Saturday, December 13, 2008
Christmas Programs galore ...
We are knee-deep in Christmas programs this year ... I haven't been very good about taking pictures of all of them. We have - Judah's, Micah's, and Isaiah's band programs, Micah's and Isaiah's choral program, Micah's, Isaiah's and Elijah's piano recital and Canah's preschool program! (Did I forget any?) At press time, we have 3 down and 3 to go. This is Canah's program - in the stage shot, he is on the top row at the very end of the right side. He stood up there the whole 30 minutes, singing and doing the motions along with everyone. As he says (about himself!) - "Great job, Canah!"
Happy Birthday, Elijah!
Canah swims ...
Canah learned to swim this summer by default - he wanted to be where his brothers were in the pool, so he started swimming to them! So I decided it's time for Canah to learn the strokes and see where it takes him. He is very fast ... just needs to fill in the other skills and details. He LOVES the water!
Friday, October 31, 2008
Dress-up Fun (aka Halloween!)
I have a lot of fun helping the kids do elaborate costumes, but I've never sewed one until this year. We usually go all out, with makeup and hair and everything. This year I decided to make Canah a Larryboy (from Veggie Tales) costume from scratch because they are very rare and expensive on the internet. A lot of work later, Canah was transformed. (And I made it virtually indestructible so it can be washed!) Isaiah's Mario costume won 3rd place at his school in the 6th grade category (and more importantly, $10!). I'm biased, but I think Micah should have won for 8th grade ...
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Canah's Prayer
Tonight at dinner, Canah wanted to pray. So we bowed our heads and he proceeded to pray an original prayer. It went like this: "Lord, thank you for the chickens, and please touch my boo-boo, and thank you for the pirates who don't do anything." Dinner was chicken, he had hurt his foot 30 minutes earlier, and I bought the Pirate movie last night for him. What's remarkable about this is that he is beginning to originate prayers rather than recite prayers he has heard and memorized from other people, and specifically, movies (3-2-1 Penguins has some cute ones!) for example. We feel very blessed ...
Monday, October 20, 2008
Reggie
Meet Reggie, our newest family member. He is a west highland terrier, adopted 2 months ago into our loving (and slightly noisy) home. He is adjusting well, although he would rather eat our dinner than dog food, b/c his former owner cooked for him. He turned 4 September 20th (also Angie's birthday - imagine that!). He loves all the activity and people in our house, although we think he enjoys the break when everyone is at school ...
Many Faces of Micah
"Oh, the Rain Came Down and the Flood Came Up ..."
The second week of September, the Chicago area, including Aurora, received a downpour. Streets, parks, basements and homes were flooded. Retention ponds overflowed. Streets, intersections and entire road segments were closed. Our house backs up to a small lake - really a retention pond. We came home from church Sunday morning and took our camera out to the walking path that surrounds it. What an amazing sight! We were very fortunate - we had no water in our yard or home. But many others couldn't say that ...
Sunday, October 19, 2008
The Beach at Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Saturday, October 18, 2008
The Sound of Music
All the kids do music. Judah (2nd from left in sax row) plays alto and tenor saxophone, as well as piano. He plays in a 280-member marching band, and in a symphonic winds group. Micah plays the piano and drums and percussion. He and a few friends are starting a band that will play 80s music. Get that - none of them were even born until 1995 ... Isaiah plays the piano and clarinet. Elijah plays the piano, and has another year-and-a-half to decide what band instrument to play. He's not sure yet. (He also takes several dance classes). Canah just started piano, which is very interesting to say the least.
The other day at his second lesson, after about twenty minutes of lesson, his teacher and I were doing our best to keep him on the piano bench by pointing at things in the book and on the piano, while the pitch of our voices kept getting higher and higher. All of a sudden, he held up his wrist, looked at it and said as plain as day, "Oh, look at the time ..."
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
You're invited to view the comings, goings and some stuff in between of the Dawkins family. We live a pretty full life, so we'll do our best to keep this updated (fingers crossed here). After a fun and full summer, we are full force into fall, and just finished fall sports. The youth group meets at our house (tonite ... better clean up soon!) and Judah, Micah and Isaiah attend. Canah is getting ready for school. He goes to two schools - a Christian preschool 3 mornings each week, and a special education school 5 afternoons per week. Canah is autistic. Here he is at his special ed school.
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