Just a few notes about what has been going on around the Hertz house. From the previous post, Gabe learned how to ride his 2-wheel bike on March 15th. Within that same week he started flying down the driveway at warp speed, hardly slowing to turn. I was out there one day and I told him to slow down when he turns or he’s going to fall. The next time he turned his pedal touched the ground and he looked at me and said “but I didn’t fall.” He’s going to be a Nascar driver some day. Ho hum.
Damien, who is almost 2 1/2 is in the phase of hilarious sayings. He thinks he knows everything the rest of us do, but what he says is hilarious. Yesterday he was outside and told me he was looking for the fris-bean. I said “do you mean frisbee?” exasperated he says “No MOM, fris-BEAN not fris-bean!” Then later, he comes walking out of our bedroom holding a tube of diaper cream he was told many times not to play with. He looks at me and smiles, tucks it under his arm and says “oh, I for-dot” (forgot) and keeps on walking.
Callie is growing too fast (well, maybe not taller, just smarter)! Gymnastics is definitely her calling and she continues to do very well. She had 2 meets so far this year and has placed first all-around at both. She has another one the weekend of April 12 so wish her luck! She is also a huge help at home, changing and taking care of Damien, helping with dinner and generally being as helpful as possible around the house. I’m sure she wishes she could do that instead of homework every night!! I can’t believe she will be 10 is just 2 1/2 short weeks!
Gustav is growing too fast as well. He is now a couple inches taller than Callie and I can’t keep him in pants! I am hoping this warm weather continues so he can keep wearing shorts instead of his too-short pants. He continues to be a straight A student in school and it comes easily to him. His passion, however, continues to be reptiles and amphibians and basically anything that moves, slithers and hops. He brought home a snake a couple weeks ago from a creek-hunting trip and Gus let him keep it in his room! I survived without a heart attack until they finally released it back where they found it. Whew. He and Gus also made a homemade bow and arrow last weekend that works surprisingly well. Gustav made the arrow mostly by himself!
That’s all for now. In case you haven’t heard we are trying to sell our house, so if you have a few extra moments of prayer we could use them!
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