We made it through the first week of school! Tanner thought the first day was sooo boring, but the next days were just fine, especially the day his teacher gave the class a goody bag full of pencils, erasers and other fun stuff. He brought home homework two of the days, but it was really easy and didn't take much time. One of his assignments this week was to trace the numbers on a calender...he couldn't believe that he had to do that in first grade (in his words it was baby stuff). He can't wait for this coming week when he gets to start his reading and math classes with some of his good friends.
Kara likes school and was thrilled when she got to bring home a book that she made. It was all about her favorite things and she read it to us. She has been reading it all weekend and says that she is doing her homework. Tanner gets a kick out of it, because she loves her "homework" so much. She loves telling me everything they did at school.
Kendra has been pretty happy at home. Everyday this past week she went to her room and dragged Kara's blanket and pillow to the living room and would lay down on the floor with it and get her babies and bears to lay down too. Friday she wasn't so easygoing. She wanted my attention all morning. We blew bubbles, did puzzles, painted with water, and colored. I haven't had to entertain a child so constantly since Tanner was little. Hopefully I can take her over to the library a day next week or swimming or something to keep her busy.
Barry has been filling out the application for Residency. We've been trying to remember dates of college graduations, service given and past jobs...luckily Barry had a semi recent resume saved to the computer. Barry took the kids to the park this week to play baseball. They all had fun and both Tanner and Kara could really hit the ball!
I'm staying busy too. This week I had Activity Days at my house....it was crazy. We divided into two groups and baked cupcakes, one group had the directions and one didn't and then we compared the experience and talked about how much easier life is when you have direction in it and when you follow the commandments, scriptures, prophet, etc. We also played the pictionary racing game. The girls had fun. I also started playing volleyball on a team at the YMCA again. We played against a team that only had two players this week and they beat us one of the three matches (we had six players), they were really good and we would have had no chance if any more of their team would have been there. Yesterday we had to clean the church, and I remembered after we already had Josh and Lily over to play so we took them with us too. The kids played fine for a while and then the fighting began. We didn't have time to do an extra clean job because we had plans that night and Barry is on call tonight so hopefully Sister Bratz doesn't chew us out. Next time it would be nice to have at least one other family there to help so it doesn't take so long. After cleaning the church Friday night, we went over to Sam and Amy's to play ultimate football. It was fun and a lot of people showed up, I think 11 couples. We have some fun friends here!
Sorry no pictures, the camera is still in the shop...hopefully we'll get it back next week sometime.
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