Jackson keeps taking more and more steps! Of course, he won't really let me get it on camera. About a week ago we were all in Caleb and Logan's room and he took about 5-6 steps - we were all cheering loudly and he clearly enjoyed the attention. :) We're in a 'fun' transition time right now, but I think he's moving towards dropping to one nap a day. He's already changing in what he will and won't eat, and becoming more challenging for me. For example, used to be that he would gobble up scrambled eggs faster than I could keep up, now he won't touch them. Stinker.
Last week was a little extra busy because Caleb and Logan had a couple rehearsals for their church Christmas program. Wednesday night they had a rehearsal before Word of Life, and then all Saturday morning. The program was Sunday night and went really well! It was a cute program about a birthday party for Jesus, and had fun songs. The boys were just in the choir part for most of it, then at the end they got to be shepherds. So cute! Caleb was a little fidgity up there, but Logan was very serious and focused. Normally I've got some sort of story to tell after Christmas Program night, but not this time! Things were pretty tame. A few times Caleb was sticking his hand in his shirt where he had a button missing, but probably no one noticed? :) And, while Levi was up there with his group, Caleb did holler something at him from where he was sitting, but we didn't have any "major" incidents this year. Levi's group (the 4's and 5's) did great! It was a small group so we were worried about them being way too quiet, but they did well. We had been encouraging Levi to go ahead and sing right into the microphone, and he actually did try a few times, but I don't think that one was turned up very much as I didn't hear him. Hard to believe that next year Jackson will be up there in the 2's and 3's!!
Friday night our school had a Parent's Night Out babysitting fundraiser for some of the highschoolers going on a missions trip this spring. So we gladly dropped the boys off and headed out for a date! (Too rare of an occurrence.) Tacos el Cunado for supper, then Barnes & Noble to just hang out browsing at books and then having coffee. After the craziness of harvest season, it is SOOOOOO nice to have more time to spend together and actually have conversations. Kinda funny, on our way to drop the kids off we were all in the truck and swerved a little on an icy patch. Then on our way to pick the kids up, there was a smaller truck in the ditch in that same spot. We pulled over to make sure he had a phone to call for help and he was fine. Glad it wasn't more serious, and glad we weren't the ones in the ditch!
Saturday morning we fit in a drive to Benton Harbor to deliver beef while Caleb and Logan were at rehearsal. The weather was a little wintry, but not too bad. On the way back we did see a couple separate vehicles in the median, one looked pretty bad. Sunday was pretty snowy, but thankfully the program wasn't cancelled. We drove around in the truck all weekend as the van needs new tires and isn't getting them until Friday. Of course, I've been slipping around in it this week so far. Monday school was cancelled, and we had a really nice snow day. A year ago I dreaded snow days, but it was actually a nice, relaxing, fun day. I even got to go out a play a bit with the big boys when Jackson napped.
Amy and I have gone to a spin class at Zeeland Rec a couple times now, and it's been great! It was really rough the first time, but it felt good to get some exercise, and I could notice improvement at the second class already. Now to try and get moving the rest of the week, too! I took possession of Mike's old fitbit, so we'll see if tracking my activity motivates me at all.
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