I'm a busy girl over on my sewing/quilting blog, and maybe I love the readers I have over there and I'm addicted to the comments.
But we won't overanalyze. We'll just document!
More on the individual boys in a minute, but I just loved this picture too much! These two are partners in crime. It's awesome. Best Brothers.
Okay, the lil' peanut. This girly is a busy one. Stringing big ol' sentences together, asking "Why?" all the time. If you ask her where something/someone is, she says, "Not me." I know she means "I don't know," but it's still too funny. She is a fierce one too - she has a fierce face when she wrestles with anyone, and you'd better watch out. Still a cuddle bug, but sleeping in her own bed (most of the night!).
This beauty of mine may have blue eyes and blonde hair, but we are two peas in a pod. She loves being outside - she takes quilts out in the backyard, lays under a tree with a pile of books and reads. She's expanding her reading library: it was all dragons for a while there, and now we're moving on to owls (Guardians of Ga'Hoole), classics (Mark Twain), and lots and lots of magic (not just Harry Potter!). She writes, she draws, she sews, and she's excited for the fair again this year. She's got big plans!
She's finally got a piano teacher she loves, and who motivates her. They get a punch on their punch card for each week they practice every day, and she's in the lead of all the students right now. $5 is the prize, and she's determined to get it!
Oh, Hank! This little guy is the absolute ham of the family. Every dinner time is the "Henry Show" and he keeps us laughing. He's working on his reading and writing and just loves to play. Mostly in mud, although he'll just settle for climbing trees mostly. In fact, on our short list of things we want in a house, good climbing trees are essential. This boy is a monkey.
He's also my JFK Jr. This boy never has a shirt on!
My sweet James. Happy to play all by himself (sometimes, I think he sneaks away so he can be alone for a bit), but in the thick of it all too. Loves being outside. Loves riding his bike. And he is just like his big sister already: a reader! And he really is teaching himself. I help him out when he asks questions, but he loves to figure out words.
He's still my shy guy at church. Happy to be there and sit with his class and answer questions, but doesn't want a whole lot of attention on him. Doesn't like to come help with games and puzzles and things. He's just content, this little guy.
My Scout! Boy does he love scouting! Just attended day camp and we haven't heard the end of it. He's also a tinkerer, like his Papa, and likes to take things apart. He just disassembled our old toaster and now carries the little circuit board around in his pocket.
He's also liking piano, but Scouts activities are his favorite. And Legos. Lots and lots of Legos.
In official Tracy family news, we're waiting.
Aaron takes the bar on July 29th and 30th (please keep him in your prayers!). Then we wait some more. Results come out in mid-September, and if he passes, he gets sworn in sometime in October. Phew. That's a long time!
But in the meantime, Aaron has found some jobs (and by Aaron I mean me, and then I e-mail them to him) working at Mountain Home AFB. Not as a lawyer, although they do want an advanced degree, so the JD helps nonetheless. He's applying for them, so hopefully he'll have a job regardless of the outcome of the bar. Not that I'm doubting. I know he'll do it.
I'm keeping busy with the kids: zoo, science center, playgroup, piano, Scouts, activity days for Laurel, prepping for the fair. And when there's time, I do family history. I've found so hundreds of records of our ancestors and have been busy attaching them to the right files. All the indexing that members of the LDS church have been doing with government and church records the world over has been an amazing gift to family historians. I even found our great-great-great-grandmother on the Pofahl line. Pretty exciting stuff! And when I'm not doing family history, I sew. A lot. Here's some of my latest creations:
Aaron's sister has been so awesome, letting me use her longarm machine as often as I can. So, come winter, at least we'll be warm!
I solemnly promise to update at least once a week. There's just too much going on that I need to share more often.
