Catch-Up

It has been way to long since I have posted. Life has just been so busy around here! I can hardly imagine what the holidays will bring!

Here are a few photos to catch you up on the going ons at our house!

Yes this is what I discovered in my basement this evening. My entire family playing on the "skins" team! Apparently the boys got hot from playing basketball and so they took their shirts off. Becca thought it looked like fun and join the crowd!

Micah has been learning to read in school and it is amazing to me how fast he is picking it up. He now is picking up books that we have read to him and is picking out words that he can sound and figure out. This afternoon he was tucked up in his top bunk reading away.

While Micah was reading in the kid's room, Becca was sitting on the pile of blankets in our bedroom "playing computer" as she puts it. You would have thought she was working on an important spreadsheet!

Now here is a sneak peak at our Christmas card! Let's just say it was a little challenging!

That Can't be Comfortable!

I guess this is what happens when your 5-year-old is kept up way after his bedtime! And yes he was really asleep! This was taken after we had pulled in the garage, shut the van off, shut the garage door, opened the van doors and taken several photos already! Must have been really tired! Oh and by the way... little sister was still awake and singing! LOL!

Reading

Last week Thursday Nick and I met with Micah's teacher for our first ever parent-teacher conference. The conference went well and during our discussion she informed us that they would start reading on the following Tuesday. :)

Tuesday afternoon Micah come home with two Ziploc baggies in his book bag. Each baggie had 3 cards in it, each with a word on it. (Apparently these were the words that they started to read at school that day.) These baggies were accompanied by a note saying that as parents we need to review these words with our child.

So.. the review didn't happen last night and since he has school tomorrow I thought that we should review the words tonight. He pulled them out and in no time had the words figured out. Two of the words were gas and big. He was trying to put the words into some kind of order to make a phrase. It went something like this.

"Big...... Gas....."

"Big... Gas...."

"Big. Gas." (I hope that you can see where this is going....)

"Big Gas"

"Biggas"

"Bigas"

He stopped at this point. Now we do not use this kind of language in our house and he had no idea what he was saying, but it was a little difficult to not scold him! (He didn't know! So how could I!) Nick and looked at each other and just chuckled to ourselves.

I am sure that there will be many other stories like this in the future as we head down the road of reading and phonics! :)