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WHY GOD MADE MOMS Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions: How did God make mothers? 1. God made my mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts. What ingredients are mothers made of? 1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean. 2. They had to get their start from men's bones. Then they mostly use string, I think. Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom? 1. We're related. 2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's mom like me. What kind of a little girl was your mom? 1. My mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff. 2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty bossy. 3. They say she used to be nice. What did mom need to know about dad before she married him? 1. His last name. 2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? 3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores? Why did your mom marry your dad? 1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my mom eats a lot. 2. She got too old to do anything else with him. 3. My grandma says that mom didn't have her thinking cap on. What's the difference between moms and dads? 1. Moms have magic, they make you feel better without medicine. What does your mom do in her spare time? 1. Mothers don't do spare time. What would it take to make your mom perfect? 1. On the inside she's already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery. 2. Diet. You know, her hair. I'd diet, maybe blue. If you could change one thing about your mom, what would it be? 1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid of that. 2. I'd make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it not me. 3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.
well, mommy left Emily for the first time for a whole weekend!!! it was completely unplanned, but when i was Emily's age, mommy also left me for the first time for several days when daddy and mommy flew to California to watch motorcycle races (daddy won the trip by entering a photo of his motorcycle in a contest). mommy was a little worried, b/c most of the times she would call home, i was being fussy for my Aunt and i didn't want to take my bottle (i was completely non-bottle feed up until the day mommy left, b/c whenever she would try to feed me out of a bottle i would choke and sputter and scream and act like she was trying to kill me) and would sleep at night and their dog kept waking me up from my naps...well, y'all get the picture...but the again i did tend to be a bit fussier of a baby then Emily is and never have liked change. but mommy eventually convinced herself that Emily would fair better, since she took immediately to a bottle when she was less then a week old and mommy had to leave her in the expert care of Nana so she could finish going to school and she is such an easy going, 'what ever happens is fine with me' baby. of course we did great staying with Nana and Papa. Emily even shocked everybody by sleeping through the night 2 of the 3 nights!!!! and let me tell you--she has made up for it since!!!!!! she doesn't sleep for more then 30 to 45 minutes at a time, and often mommy has to pase around the room with her to get her to go back to sleep and she crawls all over the bed in the middle of the night!!!! thankfully she hasn't fallen out of bed, but one time mommy woke up and Emily was leaning over the slay footboard of her bed just a talking away to the night light in my bedroom. Emily stands up all the time holding onto things and is trying to figure out how to stand up without having to hold onto something...when she's crawling, she'll stop and stick her butt up in the air to try to stand up.
Wow! has it been over 2 months since i've posted any stories?!?! Sorry guys! Hope y'all have been enjoying the photos...my hubby bought me a Rebal XS Canon camera and we are taking pictures by the 100s b/c it is sooooo nice!!!!!! i maxed out on how many photos i was allowed to have on the website, so am having to spend my internet/website time uploading photos to the walmart website so i can print them so i can delete the older photos off the website to have room for newer ones! :)
Well, fokes, the camera has officially bit the dust. Actually, it did back on Tuesday, after valiantly working for 6 hours straight on Savannah's field trip...and BOY am I ever thankful that it lasted that long--that would have been horible not to get those Zoo pictures!!!! :) so, no more pictures of the girls until i figure out a way to purchase one with the budget we are on. :)
Savannah continues to do excellent in school. she has weekly Bible verses to learn and often repeats them at random times during the day--either the one they are learning that week or one from another week. Tonight she said that she was the teacher and me and Emily needed to say our verses and get a sticker, so i tried to remember different ones she knew and say them to her. then she wanted Emily to say some, so i would say 2 words and pause and Savannah repeated after me in a baby voice (pretending she was Emily) and we kept repeating the process until the whole verse was said and Savannah then proceeded to cheer and clap 'for Emily' and give her a sticker. :) Then Savannah said one: "I am the way, the truth, and the BIBLE!" :) :) While we are working on Savannah not talking back and not using a whiny voice, sometimes the things she says back to me can be too funny! the other day as we were coming inside i said to her, "wipe your feet off before we go in the house, Savannah." to which she replied, "i not got feet--just shoes!" :) we got covered in mosquito bites this evening being outside! when we came inside she saw her one foot was covered in bites and said, "look at my one feet." :) one morning i was brushing out Savannah's hair (it's getting very long!) and for once it wasn't all snarly, so i commented, "since when does your hair not have snarls?" and she replied, "cause i don't want it too." :) the other day Emily and Savannah were hanging out on my bed as they often do in the morning while i'm getting everyone ready and i heard Savannah say, "i like it when you obey me, Emily." i glanced in on them to see what Emily was "obeying". Savannah was trying to get Emily's diaper off and actually succeeded (often Emily rolls around too much for Savannah to be able to get her diaper/clothes off, but that doesn't stop her from trying). she then proceeded to wipe Emily off and tried to put a clean diaper on. (she couldn't get it on b/c Emily got too restless, but she is sooooo good with Emily and is such a BIG helper)!!!! this week we got the battery charged up for Savannah's 4-wheeler and she has begun riding it again. she rode it some last year, but needed a lot of help holding the peddle down with her foot, b/c everything she would press down and it would start up, the noise startled her and she would take her foot off and it would stop. :) but now she is an absolute pro and wips around the yard like she's been doing it for years!!!! and she's only THREE years old!!!! I'm sure she's going to be a high-speed motorcycle rider one day doing all those tricks and jumps. we were singing "deep and wide" the other day and she was getting the motions backwards (motioning for 'deep' while saying 'wide' and vis-versa). she didn't realize that she was the one in the wrong however and after several attempts to correct me (who was doing it right), she exclaimed: "you not remember it right, mommy!" :) a couple weeks ago Savannah got all excited and exclaimed to me, "Emily just said her first word!" when i asked what it was, she replied, "Y'all!" A true Southern Bell! :) :) The other day we were sitting outside at the table/chairs on our backporch and i was eating some yogurt. i told Savannah to go get a spoon and i would share some with her. when she returned, however, she held 3 Go-Yogurts instead of a spoon. i told that we probably wouldn't eat all of them (all 3 that she had in her hand i ment), to which she replied, "i not got all of them, there is some left in the fridge." :) when i went in the house a little while later i saw one of our dinning room chairs tipped ove, so i set it back upright and wondered why it was like that until i heard Savannah holler, "mommy! NO! it had eardrops in!" :) :) :) (she recently had an ear infection and had to sit with her head tilted for 5 minutes 2 times a day with ear drops).
My girls are growing up soooo fast!!!!! and i haven't been keeping up with their website very well! :( Savannah now drinks out of a regular cup--no more sippy cups. (i did this partly b/c Emily is starting to use sippy cups, so there will be no confusion as to whose drink is in them and partly b/c Savannah is really too old to still be using them.) For awhile we had a horrible time of Savannah not eating her dinner (being very picky) and not feeding herself. she use to eat chicken, spaghetti sauce, peanut butter, sloppy joes...but then she stopped and thankfully now she has begun eating everything again with out a fuss! She has attended 2 Baton classes so far and loves it! Maybe next Tuesday i'll take my camora along and ask if i can take some photos. :) So far she has learned how to do front flips, "march like a Majorette", follow directions on how to hold the Baton while marching or running (a very prissy Majorette run), and how to kick her leg up in front and to the side while keeping her hands on her hips. The other day i bought us some Tapioca for a treat. she loved it and gobbled up as much as i let her have!!!! the next day when i got her from school, she search the whole kitchen for something. i asked her what she was looking for, but she couldn't remember the name, then finally she guessed, "Tapi-o-gurt" (a combination of Tapioca and Yogurt) :) She now has an alarm clock in her room to teach her to stay in her room and play quietly if she wakes up in the morning or from her nap early. in the summer time i will add a morning quiet time during Emily's morning nap time so i can have some quiet time every day too, since Emily and Savannah don't always take an afternoon nap at the same time. So far it has been a DISASTER!!!! the first day at nap time Savannah emptied a whole bottle of baby powder on her bedspread and about a half a dozen other blankets she pulled off Emily's crib and out of the changing table. she used up all the wipes that were in the wipe-warmer trying to clean up the mess. and pulled everything off the changing table and out of the containers. she also sat and played with the alarm clock a while so that it read a new time, changed the alarm time and also had the alarm turned off. and she had all of this accomplished in a 1/2 hours time and still hadn't even taken her nap. I gathered up all the blankets to wash, reset the clock and warned her that she had better lay down and take her nap and AFTER she slept was when she was allowed to sit quietly on her bed and read some books. the next day at nap time i repeated my instructions: take nap first, then read quietly until alarm goes off and then she can come out of her room. well, i was busy doing laundry going in and out of the house hanging up clothes and starting up a new load, so didn't hear her until about 1/2 hour into her nap time. i went to check on her and found that she had once again emptied the contents out of the changing table and it's baskets, and put her rugs up on her bed and had all her books piled up on her bed......oh, well, we'll get the hang of it one day. :) Emily babbles all the time now: blablablabla and dadadada. she also has started waking up at 4 in the morning and staying awake an hour or so and last night woke up an hour after being put to bed and staid awake an hour then too! when i tried holding her up on my shoulder while rocking and walking her, she just bit and bit my shoulder very hard!!!!! i gave her teething tablets and orajel and put a blanket on my shoulder so she would bite that instead. part of her wakefulness (she wakes up every hour from midnight till 5 or 6--at which time she is up for the day--and some nights she starts waking up every hour from the very first hour of being put down in bed instead of sleeping at lest one 4-hour stretch), is that she is trying to learn how to crawl and will flop and roll around in her crib instead of going to sleep and i think wakes herself up doing that too. as soon as she is put in a sitting position, she falls down b/c she is leaning to grab something or trying to lean forward to figure out how to crawl! she leans forward onto her hands, puts one leg up and rocks back and forth with the other leg tucked under her trying to figure out what the next step is. she will then either fall onto her face (ouch!) or rock back up into a sitting position or sprawl forward into a laying-on-her-tummy position. despite not being able to quite figure out how to crawl, she has learned to be mobile while in a sitting position! she can move forward AND backwards on her bottom! she will draw her legs in, dig her heels down and push her bottom back to scoot backwards or will lean forward onto her hands and pull her bottom forward to scoot forwards!! :) she thinks Peek-a-boo is absolutely HILARIOUS and loves going to pick Savannah up from school--she will smile and giggle and reach over toward Savannah the whole way home! Savannah thinks the world her too and has already spoiled her rotten!!! whenever Emily reaches for something, Savannah is right there getting it for her and putting it with in her reach. this lead to all my glass baking dishes being pulled out of my cupboard the other day while i was cooking dinner, b/c Emily was sitting by the open cupboard and kept looking as all the dishes and trying to reach them, so Savannah obligingly pulled them all out for her! :) Savannah kept saying: "whatever you want, i'll get it for you, Emily." If Emily pinches Savannah, Savannah will say, "i know you're a baby, but don't do that--that hurt." or if Emily pulls her hair, she will say in a sweet baby voice, "Now Emily, we don't pull hair." The other day Savannah was trying to put lotion on Emily, but Emily would be still, so Savannah said, "sweetheart, be still please."
I decided to try planting some Cherry Tomatoes in a bucket this year (that will be the full extent of my gardening). So Savannah and i got out out shovels and buckets (a left-over bowl for her and a big bucket for the tomatoes) and began digging out some dirt from under our compost pile (so we wouldn't have to buy dirt and fertilizer). Well, apparently Savannah quickly forgot that the whole point of the dirt and buckets was to plant seeds in! There were TONS of earthworms and she picking them out of my bucket of dirt and putting them in her bucket as fast as she could! when i had the bucket filled to the top and carried it over to the porch and she followed with her bucket and asked, "where is a bucket of worms for daddy and one for Emily?" When I realized that Savannah now thought we "collecting buckets of worms to play with" instead of "buckets of dirt to plant seeds in"---I died laughing!
I also am trying out making my own (with lots of help from Nana) fitted cloth diapers for Emily. After 5 trial diapers (that definitely did NOT work!) she has one "working" cloth diaper (that i wash out immediately and hang to dry outside so it can be reused 2 times a day) and 11 soon-to-be-completed cloth diapers. I'm using old t-shirts, the soaker pad out of store-bought cloth diapers, and velcro and elastic to make them fitted so they aren't so big and bulky. After Emily has used them each 26 times (or the equivalant of 3 boxes of disposable diapers--the 104-in-a-box kind) they will pay for themselves and from then on, it is savings. :)
so, as i was saying, we were put on a budget. at the beginning of the month, we are to sit down together and decide where every single dollar that my husband will make this month is going to "be spent on" for the whole month. That is NOT to say that we are going to waistfully spend every dollar, but it is so that we know what money is for what so that we can SAVE more! For instance, we write down that he will make $100 for the month (just as an easy example), and so 10 is for mortgage, 10 for kids school, 10 for utilities, 10 for car gas, 10 for groceries, 10 for fun activities/going out to eat, 10 for tithing, 10 for savings account, 10 for huby to spend on whatever, and we find that 10 is left over. and the rules are: 1 = that you can't spend any more on a catagory then what you have predetermined, so if you already spent the 10 for going out to eat for the month then you do not go out to eat again until next month. 2 = you can't borrow from one catagory to spend in other catagory, even if you think there will be money left in that catagory at the end of the month. 3 = if there is money "left over" after you name where all the money will "go" for that month (like there was 10 left over in my example) or you happen to make a little extra that month or get a raise/bonus, than you already have an other list written out as to where that money will go, so that it doesn't get friverously spent either. (like our "other list" is: pay off heat pump, pay off student loans, pay off mortgage... and so on. so if we ever have more money than expected, we automatically know/have agreed on that it will go toward paying off the heat pump). 4 = set up a catagory for "blow money" so that each of you have some money that you can spend on what ever you want and you don't feel like you are in a straight-jacket with your budget, b/c that will just lead to big fights: "you didn't tell me you spent this! we don't have a catagory for this, so that is over spent money!" "i don't have any money to spend." and so on. Another big/good reason to do a monthly budget is so that you see--written down--how much of your money goes where. b/c sure, you have an idea in your head of how much you spend, but do you REALLY know? When we did our budget for the month, i found that compared to the % he sujests that you should be spending in each catagory, that we spend WAY too much on our utilities! That is one of those "money down the hole" catagories to me, b/c it has to be paid, but you don't get any long term benafit from paying them--it's not a savings account and it's not paying off any debt, but if you use less of it (utilities) that "saved" money CAN go into savings or paying off debt. so, i went to work teaching Savannah how to wash dishes (she loves it!) so that we save water (extra used by washing matien), gas bill (heating up water for mashine), and electricity (running of mashine). i only wash laundry if i have a full load (save water), only occationally wash in hot water (save gas bill), and hang the laundry outside or in play room to dry (save electricity). We turn off/unplug anything we are not using that second (computer, lights....). the heater stays turned off most of the time b/c we can put warmer clothes on for free and it saves electricity :) and Savannah and i take as short of showers as possible to save water and gas bill. Savannah will also be swiching to only going to school for 1/2 the day and not at all in the summer so we can put that "saved money" on paying down some debt. then when we have our student loans and such paid off, we will work on saving money. Dave Ramsey sujests helping your child save to be able to buy their first car with cash (using the matching '4-0-1-Dave" as he called it that i already talked about) and saving up for their collage tuition so that they don't start out their life in debt with car payments and student loans AND you have also taught them the invaluable leason of saving up money to buy something instead of borrowing money to buy some thing (b/c usually once you finish paying a loan off, you have had to pay out 2 times as much as you borrowed b/c of interest. so, in essence, you end up saving 50% by saving for an idem instead of borrowing--which is pritty good, huh?)
Activities! Activities! Activities! We have started attending church more often, and with it, has come a whole bunch more activities almost every day! We go to the church service and Sunday school on Sundays, which led to mommy and daddy being invited to the "Parents dinner out sans kids" that the church provides for the Parents of Preschool Kids Sunday school class (they watch the kids for free for 3 hours, feed them dinner, and entertain them while the parents go as a group out to eat and get a chance to socialize as adults). While out eating, one of the ladies invited mommy to go shopping with her at Sweet Repeats today (it was a pre-public sale day, so all the REALLY, REALLY good deals were still there). Thus the "no nap today but i had a blast running around with other kids for 2 1/2 hours while mommy shopped" activity for today! It was mommy and daddy's Fith Anniversery on Friday (the day of the Parents Night Out), and the Youth Pastor (also in that group) said that they felt honored that mommy and daddy would spend it with their Sunday School group! :) Mommy and daddy REALY have enjoyed getting to know some people that they can relate to and make friends with. The youth pastor and wife have a girl that's almost 3 and a boy that is 8 months. So, Wednesday nights lesons are Dave Ramsey. He has some really good money saving tips. This past week he taught on kids-and-money. He said starting at like age 4-5, but mommy went ahead and started with me anyway. I get a nickel at the end of the day if i do my chores, and a nickel at the end of the school day if i don't get in trouble in school. then i have a bowl to keep my money in. 10% goes to church (tomarrow will be my first time putting my own money in the offering plate), some goes in the bank, and some i can spend. Dave gave the tip of using the money saved in the bank for the child to buy their own car when they are older and for the parent to match whatever the child saves (so if i save 5,000 by the time i'm 18 and need a car, my parents will have also put 5,000 in my account and i can pay cash for my car and buy a 10,000 car). The key to motivating the kid to work hard so that they have some spending money, is to not buy them toys/candy with your own money but to let them know if they work hard and save up in the "spend bowl" then they can have it with their own money, and if there isn't enough money in there for what they want, they either need to save more or buy something else b/c you are NOT going to buy it for them and you are NOT going to float the difference. Doing chores for money is giving kids a "commition" instead of allowence, Dave said b/c allowence is too much like welfare instead of teaching kids the real-life reality that nothing is free, so don't be lazy and expect everything to be handed to you...learn self-disipline...hard work...saving for the future...no credit (which leads to you paying more in interest then was the original price). We got put on a budget.
Fouph! 10:10, and Emily finally fell asleep! she had been trying lately to stay awake for 3 hours at a time, which is good, except for when I'm tired...last night Emily fell asleep at 7:00, so I went ahead and put her to bed. she slept for 2 hours and then proceeded to wake up every single hour!!! the 13th time of being wakened up that night, I went ahead and got up--I think Emily set the world record of how many times a baby can wake up in a single night! 2 of those wakening were done by Savannah (thus lending to the "wake mommy up 4 times before it is even 11:00 at night") but thankfully we all survived it. :) :) Emily is teething and Savannah was running a low fever yesterday/last night, so hopefully we will all recover today and have a better night tonight! I'm going to go take a nap while I can, and will write more later...
WOW, it's been awhile since i've written anything on here! Let's see where to start... about the black drops of charcoal water that you see on Emily's shirt in the Feb 28th photos...i was having fun playing in the rain water that accumulated in our fire-pit. i had my water cans out and was filling them up with the charcoal/mud water and watering the grass...then i had the assume idea to go to the kitchen and get a spoon so i could play doctor and give me and Emily some "medicine". i gave myself some spoonfuls of the black medicine--but was just pretending, i didn't really put any in my mouth, so mommy wasn't too worried when i held the spoon full of water for Emily to "drink her medicine"...well...Emily saw that spoon coming at her, automatically opened her mouth, and i obligingly dumped it in! we were all shocked for a second! then Emily started spitting it out and mommy grabbed her and tipped her over to help it run out and mopped her mouth out with her blanket. No damage was done and no "medicine" was swallowed, but i still got in a little bit of trouble... :) On Feb 21, one of the boys in my class had a birthday party at Party Central and invited all of us in his class and well as family, relatives, and other friends...there was quite a few little kids!!! we all ran around and played on the blow-up slides/jumping things and such. one of the women there was nice and held Emily allot of the time so that mommy could run around with me. On March the 1st it snowed!!!!!! while Emily was taking her nap, mommy bundled me up and daddy, me and her played in the snow!! i didn't have water-prof clothes or gloves, so we only staid out for short periods of time, then we would come inside and drink hot cocoa while our clothes dried in the drier so we could go back out again. we made some snow-men, snow angles, and i went "sledding" down the hill in our backyard. then mommy got Emily bundled up in 3 layers of clothing (she couldn't even sit up b/c she was so bundled up stiff) and we walked around the block. there was only one other family that was out in the snow that we saw. Last night mommy gave me 2 stickers for being a good girl and taking my shower and going to bed without a fight. when she was reading to me though, a book fell off my shelf and hit Emily in the arm. she started crying and i immediately came to her rescue!!! first i spanked the book for being mean to my baby sissy, and then i bounced up to her and said to mommy, "lets make Emily laugh so she'll feel better!" i proceeded to make silly faces, hug her, laugh, and say, "Emily, smile" in my high-pitched baby voice that i often speak to her in. soon she was laughing away at me. i then gave her my 2 prized possessions (the stickers) since "she was a good girl and started laughing". Emily couldn't ask for a better big sister! Yesterday mommy and Emily took a good 3 1/2 hour nap in the morning. mommy woke up a couple times, looked at the clock and thought about getting up to go get me from school, then would promptly fall back asleep! then last night Emily went to bed at 9:30, when she woke up at 11:00 mommy was afraid that she would be up ALL night with her since she at lest usually sleeps until 1:30 before starting to wake up every hour to 2 hours!!! but then the next thing she knew, daddy was waking her up at 6:10!!!!! she and daddy both reached into the playpen to touch Emily and make her move around to make sure she was O.K.!!!!! she had slept 7 hours! them touching her still didn't wake her up, but me getting up a few minutes later and loudly talking (is there any other way to talk?) to mommy woke her up. :) the March 4th photos of me dressed in a pretty dress over my red pants and shirt caused mommy to explain to my teacher that i was "making a fashion statement that day". my teacher just laughed and said that her daughter use to do that also and that some mornings she would write her daughter's teacher a disclaimer note saying that the daughter was the one that had dressed herself that morning!! when we got home from school, mommy talked me into taking off my pants and shirt so that she could take some photos of me in just my dress. (not that the pants and shirt weren't nice...they just clashed with the silky spring dress.)
Emily was taking a nap (she only takes two a day now--one from 10:00-1:00 and one from 4:30-6:00 or there about...i don't usually take much of a nap anymore, but i do sleep almost 12 hours a night) and mommy was making dinner when daddy needed to run out a minute, so he asked me if i wanted to come with him. i, of course, jumped at the opportunity!!!! as i was walking out the door, i turned around to mommy and first informed her that i would be a good girl and not cry. then i left some instructions: "Emily is sleeping. if she wakes up and cries, go get her and be nice to Emily. O.K., Mommy? and i'll be right back." :) :) :) :)
Emily went for her 4 month check-up and shots today. she didn't really gain any this past week, but has grown 2 inches in the past month! (the following is from a website) The continuing development of language basics is an important milestone this month. You'll see that your baby can begin to understand and try to communicate with you. She'll try all sorts of repetitive, high-pitched giggles, shrieks, and noises as she shapes her mouth to change the sounds. This month your baby may also: * squeal and laugh with delight * make sounds in response to you * track moving objects as her head and neck development work together * raise herself up on straightened arms while lying on her tummy, looking all around as neck muscles strengthen * grasp a rattle with stronger hand muscles * begin to show interest in solid foods by reaching for mom and dad's food at the table or other food in her line of sight
Daddy and Mommy both got to come to my chapel today! and i was recognized by the principle: he gave a shpell about how the student of the month is picked by who shows discipline, Godly character, good academics, and such and then called me up to give me a red bear that is holding a yellow star that sais, "star student". :)
Love! Love! Love! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE my baby sissy!!!! This weekend I was constantly telling my baby sissy that I loved her!! and when ever mommy put her down for her nap, i kept saying, "i want sissy to wake up and play with me". This is the 4th day that the temperatures have been in the 70s!!! the 3 of us played outside ALL weekend!! and Sunday afternoon we washed, vacuumed, and cleaned the windows of our cars. the water coming out of the hose was cold, but i sat in the bucket of warm water (that mommy was using to wash the cars with that came from the kitchen sink, not the hose). even though we have had such a warm winter, we never were allowed outside to play on the playground. so on Monday mommy offered to pick me up from school after lunch so we could play outside before nap time. when she came to get me though, we were playing outside. :) so Emily took her nap in her car seat in some shade by the fence (amid all the screaming and hollering of 20 two and three year olds getting to play on the playground for the first time in 4+ months) and mommy played with us. :) :) :) Earlier that morning Emily and mommy were treated to breakfast at IHop by Nana and Papa and get to visit awhile before saying goodbye to Papa, who is heading back to Senegal today. We'll miss you Papa and hope to see you again soon! :)
well, mommy came to my chapel today b/c I was student of the month for January and was suppose to get recognized and get a prize at chapel, but the principle didn't.
Mommy was talking to Aunt Linda about wondering if I recognized my letters or not, b/c it didn't seem like I could...on the way home that night as we pulled off the interstate, I pointed to the blue H (for Hospital) sign and exclaimed "Holmer Horse!" We have gone over to Pell City a lot to visit Papa and Nana and Grandpa this past week--we were over on Friday, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday! This morning mommy was getting my book bag packed to go to school and I was showing Emily my school papers from Monday and Tuesday. We had gotten a new Bible verse card on Monday that said, "Love One Another", but I still remembered last week's verse. Mommy heard me say "My God shall supply all your needs" to Emily and thought those words sounded familiar, but couldn't place them until she heard me say, "Did you hear that, Emily? I said my Bible verse." Mommy was very surprised that I remembered a verse that I hadn't heard since last Friday! The other day it was raining very hard and i wanted my umbrella to use to walk out to the car so that i wouldn't get wet. we looked all over the house, and then mommy remembered that we had left it in the trunk of her car. she told me to wait on the porch and she ran out to the car. well, i ran after her, b/c i didn't want to be left by myself. so we both got soaking wet as she had to first pop the trunk, then try to get it out (it had slid way to the front so she couldn't reach it)...then i insisted on standing there in the rain trying to open my umbrella ALL BY MYSELF! finally i gave up and handed it to mommy to open. mommy was beginning to wonder why it was that i just had to have it open, since we were absolutely drenched by this time! but she opened it for me and then told me to get in my car seat. well, then came the problem of me trying to climb into the car and get buckled in when i wouldn't let go of my (now open) umbrella. mommy finally got it closed, but i wouldn't let her buckle me in! she was getting a little frustrated with me and exclaimed, "come on, Savannah, help me buckle you in, mommy's getting wet!" to which i responded, "do you want to use my umbrella?" Ha Ha! you just gotta love little kids! :) An other day we were all going out to Walmart, but i insisted that i was going to stay with Emily in the house and that Mommy and Daddy could go on. mommy told me that Emily was coming with them and so was i. i adamantly said NO! so mommy started to go ahead and get Emily in her car seat and carry her out to the car so she could have 2 free hands to handle me. as she walked into the front room, she heard daddy say to me, "come on, i'll sneak you to the car and mommy won't know." I, very excitedly ran to the front room and said to mommy, "daddy is going to sneak me to the car so you not know! Come on, Daddy, let's sneak!" :) Mommy about died laughing!!!! I missed a day of school last month when i spent the night with Papa and Nana, but my teacher always sends the papers home that were missed, so mommy didn't mind. the next day there was a giraffe for me to paint brown spots on and a paper with animals that were to be colored green. when mommy told me what i was to do, i asked why i had to color the animals green. mommy told me b/c they were green animals. i immediately held the paper up for Emily to see and explained to her, "this is a Frog, this is a Turtle, this is an Alligator...and they are all green animals." Mommy loves how much i interact with Emily and teach her so much! The other day mommy was doing laundry and had the basket piled high with clean clothes to put away. she was holding Emily and the basket, and ask me to help her push it down the hallway. i said, "no, i get in it. that's fine, mommy, i not help." she told me that it was filled to the tippy top and didn't think there was room for me to ride on the clothes. well, i climbed up any way that said, "Look, mommy, i'm on the tippy top!" (a word i had never used before) :) so she started pushing the basket with her foot/leg, since she had her hands full with Emily. by the time we got all the way down the hallway to my room, her leg hurt from pushing 30+ pounds!!! so she said, "that about broke my leg!" i climbed down and dramatically limped into my bedroom exclaiming, "fewf! that about broke my leg too! Goodness gracious!" :) :) :)
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