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Due to crummy tummies, no birthday cake on the big day for Danny. We have more birthday to come for him, just when everyone is feeling better.

Today's little triumph

When we moved into this house a year ago I had little hope for the backyard.




And now look at it! Today's little triumph was realizing that our yard looks great! We got grass to grow, we trimmed bushes, put in a garden and even watered it! Today while the sicky-icky kids slept it felt good to see the progress of mowed grass and edging. I suppose if mowing the backyard was all I got done, it was a cumulative triumph for me.
This is the first brocoli to come up. Isn't it so proud!? I can just hear the plant raising it's proud produce up into the air "LOOK! Look what I did! I grew this!"

Animal Lovers

He's a boy, of course he appreciates the safari more than his sister.
I kinda imagine that this might actually be to scale, the real giraffes in the zoo would not get close enough to Danny for me to double check.

Danny LOVED the caterpillars I found in some left out laundry on the line. He was fascinated with it crawling around his hand and would keep flipping his hand back and forth to follow its path. Sadly, this little caterpillar got loved to death; Danny proudly pinched it in the middle to show Mommy what he had and some juices, necissary to life, popped out.
Faith was cool with the caterpillar as long as it stayed playing dead, once it moved she squealed and said "Oh my!"

I just can't....

Obviously I haven't locked down the blog yet. As I was going through the emails that I have, and looking at the people that visit here, I recognized I don't have a lot of your current emails. Plus, it takes a whole lot of work....so let's try this one more time (so I don't have to go private)

The random visitors that are visiting here are coming from YOUR links. Please, please, if you are reading this, make sure that our blog is not visible on your blog (or facebook, etc) for others to follow. REMOVE OUR BLOG. That way others can't find their way in here.

I'll try this one more time hoping that I don't have to input all my out of date emails and offend someone that won't be able to see my blog...as if it really mattered.

Eat your heart out Alfred Hitchcock

Let's just hope if Danny chooses to create movies he will stick to the artistically suspensful and not the gruesomely scary types.

Moments of Faith

Faith is such a personality! We struggle with finding a way to 'discipline' or otherwise get our message across to her.
Recently I had my wet laundry hanging over the back of the kitchen chair waiting to go outside on the line. Faith was sitting next to the belabored chair eating a 'sanwish,' absentmindedly kicking the companion chair. As the loaded chair began wobbling I warned Faith that if she were to tip the chair over I would be upset. She looked at me blankly, turned and got another piece of 'peena budda an dam' while waiting for me to get distracted again. She then persisted with testing the balancing features of a top heavy chair. When the chair thudded wetly to the floor, Faith smiled, having accomplished something unexpected - making a whole chair fall with one little push of one little foot. I turned and checked my frustration while looking at the smiling child. I knelt down and began restoring the chair all the while trying to tell Faith how mommy was sad that she had not listened to her. Faith looked concerned momentarily, and I thought I had made some headway, until she said matter-of-factly, "Mommy, you choose be happy!" She was completely serious. Not defeated yet, I tried again to let her know that I was sad because she had not obeyed my words. "No," Faith said with a slight shake of the head and a lowered brow "you be happy." Lesson learned: Faith was listening some other time when I was talking to her about choosing to be happy, so maybe there is just a delay and next time she will understand why mommy is sad.

Word of Faith: nogie= nose +bogie "Mommy, I have a nogie!" while holding out a large mucusy blob on her finger. "Wipe it on the carpet. Good job."

Labor Day 2007/ Memorial Day 2009