Snow!

Looked outside at breakfast this morning and saw it snowing!  First snow of the year for us.  So, the kids were SUPER excited, and I said they could go play for a while.  It took them quite a while to put on their snow clothes, which I don't think they've done for almost 2 years.  One way to know it's been a LONG time is that Jadelyn put on her snowpants backwards with the zipper in the back.  ;)  Anyhow, we got the tiniest, and I mean TINIEST little skim of snow.  Only in some places.  TINY amounts.  But now I have kids out back, scraping snow off boards and things to get enough to throw at each other.  Crazy little desert kids!

Singing With Jadelyn

This afternoon while Ruby and Isaac were doing dishes, I sang with Lynnie.  After a while, I had to get to work, so I moved to a different room to finish making some beds.  Jadelyn followed me, and blasted her music so I could still hear it.  I sang a little, and Jadelyn said, "Mom!!!  How can you sing so good?!?!?"  I asked her about it, and it sounded like I didn't sing as good as the people on the CD (which I don't.  At all.  Ha.)  Anyways, I said something like, "are you saying that your Mom doesn't sing as good as those people?"  And she told me no, I sing BETTER than them.  Well bless your heart, Lynnie.  Your love is clouding your judgment.  But I'll sing to you any day!  =)

Lynnie Loofah...

Yesterday, we went to Pizza Hut to claim some Book-Its.  Namely because I hadn't cooked supper.  =O  Anyhow, there are TV's at Pizza Hut.  Playing sports.  And commercials.  Neither of which my children have really watched before for any length of time.  So, there were lots of questions about basketball, and about why the gym on the TV is so much nicer than the one at the school here.  And questions about what the most dangerous sport is (we watched football during Book-It claim last month), and what the least dangerous game is.  Jadelyn asked the latter question to her Daddy.  I don't know what he said, but she came up with her own answer along these lines, "I think duck, duck goose" is the least dangerous.  A new sport is born!!!  =)  On another note, since when do restaurants need TV's blaring?  I thought going to a restaurant was supposed to be a relaxing time with your family enjoying conversation?!?!?!  Anyhow.

Then, they were enjoying some of the commercials, and then a different one came on.  Jadelyn kept watching it.  "Jadelyn, don't watch it!" Isaac exclaimed, "it's WICKED!!!"  And true enough, there were explosions and such.  Glad he knows not to watch things.  Now to teach Lyn. 

Then, last night during the getting ready for bed routine, Jadelyn came out to see me.  "Mama, I want to tell you something.  Thank you for getting me this chewy toy at Wal-Mart."  (Said with the chewy toy in hand.  And maybe partially in mouth.  I don't remember.  =O)  For you see, Jadelyn has always been a beaver.  As an infant/toddler she chewed chunks of wood out of an endtable and my piano bench.  She also shredded her crib all around the top.  She chews on her clothes and, well, on just about anything.  So, last summer, I got her a baby chewy toy.  That way if she feels the urge to chew, she can channel it in an "appropriate" manner.  Not that she does very often, but you know...it was good for the LONG van ride back from KY this summer.  ;)  Anyhow, she appreciates it.  Funny kid.

Anticipaaaatiooonnnn!!!!!

Tomorrow is the big 8th (Yes, EIGHTH!!! =O) birthday for Ruby and Isaac.  Tonight, David made an announcement.  He told the twiniokies that he had a special surprise for them.  This was followed by gasps of anticipation.  Then he told them that he was going to let them wash dishes for the last time as 7 year-olds.  They couldn't believe he was serious.  Note to self: not all David announcements are good ones....;)

His Wife is Going to Sew....

Yesterday afternoon, Isaac sat by me and worked on a puzzle while I did some sewing with the machine.  He asked if that machine could make shirts.  I told him you could sew anything on them, but I'm no good at clothes.  Guess I'll just stick with quilts and curtains!  ;)  Anyhow, he loves watching me sew.  During this time, he informed me that when he grows up he will make airplanes (toys) at his house and sell them to make money, and his wife will sew at home and sell what she makes to make money.  I asked how he could guarantee that his wife would sew.  "I'll ask her", he told me.  So, future Isaac wife, start practicing up those sewing skills!  =)