Amelia

Amelia is 3 1/2 now. She just now has her first fever.
Last night in the middle of the night she woke up just boiling; Dada didn't even know what was happening he was so worried. I gave her some medicine and went back to bed. Dada stayed by her tucking her in and patting her. After a bit of that though Amelia opened her eyes and said, "You can go now Dad."
I am sure she will be better soon.

Jack

Jack got his remote to the remote control helicopter in the mail the other day. I heard him in the front room driving it up and down. He kept telling himself and Amelia, "I'm a natural!" He is very excited to have his own helicopter just like Dad and Jacob.

Jacob

Today at the movies we were waiting for Myrna and Xavier. The kids were pretending to play video games for a while when the enviable "Do you have any money" question came up. After I checked my purse to find I had enough money for only 2 kids I said, "Sorry everyone plays or no one plays." The boys immediately start brainstorming ways to get to play a game. After several solutions that didn't quite work Jacob says, "It's ok the other two can play. I can pretend to play this game." Boy my heart just swelled with pride and joy after he said that. He is the sweetest boy ever! I don't think Amelia and Jack will ever appreciate how great a brother they have.

PS No one played a game

Seahawks 2015

Sunday the Seahawks won some football game to go to the super bowl. It was one of those games people have to share where they were during the game. I thought I would record where we were.

 

We all were watching the game at home. Dada had already paced around the house, turned off the TV and back on because he couldn't bear not to watch it. Jacob, Jack and Amelia came in the living room as things started to turn around in the game. Dada and the kids was huddled on the ottoman and floor, a ball of anxiety. Once they won Dada was up shouting and of course the kids followed along high-fiving.

We watched for a while after the game when they showed Russell Wilson and several other Seahawk players praying on the field. I said "Look they are praying! That is so great they are doing that." Dada told the kids, especially Jacob sitting next to him, "That's what a real man does." The next TV shot showed Russell Wilson over whelmed with emotion crying after we heard what he had to say, Dada looked down at Jacob to see him wiping tears from his eyes. Dada said, "You crying a bit buddy," and then he gave him a hug. I could see Dada so proud that his little guy was shedding a tear over the Hawks; a great bonding moment for the two of them.

Once the game coverage was over we took a family walk to walk off the tension of the game. After the kids and Dada played football in the backyard.

Jack

Jack like to listen to music while he goes to sleep, not unusual. The unusual thing is that he likes to listen to the same song over and over and over again. He listens to the "Super Hero" song on his personal CD I got for him a year or so ago. The song goes through all the super powers you could have and says his name. It isn't too bad as long as he keeps the volume down but usually he tries to turn it up loud so we can hear it downstairs. Geez let me tell you how much I don't like hearing that song 10 times in a row.

Amelia

Its a little late but I wanted to blog about Amelia's preschool Christmas program. She was so darling up there standing so nicely. She didn't sing a lot of the words but did most of the motions.  She was very serious. She wanted to do a good job. She would look down to make sure she was still standing on her piece of tape. By the end of the performance she was yawning a lot, it was close to bedtime, but she perked for the cake afterwards.

Amelia

Amelia has been talking a lot about weddings lately. She draws pictures of her getting married. The other day she said she was going to play getting married. I asked her who she was going to marry. She didn't have an answer for me so I said your boyfriend. Her response, "Oh yes, a boy that is my friend."
She asked me today what I wore for my wedding. I told her a cream colored wedding dress. She insisted I describe it to her but I told her I would just show it to her when we got home. She asked what my shoes looked like and was very upset to find out I didn't have them anymore. She kept asking what else what else. After telling her about a hair comb and veil I couldn't think of anymore. I don't know where this came from but it seems she has already starting planning her wedding.