Yesterday Topher's tree climbing required an intervention. He's never been that high up. Thankfully Bryan was able to talk him through climbing back down.
Thanks to Sophie for grabbing my phone and taking pictures.
Just now I was sitting in our living room, folding laundry, when Topher came out of timeout. This is the conversation that followed.
Me: Topher, come talk to me.
Topher: I love you. There I talked to you.
Me: I love you too. That's not what we need to talk about.
Topher: I'm sorry.
Me: Sorry for what?
Topher: I'm sorry I said you said I could be on the iPad, even though you didn't.
Me: Which was a lie, you know that, right?
Topher: Yeah.
Me: And you know that lying's not okay, right?
Topher: Yeah.
Me: It's actually one of the ten commandments.
Topher: What?!
Me: Yep, thou shalt not lie.
Topher: (picking up three rolls of Bryan's socks) But they didn't say thou shalt not juggle!
And then he tried to juggle the socks.
I'm not sure that he got the message.
Tonight we watched Phoebe perform in her high school's annual Theatre Showcase. She sang and danced in the opening number, Grease Is the Word, and did a great job.
Having so many busy nights can be overwhelming, but I'm so glad that we've made it part of our family culture to support each other by attending all the various performances our kids are in.
Cooper participated in a Low Voices choral festival today. He and six other young men from our school district joined young men (and a few young women in the tenor section) from five or six other school districts for most of the afternoon and evening. They worked with two professional choral directors and learned three songs that they performed for the families at an informal concert at the end of the festival. They sounded great! I'm so glad that Cooper has had opportunities this year to grow as a singer and musician.
I've lost count of how many spirit weeks we've had at school this year. This week we're celebrating Dr. Suess' birthday and the first costume prompt was to dress like your favorite book character. Unfortunately, until 10 minutes before we had to leave to take Sophie to her before school student government meeting, I thought it was pajama day. I learned my mistake when I double checked the flyer that had come home. So, with new information in hand, we scrambled. I don't love Dog Man, but Topher does, and I was thankful that it was an easy costume to assemble. Double-sided fabric tape and construction paper to the rescue!
On Saturday I was one of the drivers for our youth temple trip. Phoebe had to stay home for a rehearsal, but Cooper and Sophie were able to go. It was a long day with a lot of crazy Philadelphia driving, but I'm always happy to be in the temple with my kids.
Photo credit goes to a member of our Bishopric who brought his nice camera and took pictures of all the families that attended.
Part of Peter's time as a missionary is spent doing service. He works at food bank, a Habitat for Humanity store, and the temple. The rest of his time is spent serving with the teaching missionaries in our area. An unanticipated benefit of him serving his mission from home is that we've gotten to see him interact with the Elders. He loves finding people to teach. He loves coming home and telling us about the lessons they had that day. He loves the companionship of teaching the gospel with his peers. I'm sure that we could hear all of these stories in letters or over video calls, but it's pretty cool to watch it happening in real time.
Our local library got a new set of beanbag chairs. Topher loved them so much that he only played on the computer for ten minutes and then parked himself on the beanbag with a book.
