Us Right Now & Weekly Update – October 8

jake
This was another busy week for Jake. He had client meetings and long proposals to work on. Trading, meetings, conferences. On and on. He also attempted the contact lenses a few more times but I think we’re pretty sure these lenses are not going to work for him. They make his eyes too dry so he needs to try another brand which we ordered and are now waiting to receive from the doctor. Let’s see if those work better.

karen
Things are still hectic for me but are quieting down a little bit more each week. I’ve spent most of the week doing the regular things on my schedule. I also scrapped a bit and went out to book club. I managed to take some down time and go to bed early almost every day this week. I sketched, journaled and art journaled daily. I also exercised of course. I’ll consider this week a success.

david
David had a good week at school. He did a lot of reading at school and at home this week. He’s been bringing a book home every night so he can read it to me. He made some new friends at school He got to play with legos. He helped me clean out the living room of all the crazy amount of toys. We all went to the farm this weekend and he rode a pony, rode the train, and played with the excavator. He also made numerous creations with his legos which are now officially all over the house, in every nook and cranny. It’s quite amusing actually.

nathaniel
Nathaniel is also doing great. He’s talking more each day. He loves it when we drop off David because he knows he’s next. On the days he’s home, he likes me to pay attention to him and plays right next to me while I work. He’s also a lot more talkative and likes to make sure he’s acknowledged so he will say the same thing endlessly until he can get a response. He loves tackling and chasing David all around the house and he loves to say all of our names again and again. He’ll say Mommy, Nay-nay, Daddy, Dee-dee. Many times a day.

Even though I stopped doing the daily updates, I’m still taking the daily photos and will share them weekly here so these posts will be long and full of photos, feel free to skip. Here are some of my favorite captured moments from this week:

Nathaniel watching the rain:

A smile for mommy:

The boys playing and running together into the room:

Nathaniel sits next to me with all of his legos while I work.

A smile to fill my heart:

And one from the little one:

and one more:

silly faces are never too far:

Sometimes, he also plays at his table wile I work:

Today we went to the farm for our yearly Halloween fun. We rode the train, David rode a pony:

Nathaniel’s asking Daddy what he wants him to do (he wanted Nathaniel to look at me and smile.)

My awesome boys:

Nathaniel loved feeding the goats, but the goats weren’t very hungry. we had to wait a long time for them to come and eat a bite.

David fed a few, too.

And then we got to go inside and pet them. I love how loving and gentle he is here.

And some more hugs.

We have a photo in this exact spot from last year with the three boys, too.

And on the way out David got to play with the excavator.

All in all it was a wonderful morning and we left before it was too crowded.

Now we’re all resting and enjoying the rest of the weekend. Hope you are all well, too!

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Us Right Now is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here.