Welcome to Weems World: June 2008

Well, I noticed it has been a whole month since I have posted, and in my defense-we just got done with VBS. And for those of you who have ever directed or been involved with the directing of VBS-it is almost a 24-7 job. This weekend the family (Weems side) are having a family yard sale. After moving from our almost 2000 sq ft house in Hamilton-to our 1196 sq ft house here-we have had to downsize. So I have a TON of stuff to price and sell this Thursday and Friday. Which will be nice when I make money-but my goodness I hate pricing all this crud.
We had a super great VBS-it all went very smoothly. I have directed 4 VBS in my day-but this was the first Baptist VBS I have directed-it was great. I really love our church. People showed more support, financially and otherwise, that we could even comprehend. (Sometimes I wish people were as enthusiastic about other church programs {Outreach anyone...})
But I am glad it is over-I feel like I abandoned my family during this past month-but Steven has been a trooper-getting the kids ready for bed every night. Making sure they were at church dressed in the outfits I laid out, fed and ready to go.

The kids are growing-here are some updates.

Luke: He is really getting to be a big-boy. He wants to help, and wants to be able to do things on his own-without help. So he has been doing household chores to help Mommy. He has been very affectionate the past few months-which I love. for a few years there-he didn't want to be cuddled-but now he does. He will start 4k in August-and he is super excited. He loves Sunday School, and church in general. He goes to "Kowfield" which is the preschool version of CHildren's Church-and they have worship time in there. He comes home singing these praise and worship songs-and I know that I am biased, but this kid can sing. He can keep tempo, pitch, appropriate volume. I am very impressed with his musical ability.

Emmy: Turned 3 last Saturday!! This girl is a diva. She loves to play house. SHe loves Baby dolls, and being the Mommy. SHe always wants Luke to be "Jake" the Daddy-to which he always replies-no I wanna be Lukey. We have to keep the attitude in check with this one-which I hear is common in girls this age. She tends to put her hand on her hip and get the "sassy" face & tone, and has to be reminded that we talk sweet in our house... She likes to help Mommy cook, and loves it when she gets to cook something herself without mommy's help. SHe is very girly in the fact that she wants to be dressed up and have hair & fingernails done-but she will squish a bug with her bare fingers if you let her. She is rapidly catching up with Luke in the learning department. By next year I think they will almost be on the same page. They will only be one year apart in school.

LaLa: We are now calling Baby Lauren "LaLa" She is growing more every day. She walks and climbs and runs---fast when she has something she's not supposed to... She is just beginning to try to talk. She has been slower than the other two in this department, but I am not pushing her-she will in her own time. But she does say Mama, Dada, no-no, dog, hey, and night-night. She is very opinionated. Even though she can't say it with words-there is no question what LaLa wants at any given time. I guess being the 3rd child, she has learned to defend herself as well. she don't take no crap off a nobody:) She is a great eater-but still is little. I mean she's in the 90th percentile in the height, and 25th in the weight-so she's not actually all that little-but she still seems little, and people always think she is younger than she is. But that's okay with me-I love little ones:) She is still taking 3 naps a day-but we are trying to move to a 2 nap schedule, while synchronizing one of those with Luke & Emmy's afternoon nap. We'll let you know how that works... She is just now starting to get a little bit of hair. But WILL NOT let me put bows or anything in it. Emmy always would-Lauren, not so much.

But that's a brief overview of the kiddos-oh, almost forgot #4-Alex (the dog)

Alex: he is getting huge-but is still such a sweet boy. he loves to be inside, but being so huge and stinky-he diesn't get inside as often as he would like. But he does have a girlfriend dog next door now-a bloodhound puppy-so he is happy. He is chewing up everything the kids leave outside, including the power cord to our treadmill. I don't know how he did it without electrocuting himself... But we love him-he is the perfect family dog-and he even poops in his designated areas-yaye!!