Here is a little update on everyone.

I have been feeling great! I am not sure exactly from what but I have been drinking more water and eating healthy thanks to great encouragement from my fitness class. I have also picked back up the routine a taking prenatal vitamins. I suspect that I have been a bit anemic and prenatal vitamins are loaded with iron (so is leafy green vegetables). So I am not sure where it is coming from but I am not complaining. My attitude is so much better towards my children. For a while I was just being so short tempered and crabby with them. I felt bad because they do not deserve that, but it just kept happening. Now my house is so happy. Everything just seems to be going smoother in the mornings. We actually get chores and school done and have free time in the afternoon. We still have areas to work on but I know we can tackle them now.

Asher has been pretty stressed to say the least. It seems like the last month it was just getting more and more stressful. I was really starting to worry about Asher. He is having to deal with so much at school. He says that his class is getting the short end of the stick in just about every area. The school has finally realized that there are things wrong with the system so they are changing the system, starting with the next lower class. The stress has not gone away,but Asher is dealing with it better now. I thinking to a couple of his classmates has helped. After their stress management class he was talking to Allen, the class president, and John, a brainiac, and they said they were having the same symptoms. They were all experiencing back pain, headaches, crankiness and the blues. Somebody brought it up and Asher was surprised to find out that it was a common experience.

Asher has tomorrow off and is looking forward to watching to OU/Texas game this Saturday.

Caylee is just growing more and more responsible every day. She has been surprising me by taking initiative so often to get things ready that she knows I need. For instance yesterday she knew Sery was hungry but I was busy giving the little ones a bath, so she went and mixed up some baby cereal with applesauce for me. I had not shown her how to do it, she just figured it out the proportions from watching me. It was so funny, when her daddy came home and confirmed that is was the right consistency, she immediately declared herself the best baby cereal maker in the whole world. Caylee may be quiet in public, but that girl definitely does not lack confidence. Caylee is doing very well in her Classical program. She memorizes very well and is having no problem downloading huge amounts of information into her brain. I don't tell her this, but she knows the curriculum better than I do.

Caylee's best friend is still Katy who lives across the street. She loves Zoe allot, but Caylee and Katy are sisters of the heart. The other day I heard them talking how much they loved each other. Katy told Caylee that they would always be best friends. Caylee reminded her that we are moving next year, but Katy told her that they would always be friends in their hearts. It was so sweet that I almost cried.


Natalie is still as fun and sparkly as ever. When she smiles the whole world lights up. I think the thing that she likes the most about herself is her freckles because so many people comment on how cute they are. I think that Natalie has ADD and possibly even ADHD. She is so squirmy and bouncy all the time. She has a hard time paying attention to her teacher in class, whether it is me or Mrs. Dawson. I am going to try to read more books to her to help her attention span grow.

Natalie does not seem to have a best, best friend yet, but she has Anna, Kendra and Jayden whom she loves so much.

Macy is getting so big. Still as mischievous as ever. I thought it was getting better for awhile, but I think Bethany encourages her old ways. Last week she cut her hair by herself. She had these beautiful long bangs that were past her chin, but now they are only half an inch long. I keep a thick headband over her bangs when we are in public so nobody can really tell. The most horrible part for me is that she did it three weeks ago and she is going to be a flower girl in a wedding next week.

Today Bethany's Mother's Day Out teacher told me that she had a very good day in class. Apparently she is starting to feel more comfortable there and she is showing more of her personality. I guess the teachers got to see how feisty she because she did not think the sippy cup they were offering her was her cup so she would vehemently protest anytime it was offered, but she kept chasing after another child thinking he had her sippy. Then out on the playground she kept going on the big slide by herself. She about scared the teachers to death because of her lack of fear. She is a very tough little girl. She is the toughest so far. She will fall down and smack herself and just get up and play. I think my younger children are hardy because my parenting style has changed. When they get hurt I don't run to them anymore. In fact I make them get up and come to me even if they are crying. I know it sounds a little mean, but none of my children are crybabies.

Sery is getting so big too. She just turned seven months.She is not quite crawling yet, but is just about there. She is quiet verbally, but takes an active interest in everything around her. If she has a toy she just goes crazy. Her sisters are favorite playmates. She laughs hysterically when they play peek-a-boo with her. She loves her daddy. She gets so excited when he gets home. She has two teeth that are just about ready to pop through. Not looking forward to that, but hopefully it won't to traumatic.