January 6th, Charles turned 14. Some tidbits about Charles right now:
- He loves people and is probably our most social/talkative child...he even likes to carry on conversations with adults, and will talk to grandma on the phone longer than any of our other kids.
- Charles played baseball and basketball this year and likes all sports.
- Charles loves to listen to music and will even carry his Alex around the house to wherever he will be hanging out so that he has a 'good speaker' to listen to
- Charles enjoys hiking, camping, scouting and anything outdoors.
- He is good friends with Elisabeth and Annabelle and will often stay up late talking with them.
- Charles can beat just about anyone at Mario Cart.
- Charles is officially taller than me.
Other news: Elisabeth is working hard in cheer as they are getting ready for nationals in California in February. She's the flyer:
With the start of the New Year, Annabelle was interviewed at church and received her temple recommend so that she can do baptisms for the dead. She made a New Years goal to go to the temple every week. We are in the second week of February, and so far, she has gone every week! Amazing lady.
I hurt my toenail. And no, it was not from marathon training (Boston in coming up..April 20!). Rather, I was doing handstands in between writing, like I usually do, but this time I didn't catch myself nicely when I started to fall, but my back arched and I fell, hitting a wall coming down. My toenail throbbed for days, and bled when I walked that first day. My knee also hit the wall and put a small blue dent (I was wearing blue jeans) in the wall.
This is what it looked like on day 2. See all the puss leaking out of the side. Ew. It leaked for a week. So I kept a bandaid on it during the day.
And my brother suggested burning a hole in the toenail with a paper clip to help it drain(remember it was throbbing for days). I didn't ask how many holes and just went ahead and polka dotted the toenail. Afterwards he told me I could've just made one hole. Whoops! It was about a week before I could wear normal, closed-toe shoes again without them giving me pain. Until then, I mostly stuck with sandals.
This is about what my toenail looks like now. It doesn't hurt at all, but it is discolored and seems to be getting darker in color. I will probably lose the toenail soon. I'm just grateful it's not hurting any more because I'm still training for my marathon.
