I used to be a good letter writer! But, with blogs, email, facebook....not so much anymore. I keep thinking I should write more especially to my grandmas who may not catch all my internet news. But, I never seem to get around to it. Yesterday, while looking for something else I came across a copy of a letter from nine years ago. Paige read it and laughed and laughed. This is it (leaving out the more boring parts).
February 19, 2002
Hi Everybody,
We have been enjoying the Olympics. It looks like everything is going so smoothly and that people are enjoying it. We have been watching a lot. Bryce watches a little. He has liked a few things like snowboarding but his favorite event is the bobsled. Ty and Paige aren't interested. We had our own family olympics for family home evening last night. We all had fun. Our events were: The crawlin' slalom, aerials, and cross-house rely. For the slalom we crawled around a maze of stuffed animals, We jumped from the couch to a pile of pillows doing "tricks" for aerials and then the teams of mommy and Ty vs. Daddy carring Paige and Bryce had a relay from one end of the house to the other. We had a medals ceremony (everyone got gold medals). Then Ty and Bryce continued to have their own olympics until bedtime.
I also registered Ty for Kindergarten yesterday. He says he doesn't want to go. I saw Bryce's teacher while I was there. She had great things to say about Bryce. He is very intelligent, a perfectionist and notices all the details. She also said he could use some work on his common sense.
Paige has hit the age of many questions. She went on and on yesterday, "Do kids go to school? Do boys go to school? Do girls go to school? Do babies go to school? Do backpacks go to school?" etc. etc. So, now there are three of them with a never-ending stream of questions. On at least 2 occasions in the van recently the boys have asked question after question about the lines on the road.
The boys decorated our entire driveway with chalk yesterday. They tell me it is hopscotch and giant caterpillars. Luckily it is supposed to rain later.
Paige has been throwing some good tantrums lately. She has even given herself time-out. We have also been potty training. She has a chart where she gets to add a sticker when she goes. Well, a couple of days ago she got a step stool and found the stickers and filled up her chart.
I hope everyone is doing well. Talk to you soon.
Love,
Dave, Lisa, Bryce, Ty and Paige
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When Ashlei was little her potty-training reward was a little Reeses. I hadn't opened the bag yet. She got John's mom to open it and was chowing down.
As for stools and such. We have a "doghouse" with little dogs haning on pegs where you can put the "naughty" kid in the dog house. Years ago, Ethans dog disappeared. I never did find it.
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