Happy November!

Time flies!! Hmmm

I am loving being free from school and I really really like being a mother. I still have to pinch myself sometimes. Levi is the best little boy that ever lived. His hair is growing, he's growing (not quite so exponentially any more (thank heaven)). Last time we weighed him, he was 16 lbs. 8.5 oz. That was at his 4-month check-up. He follows things with his eyes, he talks a lot, he responds and loves to play and interact, he looks at food like he wants it, he tries to sit up and ends up almost rolling over. He also kicks a lot, especially when he's getting his diaper changed. He also plays with his feet sometimes. It melts my heart when he looks at me with recognition and smiles, squeals or laughs. He smiles with his whole face, sometimes with his whole body.

Nate is still liking work and still gaming every Wednesday night at our house with his friends Barry (pronounced [b a r i]), Jason and Everett. He also plays a Star Wars role playing campaign about every other Saturday and enjoys it a lot.

He and I started reading a new book together the other night. It's title is "Fighting to Win." It's one of those self-help sort of books. It is based on Samurai principles about how to face problems and deal with things. I like it and it is very interesting. I also started a new book just recently, "Middlemarch" by George Eliot. My mother's sister Suzanne sent it to me for graduation. It is her favorite book, in fact, her youngest daughter after the heroine Dorothea. So far so good. I like the other books of Eliot's that I've read, and this promises to be a good read.

I'm still plugging along in Primary. The president is a very good woman named Janice Strobell. She has 3 daughters and a son and gives great advice whenever I ask for it. Her youngest will be 12 next year, in fact, she's the only person in the ward turning 12 next year, poor girl. I picked up the new manual for nursery leaders, "Behold Your Little Ones," this week. I look forward to getting it to all the nursery workers and reading it myself.

We are getting ready to fly to Boston on the 24th to visit Suzie and Matt and celebrate Thanksgiving and Matt's birthday (Nov. 29th) there with them. We will stay with them for about a week. It'll be Levi's second trip on an airplane and I hope it goes as well as the last one.

Happy Holidays, all. We hope you have a lot of fun and get to see many loved ones!