Nothing exciting is going on here, just your same-old January. We just got back in the swing of things after Christmas, and now the two oldest kids are off-track for 3 weeks. Jorgen still has preschool, though. I am hoping to find things for them to do so they don't get bored. Any ideas???
At the first of the year we decided to start reading the Book of Mormon again as a family. It has been kind of hit-and-miss as far as consistency lately. So we made up a chart and started. Now we have a big dilemma and his name is Jorgen. He does not like scripture time! He does everything and anything he can to be disruptive and irreverent. It is kind of frustrating. We are reading straight from the scriptures, so it is a little too hard for him, but we try to let him have a turn repeating a verse. We have tried doing the easy readers with the pictures and he is the same way. We don't want to take him to time-out everytime he starts acting up during scripture time (or prayer time, he does it then too). I really feel he needs to be there with the family so he can feel the Spirit. But if we don't take him out he will just sit there and screech at the top of his lungs, or shut someone's book, or hit someone, or jump on the couch, or run around shouting, etc... I am kind of at a loss with what to do. The older kids, when they are able to concentrate, have actually been asking questions and making comments this time around, which is very encouraging and helps me to not give up. But what do I do with Jorgen? I am stumped on this one.
In other news, Bethany won her class spelling bee, then made it to the third round of the school spelling bee. She did really well with some really hard words. I am glad she didn't win because the next round of words were even harder - most of them I didn't know and had to look up the meaning and pronunciation. I was brain dead and forgot to take my camera to the spelling bee.
Andrew is meanwhile super excited for his birthday coming up (not until March). He has already typed a birthday wish list - all the things he didn't get from Santa are on the list. And he is looking forward to joining Cub Scouts and getting baptized on April 7th. I am hoping the baby doesn't decide to come early, at least not before the 7th. That would complicate things....
Jorgen, besides being a pill some of the time, is in a growth spurt right now and almost as tall as Andrew. He has finally decided it's okay to wear blue shirts once in awhile (instead of green), which is nice because most of Andrew's old shirts are blue. Except now when I just glance at the boys I sometimes mix them up because they are almost the same size. I am hoping Andrew also has a growth spurt coming soon.
