Logan - February 2014

Well after the excitement of the holidays and the January of basketball games the rest of January and the first part of February was pretty unexciting.  I do have a picture of you flipping a coin that you asked me to take.  It's a big step in a kid's life, learning how to flip a coin.

And I took a picture of you sitting at the table with your butt-naked brother?

Then apparently we went to Junction and you guys drove me crazy playing on the arcade games and begging me for quarters for the quarter machines.

For Valentine's day I stayed up past my bedtime cutting out hearts and writing what few things I could think of on them and then sticking them to your doors.  I did this in the dark so cut me a little slack on the random placement.  As I was finishing up in the front room I could hear them falling off the door one by one, so I ran and turned on the light and took a picture so of what it looked like because I was pretty sure that they'd all be on the ground before morning.  A few stayed though, and you guys thought it was pretty fun.

Then you came out to the kitchen to find your Valentines, a box of chocolate, a balloon, and a book.  Of course yours was a Diary of a Wimpy Kid book - the Do-It-Yourself one you saved up to buy.  It came earlier than we expected, so I decided to wrap it up for you and give you 3 of your hard-earned dollars back since that's how much I spent on Tessa's book.  You were pretty okay with that deal.

For your Valentine box you requested something, you guessed it, Diary of a Wimpy Kid.  I had NO clue what to do, so I paper mache'd some notebook paper to a box and then kind of gave you an outline of the face to draw, but when it came down to it you were the one who drew the face.  It may not have been spectacular with lights and moving parts, but you were pretty proud of it, and it did the job of holding all your Valentines from your friends.  Apparently your teacher has been calling you Mr. Awesome (like you need a bigger head), and some of your Valentines were even addressed to Mr. Awesome.

The Saturday of President's Day weekend we went fishing at Panguitch Lake with Grandpa Rob, Me, Dad, Uncle Dusty, Quade, Bosten, Uncle Boo, and Coby.  You and Quade had fun being drug out on the ice on the sled behind the fourwheeler.

As usual, you had more fun goofing off on the ice than you did fishing, and we got after you quite a bit to stick by your pole.  You couldn't figure out why everyone else was catching fish and you weren't, but you didn't stick around long enough to know if you had a bit.  You boys had fun though, and after we were done fishing Grandma, Tess, Ty, and Tinsley met us at the shore for a fun lunch.  Grandpa, Dad, and Uncle Boo decided to push their luck and took you out on the fourwheelers to spin donuts on the slick ice.  Talk about giving your mom a heart attack!  There was open water at the edge of the lake, and we got to see one of the fish cops dump his fourwheeler through it.

There's really not a whole lot else going on.  I finally put my foot down on our last trip to the library and said no more Wimpy Kid books.  It's all you talk about, and you've checked them each out of the library at least twice.  It's kept you from reading other books that you could test on at school to help meet your goal of 500% of your reading goal this year.  Plus I want you to see that there are more books out there that you will love.  It's hard right now though because they just tested you at school, and you're reading at a 5th grade 1st month reading level, and a lot of those books are a little more "heavy reading" than I'd like for you right now.

Other than that...yup, this is a pretty boring letter.  I'm even struggling to come up with some motherly advice today.  I will say, again, and maybe by the time you've read this you will have heard it enough that you believe it, but be nice to your brother and sister.  They'll be your best friends when you need them.

Love you bud,
Mom