Things have been going well for us, both temporally and spiritually. We have the opportunity to attend two baptisms yesterday. It was great to go and feel of the spirit that was there. The first baptism was the spouse of a member that moved into the ward a couple months ago. He has been prepared by the lord over the course of several years and now just happened to right time in his life. He will be a great asset to the ward along with his wife and son. The second baptism was girl in Adahleigh's primary class, it reminds us of how close she is to being baptized, even though it seems like just yesterday she was born.
As far as calling go in the ward, I'm still the Elder's Quorum President and Ashley had the privilege of moving up from nursery to Sunbeams with Keisha, although if you ask her it might not be such a privilege. The one perk is she is team teaching which makes things a little easier, and her partner does show up regularly. Jerrick on the other hand hasn't handle nursery well since Mom left. He would get to go in occasionally while she was in there, now he wants to leave when we drop him off and usually cries for 10 minutes, according to the nursery leaders. He's funny about going to nursery, we well tell him lets go to nursery he gets all excited and actually runs straight to the class door and even goes in, but once he looks around he remembers that he doesn't want to be there and starts to fuss and try to leave. If we get toys out to try and distract him while we leave he picks them up and puts them back in the toy closet, all while crying (tears and all), he knows you have to clean up to leave.
Adahleigh
Has been growing like a weed, we can barely keep her in clothes or shoes. She continues to love going to school. Currently we're trying to get her double promoted from kindergarten to 2nd grade by the end of this year. Her teachers are both on board (she's in a K-1 split), and have been bringing her up with the 1st graders in most of their activities. She has also taken to reading and picks up books just to read through them, and usually can make it through most of them with little or no help from us. It's been amazing reading the scriptures as a family and letting her read everything she can which she doesn't need a whole lot of help doing. While the others are repeating, she'll try to read for them and have them repeat her.
For her tooth count she's down 2, which have come in and is now also getting at set of 6 yr old molars.
Continues to be our instigator and problem starter. He definitely has a very independent personality, there is very we can do to get him to listen if he doesn't want to. He can stand and stare you down for hours if you tell him to do something he doesn't want to, no matter what consequences he's informed his decision will cause. He still tend to be pretty shy in public, but is slowly coming out of his shell. Now in primary he will sing, and sings loud too. He'll also participates.
After a year of telling us he's not going to school he's finally onboard with going. On his 5th birthday he actually demanded to go to school and we had to explain that he now needs to wait till fall to go. He got the mindset that once he turned 5 it was time to go to school. It was probably from all the time we told Adahleigh that she had to be 5 to start kindergarten.
Keisha
Lately she has stopped being her sweet self all the time and now likes to throw fits and not listen. Just today at church she decided it was acceptable to stand in the isles instead of staying in the benches. Up till now we've been lucky and the kids don't try to leave the bench unless they were too small to understand. She also doesn't like to listen in Sunbeams with Ashley, which is adding to the grief of Ashley being moved up with her.
She still loves to dance and sing all day long, which all the kids do, but she puts an extra flare to it. Jerrick is right alongside her most of the time.
Jerrick
Continues to grow like a weed also, he'll definitely be in competition with Adahleigh on who ends up being tallest. His personality is now in full bloom. He lets us know exactly what he wants even if he doesn't say anything. He has his favorite shows (Jake and the Neverland Pirates), he dances/sings along to their songs and participates in the activities. He also has favorite songs that he insists on being played several times so he can sing to them (even though its more mimicking sound and not words). He has started to talk quite a bit and likes to repeat everyone, although he isn't stringing words together yet.
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