Some more kid stories

On the Friday night of the Family Workshop, Matthew Guimon killed a mouse outside with the help of my brothers. They didn’t really do anything with the mouse, just left it laying somewhere. My older two boys watched the whole thing and saw where they left the mouse. The next day at lunch time, here they came with the mouse in hand to show me. I was appropriately horrified and we had the “dead mouse” talk that my Mom had with my brothers when they were little. (You know, the one where you tell them that mice carry diseases, etc.) They washed REALLY well with supervision. Hopefully they’ve learned. I’ll just never forget the sight of James running through the church basement with that dead mouse in his hand! It was actually kind of funny later!

Last Sunday Mom and Dad were still gone and Naomi and Esther had us over for lunch. James was trying to do a little work on Naomi’s computer to make it run faster. Gaelin was moving around the living room and he walked from the couch to the door of their entertainment center! He has been letting go and trying a little more readily lately! One of these days he’ll be off running for good. Then I really will have a time keeping up!

Saturday night after his bath he was playing with the brush I use on his hair and he passed it from one hand to the other without dropping it. He was so proud of himself that he grinned really big and jabbered something. It sounded like he said “I got it!” He tends to jabber and try to say things more than the other kids. I guess he just has so many people to keep up with that it is a survival mechanism for him! He sure loves those big guys, though, and they really love him, too. James and John do an amazing job helping him stay entertained. It’s hard to even imagine what I did with two when they were little and I didn’t have older kids to help me chase the little ones. (Of course at that time they all took a nap every day and we weren’t doing school on a daily basis. So I guess that makes a difference.)

Hope you had a great Independence Day!