The adventures of our new family of 5

Tonight for dinner we had oodles of noodles soup (glorified ramen), jello, and rolls. Doesn't that sound like a kid's "meal-come-true"? Well, did we mention that our children are picky? As Tyler was eating his soup, he doubtfully said, "Daddy, are you sure this is yummy?" He's still not convinced.

Emalyn has now had three weeks in Primary, after graduating from nursery. She's still adjusting. Last Sunday, I was subbing as the primary pianist, so I got to be in there with her and Tyler. Suddenly, in the middle of sharing time, she and the little girl who'd been sitting next to her stood up and started walking toward the door (with their arms folded so they'd be reverent). When I went to get her to go back to her seat, she told me that they were "done with primary and we need to leave and go on a walk." This was said pretty loudly, in the front of the room, so everyone was chuckling. Apparently, Emalyn was the instigator, since she did it again yesterday, only with the little boy sitting next to her this week. Hopefully, this week we can convince her to stay in primary.

Krysta is still keeping us up a lot at night. But she is crying a lot less ever since we started giving her medicine for her acid reflux. We have hopes that it'll help her sleep more soon... She's getting so big! Last week she weighed in at 10 lbs 10 oz.

I got a new challenge last week. Our ward choir director came and asked if I'd be the choir pianist for the song they're learning for ward conference. (Turns out we only have a ward choir if ward conference is coming up.) I happily said yes, before looking at the music. See, ever since I got sick, I've been on the "don't ask her to do anything list," which is understandable, but I was really excited to be more involved in our ward. However, I'm not exactly regretting it yet, but I am having second thoughts about saying yes so quickly after practicing for a week. It's super hard! We had our first practice yesterday, and, well, it was interesting. At the end of the practice, the choir members said they'd pray for me. So that pretty well sums up how it went.

We have had so much snow! And it doesn't melt either. This weather reminds me of Quebec. Scott has really bad luck with the snow. Every time he shovels the driveway, it snows again within the next 24 hours. If he doesn't shovel, then it doesn't snow for 3 or 4 days. So mostly, we just don't shovel anymore. So everyone has to hike through about a foot of snow to get to our door. Does this count as a public apology? If so, we're sorry.