Kale Beckett: New Cousin Extraordinaire!

The boys, my Mom, and I ventured up to northwest Iowa yesterday to meet the newest Govig: Kale Beckett! He seems to be an ideal baby, eating and sleeping quite well. Kyler loves his little brother and kisses him all the time. He told me, "I kiss him a lot so he won't cry." What a sweetheart!

Here are the 4 boy Govig cousins, sitting so nicely and gently with Kale. Micah is 4, Eli is 2, Kyler is 3, and Kale is 2 weeks.

OK, now we're getting a little more wiggly. . .

And. . . WAIT a minute! Did Kale just grow up??

Oh, that's just Ryan. Even though it was a short trip, we had a great time! It is fun to see the boys play together. We also got to go to an awesome, mostly FREE place called Pumpkinland, where Eli rode a horse for the first time. Fun was had by all!

A Day Out with Thomas

Guess how much fun these two had. . .

TiVO Recommendation

If you want to watch a show where the talent is so good, it makes American Idol look like a Middle School Talent Show (and I'm a big fan of AI), then set your TiVO for the Sing Off. It starts on Monday, on NBC, at 7pm CST. I can't wait!

Eli's World

Eli, in the bathtub playing with the foam letters that stick on the side of the tub: "C is for cookie! And I is for. . . Icah!" (Micah minus the M. . .)

Me, as I was getting his shoes on today: "Eli, I know you like these shoes, but they might be too big for you."

Eli: "They're not too big. They're too medium."

Here he is, perfecting his Iowa Homeboy look. This is really how he chooses to wear this hat. If you try to straighten it, he gets upset.

Impressed.

Micah has had 4 days of preschool now. We've heard from several parents that we'd be impressed with his preschool (Victory Christian Academy) and how much Micah would learn there. In my naive mind, though, I've though, "Yeah, right. Micah is pretty smart anyway; he already knows numbers and letters so we'll see." Well. . . his newsletter today said they'd learned all about God creating the world in 7 days, and that we should quiz our kids on what He did on each day.

Me: What did God do on day 1?

Micah: God created the light. He just speak-ed it.

Me: Wow! How about day 2?

Micah: God created the sky and the sea. And the air. God's friends wrote the Bible.

Me: What about Day 3?

Micah: I don't know. (giggling) On day 7, God took a rest!

Me: How about the land? Did God do that on day 3?

Micah: No, that was day 5. God speaked it and the land pushed up out of the water.

That was as far as we got. I'm officially impressed!

Twins for a Day

This is probably Eli's last day fitting in to this shirt, so I snapped some pics while I could! I hear ALL the time how much alike the boys look, yet being their Mom, I usually focus on the differences in their appearances. But even I will concede they look nearly identical in some of these shots.