Standing, Stairs, Super Swinger, and Spring

Brahm has grow up so fast I can't believe it. Here he is pulling himself up on the couch. Look how proud he is.Also this week he has learned how to crawl up the stairs. One thing I love about our house is that our family room is sunken. All of my babies have loved this feature and take to stair early cause they have this two step training ground. They just play going up and going down trying to master the skill thinking it is the funnest thing they have ever done.

This week we took the kids to the pumpkin patch just for fun. We gave each of them 10 tickets they could choose to spend on what they wanted and encouraged they to spend wisely and make good choices to help teach management. Well Barry Bretton just had to play this game where you take the sledge hammer and slam it down trying to ring a bell. The game took THREE tickets (which I thought was way to many) and it was totally a grown up game not for a five year old. We tried to convince him that it would be "wasting" his tickets but he insisted on the game. Barry and I decided to let him do it and he would learn a lesson when he didn't have any tickets left to ride the rides with Vallie. To our amazement, he went up and totally rang the bell. Barry and my jaw just dropped. I guess the student has become the teacher. So here he is holding the bat he won as a prize.

I visiting taught a little lady in the Serene Ward for years (even before she was a member of the church). She has two kids one is a little girl a year older than Vallie. Through this time, Spring and I grew to be great friends. She still always gives Vallie her hand-me-downs from her little one. It is like Christmas at the Bulow house when Spring comes. We just love hand-me-down and put them to good use. They really are such a blessing when you have lots of little ones to clothe. Vallie loves to try all the clothes on. It takes her a couple of hours to put EVERYTHING on and take EVERYTHING off "all by herself". Man I can't imagine what she is going to be like as a teenager. Here she is modeling one of her favorites and hanging the "fancy" dresses all over the house.

I don't know how many of you feel about visiting teaching but it is such a blessing to me. There has never been a family Barry or I have taught that has not enriched our lives more than we could ever do for them in return. I swear I never leave a home completely uplifted on so many levels by those I am suppose to be teaching. What a divine program.