Rachel has finally achieved her goal of someday being big enough to climb a tree - even if it is just the small lilac "tree" in our back yard near the alley. Don't ask me why, but she loves wedging herself between the branches and pretending to sleep there. She also sits various stuffed animals on different limbs and forgets about them, resulting in devastation when Mommy or Daddy find them after a rainstorm. She loves going to Cubbies on Wednesday nights and earning Lov E. Lamb and Ern E. Elephant patches by saying Bible verses. What she talks about most, though, is the snack. Every week she saves a little of it in a napkin to take home for her brother . . . so sweet.
Speaking of Bible verses, Zekers has learned his first one, complete with reference. I ask him repeatedly what it is, just because I love hearing him say, "Your Word is troof. Uncle John 17:17." OK, we're still working on the reference. Zekers is way into dogs, Thomas the Train, and answering in complete sentences. I'm not kidding - we've tried and tried, in vain, to get him to simply answer "yes" or "no" to questions we ask. It can't be done. When I ask, "Would you like to go to bed, Mr. Beef?" his reply is, "No, I would not like to go to bed, Mommy," in this really choppy, gravelly voice. At least, if he keeps it up, he'll have excellent grades in English class someday.
And Kari Bou? She certainly keeps busy emptying drawers and cupboards, trying to eat paper and dirt, and grabbing everything in sight. Her mission: search and destroy the entire house. Several weeks ago, she discovered how to open the door to the church nursery. She's a baby on the move. But it's impossible to get too annoyed with her, since every time I try to reprimand her she flashes a huge, ornery smile or starts to laugh. Usually I end up joining her - she's just so irresistably cute. That's it for now . Maybe if I write enough of these I can get out of writing a Christmas update letter by refering everyone to my blog. Very tempting.
4 comments:
That picture of Rachel and kari is so cute! Are those the matching shirts I got them for their birthdays?
Hannah
Wait a minute....if you don't send out your annual Christmas photo, the wall of our apartment will be very bare!!! Last year I even mounted Christmas napkins on that wall in an attempt to have some festive things on display. To say we get far less Christmas cards in the DR would be putting it mildly...
i love the pic of rachel and zeke. her curls are to die for and he is so cute with all of his bruises! katie
~d and Anna - We will definitely be sending out a Christmas picture to you both. In fact, I've already started on Christmas cards.
Hannah - That's the shirt you got Rachel. I actually went to Old Navy and bought a bigger size for Karis because her fat tummy was sticking out of the other one!
Katie - we have yet to get a picture of Zekers without bruises. :-(
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