Random Updates

I haven't been the best about doing blog posts lately, but life has been so busy!  We are still adjusting to me working full time and getting home late, eating super, playing for a bit, and then it being bedtime before we know it.  Work is going good for Eric and I, and the kids seem to like their school/daycare.  Here are a few random updates from the past few weeks.

Leyton started flag football back in September.  It was a 6 week long program, and he seemed to really like it.  Matthew's Dad, a good from last years preschool, coached it. Cal loved to go along and watch/play at the park.

Leyton is in the red shirt:

Getting their next instructions:

Ouch!  Cal burned his foot on a mini dirt bike ride with Eric.  We went to Hudson where they wrapped it and cleaned it for us.  He was a tough guy crawling around for awhile and did just fine at daycare!  He was pretty much healed and walking on it in about 2 weeks.

 Fiona got her first tooth!  Last weekend when we got to Rice Lake for Evelyn's baptism I felt the bottom front left poking through, and it is all the way through now.  I love how cuddly she is when I get home from work.

 We had parent/teacher conferences for Leyton Wednesday this week.  His teacher said he is doing great, and is where he needs to be on everything.  She said he speaks up in discussion, but is overall quiet, and is a very good listener.  We have also heard this from his daycare teachers.  They still tell us that he is the best listener and that they never have to talk to him about behaving/following rules.  That is such a good thing to hear!  He did this puzzle the other week when Eric was traveling for work and I was in the kitchen making supper with Fiona and Cal.  He told me to come take a picture of him with the puzzle for dad, and then when I got there he pretended to be sleeping...

This was towards the end of summer.  He finally mastered those darn monkey bars!  We don't have a playground, and the last time we were at Lauren's I could tell he was watching her do them and thinking he wanted to be able to too!

He is really into writing and "reading".  He wants to know how to read so bad lately.  He will sit on the couch with one of his books and say he is going to read.  Now he tells me he wants to bring books to daycare to read during rest time.  Tonight we were working on sounding the letters out... Teachers are very patient!

 This picture is really blurry, but pretty funny.  Eric was pressure washing coolers out from Ali's wedding that he transported meat in, and Cal got carried away with pressure washing our grass. We had quit the dirt hole by our sidewalk...

 Cal is still obsessed with anything farm, especially his farm books.  He has 3 farm books that are his favorites and will look at them over and over and over again...

And his smiles are pretty intense sometimes. :)   He was helping me feed Fiona in her high chair this night (ignore the dirty face).  It is his new favorite thing to help me with!