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hannah came bounding down the stairs with a cheerful hilarious comment:
“hey mom, even with braces marcia brady was still the grooviest looking girl at school, according to alan.”

true story.

Miss Hannah now has braces on top (October) & bottom (December).
She looks darling. She has purple & turquoise rubber bands right now.
She’s the grooviest tween girl in our family!
She made this cheese ball on her own to share at young women’s.
And she did her own fishtail braid.
This girl is going places!

Tonight at bed I asked Max if he was planning on wearing his sweats backwards.
We chuckled together as he turned them around.
He said, “How do parents always know when we have things on backwards?”
I answered, “We must just be so amazing!”
Max replied, “It’s like you’re Albert Einstein or something.”

oh max.

Also, the past week or so, Max has requested America the Beautiful for bedtime song.
After I sing it, he asks things like,
“What are purple mountains majesty?”

“Wait, how does it start?”
Oh beautiful for Spacious Skies.
“Oh yeah, I think I know what Spacious skies are”

“What are fruited plains?”

It was fun to explain to him about each one so he could imagine it when he hears that song.
Aren’t kids so great… learning things for the first time, fresh lessons and discoveries!
Love that about childhood!

I’m not even sure what to say about this?
these are my children.
and jimmy’s too, of course.

this is the face abe made in sacrament meeting –
while sitting on the front row –
right in front of the Bishop and Stake President… (who luckily were both boys themselves once upon a time)
on the day they announced Jimmy’s advancement in the Melchizedek Priesthood to High Priest.
sometimes we wonder if our boys think before they do things.
luckily, most of the time, they show more wisdom than this (at least in public).

Miss Hannah and I went to Young Women in Excellence tonight. I love the 2014 Youth Theme of Come Unto Christ! Hannah is the only blonde YW in our ward if you can believe that. She is darling and such a sweet girl! She reminds us she will be 18 and leaving home in 6 years. Yikes! That is way too soon. She has been able to go to the temple twice to do baptisms and she loves it!

Truman is having a great time at preschool this fall.
He learned to spell R-E-D.
He learns spanish words for days of the week & months of the year.
I love how he writes his name.
Sometimes he thinks it’s spelled T-R-U-M-Q-N because of how he writes his A.
Knowing how much he dislikes coloring, etc, I’m so proud of his writing!!!

He is with 9 other boys and 4 girls.
Bridger is his favorite friend in preschool.
We went on a field trip to Evans Farm.
Tru loved picking a pumpkin (a greenish one, of course!), playing with friends, going through the hay maze, riding in the train cars pulled by the tractor. They are a cute bunch of kids. Plus, Miss Tracy is a great teacher.

He’s on a muffin-tin-lunch kick lately.
It’s easy for me.
Semi-healthy (actually much more healthy than otherwise) for Truman.
Easy to eat upstairs while he watches Diego and lays on the couch for quiet time.
It’s his routine.
He likes green/orange peppers, strawberries, cheese sticks, craisins, pb sandwiches, crackers, fruit snacks, apples, bananas, marshmallows, popcorn, pickles, graham crackers, etc. I try to have several fruits and veggies for him and he usually eats his entire lunch. I think it’s helped him put back on the weight he lost over the summer (he was way too skinny for slim jeans!)

He still loves playing electronics. Sigh…
Not my favorite, but since I feel like we’re still in survival mode… I’m going to let it go.
We break for building forts, making glowing glitter jars, playing magformers, outside play if warm enough, quiet time, game of spot it, look-and-find book time, building legos.

Lastly… still falling asleep in random places.
This one was the walmart grocery cart when out with dad.
This past Sunday Truman fell asleep in the van on the 3-minute drive to church.
Everyone got out. I was rushing because it was so chilly and I didn’t want Scotty to freeze.
I went to check that Truman made it to class… and he wasn’t there.
I handed a friend the baby and I ran to the van.
He was completely asleep and hadn’t heard us get out.
I was glad I had checked on his class so that he was only out there for less than 5 minutes.
sigh… Once his mind finally slows down and he allows his body to rest, he konks out quickly.
The past few weeks, he’s taken a 45 minute nap in sacrament meeting. I’m totally great with that… for now.