Sports all around

Sammy has been busy with indoor soccer.  Don't let the pictures fool you. He seems to enjoy being goalie and instructing his team which way to kick the ball, rather than go after it himself. And Joe has been hitting the mat three times a week for wrestling. Thomas is very involved this year helping with coaching and is Joe's go-to man. Joe is a fighter and will not let anyone pin him too easy. He weighs 9 lbs more this year, and that is working to his advantage. I think he is excited to have Sammy join him next year. The video clip is of his first practice match this past weekend in Topenish.

Happy Valentines Day

Mark the mimiker

Mark may not speak but he communicates well through his gestures, pointing, & squealing. Lately he will make these faces and will want you to copy them. There are two actually, a cheesy grin and a scared looking face. He will out of the blue start to make them to you and we just copy along and he switches back and forth between the two just laughing! He is quite the jokester, the mute jokester!

Mark the Sophisticated

His cheesy grin!

Mark is very into looking at books, any kind of books. When we go to church, he insists on holding the Hymn book the entire time! He loves to flip through pages and I think to him it is more of a thrill than looking at the pictures. Though he will look at the pictures too! I captured him on the table looking at our manual for Sunday school on the teachings of President George Albert Smith. He was looking at this book for at least 10 min.