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Zack will not start a conversation with someone unless they are giving him their complete and undivided attention. If there's any background noise, if we look at something else, if we take a bite of our supper, Zack will completely shut down and will not start or complete his story. Zack and Nathan were eating lunch, and I was cleaning up some dishes. Zack obviously wanted to tell Nathan something, but Nathan was having some of his juice when I heard (punctuated with intensely sad sounding sighs...), "Nathan, I wish you would stop drinking so you could listen to me. Please stop drinking."

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Nathan has been noticing and commenting on people's fashion. I never thought that he would stop being busy long enough to notice what people are wearing, nevermind actually saying something about it. On Tuesday at the church, Nathan saw my mom at Daybreak (mom's group), and he said to grandma, "THAT's a cute scarf!"

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Nathan is corporate America's dream child. He wants EVERYTHING that's advertised on TV. Everything from the slap chop to toys to cereal. He is currently obsessed with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. After seeing the ad for it, we were grocery shopping and Nathan convinced me to get some. The commercials for it are pretty fun, and I'm pretty sure that the only reason he eats it are because of the ads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRv52A0D_Vc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cl57urqb9E&feature=related
He remembers quotes from commercials and I can hear him saying them when he's playing by himself with his cars or dinosaurs...

New School Life

The start of Kindergarten for Zack has been the beginning of a new routine for us. After all of us have been sleeping in til 9 or 10 in the morning since the boys were born, it's been quite a change to get up at 7:30. Nobody really has any sympathy for that... And I don't blame them. :) But we are now fairly settled into our new schedule. Mondays, Wednesdays, and every second Friday are school days, and Tuesdays are Daybreak at the church. It works out well though - we leave the house at the same time for both school and Daybreak.

The boys are doing really well with the change... on the days that Zack goes to school... Zack loves Kindergarten so much, just as we figured he would. And Nathan LOVES being home all day with just me. He plays all day so quietly, and when he's not playing he's on my lap reading stories. On Zack's first day of school Nathan and I read the entire Munschworks treasury in one sitting! When the boys are together on Zack's days off, they clash quite a bit now... Nathan enjoys having free reign of the toys and my complete attention, and Zack enjoys being a "big kid" that goes to school and learns more. So Zack has gotten WAY more bossy because he thinks he knows everything, and Nathan doesn't want Zack to play with anything! Obviously we're still working on the co-operation...

The First Big Injury...

So guess which one of our boys went to the hospital for stitches today...

Oh wait, we don't have to guess. We all know it's Nathan.

We had just returned home from dropping Zack off at school when Nathan tripped and went headlong (more like face-long) into one of the front steps. He looked up at me and could barely cry - his entire mouth was full of blood and his bottom lip looked like hamburger. His top teeth were loose and his gums were bleeding, too. My poor boy. So I ran in and grabbed a buttload of paper towel and we were off to the hospital. I'm sure that once Nathan is an adult he'll probably have his own chair in the waiting room there... Buuuut anyway. It's amazing how fast the emerg people help you when you bring in a wailing and bleeding child! Once we were in the room, Nathan was wrapped up swaddle-style so that his arms were pinned and he stayed perfectly still while the doctor froze his lip and gave him three stitches. He didn't move a muscle the whole time, I was so proud of him. The nurses were great and gave him lots of stickers, so that made him pretty happy. I expected him to want to go home and lay down, but then he told me that he wanted to go show Zack his stitches. What can I say? At least the little guy bounces back.

First Day

So this past week was the beginning of a new era in the Heinbuch household. Zack had his first day of Kindergarten. He's been wanting to go to school for so long, and his day finally arrived. He was elated the entire day, vibrating when I picked him up from all the excitement. Our little family is growing up. The picture below is of him in his new classroom.

Happy Heal-a-versary!

Well, this month marks one full year of being disease-free! Hooray for that. I'm so thankful that I barely remember what it's like to go out to eat and NOT be able to eat anything on the menu! I'm so thankful that I barely remember all those years of being in pain. Thank you Jesus for one of the greatest gifts - my health.

Our New Present

As if we didn't have more amazing things to say about our good friend Kyle, he came by with a present for our family. We now have our very own 50cc dirt bike to ride around, and for the boys to learn on. He brought it over saying that he wasn't using it and that we "might as well have it." The boys will never fail to know that Kyle is the coolest person in their little world. It's super fun to drive, by the way. No clutch, just gas and gears... Oh, and brakes (but Nathan doesn't use those - he he).

Buggy

Nathan's pretty crazy, but he's so soft-hearted. He spends the afternoons in the sprinkler and kiddie pool "rescuing" the bugs out of the water. With careful care, he takes a pool toy and scoops up the little critter. After making sure it's alive, he puts it on his hand or arm and sits down - watching intently - until the bug dries off and can crawl around. He watches it and sings to it; a soft lullaby of "buggy, buggy, buggy" over and over again. So sweet.

A Week Of Everything

Last week we had an adventure. Pete doesn't get time off in the summer (disadvantages of working in the road construction industry), so the boys and I took a trip down to Rocky Mountain House. Pete's parents invited us to come down for VBS for the week, and so we came. I helped out for the first 3 days in the grade 4-6 class. I had a blast with the kids. I came back to Spruce Grove without the boys on Wednesday afternoon so that I could do wedding flowers on Thursday for Friday pickup, and then Pete and I came back to Rocky on Saturday morning. It was a busy week, but we had a great time! I ended up getting a horrendous cold on wednesday night, which didn't help so much on Thursday - my flowers didn't come in on time! I started Thursday night at 11:00pm, went to bed at 3:45am, got up with Pete at 6:00am, and finished just in time for the flowers to get picked up Friday morning. A little crazy, but at least I got them done.

When Pete and I went to hang out on the weekend, we all went fishing. Rocky Mountain House has the cutest little stocked fishing pond just for kids, and it's right in town. Pete's dad got some old tackle boxes for the boys, and they loved having their own fishing stuff. Way too cute.