One Goal Down

I've had Easton in gymnastics on and off over a couple of years (it's Jedi training). He's in an all boy class right now. I think it's great for coordination and strength training. There's a long, tough rope they eventually get all the kids on. Easton tried to climb it this spring and was really upset he couldn't. (I talked about this rope with Kynlee back at the very beginning of the blog). It became a goal learning moment. We've been working with him a bit, and whalla, one day it clicked. He went from not moving up more than a couple of feet to scaling right up it. I felt so happy for him. Now he climbs it a few times each class.

Easton has natural tendency not to like challenges. He feels overwhelmed easily. I've been trying to have him see getting through all the challenges and goals is possible. I think it's helping.

The thought popped into my head one day, and I think it was inspired, to have him read the Book of Mormon, every verse by himself. I think he'd be very impressed to look at a thick book like that with tiny writing and be able to say he read it all. I thought, one verse a day and he wouldn't feel like he was suffering, slow and steady right? But then I did the math and learned that would take 18 years to finish! Uh, yeah, got to do a little more than that. I've gotten him to three versus before without him spitting too much venom of complaints at me. I think he will ease into it with time.

Halloween

Kynlee has been doing a lot of Harry Potter reading lately. She's pretty into it right now, and she's trying to convince me to do an elaborate birthday party. I felt like I was taking Hogwart school pictures of her.

Easton told me he wanted to be a potion master. Not a Potter style -although he really likes Snape- but more realistic. I had to put down some rules because he keeps really mixing all our household ingredients for his experiments. In our next house, he would really like a laboratory. These tinted / nontinted flip up goggles were his pick.

Ander was Tigger, we had the hat and tail from a costume Lisa had made, so I just needed to come up with the middle part. He makes weapons out of the toys all day, so I'm just glad he did a non fighting thing. It helps me remember he's still a little boy.

I didn't do an official shoot of Maeleya, misplaced her hat on Halloween. Poor kid, fourth child only gets one picture and Kynlee's old costume. I'll make it up to you Maeleya, but you're a really cute ladybug.

Michael and I wore wigs. I'm not sure it's a good look.

Mmmm, this is a little better.

We trick or treated with cousins and friends and met up with more. It was a lot of fun, even though it was chilly.