February Already?!?!?!?!?

I blink and we are into February. I can't believe it. Our lives have been constant and non-stop. It's everyday life (work, school, activies, etc.) but it's those activies and "etc." that have been the most fun for our family.

We had a few milestones: Taylor totally and completely officially pottytrained! I LOVE not having to carry a diaper bag where ever we go. Although I do keep a spare change of clothes in the car. Another HUGE milestone is that for about 3 weeks she's been sleeping in her own room in her own big girl bed. She's doing great and comes back to our room at about 4:30am. We have to be up at 5:30am anyway during the week, so that's A-OK!

For Anthony, half way through 2nd grade and he's such a caring young man! He's not as sensitive as he used to be (ie. cry at the drop of a hat). His Religious studies have also increased as well. And he's showing more responsibility in finishing his homework w/o having to be poked and prodded to do so. He has also shown great affinity for basketball. He REALLY enjoys it. He talks about playing bball all the time and he just told us recently while shopping for new shoes for is that he wants to play pro-ball. I'll be happy if he can play in High School! Anthony is also taking more responsibility for looking out for his brother and sister. Just tonight he read Taylor a bedtime story and she loved it!

Jackson...he GREW a few more inches. He participated in his very first Karate tournament and did so well. He's also starting to memorize math facts and is trying to read more sight words and figure out words on his own. He's learned all the letters of the alphabet and their phonetic sounds through "P" thus far in school and so he's working on putting letter blends together. He's still asking to do homework and play educational games on the computer and is REALLY independent now.

I'm sure February will fly right by again. On the 12th it's Grandparents Day at the kid's school and Granny, Granddad and Grandma will be in town for that. They also have another karate tournament coming up at their school and are really looking forward to that. They also have their karate graduation coming up and will be advancing their belt ranks again. Anthony will be a Red/Brown belt and Jackson will a full Yellow belt.

Tony and I completed our 60 hour volunteer commitment at IHS so we are free from lunch monitoring for a while. We also completed our SCRIP commitment for the year but we'll still be purchasing from them to help out the school as well as to keep us on budget. :-)