How anticlimactic. The boys and I are about 2/3 of the way through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and now the book has gone missing! Grrrr. Things have a way of disappearing around here, and then reappearing when I’ve forgotten I’m supposed to be looking for them. Sorry Tumnus, you’re stuck as a statue indefinitly, till we find our book!
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Laughter: The Best Medicine
Elijah, Zeke and I went to see a delightful little show at the Children’s Theatre yesterday evening. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is playing now through April 6th, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who lives around here! It was good, clean, knee-slapping, side-splitting, fun…
The whole theatre was in stitches the entire show. It felt so good to laugh boisterously with a theatre full of 4-10 year olds and their parents!
Phoebe's Visit To The Pediatrition With Daddy…
How cute is she?! (Photos were taken with Daddy’s new “smart phone,” which, he says, “has a pretty good camera, so you don’t need to buy a new one.” …Yeah, right. Nice try, Dave.)
Dave has Thursday mornings off, and when he volunteered to take Phoebe to her 9 month check-up (and six month shots…we’re a little behind in the schedule) yesterday, I was happy to let him. So cute…Daddy and his little girl. Here are Phoebe’s stats, for those who are interested…
Weight: 24 lbs, 4 oz – 95%
Legnth: 29 1/4 inches – 95%
Head: 18 inches – 95%
I cannot believe she is so big! Especially since most of her nourishment still comes from nursing. She’s starting to eat little bits of food now, but she still nurses quite a bit. (So, to all who have asked me why I’m so skinny, I guess my little girl must consume most of the calories that I eat…Hmmm, I think I’ll just nurse her indefinitly! 
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P.S. A little blurb about the previous post… If your a regualr here at DJ and the Prophets, you know that the first week of every month is a TV turn off week. I love it. It forces the kids to get creative during the times that they are normally watching TV. So, yesterday evening, Elijah must have been hankering for “something different,” and convinced me to let him write a post. Well, I was totally impressed with his little note; I had no idea he could put together something like that!
Hillcrest Happenings, Hear The Latest
Over at Hillcrest, my school, quite a few things are happening. For instance we’re haveing a school read-a-thon for Costa Rica, for money of course. we’re raising money for a community center, and I want to sign up. Also at my school we have things called mad minutes, we half to anser 40 math questions in 2 minutes. it sounds a little tricky, dosn’t it? so I half to think like this: What is 18+24=? wait I know this one… is it 40? no thats 16+24. Oh yeah! It’s 42! so you see, thats a little tricky. Oh, and also my best freind at school is Cammbell Karjala. We play a game called snowbording at reccess where we make snowbord jumps and test them out. well thats about it. Bye.
Sears Portrait Studio April 2002
I was looking through some old photos the other day. (After I had organized and discarded unnecessary stuff in in our home, I thought I’d try to sort through our huge photo archive. I didn’t get anywhere in the way of organizing, but I had a great time perusing through them.) Check these out…
Touching Eternity
The present is the point at which time touches eternity. -From C.S. Lewis’ book The Screwtape Letters.
Have you ever read The Screwtape Letters? A facsinating book, really. It’s a collection of correspondances between Screwtape, a wise old devil, and his nephew, Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of a certain young man. There is so much to “chew” on in it. My favorite chapter is 15, where the above quote can be found. In it Screwtape explains to Wormwood the importance of keeping humans preoccupied with the past and the future…and never the present, for,
“Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the the experience which our Enemy (God) has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them…” Read the rest of this entry »
Feelings…Nothing More Than Feelings
The Scene: Mom is sitting cross-legged in the middle of the floor watching Dad paint. (Pink! Miss Phoebe finally gets to move out of Mom and Dad’s room. I cleaned out the storage room for her…got rid of a lot of stuff. I know, “storage room” sounds like we’re sticking her in a little closet, but it’s actually a really big room.) A little boy, almost three (!) enters, and walks over to Mom.
Little boy: Me sit in your lap, Mummy.
Mom: Okay.
A few seconds pass. Little boy lets out a huge sigh, turns slightly, looks up at Mom, touches her cheek, and says,
Me rea(ll)-y happy, Mummy.
Mom’s heart melts.
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P.S. About 20 minutes after I posted this, our sweet and lovable (and might I add, very adept with a computer mouse), almost-three-year-old somehow purchased $50 worth of Family Guy episodes off of iTunes. Oh dear…
