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Because you know that toilet time=Titanic time

Rachel Henderson — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:44:30 +0000

Someone has earned some bragging rights. He just doesn’t know how to brag so I’ll do it for him. Winfield has been reading like a maniac lately and we’re really impressed. He reads everything, all of the time. He sits on the toilet and reads. He reads all of the billboards when we drive, he reads nearly everything in the grocery store. He reads over my shoulder when I’m reading. He is in love with words. It’s really cute to watch and as parents we couldn’t be more excited. He is obsessed with words in that way that 4-year-old boys get obsessed with things. We taught him the basics, bought him some Bob books and he took it from there. Like a kid that learns to walk and all of the sudden stops crawling, it seem like he became a reader overnight.

Yes I’m shamelessly bragging, but come on! My 4-year old is reading at a 2nd-3rd grade level. I would hope that I would brag about that. Just to be clear. He is a young 4, not even 4 1/2. Here’s a little clip of him this afternoon.

Have you ever heard the legend that the band on the Titanic…

Rachel Henderson — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:56:44 +0000

… continued to play music as the boat went down. Harriet has a version of the music and lyrics of the exact song that they were playing. Celine Dion, move over. A younger girl has taken your place as the Titanic vocalist to the world, and she’s topless.

Bambi seems to be the top choice on the list…

Rachel Henderson — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:42:05 +0000

…of names for our little baby GIRL! A couple of weeks ago Winfield told me, “Harriet and I agreed that if it’s a girl his name will be Bambi.” We had our ultrasound this morning. We’re having a little girl in September. So far “Bambi” seems to be the only suggestion. I guess that Jared and I have 19 more weeks to think of something else. Tinkerbell? Miss Piggy? Pippi Long Stocking?

Palm Tree Liker or Baby Carrie

Rachel Henderson — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:17:30 +0000

Yep, it’s true! We found out yesterday. We are expecting number 3 to arrive in late September, probably near Harriet’s 3rd birthday. Many of you know that this has taken us a little longer that we’d have liked. We’re pretty excited to have this 3rd little one in our family.

Winfield and Harriet already seem pretty happy about it. Win likes to talk to the baby. They both really want to have a part in the naming decision. Today at lunch they were brainstorming ideas. Harriet suggested Animal, Chewies and Baby Carrie. Winfield came up with, Espung, Yellow Pill Liker, S, and Wall. He finally decided that Palm Tree Liker was his first choice. Harriet seems to have decided that Baby Carrie (from The Little House on the Prairie Series) is her primary choice. We told them that we’d consider their suggestions.

Let It Snow

Rachel Henderson — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:47:06 +0000

We’ve been teaching Win some verses from the Bible lately.

Rachel Henderson — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:04:03 +0000

He’s really good at remembering them.

His middle name IS Benjamin

Rachel Henderson — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:39:02 +0000

Here’s a video of Win practicing his Benjamin moves. Our friend Benjamin is the only adult that I know who can and does things like this (and so much more) on a regular basis. He has the reflexes and agility of a cat.

This is Benjamin’s profile picture on Facebook. Don’t worry, those 2 kids that he is jumping over are 2 of his 3 boys.

Winfield Workout

Rachel Henderson — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:41:24 +0000

Mexican Jumping Baby

Rachel Henderson — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:20:33 +0000

Here’s a little window into Harriet’s life. She does this a lot.

Have a nice day!

WARNING! Shameless bragging ahead

Rachel Henderson — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:36:32 +0000

With only a little instruction from us Win studied and learned all of his letters before he turned two. He started to figure out the letters were neat and began obsessing over them until he learned all 26. Here he is sitting with Denise and going through a letter book that she gave him. The sound isn’t the greatest and his elocution isn’t exactly stellar, but you’ll get the idea.