Accomplishments

Don't worry, this isn't another post about all that Rachel is doing. (Although, she DOES walk about 3/4 of the time now.) :)

Yesterday, Micah and Garrett were playing out back and I was working downstairs. All of a sudden, Micah opened the door and said, "Mom I want to show you something!" So, I went outside to see what was so great. Garrett was on the swing pumping back and forth and Micah was so proud of him. What I see as the bigger accomplishment is that Micah patiently taught him to do it instead of tossing a ball around or running around the yard. Micah usually prefers to play by himself and often complains when others want to play with him. Although it's not necessary to ALWAYS play with others, we have working on at least thinking of the feelings of others and SOMETIMES including them in whatever play is going on. In this instance Micah willingly and selflessly took time to teach his brother how to do something. Then, he was not proud of his own personal accomplishment in teaching Garrett to do something but was genuinely encouraging his brother. ahhhhhhhhh.....

Karissa and Micah have also been spending a lot of time reading to Garrett. Thankfully, I do think that Karissa has given up on her original goal of teaching him to read at the age of two though. (When he was born, she announced that he MUST read at two, since she read at four and Micah read at three. Logically, this also means that Rachel needs to hurry up as well, because she would need to learn to read at the age of one. This thinking could lead to real trouble if we were to have two more children. Would that mean they would need to learn to read in utero?) We have also been working on NOT comparing ourselves with ourselves, but obviously we haven't accomplished that goal yet. ;)