E: "a hundred million snails!" & B: "ROAR!"

One of the problems with blogging is that it is subject to what M. and I call the "home teaching effect". Say you're a well-intentioned home teacher (or visiting teacher), but you get busy and miss a month or two. Naturally you feel guilty about it and mean to really do a good job next month. But then, you want to do such a good job that it'll take more time than you typically have, so you put it off. Pretty soon you're pushing it out of your mind because it makes you feel bad...and then even avoiding your teachees in the halls at church. The only real cure for this self-perpetuating problem is to face up to the fact that you're never going to get around to doing a really great job, kick yourself into at least a phone call, and try to regain some semblance of self-respect.

I have this issue with blogging. (And thank-you cards, but that's another post altogether.) I keep meaning to post birthday photos, back-to-school photos, this awesome video compilation of our Disneyland trip from last December...etc. And I think, "I can't post something new if I haven't posted X yet!" But...alas, obviously this strategy isn't working for me. And so, I humbly offer a few recent photos and videos. If I get to it, I'll post that other stuff. And if I don't, at least there will be these.

This video is of E. presenting her poster in her kindergarten class when she was Friend of the Week. Notice her request at the end. When she asked, her teacher looked at me to see what I thought, and I shook my head because E. and I hadn't prepared for it. I wanted us to have another day or so to practice so everything could go smoothly. But...

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...but E. was so crushed at the prospect of not getting her single Friend of the Week request of reading the book at storytime that we went for it. (We have a great teacher who was very patient and let us do it after E. was so visibly disappointed and I agreed to it.) And just so you know, this is long and pretty boring for non-grandparents, so I forgive you if you skip most of it.

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One more. B. went as a lion to the ward Halloween party, so we taught him to roar. He just decided last week that walking was the way to go (he's been able to walk for over a month, but until last week, preferred to crawl), and he's been upright ever since.

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