Sammy also has a really loud voice and quite a temper. I have no idea where he got that from....:) Sam likes to say some things that I find quite funny, for instance, Sam one day was saying, "A crocodile eat my finger, it too bad, it dangerous" And he would say that with all different animals, so when he said dog, we said, "No, a dog eats dog food", he replied "Dog food? Oh, doggy eat grass?" I had to laugh! He says some cute stuff. Also, I found it really funny how he distinguishes his knight's horses. The other day he came wandering in and said he wants his horse. I look at him and see he is holding his horse. So I said," You have your horse" He got mad, "NO, A PAARD. I WANT MY HORSE!" I didn't understand, paard is horse in Dutch. So, confused I asked,"where is your horse?" He said in the car. I go out to the car and look in his carseat and there is another horse. And I say to him as I hand him the horse, " hier is jou paard." ("Here is your horse", may not be perfect Dutch) And Samuel got very angery,"NOT A PAARD!!! A HORSE!" And I came to figure out one particular horse is Horse and the other particular horse is Paard...like it was their names. Too cute! Little Stinker!Saturday, November 22, 2008
Samuel
Sammy started preschool this past week and he really likes it! He really talks a lot these days and he loves, knights and horses, monster trucks, playing in the front outside, pancakes with maple syrup, and playing with his big brother and his cousin Weston. Samuel, was on a role with potty training, then suddenly, he refused to go in the "potty". What do they say, digression before progression, or something like that. So, we are encouraging him to continue to be a big boy and go in the "potty". 
Sammy also has a really loud voice and quite a temper. I have no idea where he got that from....:) Sam likes to say some things that I find quite funny, for instance, Sam one day was saying, "A crocodile eat my finger, it too bad, it dangerous" And he would say that with all different animals, so when he said dog, we said, "No, a dog eats dog food", he replied "Dog food? Oh, doggy eat grass?" I had to laugh! He says some cute stuff. Also, I found it really funny how he distinguishes his knight's horses. The other day he came wandering in and said he wants his horse. I look at him and see he is holding his horse. So I said," You have your horse" He got mad, "NO, A PAARD. I WANT MY HORSE!" I didn't understand, paard is horse in Dutch. So, confused I asked,"where is your horse?" He said in the car. I go out to the car and look in his carseat and there is another horse. And I say to him as I hand him the horse, " hier is jou paard." ("Here is your horse", may not be perfect Dutch) And Samuel got very angery,"NOT A PAARD!!! A HORSE!" And I came to figure out one particular horse is Horse and the other particular horse is Paard...like it was their names. Too cute! Little Stinker!
Sammy also has a really loud voice and quite a temper. I have no idea where he got that from....:) Sam likes to say some things that I find quite funny, for instance, Sam one day was saying, "A crocodile eat my finger, it too bad, it dangerous" And he would say that with all different animals, so when he said dog, we said, "No, a dog eats dog food", he replied "Dog food? Oh, doggy eat grass?" I had to laugh! He says some cute stuff. Also, I found it really funny how he distinguishes his knight's horses. The other day he came wandering in and said he wants his horse. I look at him and see he is holding his horse. So I said," You have your horse" He got mad, "NO, A PAARD. I WANT MY HORSE!" I didn't understand, paard is horse in Dutch. So, confused I asked,"where is your horse?" He said in the car. I go out to the car and look in his carseat and there is another horse. And I say to him as I hand him the horse, " hier is jou paard." ("Here is your horse", may not be perfect Dutch) And Samuel got very angery,"NOT A PAARD!!! A HORSE!" And I came to figure out one particular horse is Horse and the other particular horse is Paard...like it was their names. Too cute! Little Stinker!
David
David is nearly 8. He is in 2nd grade and he loves to play hockey, play with his friends, do science experiments, play make-believe and read. In fact he loves reading so much that when I was at the school the other day, I asked David's teacher why he was sitting not with the other children. She says, "He has a problem with reading" I found this absurd as he is reading the Tale of Despereaux, which is a 5-6th grade reading level, by himself, and he loves to read. So, I said "I don't understand, he reads so well at home!" His teacher replied, "No, he will skip doing the tasks he needs to do, so he can read" I found this a bit funny as my David would rather read a book than do his classwork, and I was thinking he was perhaps pretending he could not read! That stinker! :)
Machiel
So, let's start with the Dutchman! Machiel is still working at UVU, Utah Valley University, and he is up for tenure this spring. He is working in all sorts of projects aside from regular teaching schedule and his usual research on the Rieman Hypothesis. He has organized the State Math Contest, which will be in Spring, he attended a conference in Torontao, Canada, he serves on the UVU Senate, and he will attend the annual AMS conference this January in Washington D.C. Aside from all "work" duties, Machiel remains an ever wonderful husband and father.
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