Last weekend

Posted on | April 29, 2010 | 2 Comments

Just a very brief update so Lola knows what’s happening.

The soccer game: the boys lost again. However, the number of goals that they lose by has been shrinking noticeably. NM has been strongly commended at each game for doing a great job as goalie (wow I am proud) and even as striker. His confidence has been increasing so that he’s even been making a significant number of attempts at goals when he’s played striker. Other parents have commented on how well he’s doing and also his coach keeps making a point of telling him what a great job he’s doing (even emailed NM and made his day).

J has been doing a great job at learning to read. I think he stares at all the books he wants to read and doesn’t get frustrated, he just tries to sound them out. He doesn’t nap in the afternoons, just takes a chapter book to bed and reads it and tells me what each chapter he read was about. He’s been reading out of the NIV bible he has and I’m really surprised he doesn’t get frustrated when he can’t read something, he just tries or waits for help. He recently inherited a lot of his older brother’s Legos and has been making cars again. I guess I won’t be putting NM in a Lego robotics class in the fall, maybe beginning engineering instead. We still need to put J in some kind of sport but are waiting on Abba for the ok.

Speaking of Abba: we are also very proud because he got a promotion (literally waited years for that). It’s a one-word change in his title but it’s still a big deal. He was supposed to get one several years ago but perhaps our move delayed it; we’re not sure. God’s timing is good though and he finally got it! He has to travel down to Monterrey, MX in June so we need to keep that trip in prayer.

Me? A friend had recently blessed me by asking me to take photos of her girls. That was fun! I learned  what *not* to do about where to take the photos and how much fun the girls were! They were real troopers and had fun with me even though they had to walk through grass with prickly thistles and wait in a bunch of flowers before we went to see the ducks in the water. Actually, they were geese so we ended up not having as much fun seeing them as we thought. Geese are very territorial and they didn’t really want anyone around! When you’re 6 and 7 they also look a whole lot bigger than ducks! Hopefully I’ll have some of those photos up when I get her written permission to use them.

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2 Responses to “Last weekend”

  1. k.d.
    May 2nd, 2010 @ 4:58 pm

    great pics on your flickr! i’m all smiles! :D

  2. Phisch
    May 2nd, 2010 @ 5:15 pm

    Thank you, sir! I started doing this: http://www.mercedesmorgan.com

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