My wierd kid

This morning Joshua informed me that he had not done well on a math test this week. He was upset about it. He said it was "hard math". I thought, "Is there any other kind?" He is in first grade, and sometimes I can't understand his homework. Sad, but true.

So, back to this morning. Joshua says he wants to practice, so he will be better at his math. I happen to have a few workbooks floating around, and I located the ones that had math in them. Marian was interested in the alphabet ones, so she ran off with those. I pulled out a few pages of fractions and stuff for Joshua and he happily went through them. And asked for more.

Um, who's kid is this?!! He's done about 10 worksheets now and I'm all out of ones that fit his ability level. I'm not sure if I should be disturbed by his focus and interest in learning or jump for joy! This is so Dan's kid!

My cuties!

The kids felt a bit left out, since Delaney has so many pictures up now. So they all sat on the couch and posed for a picture to be put up here. Callie likes to try to be silly, but Marian usually has the corner on that market. I'm actually surprised that she let me take one of her where she wasn't making a funny face. Joshua tries to smile now and ends up with a dreadful fake smile/grimace, so I was just glad he looks cute. Sorry about the red eyes. I'm not diligent enough to fix that before I post! I'm happy enough to get them up.

Quality time with Baby

Its well past Delaney's bedtime and I've already put her down twice. Everyone else is asleep, including Dan, who only got 4 hours of sleep last night standing duty. Delaney is having a hard time sleeping because she has a cold. I have tried suctioning her nose, but its not runny enough to get much, and she still can't breathe. So Iput her down and she wakes up shortly thereafter because she can't suck her thumb and breathe at the same time. Poor thing. Poor me. I was all set to enjoy my quiet solitude, and yet, this is what we are alternating between!

Yes, she just started walking. Tonight was her first time letting go and wandering more than a few steps without great encouragement.

And then there is this second picture.... she's tired, she's canky and she's not feeling so hot. I expect I'll be seeing this face a lot more than I want to tonight!

Getting into Trouble with the YW

For Young Women we had a joint activity tonight which was a photo scavenger hunt. We got 4-5 kids each in a car and drove all over town looking for the things on the list to take pictures of. It was a lot of fun and the girls did enough shrieking and giggling that I can only assume they enjoyed it thoroughly. I will say however, that if one were driving without a liscense and happened to have 4 screaming girls, 3 of whom were crammed onto 2 middle seats and were sans seatbelts, and were speeding a good 15 miles over the limit in a residential area, you would expect that person to get a ticket. You'd be wrong!

Summer Plans

We've been waiting to see where we'll be headed this summer. We had high hopes when the slate first came out- there was a slot in RI, and a couple on Okinawa. Those were our top choices. Then the slate was revamped and those were taken off the board alltogether. Next, Dan was told that due to an overpopulation of lawyers, and the fact that we are at a desirable location (say what?!!), Dan will get crummy choices.

He was given a couple options and none of them were law billets. This stressed him out considerably. His choices included: being a range officer at Camp Pendleton, A recruiter in Kansas, or working on the drill field at Parris Island. If you know Dan, any of those would be a fate worse than death. Any of those probably would have had us staying here for another year and would have ended with him getting out of the Marine Corps.

Fortunately, right now we are penciled in for Washington DC, to work for the Secretary of the Navy. No clue what that job may entail, but it was the best option we had! We should have more concrete info by the end of the month. We hopefully will know stuff like: if we are for sure going to DC, and when we need to be there. Joshua doesn't get out of school till the second week of June, and the Sprint Triathlon will be in May, so any time after that is okay. Except we have the family reunion in CO the end of June. I don't even want to think about the cost of flying a family of 6, and renting a van!! Aack!