Goodbye January

We can't believe it's already February. Tara is sad because it's no longer her "birthday month". She's figured out how to milk the whole month for all its worth. She seems much taller to me. She finally passed her 9's time table test (2 min.)...breezed through her 10's and tomorrow she has to take the 5 min. cumulative test....then the oral test and then she will be in the MIGHTY MATH CLUB. The kids that made it last week got their picture taken with Mike Witcher the weather man and were on the news last Friday. That's ok, there's something special to do each week until March. We are working really hard. She also was assigned a President report on Jimmy Carter. She has to do a project that reflects his life and a 2 page handwritten report. She is very excited...happy mostly to hear that he's still alive. It reminds me of the summer not long ago we took her to Nauvoo and Carthage Jail and when they showed us the window Joseph Smith fell out of after being shot she said...."DEAD? He's dead? You didn't tell me he was dead!"

Emily has had a rough week. She wasn't feeling too well...all of us were getting over a cough. Nothing was really wrong until Thurs. afternoon she had a rash all over. When she took a bath that night, I realized it was that parvovirus (fifths disease) again. She had it last year. She might have had a slight fever, but it was never enough to alarm us. Now that the rash is here, she's no longer contagious. But, she looks really bad. We went to a friends birthday party on Saturday and she fell off almost the top of the slide backwards and landed on her ankle. It's not swollen, but she can't really walk on it. So, she's been laying on the couch most of the weekend recovering. It's nice because every time Tara walks by the couch, Emily puts up a flash card. Go team!

Jacob is doing great. He can hardly wait...his birthday is in 10 days. He's counting it down. He's almost to 100 days of school and they are having a big party then too. He helped me make cookies yesterday...for the first time. He actually cracked an egg perfectly the first time. No shell in the bowl. He was so excited.

This picture is of Tara pretending she's Coraline from that new movie where the eyes are buttons.

I only worked 2 half days this week in the library...and helped with CBM testing. Tomorrow I go for my post-op follow up DR. visit. Hopefully all is well ....I'll let you know. I was called today to be the Enrichment leader and released from teaching sunday school. They never did talk to me, just announced it in sacrament meeting. It was an oversight....but, it was sure a surprise to me. Guess I can't say "no" now.