Scattered Thoughts

1.  Guard's new trick is to shake his head back and forth.  He laughs and laughs when he does it.

2.  Coal is officially going through her teenage years.  She is such a little stinker.  She now has doggie doors from the laundry room into the garage and then from the garage into the backyard.  If I am ever missing something, I know Coal has dragged it to the backyard.  I have found my tennis shoes in the garden, Guard squeaky toy, Sophie the giraffe, halfway buried in the lawn (it does look somewhat like a bone) and Kate's underwear scattered throughout the yard.  Dang dog!

3.  Gavin is now officially taller than Greg.  That is a bit unnerving.

4.  Enoch has decided he is going to be a chemist so he can "mix liquids together and blow them up!"  He has decided to get a jump on graduate school by reading Greg's advance physics textbooks from college.  The other day he lasted 45 minutes.  I'm not sure what he got out of it, but I chuckle to myself every time he pulls that heavy book off the shelf.

5.  Last week was our Sacrament Meeting program.  Enoch read a scripture from John and did a great job.  Kate and I had been practicing her part for weeks.  She knew it really well, but I wasn't sure she would say it in front of everyone.  She hesitated a bit when she got up to the microphone, but she squared her shoulders and spoke right into the microphone, "I feel happy when I choose to help my baby brother."  I about started to cry!  She did such a wonderful job and I know how nervous and scared she was.  I am so proud of her.