Another busy weekend

Whew! Another busy weekend has almost finished. Friday night found me at scrapbook night, the boys at a movie night with friends ( including Ivan!) and Harmony at a sleep over. Saturday morning brought the first soccer practice and game. Followed by long naps and then later babysitting for friends. Sunday, thankfully, is a day of rest!

Ben was supposed to call this morning before church and he didn't. I hope that he just got busy at work and nothing bad happened! The past few days he has been bored because it was Afghanistan's New Years. He did a lot of running on those days since there was little work. I get to instant message with him every night which has been so nice. It makes it a lot easier to have so much contact with him. He is counting down until he comes home and as of yesterday it was 91. However today marks 3 months since I have seen him. 5 months total that he has been gone and 3 months since he has been over there. It has gone by fast and I was told that the time will move even faster now. I hope so.

Harmony liked soccer. I don't think she really knew how involved soccer was. She was a good sport though and showed a lot of hustle. She enjoyed playing goalie and getting to throw the ball in. She also got to kick a few times. Her coach is a really easy going guy and seemed to just enjoy running around with the kids. She got a new swimming suit this year and is so excited to try it out. So we are headed to the Y after school to go swimming. She had a lot of fun at school on Friday, watching movies and eating snacks. Sometimes I miss those days!

Ethan is just a character. There is just no one cuter! He is constantly telling me funny things. After soccer practice yesterday, he told me that he couldn't wait to go home so that he could be my soccer coach. Right now, he is really into numbers. Although he can't tell time, he can read the numbers from digital clocks. So he will come and tell me what numbers are on it. For instance, he knows that we need to be in the car in the morning at 7:55 and no later, or preschool starts at 857. He asked me the other day to please tell him how many more numbers it is until his birthday. He is very excited for it!

Connor didn't really enjoy his first game of soccer. It was very cold outside and he was feeling scared. I told him to stick with Ethan. However, he was still a bit nervous. By the time he had been in the game a couple of minutes, he came over to me crying. The coach asked him a couple of times if he wanted to play and he said no. However, while Harm was playing, he went into an empty field and practiced kicking into the goal. I am hoping next Sat. he will be willing to play. It breaks my heart every time I see his beautiful blues well up with tears!

Ivan was an absolute pill today at church. We had a good 3 week stretch of no screaming and staying in the chapel. Today he wanted anything that Ethan had. Which of course Ethan was not happy with! After he threw a book at the lady in front of him I took him out. A friend of mine sent her teenage daughter to sit with the other kids and Ivan enjoyed being able to crawl around. I keep thinking only 4 more months until nursery! He is still not walking yet and that is fine with me. He is so busy as it is, I don't know how much more I can handle!

The other day I was changing Ivan's poopy diaper and Ethan was talking to me. I said, "whew this diaper is stinky." So he kept saying, "x stinks mommy" he repeated it a few times. I finally said, "Ethan I have no idea what you are talking about". He replied that his teacher Ms Skees told him that. I told him I didn't think that Ms. Skees would say that someone stinks. In which he replied, " yes she did Mommy. She said it happened to the dinasours!" Extinct. Not exstinks. Got it Ethan. Too cute!