Really, who does that?

As many of you already know, Robert broke his upper right arm last night. He was playing in the yard with Eric, slipped on the wet leaves, and fell into the fence. We spent 6 and a half hours in the ER last night. Eric is staying with Robert's parents. We are going to the orthopedic specialist in a few minutes to see if he can set it or if it will require surgery. His arm is currently partially set until we could see the specialist. He has been in a great deal of pain. We would appreciate all of your prayers. Here are the x-rays. If you click on the picture, it will fill up your whole screen. But seriously, who is playing ball in the backyard with a 3 year old and then breaks his humerus?

Two infinities and Buh-lah!

Eric received a Buzz Lightyear from Shane and Trenna that he loves. When he first got it, he would say "to infinity and buh-lah". A few days later, he started saying the "beyond" correctly. But, I noticed a day or two ago that he was looking around for "two infinities". He would see a group of two things, and say, "look, momma, two infinities". I have no idea what he thinks an infinity is. I guess both of those words are not in a 3 year old's vocabulary. He does another thing with his Buzz that I find precious. It has a laser button on the arm. I noticed he would push the button, and then he and Buzz would go on rescue missions together to try to go rescue the animal. There are 3 sounds the laser makes, and Eric thinks they are all animal sounds (mostly in the bird family). Thank you, Diego, for convincing my child that every sound is an animal sound and not necessarily a destructive weapon sound. :)

Eric's favorite things about Christmas

Eric had a lot of fun with Christmas this year. By far his 2 favorite things were putting ornaments on the tree and filling up his Santa's workshop. The workshop is like a countdown calendar, and there is one magnetized fabric piece for the 25 days of Christmas.



He adored putting ornaments on the tree. It was his absolute favorite thing to do. We put about 20 ornaments a day on the tree for a LONG time (I have a lot of ornaments). And then if we got any new ones, we immediately went home and put those on the tree. He filled all the lower branches, with 5 or 6 ornaments on each branch. I would come behind him and move some of those to the top. He loved to look at them all and lie down under the tree to glance up through the branches.

Reading and Adding

In case any of you didn't see over Christmas, Eric can add numbers 1-5 (ex 3 + 4, 2 + 5, etc). Robert taught him to do this by using the fingers on his two hands. He used his hands for the first couple of hours, and now he just pictures it in his head and counts it. It is pretty cool.

And, he read his first book on December 16. It was the first BOB book. It is pretty basic - Mat sat. Sam sat. Mat sat on Sam, etc. But I was pretty impressed. He has been showing signs that he was ready to read, so I just tried it out, and he read it all by himself. He wanted to try the next one right away, but then he floundered some. I think 1 book at a time is enough for him. I plan to get another one out this weekend and see how he does. Here are a couple of pictures of him reading.

Merry Christmas!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I will try to do some updating later this week. Here is a family picture of us from Christmas Eve.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! Eric had a great time yesterday being with his Daddy. He knows his memory verse "Unto thee O God, do we give thanks". This first picture is part of the costume he would have worn if he hadn't been sick for his Gymboree program. The second is of him running through a pile of leaves today. He thought that was big fun.

Halloween

I know I am very overdue for a post. We have been sick for a couple of weeks. But, I wanted to tell you about our fun, fun Halloween. On the Thursday before Halloween, we went to Gymboree for their party. They did a good job, and Eric had lots of fun. This is the thing he still talks about the most from Halloween. On Saturday we did Trick or Treat St with Abbie. On Sunday night we did Boo at the Zoo with Daddy. On Halloween night we went to the Candy Factory. That is a huge thing one church around here was doing. Eric had a blast, and this is the second thing that he still talks a lot about. Then we went to Trunk or Treat at our church. Then we went to a carnival at the church where I exercise. Then we trick or treated at 2 of our neighbors. I feel like we definitely got good use out of his costume! And I loved spreading it out over multiple days. I like making the holidays last as long as possible. I also had fun making bat and jack-o-lantern pancakes for the 2 of us.

Yeah, he caught it!

Fishing for prizes at Gymboree

Eric and Abbie

He got so much candy at the zoo, that he could barely lift his pumpkin.

Daddy and Eric at the zoo.

Blasting off.

So excited about entering the candy factory.

Trunk or treating with Jackson.