A day in the life

August has started telling me he loves me. Oh how precious is that? He says it so appropriately too. Mommy I love you. It makes me melt.

When August gets hurt he cries for a short while - has tears and a runny nose and then quickly wipes his nose with his hand and says "Better now!" He then continues to do whatever it was that cause the tears in the first place. A boy.

His favorite activity is taking his ride toy down the sidewalk at high speed. It is so great - he catches speed and conveniently slows down at the corner of our street and turns around to do it again.

His "hat" or helmet is his favorite item of clothing. He wore it all day and in the car and to the store and than fell asleep with it on. When I tried to take it off he reached up to make sure he still had it on. Could it have been comfortable?

He is enamored by our 14 yr. old neighbor Morgan who he calls "Organ" She will ride him down the street over and over. The girls love her too. She is the perfect neighbor. She loves kids and likes to babysit. We like that her paretns are next door if anything should happen while we are gone.

Olive is spending the night with her grandparents. She needed a little one on one time and that is what I am sure she is getting at Jack and Jean's. She will go to church with them in the morning and we'll pick her up tomorrow night. This is great for Olive as she is usually our babysitter. Olive's report card had one B. She was so bummed. I didn't tell her that I was so happy to get all B's. She doesn't need to know that. Olive is taking piano again from a great teacher. She is having a totally different experience as her last teacher was Russian and was very hard to understand. This teacher is a great teacher and I think Olive will learn a lot from her. Ingrid is taking piano from her daughter and I am excited for her to start lessons this week.

Greta learned to ride a bike today. Rob is the best teacher. He is so patient and encouraging. I am lacking in those departments so I decided to mow the lawn so that Rob could go on a bike ride when he was done with the lesson. Greta shed no tears until I started to help her. She insisted that she needed her Dad. I was so proud of her. She rode around the block several times by herself. I remember the day each of the girls learned to ride their bikes. Olive was so persistent. She just decided one day that she needed to learn and we took her to Waluga park and had her ride on the baseball diamond. She just got on that and took off. She is persistent. It went so well that when Ingrid was ready we took her to Freepons and had her ride down the slight hill on the grass and she took off immediately. It's so fun to watch them try new things and to see them in their success.