The people of his passengers

This morning we had just finished breakfast and I was changing Amelia's diaper and putting her clothes on.
M: Mom, let's play camping
Me: okay.
M: Let's pretend we're Jesus's friends.
Me: ... You mean when we find the cave is empty? (Trying to remember stories that he knows about Jesus's friends)
M: (With a look of What are you, crazy?) No. We are the people of his passengers.
Me: (puzzled) Do you mean his pasture?
M: No. His PAS-SEN-GERS.
Me: (still puzzled) Do you mean the sheep of his pasture?
M: Yeah.
I didn't know he knew that verse. I know a song about it, but I didn't know he did. Interesting, but good for a morning laugh.

movies

Last night Amelia was sitting on my lap as we were watching TV. She really wanted to watch her baby einstein movie, so she crawled over my lap and grabbed the remote from the table. Then she put it in my hand. I said, "No movie, honey," and just held it there for a couple of seconds. Then she took it from my hand and held it up and pointed it at the TV like she was showing me what to do with it. Then she put it in my hand again. I said, "We're not watching your movie, honey." Then she starts singing her "Head, Shoulders, kees and toes" song (from the movie) and says her sign for please. She is a very persistent little girl.

Micah's Throat

Last night Micah was crying so I went into his room. He said (in his best half-asleep whiny voice, "I fink I have a sore froat."
Me: You probably do honey, I'm sorry. (He's been sniffling and having cold symptoms) Do you want a drink of water?
He got a drink
Me: Does it hurt when you swallow?
M: No
Me: (remembering a previous conversation) Where does it hurt?
M: Right here, on my tummy.

**Rewind** About six months ago Micah had been taking cold medicine and when he got better he still wanted some. We were explaining that this medicine was only for sore throats and headaches. Immediately he had a sore throat and was holding his hip. I said, "Micah, where is your throat?" He looks at me and points to his hip with a look of Am I right? No. He points to his tummy, then his head, then his elbow. We never did tell him where his throat was, I just assumed he knew by now.

My heart is heavy...

My heart is heavy tonight. On Saturday nights I volunteer in the 2nd and 3rd grade classes at church. There is a 3rd grade girl who attends our church that is very sick at OHSU. I got an update from our group leader and things don't look good. Her parents have some tough decisions to make. I read through her whole caringbridge site tonight and my heart just breaks at the thought of what these parents must be going through. Please keep her in your prayers. Here is a link to her caringbridge site and to the article that was in the Statesman Journal.

I fixed the link. The caring bridge site works now. (:

just one thing...

I just have one thing to say. I'm glad that the grout between the tiles in our bathroom is sort of a beige-yellow color... if you know what I mean.

Witches?

M: Mom, do you know why we call people witches?
Me: Why?
M: Because we don't know their names.
Me: (confused) Well, we don't call people witches just because we don't know their names.
M: What do we call them then?
Me: Well, we could just say "the lady in the red shirt."
M: (looking around) What lady in the red shirt?
Me: If there was a lady in a red shirt and you didn't know her name, you could just call her the lady with the red shirt.
M: But I don't call everybody witches, just people I don't know.
Me: We shouldn't call anybody witches, honey.

!?! HUH? !?!

Playing catch-up

A lot has happened since my last post. I'll start with Micah's birthday.

Micah spent the night with Grandma and Grandpa last Friday night and they took him to Build-a-Bear for his birthday. He picked out a monkey and got to put the heart in and all that. He had a blast. He knew he was going to do this for his birthday, so everytime we went to the mall he had to go in the store and look at all the choices he had. On Sunday we had his party at the other grandma and grandpa's house. It was very fun too. Micah loved opening his gifts. He especially loved the "previously loved" rescue heroes that he got from his cousins. I tell ya, that's the way to go. Give him gifts that have already been used and you know they are good toys! Amelia practiced walking some more and finally walks without prompting or bribing. Can you believe it? She's ONLY 17 months!

Here they are with the cousins on Ryan's side.

Sometime during the night on Sunday, Amelia got sick in her bed. When Ryan finally woke her up the next morning (7:30) it was crusted to her hair. I felt so bad that we didn't hear her. Ryan was home with them on Monday, I stayed home tuesday, Ryan stayed home today, and I'm taking my half-day tomorrow off as well. On Tuesday afternoon Amelia seemed like she was feeling a lot better and then it happened. It was one of those, "You know you're a parent when..." moments. We were at the table eating dinner when everything she had eaten during the day came back up. I took her upstairs to have a bath while Ryan cleaned up the kitchen. We came back down, got her jammies on and sat right back down to finish dinner. A couple of years ago, I wouldn't have been able to do that. We still ate it, eventhough the taco salad looked surprisingly similar to ... you know. No! the puke.

Amelia is communicating even more these days. She shakes her head and says no when she doesn't want something and gets really excited when she does. I caught this fun video of her tonight telling me what she likes.

Not to be outdone, Micah wanted to make a movie too. Can you say, craving attention?

A good busy

My mom called last night when I was at worship team practice and left a message with Ryan saying, "Make sure she's not too busy to update her blog." Okay, Mom. I'm trying...

We have been busy. Yesterday was my first day of school with kids and I had the best day of my life. I love my job! I know I wouldn't have believed it seven years ago if someone told me how much fun I would be having now. I already know 80% of the kids names, and thanks to a trick another music teacher taught me, I think I'll have the first graders down by next week! Its amazing how much easier classroom management is when you know the kids' names. (is that correct punctuation, mom?)

Micah and Amelia still love going to Jessie's and we've got a pretty good schedule worked out this year. I feel like I am the luckiest person in the world. I have the best husband that anyone could ever ask for (all he wants is for me to be happy). My kids are amazing and I love the time I spend with them. My job is challenging and SO fun. I get to drive to work by myself and have a little quiet time 4 days a week. I get to sing at church again (I've missed that for the last year and a half). And... medication is working great! What more could you ask for?

Give thanks to the Lord for he is good. His love endures forever. Psalm 136:1