As you can see by Shaila's detailed butterfly blog post, she is becoming a prolific writer. She was determined to finish Typing Instructor by the end of first grade so she could set up her own e-mail account. My one stipulation is that she show e-mails to me before sending them (unless they are going to family members :). She agreed that this was a good idea, saying, "Yup, you should probably read e-mails to my friends before I send them. It's not like I'd TRY to put anything crude in them, but you might think it's kind of weird and not let me send it." :)
Shaila has such a tender spot for animals. When we hatched butterflies, one of them emerged with a damaged wing and couldn't fly. She named the little guy Mephibosheth, hand fed him orange juice, and charmed him so he would rest comfortably on her hand.
Occasionally Brandan will interrupt his playtime with the twins by dragging one of them to me and asking, "Mom, which baby is this?" :)
Brandan is such a funny mixture of trouble and tenderness. He has been having an awful time adjusting to summer break. Each evening he asks if tomorrow can be a school day. Siobhan has tried to include him in some baking projects. The other day he gave her the ultimate compliment on her baking, saying, "Siobhan, this is delicious crap."
The other day I asked Brandan to check our mailbox. He came back with a handful of letters and informed me, "Since we didn't have any mail, I just took the neighbors'."
Brandan likes to echo my words when we pray together. The other day I was finishing up with, "In Jesus's name..." and he added his own, "And all God's people said AMEN!"
The kids have cute names for our pets. Brandan is proud of our new "echo" (gecko) Dobby, and the twins love yelling for Cora at the top of the basement stairs. Baxter calls her "Dora," and Cade's very first sentence was, "Bora! It's a dog!"
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