The weekly update part 4, 5, 6, oh I don't know- just an update!!!

Well, last night Mckenna had a basketball game. This one may have been her best game yet. She stole the ball a couple of times, dribbled the ball down past half court (as opposed to dribbling it 3 feet before crossing half court and then lobbing it to no one in particular), she shot the ball I think twice -that too is huge, she hasn't wanted to touch it until then. All in all I would say her aggressiveness is increasing. She even got a rebound!! Even better, she had a smile on her face the whole time!!! She did great and now we have 3 games left and one 8 a.m. practice to go to and we will be done with the season. I have to admit I will miss watching her, it has been a lot of fun.

I have really been working with my kids to get them to think about their choices and to make better ones (lifelong goal I know!) Anyways, I have been drilling this into them both but really hoping Mckenna would be the one to pick up on it the most. Well, Luke has been the one I have noticed making an effort to be conscious of this. He asks me, "Mom did I do good today?" or "Mom, did I make Jesus happy today?" I mean seriously, how can you just not melt when he says that? Mckenna had a melt down during our family meeting on monday and Luke stated that,"Mckenna is not having a good attitude is she mom?" He is a funny little dude. I honestly didn't think he was that perceptive though!! I sure do love him. I am also realizing that no matter how much I fight it my kids are going to grow up. I have maintained the idea that kids need to be kids longer. I haven't pushed a whole lot of sit down type learning on Luke, I mainly just wanted him to have fun playing toys and such. Well, he now just doesn't have much patience for workbooks, which is a HUGE adjustment for me because Mckenna can't (and always have) get enough of her workbooks. She will sit for literally hours doing her workbooks or coloring and stuff like that. Luke is the opposite, he just wants to play dudes or his nintendo game. That is my current struggle with Luke, trying to figure out a way to make learning fun and productive. Any suggestions????

Mia has recently (by recently I mean within the last 3 weeks) found her hands and really likes to suck on them. She gave herself a hickey on her knuckles yesterday. This week she found her feet. When I lay her down she immediately tries to grab her feet. She doesn't want them in her mouth quite yet and has only stared at them once that I have seen. It is really cute though. She really is such a good baby, and I am having so much fun having a baby around the house again!

Sorry for all the words and no pictures, my memory card is full and I just haven't gotten around to clearing it off. I will work on that and get more pics posted soon!