Eli's injury

While Charles was on the treadmill Eli stuck his hand on it. His hand was pulled underneath and stuck. One finger has a large section of skin rubbed off. Two fingers have blisters on them. We bandaged it and gave him pain medicine and his blanket. We were all glad that he slept fine. He kept his hand around the ice pack while he slept.

This morning Eli told Ethan that he used to like almonds because when he was a baby he was a really good eater. Joshua is not a good eater. He doesn't like any solid foods. He makes faces every time we try and feed him and then tightly closes his mouth until we stop trying. The other kids have asked if they ate good when they were babies. They all did. So Eli thinks that he liked and ate everything as a baby because he was "a good eater."

Joshua can army crawl, as seen in this video. He only does it when he is motivated, such as seeing the remote control -- his favorite toy.

Here is Joshua showing off some of his skills -- smiling, clapping, transferring an object from one hand to the other and rolling. You can also see Eli's legs (and blanket)!

Here are the girls during Christmas break. For the talent show Cherilyn and Allison each played two songs on the piano, a song on the recorder and a duet on the recorder. It was all good. The duet was especially fun. Unfortunately we didn't get it recorded before Cherilyn had to return her recorder.

Here is Eli's talent (sung at home). He is singing When Joseph Went to Bethlehem. It reminded Charles of Cherilyn singing it about this age. She sang "He urged the donkey forward wif wif Mary on his back." We have smiled at that many times this season.

At Grandma B's for Christmas the kids sang in a talent show. Here is a video of Erica singing Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer with Ethan and Eli as back-up.