This Week at Our House # 44

1. The carpeting came on Friday, hurray!!! John fixed a few things and helped put in a little more of the wood floor. The living room is complete. The hardest cuts for the dining room are next and then it will be easy until we get to the hard cuts in the kitchen of which there will be plenty. 
2. I love the new carpet! It's green, my favorite color, and patterned. It looks really nice. we had school everyday except Friday because the carpeting took the whole day. I have been digging my garden plot. I may put in some winter wheat and see how it does. I have also been taking long walks most days. It's lovely to walk around the farms and the woods.
3. Ruth has a companion that she loves. She said that this is the companion she has been praying for.
4. Kate read a lot, walked with me, and made dinner a bunch. I love having her around. She is my little companion. She takes walks with me and talks and talks. 
5. Johnny has still been very helpful. He moved stuff out for the carpeting, and then back in. He headed the bunk bed set ups, and brought in lots of heavy furniture once the carpeting was in. 
6. Adam had his 13th birthday today!!! He is the biggest 13 year old I have ever had. We have kind of been thinking of him as a 13 year old for several months. He is just as fun and clever as all of our other teens.
7. Rachel is excited to have all of her stuff back and unpacked. She is especially happy to have her legos. She has lego families with beautiful houses that she builds herself. This afternoon, she had two of her lego figures get married, and, as she said, she needed to build them a beautiful cottage.
8. Anya sat in a fire ants nest and had 32 bites on her bottom and back. Anya was happy to get her stuff  and spent a lot of time today organizing it in her room today. I worked hard all day making a big dinner and dessert. I did several loads of dishes and had Sam crying at my heals all day. I was pretty tired, by the time dessert was done, so Anya hopped up happily and washed the 12 plates and 12 forks from cake. 
9. Joseph gets so excited the two days he is allowed to play computer that he wakes up as early as he is allowed to, so that he can be the first on the computer.
10. Joshua followed me all around the house asking me the question which do I like better and then he would name two things. Ruth and Kate did that at the same age.
11. Arwen is beginning to read. She remembers words really well. And when she misses a word, she reads the entire sentence over. I think she does this to try and comprehend what she is reading.
12. We got two little kittens because we thought we would need more than one cat to keep the mice away. Susan loves them and carries them everywhere. 
13. Sam is walking! He will be one in 8 more days and is acting like it. He spends all day long pulling things out of cupboards and off the shelves. He loves the dish washer.

Pictures

the beautiful scenery I get to see on my walks

The new carpet. I love it!