A Good Week

With my last post I had decided to try and blog every day until the end of February. As you can see that is not happening. Maybe I'll try for March, but I'm not making any promises!

We have had such beautiful weather lately. Every morning is still pretty frigid, but by the afternoon it's a lovely day!  Don has been taking the advantage and washing the car often. I think he's washed it twice in the past week!  The kids love to help out. They've also enjoyed being able to play outside longer. Harry was given a bike last week and he is so excited about learning to ride!  We had to order training wheels/stabilizers so he can get used to the bike first. It would be nice if he learned how to ride without them this summer!

Harry and Kathy are enjoying doing some school work 3 days out of the week. Harry finished his consonants and is almost done with the vowels. He's very good at recognizing the sounds but still gets some of them mixed up. It's my goal to have him reading by the fall. Kathy just works on recognizing the alphabet and her numbers. She can say her alphabet and count to ten, but she can't recognize them very well. Sometimes it can be a lot of fun teaching them and other times...well we won't talk about the other times!

Kathy's first 'person' drawing - Flynn Rider

The kids had a check up last Wednesday. It was nice to find out how tall they are and how much they weigh. They're almost a foot apart in height (Harry - 111 cm/3'8"  Kathy - 90 cm/2'11"), but only 7 lbs difference in weight (Harry - 18kg/40lbs  Kathy - 15kg/33lbs). Audrey has almost doubled her birth weight. I think that's about right for being 6 months old.
Don and Harry made a short trip over to Lossiemouth. This is the town we eventually would like to move to. It's 6 miles from Elgin. Don would like to start a church in this area as God allows. They had a fun day over there and brought back some goodies since it was Valentine's Day.  Harry loved the beach and was very tired by the time they got back home.

I'm beginning to venture out a little more into the color shoe area. I pretty much have owned only brown or black shoes. Occasionally I've had white, but I have found that after a while they begin to look dingy and they get dirty quickly. I don't have very many shoes. Travel on the road for a few years and you pretty much keep to basics. But after finding these, I'm looking forward to trying other colors. Shoes can be fun!

We had Friend Day at church this past Sunday. We had 6 first time visitors and some have said they would like to return. The spaghetti supper afterwards was great. It was a fun time of food and fellowship.
One last thing to mention:  For all the Jane Austen fans:  The Royal Mail is issuing commemorative stamps this year in honor of P&P's 200 year anniversary!  I ordered mine a few weeks ago and received it on the day they issued them. This is a big win for me since I love Jane Austen and I collect stamps. You can order 6 illustrated stamps, first day cover, stamp cards, etc. Check it out! https://shop.royalmail.com/issue-by-issue/jane-austen/icat/janeausten/