. He is doing quite well. He occasionally still scares me. The highschool is going to a 7 period day and we signed up for his classes online. It was not an easy task. It took me until 1:30 in the morning to get it all figured out and then I still had not scheduled him a lunch period or his electives. But when I went back in to check they had done it for him. He will be taking Spanish, Algebra, U.S. History, English, Seminary, metals and wood shop. He is quite happy with his electives. I tried to tease him and I told him he was so lucky because they scheduled him Home Ec for his elective. He got all mad and said he would be the only guy in there.....then added "well the only straight guy". LOL. He was relieved to find that I was only kidding.
Zachary is so so busy. This kid LOVES to go go go. I am thankful for his good friend. Zach spends quite a bit of time at his house and they are a very good family. Zachary planted 14 rows of corn. Our friend, Randy, came over and brought siphon tubes and helped Zach figure out how to water his corn. They dug a trench and put a stop in the ditch. What a great guy Randy is. We have such awesome neighbors and farmers here that are so willing to take extra time to teach. Makes me feel a bit guilty. They are so busy......yet so willing. He is buying 2 sheep from another good friend and will be showing one at Grant County Fair and the other at Adams County Fair. He is contemplating going to scout camp because he wants to go to his cousins orchard and work. He stays really busy.
Rachel is about done with elementary school. OH man. I can't believe she will be middle school next year. I wasn't a fan of middle school. She is such a great worker and a lady in the ward has called her over multiple times to work for her. She helps her clean her house and then she pays her VERY WELL. Not only does she give her money she also sends her home with other items......cereal, jewelry stand, brand new soft polk a dot blanket, construction paper, and other things. She is just a sweet heart. Rachel is saving her money and is careful with it (most of the time). When I am working at her school Rachel will come over and play with the disabled kids that I work with. She plays tag or chases them. One little boy asks me, "where is your daughter?" SO CUTE. There was a boy that really wanted me to teeter totter with him. I can't do that because I have to make sure to watch all the kids on the playground from the special education room. Rachel volunteered and took his hand and walked over to the teeter totter. This boy was in 5th grade just like Rachel. She is so sweet.
Ethan is doing great. He was having some difficulties for a while and I took him back to the dr. to change his medication. While I was subbing at his school the other day his teacher stopped me in the hall to tell me that Ethan is now one of her model students. YES!!!!!!!!!! Nothing better than to hear that from your child's teacher. He was getting into a lot of trouble on the bus as well and I received a few phone calls. After talking to Ethan and doing a point reward system he has been doing a TON BETTER. The bus drive called to let me know that Ethan has been GREAT. PHEW. Love that boy. Even in his struggles he is still so so sweet. He used to get embarrassed when he saw me working at his school but now he comes up and give me hugs and kisses. I am so glad we got his medicine changed. He still has his melt downs but nothing like we used to deal with. He loves to play frisbee, football, kickball, basketball and go swimming. He would play Xbox all day if we let him. BUT we really limit it with our kids.
Mayah will be getting baptized the beginning of July. Oh wow. I am getting old. She is my baby. She is quite funny but quite strong willed. We have to really choose our battles with her. She has melt downs in the morning if things get too frustrating for her. For instance, if she doesn't like what they are having for hot lunch she really wants to take cold lunch. If we are running late and she doesn't have time to make up her lunch she will usually have a melt down. One day she put on a pair of really cute capri's. But when she bent down she said they didn't feel comfortable. I knew that if we didn't get them changed she would have a meltdown. Sounds like a spoiled brat huh? I don't really think she is spoiled but I am the mom and don't really think any of my kids are spoiled but maybe they are. Mayah's teacher called a couple of months ago to ask us if we wanted Mayah tested for NOVA. It is a program for gifted and talented kids. We left it up to Mayah and she said she did want to get tested for it. When we talked to the teacher about it she said a lot of kids this age don't make it but if they retest in a year they seem to do better. We got a letter in the mail yesterday saying she had made it into the program. Her test score was a 92%. She is a smarty pants. We are grateful for Mayah. She doesn't make parenting easy but she makes it worth it.
We love all of our kids and are so proud of them in many ways. They keep us busy and enjoying life. Thank goodness for children. What would this world be like without them?
Some pictures that I just love.
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