Undecided

I am quite undecided---I am not speaking politically here. :) My dilemma is in deciding which of the pictures taken of Z this afternoon are the best ones to share. I know that he is ours and everything---but, man!!! He is such a cutie!!!!!!! So, though these are not ALL of the photos, I still had a difficult time picking only these.

Enjoying a child's voice

Here is D-D telling us who her favorite princess is and one of the many things she likes about this princess:




In case you cannot understand her, she is saying, "Cinderella!!! I like Cinderella's blue dress!!!"


And here she is making voices for the toys she is playing with. I do not know what she is saying, I just like hearing the high pitch voice she uses to show that it is the toys talking and not her...

WOW!!!!

Since we have moved, we have come to appreciate other people's garbage.

Really.

On our first week here, Dana found a relatively nice desk in someone's trash pile which is now in our office here at home. A few weeks later, a neighbor saw someone's train table in their garbage and brought it to us (this was taken apart and hidden away for the kids' Merry Christmas!!!). We also received a swing set near the middle of autumn. A little after that, someone threw out a ping-pong table. Yes, it was broken right down the middle, but with a very handy husband, this was not a problem, and now we have a fun and very nice ping-pong table. And, just yesterday, a neighbor put at the curb a huge, colossal television set. Dana talked to the man who was setting it at the curb and the man said that it had been in a room for two years and not turned on because the wording at the bottom of the screen "glowed." He said that we could have it if we wanted. So.....


we wanted.

We still have not discovered what the "glow" is.

A Girl's Best Friend?

Wednesdays are always a bit rushed in our house. All day long I USUALLY know that it is Wednesday, but by the time the kids get home from school, it slips my mind. Then, around 5:30 I realize once again and rush to figure out what the kids should have for supper before we leave for Wednesday night Bible class. Last night, not having leftovers on hand, the kids had a hearty meal of cereal---yes, cereal!!! Though it is not meat and potatoes, the kids do enjoy nights when they get to eat breakfast foods for dinner. Their favorite cereal right now is Honey Bunches Of Oats...M-G and E also really like the one with the almonds. When I asked D-D which cereal she wanted to eat, she replied, "I would like that cereal (pointing to the Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds)---but no diamonds, please. I don't like the diamonds!!"

She must not know that old saying of Diamonds being a girl's best friend!!!