Time Flies!

Has it seriously been a month since my last post? So much has happened since then. Some really big stuff too! Blaze learned to ride a two-wheeler. He had his friend Bryler over to play one day. Bryler can ride a two-wheeler. A couple days later Blaze told me he wanted his training wheels off his bike. I took them off. Mike told me he would want them back on within the hour. We went out front and I started to help him ride. He wanted none of that. He tried and tried until finally he was riding all by himself without tipping over. He still needed a little help getting going though. That was Sunday, by Monday he was off without any help whatsoever! Then last night he lost his very first tooth! It's been loose for a while now. His adult tooth is already almost all the way up. I asked him how things were going and if I could check it out. I wiggled it and told him I bet daddy could pull it out without it hurting too bad. So he went and asked Mike to pull it out. Mike told him that if it hurt too much to let him know and he would stop. Blaze told him it hurt but by then it was too late, the tooth was out. He was so excited. He kept saying I can't believe I lost my tooth. The toothfairy came and left $5. It's a first tooth special ;). He is also learning to read! I can't believe it. They did a 6 week program to learn all their ABC's and numbers to 30. He had it done in 3 weeks. He got his first "sight word" list and knows almost all of them.
Other things that have happened...I turned 30. Mike requested to get off the weekend shift. He will be back to swing/grave after the long wall move in January. It's a little bittersweet. I kind of like having him around during the week, but it will be nice to be able to do stuff as a family on the weekends again.
Kaia keeps getting these pesky bladder infections. They suck so bad!! I took her to the doctor on Monday and got her on antibiotics. At 2:00 Tuesday morning she started throwing up. Mike, being the amazing husband and dad that he is slept on the couch with her. She finally started feeling better after noon sometime. The doctor thinks it was because the infection moved up into her kidneys. If she keeps getting infections we will have to have an ultrasound done to make sure everything is okay. Hopefully they don't continue.
Jercie is doing really good in school and church. When we had our primary program she had to sing a verse of Follow the Prophet all by herself. She did such a good job! I was very proud of her. We have parent teacher conferences next week so we will see how well she's doing in school. If her homework is any indication she's doing well.

We also had our family pics done. I love them. Kaia was a turd as usual and wouldn't smile at all. It was freezing cold but we were done in 45 minutes and we got Jercie's baptism pics done at the same time. Here is a little peek at them...

 Is that a smile?

 2 of them? The end is near ;)