1. Brian’s hair continually cracks me up. It just won’t lay flat! I cut it this week, and his head feels like a stiff bristle brush.
2. To Run or Not to Run. That is the question I ask myself many evenings after the kids are in bed. I like to run. But there are so many other things I want to get done before bed. But, I sleep so much better when I do run. So, I run. Not very far or very fast (last night I did a mile in 15 minutes), but it gets my blood moving and my sweat glands working. Ha! And I either get to run around (the lake) with my handsome hunk of a husband, or I get to listen to the Bible on my mp3 player. And watch the ducks. And the sunset. And the moon.
3. Plans seem to be made to be changed. I love making plans. I love sticking to plans. But it seems like God often decides to change them for me. That’s OK. He’s God, and I’m not. :-)
4. Teeth, Teeth, Teeth. Brian’s is getting lots of them. I think that may be why he didn’t sleep so well a couple of weeks ago. meanwhile, Travis is losing them. He had one that was very loose late last week, but he wasn’t quite ready for anybody to pull it out for him. On Sunday he lost it. Literally. I noticed at lunch time that he had a big gap in his mouth. And it wasn’t still bleeding, so it hadn’t just come out. But he has no idea when or where. (We don’t do the tooth fairy thing, so it’s no big loss (pun intended) to him.)
5. “I Saw a Twuck.” It is on his official record. Brian’s first sentence. We were at the doctor’s office last week for his 18 month checkup. While the doctor was asking me if he was speaking 5-7 words, he was looking out the window at the freeway below and pointing excitedly. I asked him if he saw a truck. He immediately replied, “I saw a twuck".” Ok, so it wasn’t exactly that clear, but the inflection of his voice was exactly the same. And even the doctor recognized what he said (and she wrote it down on his chart : “spoke 4 word sentence.” It’s even more amazing the more I thought about it later. He didn’t just repeat a sentence. He answered a question with the proper pronouns and verb tense. Is that cool or what?
6. Popcorn. I had forgotten how good popcorn tastes. I haven’t had any since I was pregnant with Travis because of its high-glycemic properties and my blood sugar problems. The kids asked this week if we could try to make popcorn. So, we watched some videos on YouTube (since I’ve never done it in a pot on the stove before), and then tried it. It was SOOOO good!! I think the kids thought daddy had never had popcorn before (since they’ve never had it at our house), so they were very excited to find out what he would think.
7. Weeds. They just don’t seem to be affected by drought, do they? It took me 2.5 hours just to weed the small front flower beds. And Ronnie was finally able to find out what kind of weed has completely taken over our back yard and its now working on the front yard. Virginia Buttonweed. We already knew it was very drought tolerant. Ronnie says it acts like a cactus and sucks up all the water into its leaves, which then clog up the mower. He has to stop once or twice while mowing our very small back yard to clean the gunk out of the mower. Apparently, there are no chemicals that will kill it. The only way to get rid of it is to pull it up by its roots by hand. Nice.
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