FOR SOMEBODY YOU WON'T TELL BY THE TITLE THIS TIME [By Jonah]

                    BEFORE YOU START, KNOW THIS [THE FOLLOWING].


This blog is for Teri because she told me she knows nothin' about nothin'. And also remembers less than a worm. It is for our 'private' book club, but your welcome to join if you would like. Instructions; read this, read the book, then teleport to my house and tell me. ;)


Book club name: Teri, Jonah, and Mr. book
Edited: Jonah
Date published: November 17, 2016
What else you need to know: what I'm going to write

these are the books that Terry needs to read:
1. The wonderful story of Henry Sugar
2. The boxcar children
3. The magic tree house series
4. The thief lord [best one]
all of these are......supposedly young adult books. They, however, are very interesting

these are the book ["s"  deleted] I am supposed to read:
The importance of being earnest

have any others Miss I-Have-Just-One-Book-At-A-Time-For-Jonah?
If any others have any books for me would gladly oblige. thank you for reading the Thursday special.  

Dear Dad,

I introduced Teri to 21 bars this weekend. I couldn't help thinking of you the entire time, especially as I finished off the box the next day. I wouldn't have shared those with little me, either. They are just so tasty.

We talked about you a little bit, but not much. We both miss you too much, so we steered the conversation to Harry Potter, retirement, and water rights.

I'll share my ice cream with you any time,
little k

Kaitlyn comes to visit!

It's cold today. It will be colder tonight and rainy tomorrow. It seems like a good day to catch up on computer work until making soup for dinner. Brr. I had to resort to sitting right next to the space heater in order to enjoy my ice cream after lunch! (Sad day.)

With that, I've been going through pictures on my phone that haven't made the blog yet. I ended up turning off the automatic upload because my computer was getting full of pictures of Miriam's feet from early mornings when she wanders the house taking pictures and waiting for the rest of us to wake up. Since Kaitlyn and I are currently sending each other texts in reaction to the Alabama game, I'll start by documenting her visit last month.

One of the first things we did was head to Freedom Park in Charlotte. I have memories of Kaitlyn pushing Caroline on the swings before C could even walk, so I felt super nostalgic watching them play together at the park.

After the park and a stroll through Fourth Ward, we ventured North to an abandoned village near Hickory that was the filming location of District 12 in the Hunger Games movies. Even in the middle of the day, it was a little creepy. Hats off to whoever scouted the location.

We watched football, took the kids to soccer, played games, and ate milkshakes. Caroline made Kaitlyn a special decoration out of play-dough, and we all sulked for a few days after she left. I'm doing my best to talk her into moving to NC, but no luck thus far. That hasn't stopped me from looking at job postings and apartment rentals, though. I'm nothing if not optimistic!

house plans

When Caroline was a baby, Jonah adored her. About the time she turned three, he started to get annoyed with her because she didn't always want to do what he said. (And at that point, he had a new baby sister to adore.) The past year and a half, their relationship has changed shape many times over as they work their way through their respective changes in development and interests.

A few weeks ago, almost out of nowhere, they started playing together for hours at a time. While they often made up games and played in the mornings, most games would end in a fight. Now it seems I'm the one interrupting the game for lunch more often than not.

One of their favorite things to do together is to make Minecraft plans. Caroline then sits next to Jonah while he builds what they spent the day designing. Part of me wants to insist he give her a turn to play. Another part of me remembers how happily I watched Q play games as a kid. Either way, I'm happy to see them getting along so well, especially since they are both getting a little frustrated with Miriam's recent habit of making messes and running around screaming. (As am I, now that I think of it.)

DE DAY FER JAA. [By Jonah]

in the morning, I woke up about 8:34 or so. For breakfast, I tried fried eggs for the first time!
after that, we made mommy birthday cards! Did you know it was mommy's birthday? Hope
so because that took forever to write. Then we did some school, brushed our teeth, et cetera.
Then, Caroline and I played the Owner Game. Oooooookay. Fine. it is where Caroline is a
''........Bobcat'' and I am a ''.......Hunter''  and I find her in the deep dark woods. [The que-en
bed.] I say '' where are your parents?'' and she says '' the went to Austrailia. and left me behind!'' TM
then we went to piano lessons. And I learned a lot of stuff, bullah bulllolo blah. Aaaaaaaasaaa
aaaaand. Sorry. Oh yeah. THEN I WROTE THE BLOG. Okay now may I pleeeeeease be done?







                                                        BBBBBYYYYYYYEEEEEEE!!!
                                                        Bo-ho such a pity! waaaaah -sniff-
                                                          buh, buh, buh, bye!

Happy Halloween!

Let the record show: I had all the Halloween costumes done an entire day before Halloween! This was a first. All three seemed pretty happy with their chosen costumes (Percy Jackson, Raven Queen, and a cat), which made it even better. 

We went to Rob & Shanté's house for our soon-becoming-traditional meatloaf dinner before trick-or-treating. Miriam got the hang of it pretty early on and would NOT let me skip past any houses, even when she and I fell behind the group. In fact, when we headed back to Huntersville a few days later, Miriam was so excited to "be a kitty and get more candy!" Anytime she spies a plastic pumpkin around the house, she peeks inside just in case there's any candy left behind.

I think the thing the kids liked best was decorating for Halloween. The funny thing about that is that we have like 2 decorations total. They were happy to make their own! Caroline even decorated this bat I cut out for her. She stapled it (enthusiastically) and cut out little white chunks for eyes, teeth, and claws. It was impressive! 

not too dark

This morning at 4am, Miriam came into our room and tried to climb in bed. I groggily reminded her that she needs to stay in bed until the sun comes up and walked her back to her room. Sure enough, when the barest sliver of blue could be seen through the blinds, here came Miriam with her backpack on (upside down, no less).

"It's not too dark now!" she said, before climbing into bed. I wish I could take a picture of her stumbling around the room with a backpack as big as she is, but it IS rather dark in here, despite what she says.