Week in review

As usual, it's been another whirlwind week for us. Elizabeth was sick for most of the week but is finally feeling better. That is particularly good news for David, since she is extra clingy and whiny when she's sick, which makes his days very long. She also has had trouble sleeping, and has been up for at least 2 hours almost every night this week, so David and I feel like extras in a movie about walking zombies at this point. We're hoping her sleep will get back to normal this week, which would be just in time for it to completely fall apart again when we go on our family vacation to the Grand Canyon next week!

Although she's been feeling bad, Elizabeth has really continued to amaze us (as I'm sure happens with all parents) with how much she's learning every day. She can now pick out all sorts of things in her books and, when asked, can pick out her elephant, giraffe, and zebra from her Noah's Ark set. (She does remain indifferent to the "peacock" however....I'm not sure how to interpret that.) Her obsession transferred from balloons ("ba-ooo") to bubbles ("buh-buh") this week, so David spent a lot of time with her and the bottle of bubbles out on our deck. We've found she's quite territorial about her "buh-buh", so you'd better watch out if you try to take them away from her before she's ready!



She's also gotten very particular about not wanting things on her head and has learned how to pull every kind of hat imaginable off her head as quickly as possible. We were concerned about this, particularly with our upcoming trip, so David has started giving her "hat lessons". She's actually starting to do a little better!



Jonathan's last day of 6th grade was last Tuesday. In celebration, David took Jonathan yesterday to Mammoth Cave National Park for their "Introduction to Caving" tour, which let them be mini-spelunkers for the day, crawling in and out of cave passages and getting extremely wet and muddy. They had a blast! I stayed home with Elizabeth and was trying to get some of our pictures into frames. She went absolutely nuts over a picture of her big brother - she wouldn't let me get it away from her. Jonathan's definitely her hero!



Today, we went to a church picnic and had fun eating tons of good potluck and hanging out in the shade (there are record temperature and humidity levels in Kentucky right now!). Here are some pics Daddy took right after church with Elizabeth in her pretty birthday dress from BB:





Tomorrow, we're headed to Calk Lake to spend the day with Granddad, Granny Pat, Mamaw Helene, and Aunt Elizabeth. Should be fun!