The Lieslands

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Where’s Rose? or, What does Rose do during dinner? or, We got a dog!

Full disclosure: Susan was not home for dinner this evening. It was just me and the kids, eating some skyline late. Susan was at a Willowsong meeting.

Rose had been exploring the kitchen, as she usually does. She likes to pull all of the dishes out of the cabinet, or just cruise around and look for stuff to play with/eat. During our meal I had a moment of panic when all of a sudden I realized that I was not sure where Rose was.

Me: Where’s Rose? [Looking around in a panic.]
Mari: She’s under the table eating noodles.

Sure enough, she was. We try to limit what she eats, but she does not have any self-imposed limits. Also, we try to keep the floor clean, but we also have 5 kids, including a 3-year-old.

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Lucia’s New Bed

Lucia is now sleeping alone in her own bed for the first time. When she turned two she moved into Mari’s bed and went to sleep with Mari every night. Last weekend we got a toddler bed from a friend and Lucia has made the move. It has been a few days now and things are going OK.

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Elliot’s Bed Tent

Elliot got a bed tent for Christmas. He sleeps with it closed most every night. It turns out that Rose also loves the bed tent. Whenever we go into Elliot’s room she gets really excited and loves to sit and play.

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What does Rose do all day?

She crawls around and eats things – everything. She wants to put everything in her mouth. Her favorite things are shoes, plastic bags, books, and pencils. She is getting more discriminatory about what she puts in her mouth, or at least how quickly she spits is out.

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Piano Party!

Instead of a formal recital, our piano teacher organizes a ‘Piano Party’ where the kids can play in front of a crowd and also they play some group games together. It is fun to hear all of the kids playing their songs and to catch up with the other adults.

 

 

 

 

Rose Crawling

Basketball Wrap-Up

Andrew’s basketball season wrapped up Monday night, with his team winning the league championship. Andrew enjoyed the season, but is still contemplating his future on the court.

Andrew’s most talked about play after his last game was his 3-point shot that hit the rim twice, but didn’t find its way in. Next time.

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Woodmen Speech Contest

This morning Andrew participated in the Woodmen Speech Contest. He had the opportunity to give a 3-5 minute speech on the topic “Hunger in America.” In the weeks leading up to the speech he was not sure if he was going to participate or not, but things came together in the end with some encouragement from one of his enrichment class teachers. I think he enjoyed it and hopefully he will be back next year.

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Elliot’s 9th Birthday

Yesterday we celebrated Elliot’s 9th birthday! Elliot always wants snow on his birthday, but today he go 60 degrees and sunny. In the morning we hung out at home, playing basketball and kicking around a new soccer ball. At noon some friends met us for soccer at the field near our house. We had about 18 kids show up and fun was had by all.

In the afternoon he went to the Reagens to play. The Reagens & Liesses came over for dinner – sandwich bar. The evening ended with presents, playing with presents, and singing.

Elliot at the age of 9 is a really fun kid. He loves to be outside – doing anything! His favorite activities are basketball, soccer, and bike riding. He likes to explore the woods and go for walks with us. He generally wakes in the morning at around 7:00 or 7:30 and goes to bed at 8:30 or 9:00. His favorite food is Skyline. Favorite color: red. Favorite song: Hello. Favorite sport: soccer.

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Some Spring Firsts for Rose