Toothfairy visits Reeders' home

Colin lost his first tooth last week. Darn kids keep growing up on me! Isn't he cute?!!

Caden's Day

We finally got around to blessing Caden this past Sunday. Hooray! I was getting nervous that he wouldn't fit in the blessing outfit, but he did and everything went fine.

New Toys!


On Saturday, Colin got a bigger bike at a yard sale. What a deal. When Colin moved up, the girls got to move up too. Grace thinks she's really something with a big girl bike when she's only three.

Caden needs to learn to sit before he can inherit the trike so he got a Bumbo seat. Very cool! On Tuesday, I was wishing I could have a Bumbo seat so I could get the dishes done and feeling a bit sad knowing that my budget was not going to help that wish come true. Just at that sad moment, my darling husband came home with a $45 gift card to Babies R Us - a baby gift from the team at work. The timing was perfect. I couldn't believe it. The kids and I got the seat on the way home from fiddle lessons that very afternoon. Lovely, just lovely!

Gracie's reading!!! I tried to stop her so she could still be a baby, but no luck. Darn kids! :)
Thanks be to Aunt Katie who gave us a DK phonics book a long time ago and the Leapfrog videos The Letter Factory and Talking Words Factory.

Dentist or Engineer???

The kids have their fiddle lessons tomorrow and I have a class at the same time. I was freaking out about how I was going to get both done and Robyn looked at me and said, "Mom, Dad can take us." And so he CAN! What a revelation!

As the daughter of a dentist, it never even occurred to me to ask Randy such a thing. Engineers have more flexibility in their schedules. Randy has to put his hours in, but he has a lot more freedom to choose what those hours are on a daily basis. He can choose to go to work at 7:00 or 9:00. He can take his lunch earlier or later depending what is going on. He can even work from home if he so chooses. (He doesn't choose work from home often because the computer connection is much faster at work and Colin sidetracks him into playing Super Tux instead of working at home.) Whereas a dentist has to schedule months in advance or change a schedule that was made months in advance.

It was fine to be a dentist's daughter, however, I really like being an engineer's wife. It is good for me.

Here are a few pictures from this week. Robyn loves to read and Caden and Grace are a very willing audience.




Colin and I worked (actually it was more like playing) on food storage this week. We checked the dry pack canner out from the cannery and canned 100 #10 cans of wheat, spelt, rice, macaroni, oatmeal, onions,and beans. Whew!

Caden is growing like crazy! I tried to get a picture of his adorable spiky hair, but the picture doesn't do it justice. His smiles make me melt! I love this kid!

While many of the neighborhood kids were enjoying their first day of school on Monday, we lucky homeschoolers got to take a field trip. Grandpa had the day off work and the weather was absolutely beautiful so we went for a "lesson" on airplanes. Colin and Robyn each got a private airplane ride. Colin thought it was too bumpy. Robyn thought the cars looked like toys. Grace preferred to just look at the airplane, maybe next time she'd like to sit in it. :) We all had a lot of fun. Grace has been asking all day if we could go back to Grandpa and Grandma's house today. Thanks for the great time, Grandpa and Grandma!

We got a MAC!!

Colin has a ton to teach me now. :)