Thomas Sings Solo

Today was the primary program at church and Thomas sang solo the first verse of "I'm Trying to be Like Jesus" and then the primary children joined in at the chorus followed by another little girl who sang the 2nd verse.  Thomas did a great job, mixing up just a few words at the end but otherwise he sang clearly and loudly.  He wasn't so happy to sing for me this afternoon (especially since I made him put his shirt and tie back on), however he was willing to do it for a few pieces of candy. Natalie also had a nice part in the program that she had memorized "I can learn to be more like Jesus by participating in good activities on Sunday".

This week we jump into October.  We have a birthday celebration planned for Jared on Thursday!  We also look forward to watching General Conference next weekend. Conference is a weekend full of uplifting messages from living prophets that really inspire me to become a better me.  Even though we don't have cable, we can stream conference to our TV from the internet.

Back to School

So the kids have been in school for about a month now, I know I'm a bit behind in writing.  I would say Amelia is the most excited to be in school.  She talks about her preschool every day.  Amelia attends the Special Needs preschool through the school district and the bus comes to pick her up at our door.  She almost didn't get admitted to the school since testing shows she's normal in all other areas except motor; however with a bit of pushing I got her in.  She looks so small driving away in the bus that I felt guilty sending her.  But honestly, Amelia is a handful and takes a lot of attention.  With her in preschool I can really focus on Abigail who is often pushed aside since her siblings require my attention more than she does.

Thomas really likes school as well although he reports that he gets his name on the board often.  The teacher tells me that it's because he needs to use his inside voice.  He naturally has a loud booming voice, so I can see her point.  On the other hand, with his loud voice he's a great singer, in fact he's going to sing a solo in next week's primary program in church.

Above is a picture of Thomas with his new glasses.  After completely failing his eye exam (the only letter he got right was the big "E" at the top of the chart), we ordered Thomas some glasses.  We bought these online for only $37 shipped (and they were the expensive frames!) .  Thomas is totally happy with these and I highly recommend ordering from this company http://www.zennioptical.com/ (my mom and sister both ordered from this site as well and are happy with their purchases as well).                         

Natalie seems to be really liking school as well.  Her only complaint is that she has two girls that follow her around all the time and she has to tell them that she can't play with them all the time.  Oh, if life only stayed as complicated as it were in kindergarten.

                   

New Hair

Today I decided to cut the twins hair.  They have sensitive heads and have always screamed when I tried to comb their long hair. After watching a couple of youtube tutorials, this is how it turned out.  What do you think? They were very good for me while I cut away. All I had to do was put in a movie and give them a sucker.