The Anderson Way of Life: October 2010

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Student of the Quarter!

Boyd was awarded the Student of the Quarter for his Kindergarten class at a school assembly this week! His teacher, Mrs. Feerick, had wonderful things to say about our Boyd. She said that Boyd always does what he is supposed to do and that he always concerned about his classmates. He's an excellent helper and a great example.

Good job Bobo! We love you and are so proud of you!

The BEST hiding spot?

The last time we went to Flagstaff the boys played Hide and Seek at Grandma's. Riley was "it" and the others went to hide. Joseph found the best spot...

in plain sight, standing up with a blanket over his head in the middle of the house. The boys passed him by a couple of times and didn't even notice him! It took Riley, Jacob, and Boyd several minutes to find Joseph. Sometimes the best hiding spots are in plain sight.

Mummy's first pack meeting with Riley

Riley is really enjoying Cub Scouts. This month it was my turn to take him to pack meeting.

He really had a blast wrapping me up in toilet paper.

I don't think Riley ever stopped grinning.

Even when it was my turn to tie him up!

Next month, its Jeffery's turn to go and make the memories.

Best Buds

Cousins Jacob and Joseph

Do I even have to say anything?

I love Raising my Boys:

"You are home to him. When he learns to walk, he will wobble a few feet away from you and then come back, then wobble away a little farther and then come back. When he tries something new, he will look for your proud smile. When he learns to read, he will repeat the same book to you twenty times in a row, because you're the only one who will listen that many times. When he plays his sport, he will search for your face in the stands. When he is sick, he will call you. When he really messes up, he will call you. When he is grown and strong and tough and big and he feels like crying, he will come to you; because a man can cry in front of his mother without feeling self-conscious. Even when he grows up and has a new woman in his life and gets a new home, you are still his mother; home base, the ever constant, like the sun. Know that in your heart and everything else will fall into place."

-Anonymous

"Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero." Marc Brown

here's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother." Astrid Alauda
"Boys are God's way of telling you that your house is too neat!" Anonymous

"A boy is the only thing God can use to make a man."
Anonymous

"What are little boys made of?
Baseballs, bats and little league teams
Faith and Hope and Missionary dreams."
Anonymous

"Example is an important characteristic of a boy’s life." President Spencer W. Kimball

"Mothers of little boys work from son up til son down"

"If you are still in the process of raising children, be aware. The tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered around the house, the piles of laundry lying around to be tackled, will disappear all too soon. And, you will to your surprise, miss them profoundly." President Thomas S. Monson

"No other success can compensate for failure in the home."

"The greatest work you will ever do will be within the walls of your home."

"Motherhood is about raising & celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be, and that if you're lucky he just might be the teacher that turns you into the person you're supposed to be." - Joan Ryan

"You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read...You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with." -Dickens

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Student of the Quarter!

The BEST hiding spot?

Mummy's first pack meeting with Riley

Best Buds

Jen Player