Stuff happened this week, but really the most important thing for you to know is that....
LUKE GOT HIS U-WING!!!
For those of you who don't know, Luke has been doing chores and jobs for the last five months, paciently saving up his quarters until he had earned $65 (286 quarters including %10 for tithing), and this Friday he earned his last quarter!
He had chosen this U-Wing Star Wars Lego set a million years ago, but it wasn't that long ago, so Marinda didn't think it would be a problem going to the store. Just to be on the safe side, she called to check the price - and was told they weren't selling them anymore. Apparently they are not restocking the old Star Wars movie sets to get ready for the new movie coming out this winter. Marinda panicked, and called the two other Lego stores. One of them was out, while the other one had ONE LEFT! She begged them to put it on hold (she didn't need to, we think the sales lady thought she was a little crazy) then ran up there with Luke and his $65 (we had stopped at the bank to exchange his quarters for cash). And there it was, waiting for him! Luke handed over his money, and then proceeded to droll/complain incessantly for the next five hours until Amit came home and they could start building it.
Luke is an inspiration to all of us that it IS possible to save up for impossible goals. Honestly, who could have guessed that a five year old could have saved up 286 quarters just by doing little jobs every day? Way to go!
Other fun things this week, we went to the Pumpkin Patch with Aunt Caitlin and her boyfriend! We did all the fun things we do every year - the barn hay maze, the hay loft slide, see the animals, climb the tractor, tractor ride, and of course, pick out pumpkins! It was really fun and the kids were so cute! Especially Jacy, who hit an all time fall harvest cuteness award when she was being pushed back to the car sitting in a wheel barrow with two pumpkins while eating a fresh honeycrisp apple! There was a little bit of contention at the very end when Marinda and Luke went and got a bag of kettle corn - then realized they should have gotten two when they started fighting over who was going to eat all of it! FYI, they shared, and there was plenty for all.
Luke Stories:
• Luke was asking Marinda this week "how do you laugh in Spanish?" Marinda replied that it is the same as laughing in English... To which our very observant kindergartener replied "No! Senor Lizano puts his hands on this belly and goes 'HaHaHa!' and that's how you laugh in Spanish!"
• We asked Luke today if he knew what McDonald's was (in Primary they talked about a family that was walking to McDonald's). He said he thinks it is a farm. We're either doing something right or completely failing at preparing him to enter the world as an informed citizen.
Jacy Stories:
• Jacy's imaginative play is getting weird. We mentioned a while ago that she has been focusing on "disaster games" - well, this week she took it to a whole new level. She had Luke's skeleton dog "Dead" and her monkey "Bobo" - then had Bobo say "No! Don't eat me!" and then Dead said "I want to eat you!" - and then had Dead make eating noises while Bobo yelled "NO!!" - then tried to put Bobo in Dead's rib cage.....
• At gymnastics this week, Jacy was on a piece of equipment playing, when another kid started coming toward her from the other side of the same piece of equipment. She then turned to Marinda and exclaimed "The baby's coming! The baby's coming!" Clearly to Jacy all toddlers are "babies", even if they are as big as she is!
• Amit was putting Jacy into her carseat and asked her if Daddy was the best Daddy. Jacy then smiled and said "No! Jacy the BEST!"
Marinda Stories:
• Yes Marinda has a life - and more than just watching Netflix lately! Last week was Marinda's FIRST DAISY MEETING!!! For those of you who don't know, Marinda got roped into being (okay, fine, she eagerly volunteered her time, talents and her sweat, blood and tears) the Girl Scout Troop leader for the kindergarteners at Luke's school by some of the other moms in Luke's class. Honestly, they didn't need to try that hard, because it was something Marinda always wanted to do, she just thought it would be more when Jacy was five. Oh well! The meeting went AWESOME, and the girls
LUKE GOT HIS U-WING!!!
For those of you who don't know, Luke has been doing chores and jobs for the last five months, paciently saving up his quarters until he had earned $65 (286 quarters including %10 for tithing), and this Friday he earned his last quarter!
He had chosen this U-Wing Star Wars Lego set a million years ago, but it wasn't that long ago, so Marinda didn't think it would be a problem going to the store. Just to be on the safe side, she called to check the price - and was told they weren't selling them anymore. Apparently they are not restocking the old Star Wars movie sets to get ready for the new movie coming out this winter. Marinda panicked, and called the two other Lego stores. One of them was out, while the other one had ONE LEFT! She begged them to put it on hold (she didn't need to, we think the sales lady thought she was a little crazy) then ran up there with Luke and his $65 (we had stopped at the bank to exchange his quarters for cash). And there it was, waiting for him! Luke handed over his money, and then proceeded to droll/complain incessantly for the next five hours until Amit came home and they could start building it.
Luke is an inspiration to all of us that it IS possible to save up for impossible goals. Honestly, who could have guessed that a five year old could have saved up 286 quarters just by doing little jobs every day? Way to go!
Other fun things this week, we went to the Pumpkin Patch with Aunt Caitlin and her boyfriend! We did all the fun things we do every year - the barn hay maze, the hay loft slide, see the animals, climb the tractor, tractor ride, and of course, pick out pumpkins! It was really fun and the kids were so cute! Especially Jacy, who hit an all time fall harvest cuteness award when she was being pushed back to the car sitting in a wheel barrow with two pumpkins while eating a fresh honeycrisp apple! There was a little bit of contention at the very end when Marinda and Luke went and got a bag of kettle corn - then realized they should have gotten two when they started fighting over who was going to eat all of it! FYI, they shared, and there was plenty for all.
Luke Stories:
• Luke was asking Marinda this week "how do you laugh in Spanish?" Marinda replied that it is the same as laughing in English... To which our very observant kindergartener replied "No! Senor Lizano puts his hands on this belly and goes 'HaHaHa!' and that's how you laugh in Spanish!"
• We asked Luke today if he knew what McDonald's was (in Primary they talked about a family that was walking to McDonald's). He said he thinks it is a farm. We're either doing something right or completely failing at preparing him to enter the world as an informed citizen.
Jacy Stories:
• Jacy's imaginative play is getting weird. We mentioned a while ago that she has been focusing on "disaster games" - well, this week she took it to a whole new level. She had Luke's skeleton dog "Dead" and her monkey "Bobo" - then had Bobo say "No! Don't eat me!" and then Dead said "I want to eat you!" - and then had Dead make eating noises while Bobo yelled "NO!!" - then tried to put Bobo in Dead's rib cage.....
• At gymnastics this week, Jacy was on a piece of equipment playing, when another kid started coming toward her from the other side of the same piece of equipment. She then turned to Marinda and exclaimed "The baby's coming! The baby's coming!" Clearly to Jacy all toddlers are "babies", even if they are as big as she is!
• Amit was putting Jacy into her carseat and asked her if Daddy was the best Daddy. Jacy then smiled and said "No! Jacy the BEST!"
Marinda Stories:
• Yes Marinda has a life - and more than just watching Netflix lately! Last week was Marinda's FIRST DAISY MEETING!!! For those of you who don't know, Marinda got roped into being (okay, fine, she eagerly volunteered her time, talents and her sweat, blood and tears) the Girl Scout Troop leader for the kindergarteners at Luke's school by some of the other moms in Luke's class. Honestly, they didn't need to try that hard, because it was something Marinda always wanted to do, she just thought it would be more when Jacy was five. Oh well! The meeting went AWESOME, and the girls
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