Girls verses Boys

Here is our little happy chappy. Can-Man. What a little joy he is--especially since he has been sleeping a bit better lately. It may still be wishful thinking, but I still see a little bit of red hair. What do you think? Am I just imagining it? I know Abe has siblings with children with real red hair and I don't think Cannon's quite there, but maybe he has a little?







The BOYS!











The GIRLS!











Boy activity! Here is Clark at his TaeKwonDo testing last week. He was testing for his red belt. He passed!













SERIOUS Girl activity!
















The girls danced at the South Towne Expo Center for a big Christmas show they did there (small businesses selling their wares). The people who put on the show want entertainment and dance studios want a place to put on a Christmas recital. Anyway, the girls had a great time.












Here are some of the girls in Elinor's dance class. Elinor tells me the little girl third in from the right is not very nice to her. Apparently she told Elinor it was weird that Elinor wanted to be Spider-woman for Halloween. (It is wierd!) Anyway, we showed Els this picture and she pointed out which little girl was mean to her to Bethany. Bethany then said, "yeah, I can totally tell she is mean--she has a mean looking bun!" Oh gracious-- let the drama begin!


Here is Bethany's class going over their dance in the back before showtime. Both girls did great.





Boy activity. Here Clark has built a lego ship. Clark gets a free lego magazine each month to help remind him of all the lego sets he wants to buy. Smart! They always advertise lego building contests where you can win a lego set up to $100. Clark has entered several (unfortunately has never won). But the great thing is- he has to build whatever it is and then write about it-- ah ha!! I LOVE LEGO! It makes my homeschooling job so much easier!



Here we have the first snow of the season. The snowman melted quickly, but it was fun while it lasted. Mom moment-- does anyone else like, but also sort of dread the first snow of the season. It means dragging out all the snow gear. It means finding boots and hats and coats and gloves and snowpants for everyone to wear. Just helping the toddler put fingers in the right places in gloves is enough to drive me to drink! Then you must catch each child when they are ready to come in before they track snow through the house. You've got to find a place for all the snow gear to dry before you put it away. Then you must be prepared with hot chocolate and LOTS of marshmellows when they finally get out of the hats and gloves and coats and snowpants. My goodness, moms are amazing!


Girl activity. Our Liberty Girls activity this week was going to sing at a rest home. The girls did great and seemed to enjoy themselves.










Faith. She is starting to talk a lot more. Yea! She likes to argue. Boo! She has a best little friend she talks about ALL the time. Her name is Abby. Abby's mom does a little art group and sometimes they have little play dates. Today Elinor said to me, "Abby is Faith's God, she worships her" Hmm-- something seems not quite right there. But Faith does love her and Faith has had to be removed from Sacrament meeting two weeks in a row for throwing a tantrum for not being allowed to go sit with Abby. I think we better move to a pew farther away from Abby's family.


I'll leave off with Cannon. He is almost six months old.