Our First Bobcat

Last Thursday night Spencer was awarded his Bobcat award at our Blue & Gold banquet.

Shortly after he turned eight, I sat down with him to work on some of the things he needed to pass to achieve this award. It was a NIGHTMARE! He and I just clash sometimes and this day was one of them. After trying to get him to work with me- his constant 'I don't knows', and lack of participation I closed the book and said I was not touching it with him again. I feel as his mother I have lots of battles to fight with him that are important in life, ie: homework, reading, chores, personal grooming, but this I did not see as one of them. So I told Jamey that if Spencer was to get advancements and awards in scouting then it was going to be with him. My mother is a huge advocate for scouting and after telling her of experience she decided that she would help Spencer with the things that she could over the phone and whenever she saw him. It took three months, but with the help of my mom and Jamey, Spencer very proudly received his Bobcat award. As he was pinning the mother's pin on me I felt incompetent. There was almost nothing I did to help him. I am so grateful to mom and Jamey for their support to Spencer. I wish they could have been the ones recognized. I am proud of Spencer- I am watching him grow and mature. The last 3 months have been the most growth I have seen in him in his eight years. I am truly blessed to have his boy in my care.

First Field Trip

Last week a local group of home taught preschoolers were going on a field trip to the Fiske Planetarium at CU in Boulder. I got an email inviting Jamison and I to attend, so I changed an appointment I had, to make it work so we could be there. I have never had the chance to go to a planetarium, so I was just as excited as Jamison to see what one was all about. When we first got there we walked around a bit looking at all the displays, Jamison took a turn looking through the giant telescope before we watched Kids in Space. We walked into the doom shaped auditorium sat in our seats ready for the trip through space. I wish I could have gotten a picture of Jamison's face as the movie started- his mouth and eyes were so wide. He was hanging on the chair ready to blast off into space. The movie was made in the 70's, music and graphics, so I struggled a bit. However Jamison learned tons! Close to the end he was ready to be done and asked when we were going to get to go back to earth. We learned that on the moon since the gravity is much less than the earth Jamison only weights about 7 pounds and I only weight 34 pounds. I would love to have that be my real weight here! :) Jamison also decided that Neptune is his favorite planet because it is aquamarine, but he also very much liked Saturn and it's rings. Everett was also with us- but he was not a fan at all of being there. He did lots of screaming, I even broke the rules and gave him a fruit bar in the movie to try to keep him somewhat quiet. We had such a fun morning- I am thankful for friends who thought to invite us.

Blogworthy

I FINALLY feel like I have something blogworthy to share! Last night, for some odd reason- I decided to throw one more thing into my already busy crazy night. The day before Spencer had asked me to trim the front part of his hair. Once again he is wanting to grow it out, but the front was getting too long, therefore bothering him. Again I did it when I had about 30 seconds before we were headed out the door. As I was talking to him last night I could see that it was a poor job, severely uneven. So together we ran back stairs to fix the screw up. While we were down there Everett was playing as usual. After I finished Spencer I looked over at Everett's MASS amount of hair and said- hey do you think we should shave Everetts head? Spencer laughed but said- sure. Everett did not complain, he quickly climbed into the chair. He laughed and giggled the minute I put the cape on him. So my little baby FINALLY had his first haircut. I didn't cut it all off, but certainly gave him a nice cleaned up toddler cut. I guess he is getting ready for that second birthday.

Being silly after he was done.

The clump of hair that I put in a baggie to keep. By this age he had 10 times the amount of hair either of his brothers had at the same age.

Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas this year- doing just what we like to do, hanging in our jammies all day, playing games, building puzzles, watching movies, figuring out our new gadgets and chatting with family. We LOVE spending the day in our home with our own little family. To me it is perfection! Since we didn't get a picture the Sunday before Christmas (Everett had a little cold and Jamey volunteered to bring him home right after sacrament for a nap) we did it the Sunday after. Pretty nice picture if I say so myself. :)

It was IMPOSSIBLE to get Everett to look at the camera when there was no one to

look at or Uncle Logan to make him laugh. :)

A friend organized a large group of people to go caroling to some fun families. I haven't been since I was a youth, and I had so much seeing the smiles on the people's faces as we sang. Spencer and Jamison really got into it and had to be right up front in the center of all the action. Again this year Santa came right to our house in proper style with fire trucks blazing to tell the kids Merry Christmas. We quickly through on coats and ran after the big man in red. I love that Spencer and Jamison are still totally into Santa and find so much magic in the holiday.

Also earlier in the month the little nursery in town always hosts Santa and brings at least one his reindeer. This year he brought two- Vixen and Cupid.