I doubt that I am going to regularly post things to my blog, considering how long it has been since my last entry. So I have deemed this the "Biannual Blog Fest" in order to release me from further self imposed expectations :) It is hard to remember everything that has happened in the last months, but I will put in a few of the most memorable. We are still enjoying our mountain mobile home in the redwoods. Summer is hot here, but not unbearable. It is nice and cool at night and in the early morning. Since my last blog, Soren had his front tooth removed. We didn't get to pull it out with the doorknob because it had been dead for sometime since he hit it on the tub when he was very small and so it needed to be taken out. It has changed his look, but we love it. Isaiah got some silver "bionic" teeth like Soren. Mom and Dad feel like failures in the dental arena, but we are trying to do better with Ian.
The boys spend their days riding their bikes, jumping on the trampoline, playing in the plastic turtle pool and building with Legos most of the time. Ian is full of personality and has a hilarious fake smile. He is growing up and wanting to do everything his brothers do, so luckily they look after him really well. He seems to be very into sports and would carry his baseball mitt with him everywhere if he had someone to throw a ball to him 24/7. Isaiah is in a stage where he asks me for chocolate every morning when he wakes up, every day I say "no." I am not sure what this says about him, but you can't blame him for trying :) He wishes he could sleep on the top bunk, but since the manufacturer directions say no one under 6, he is doomed to wait. He loves to ride his bike, which has training wheels. He wants to take them off all the time, so Dad does and Isaiah quickly decides he wants them back on again. Soren has learned how to clean our the dishwasher, load it, vacuum the car, mop the floor and do other chores in order to earn money to support his Lego habit. He got stung by a bee recently, his 2nd sting in a year, so he is now suffering from the idea that every bee is out to get him. They are growing up so fast, it is sad. We are trying to relish every smile, tickle and tear.
Since the boys love reptiles of all kinds, I had to show some shots of the reptiles that they have enjoyed the last few months. The have had many blue belly lizards, 2 ring neck snakes, skinks, and alligator lizards. Sorry we don't have shots of everything. We have asked them to just keep them in captivity for a short time and release them so that they can catch something new and keep the reptiles free and alive :) We have joked about what that the lizards in the area might say if we could hear them when they are captured and later released by Soren and Isaiah. We figured the lizards might be telling their family and friends about the two horrific weeks they spent in the glass prison. How their captors held them and stroked them for hours, left them to starve for days on end and then how they were then let go for what seemed to be no apparent reason. Soren even wrote a story to enter in the Authors Fair about his reptile adventures and titled it "The Three Little Lizards." We are sure it will be a classic someday. Friends that you may not recogize in these shots are Sophia and Elias. Sophia goes to Fall Creek Homeschool with Soren and Elias is her little brother.
