Scrapbooking Marathon

I have been really frustrated at how far behind I am on scrapbooking, I really like to scrap things as they happen and are fresh in my mind. So Thursday I did a few pages. I was in May of 2008. Anthony took Ethan with him on a campout last night and Joshua went to bed at 7:30pm so I stayed up all night scrapbooking. I scrapbooked most the day today as well and I am finally FINISHED with my 2008 book! This is my first year going digital so I'm going to have all the pages printed in a bound book. I am a simple scrapbooker so I don't have a lot of detail and really don't spend a lot of time on each page, I'd rather just get it done. I feel like a burden has been lifted and now that I'm caught up I can actually enjoy scrapbooking again. It's amazing what you can do when you're not chasing after a toddler!

Jesus loves you...

The last few weeks Ethan has really started to absorb things. There gets a point in a two year old's life when you wonder if anything you say is sinking in. I usually feel this way during family home evening. We use the nursery manual so the lesson is only about two minutes long but that entire two minutes he is pacing laps around the coffee table and jumping off the couch and I think why on earth do I even bother? Then out of the blue they say something that makes you wonder if some of it actually sinks in. A few weeks ago Ethan was walking upstairs to his room and out of the blue said to himself "Jesus loves you".

Since then it seems he's having an intellectual growth spurt. I tell him something once or twice and he remembers it. I showed him his right and left foot so he could put on his shoes and he still remembers. I play the children's songbook on cd for him during the day and he's started repeating the first article of faith and almost has the second down. He's getting better with the computer and loves to play on starfall.com. The other day I showed him a picture of President Monson and told him his name was Thomas and he got very excited (he's completely obsessed with Thomas the Train) then pointed to President Uchtdorf and said Percy! It feels like my efforts are finally paying off and my time trying to teach him things may actually be worthwhile!