A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
Seth is starting to get a flat spot on one side of his head. He tends to lay in the bassinet with his head turned toward the room so he can see us when we are in there. I decided that maybe I should lay him in there the other way so he can round out the back of his head. 🙂
Turning twelve means Ethan is having a lot of firsts lately. Today he got to go out and help collect fast offerings for the first time. He went to meet with the other boys at the house of one of his leaders at 9 this morning. After awhile he was at our front door to collect our fast offering. Adam was excited to see Ethan at the door and growled to him in salutation. Then Ethan and his companions went on their way to finish their assigned route. Kyle and I weren’t too sure what to expect this first time sending him out. After awhile we were wondering if the boys had just gone to the church to turn in the donations and if we should just get going so we could meet Ethan there. Shortly after Kyle and I were considering this, Ethan walked in the door and it was time to load everybody up and head to the church. 🙂
Kyle worked from home today so that I could take Seth with me to my six week check up, without taking all of the kids. Everything looks good with me, and my midwife also checked Seth out. He’s up to 11 pounds! She was also very impressed that he was making eye contact with her and responding to her voice. 🙂
Ethan earned a couple of merit badges at the Fall BYU pow wow a few months ago, but he hadn’t been awarded them yet because the blue cards hadn’t been turned in. After asking around and getting some confusing answers as to who to turn them in to, I got them turned in so they could be awarded at the court of honor tonight.
We went to the court of honor expecting Ethan to receive two merit badges. When they called him up there and started reading off the merit badges in the pile for him, he received SIX! I guess he earned three during his time with the 11 year olds group, and he moved up to the deacons group just in time to earn one with them.
Expecting two and coming home with six! I thought it was a nice surprise. 🙂
We have been reading a series of books called the Dragon Keepers, and in the book we are currently reading, Emmy, the dragon, really wants to believe in Santa Clause and the “fang fairy”. When, in the book, Emmy lost one of her fangs she hid it under her pillow of socks and didn’t tell her keepers about it, but when she woke up she found that the tooth had been taken and no money had been left and she was really upset.
Ethan lost a fang tooth this morning, and Kyle told him he better watch out or the fang fairy may come and take his tooth. Then I said “Ya the fake fang fairy.” Kyle took it a step further and said what if it’s a fluffy fake fang fairy. We continued to talk about this when Kyle decided to get a little more crazy, and said that maybe it will be a fluffy fat fake fang fairy….named Frederick. We laughed and Tyra commented on how it’s become a tongue twister when Kyle decided to to make it even more crazy and suggested that maybe there were FIVE fluffy fat fake fang fairies: Frederick, Francis, Francine, Frank….and Phil!