Finally a note from the Peterons!

Well my computer wasn't reading my card so I didn't feel the need to post until it started working and now...it works! K, this is a picture of Daphne and our new Foster son Jaron. This was so so funny because I had taken a bunch of pictures of them here and zoomed out and there was little Tommy sidled up to Daph smiling sweetly like he was supposed to be there and I had no idea he had even come out. I laughed pretty hard.

We need some new snow! The kids love snowmobiling so much! They all just stand in the field across the road and Joel takes two at a time.

"I got too much toilet paper"

The boys playing on the computer

Sleepover on the big pillow! We have now surpassed the size of the pillow and one person has to take a turn only being kind of on the pillow. Millie was the fist volunteer.

I love using every ounce of old house we can. Joel almost threw this chunk of tongue and grove wall out when he cut out the door for the bathroom. What? Crazy I know! Luckily I made him save it and we used it for the seat of the bench we made for our room!

This is what running in Clarkston looks like for about half the year! This is Darcy Katie and I. Joel and I have done our 8 miler now. Just four more long runs until the half marathon!

Maizy's foray into cake decorating. She was a little disappointed it wasn't perfect the first time. Maybe now they will be a little more appreciative when they make their requests for birthday cakes! :)

This is my little boy! He wanted to get out the cars basket but I told him he couldn't until he cleaned up his "projects". I looked down and he was filling up the bucket in his loader with Legos and dumping them into his Lego bucket.

I was talking to Mom on the phone and here came Tommy with our tripod. I don't even know where he found it and our camera (which he isn't allowed to touch without supervision) and was trying to hook it up. I knew immediately what he was doing "are you being Unca' Dan?" "Yup" of course he was and he took literally hundreds of pictures. I was just thinking I should have taken a picture of our new bench when I saw this one. Tommy's self portrait with the bench behind him.

This is what Maizy's backpack looks like every single day. Why? Why would you ever need more than one book at a time? Aleisa she should have been yours!

 

This has been a big month for Miles! He has had a hard time with "yes" and "no". He has been able to communicate it to us forever without actually using the words and I don't know why it was so hard for him to use these two words. He could use pecs correctly but couldn't say yes or no. He now can communicate them perfectly and does so very proudly! In the store he walked over to the hot dogs and picked them up and smiled at me. I asked what he wanted and he said "Hot dog, please yes?" I was so proud of him! But hot dogs aren't healthy so I scolded him, told him no, and to put them back. Just kidding! He knows he can get ANYTHING out of me when he uses his words. In fact we bough two packages. :) He has been reading his early reader Lightning McQueen books every night and when he gets a hard word that is tricky he pulls the blanket over his head and giggles before he can go on. So sweet.

 

As Mom said last week she came down for Caleb's ordination and I am so glad she did! Besides getting to hang out with her, she saved the day in Sacrament meeting! We were sitting there completely silently and concentrating on the speaker like always :) and Joel says "Megan (hands me Tommy) and says "It's gum". Oh my gosh! For some reason Tommy had stuck his gum on his eye! As I went to grab it he rubbed his eye. Instantly sticking his eyelashes closed and making him look a little bit like his eye was melted shut because the gum was skin colored. I took him out and was wondering what in the world I was going to do. SO I did the most logical thing. Told my Mommy on him! I went upstairs and got Mom and she happened to have hair spray in her car. I took him in the bathroom and Mom poured it on a paper towel and wiped and wiped. Tommy has extremely long eye lashes and I thought it was never going to come all the way off. But 15 minutes later we walked back into sacrament meeting like nothing had happened! Thank you Mother!