I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I always forget how to spell my kid's middle name. Thanks, Heidi, for marrying a guy with weird spelling! (She's named after the amazing Heidi & Kelly, who now have the last name of Cassidy! Ha ha-I know that's wrong!) I always have to check Charis's birth certificate to see whether it's Cassaday or Cassiday! Cool name, confusing spelling. The first time Nathan checked her into the church nursery, he spelled 'Charis' wrong! That's really bad.Anyway, Charis is doing great. She's walking all over the place now. She may be #5, but she knows what she wants and she is busy bossing around her big brothers & sisters and pointing and making the sounds of phrases! You can almost make out what she's saying sometimes because her voice sounds like she just said "I don't know" and things like that! She does say some words, but mostly she just points and hollers. She's not a baby at all anymore, but a tiny toddler! Everyone seems to think she's brilliant for being able to walk, but she is nearly a year and a half, she just looks young since she's still in about the 1st percentile (meaning that out of 100 babies, roughly 99 of them are bigger than her!)
Levi on his 5th Birthday, showing off his new Lego book on the Coho-our day trip to Port Angeles
Levi has turned 5 years old! That means we've been in this house for 5 years and 2 weeks! Hard to believe!
I had to go to Port Angeles to do some banking and go the Social Security office, so I asked Levi if he'd like to come along since it was his birthday. Then I found out that you can ride for free on your actual birthday, so that was a great deal! I was a little worried that we were late arriving at the ferry in the morning, so we parked and ran-but we had to wait for a good half hour once we got there anyway. It's an hour and a half ferry ride, but he was pretty excited since I bought candy, which I don't normally do with all the kids. Since we had nearly 2 hours, I thought that would be plenty of time, but the ferry was running late and then the bank took forever and we only had a few minutes at the Social Security office and we just ran out of time, so in the end I realized we were going to miss the boat back if we didn't run! So we RAN and RAN all the way back, arriving out of breath and digging up tickets and passports as the whistle blew. Another 30 seconds and we would have had to spend the night! So much for taking Levi out for sushi (his favourite food) in America! We ate on the ferry-and let me tell ya-it's not like the BC Ferries where they have a selection! Levi was just thrilled to have a subway sandwich-I didn't tell him it wasn't a real Subway sandwich! We arrived back in downtown Victoria at 4:00 after a day of running our hearts out and sitting and waiting! I felt so bad for Levi having to spend such a boring day, but he was thrilled! He just loved the running, he said!
Here's a handy tip I learned last week: if a ballpoint pen explodes all over your hands and then you rub it on your face (the day before your birthday), use wet wipes! They work the best. Forget about the cold cream and olive oil. Don't ask me about getting it off of wood. I've decided I can live with that until I feel like attacking it!
Levi has turned 5 years old! That means we've been in this house for 5 years and 2 weeks! Hard to believe!I had to go to Port Angeles to do some banking and go the Social Security office, so I asked Levi if he'd like to come along since it was his birthday. Then I found out that you can ride for free on your actual birthday, so that was a great deal! I was a little worried that we were late arriving at the ferry in the morning, so we parked and ran-but we had to wait for a good half hour once we got there anyway. It's an hour and a half ferry ride, but he was pretty excited since I bought candy, which I don't normally do with all the kids. Since we had nearly 2 hours, I thought that would be plenty of time, but the ferry was running late and then the bank took forever and we only had a few minutes at the Social Security office and we just ran out of time, so in the end I realized we were going to miss the boat back if we didn't run! So we RAN and RAN all the way back, arriving out of breath and digging up tickets and passports as the whistle blew. Another 30 seconds and we would have had to spend the night! So much for taking Levi out for sushi (his favourite food) in America! We ate on the ferry-and let me tell ya-it's not like the BC Ferries where they have a selection! Levi was just thrilled to have a subway sandwich-I didn't tell him it wasn't a real Subway sandwich! We arrived back in downtown Victoria at 4:00 after a day of running our hearts out and sitting and waiting! I felt so bad for Levi having to spend such a boring day, but he was thrilled! He just loved the running, he said!
Here's a handy tip I learned last week: if a ballpoint pen explodes all over your hands and then you rub it on your face (the day before your birthday), use wet wipes! They work the best. Forget about the cold cream and olive oil. Don't ask me about getting it off of wood. I've decided I can live with that until I feel like attacking it!ACACIA MARIE...
Acacia has been doing some drawing lately. I squeezed the desk into the storage room downstairs so the "big kids" can go down there to draw and I put all the good art supplies & books down there. Here's what Acacia came up with last week:
I say that's not bad for a kid in grade 1, just looking at a 'how to draw' book all on her own! I love the green eyes! I think I'm going to enter that one in the Saanich Fair!
I say that's not bad for a kid in grade 1, just looking at a 'how to draw' book all on her own! I love the green eyes! I think I'm going to enter that one in the Saanich Fair!Oops. I better go-I need to pick up the kids from their class! I didn't even get to tell you about Eden and how she wants to have a girl baby named 'Noah' after Heidi & Kelly's very adorable son with great hair. Another time. It's probably for the best anyway, since she goes on in detail about how she's going to nurse her baby, whipping up her shirt and explaining it. How embarrassing to have observant children. It's still a bit difficult to understand her since she doesn't say the first letter sound of each word yet, but there she is, explaining and showing you!
Ha ha ha - looking up Charis' middle name on her birth certificate - I LOVE it!! Too funny!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd what spelling did Nathan use when he checked her into the nursery??
I also like Acacia's green-eyed lady...and the green highlights in her hair! Awesome! :)
Bev