Whallop of Stuff

Oh, my...I've gotten behind again.  And there were so many things I was going to write about, but yeah.  Didn't.  Same 'ole, same 'ole.  =P

The other day, Ruby called her hangnails "skin hangs".  Ha!

Jadelyn earned a spanking (probably for hitting), and she was telling David, "I can give the hardest spanking by myself".  She then proceeded to "spank" herself, followed by "uh!" to convince us of the severity of her self-spanking.  That kid is just funny.

I have written down something about Ruby and underwear.  Yeah.  Not sure what that was about.  I think it was that she was putting her arms through the leg holes.  Apparently I need to blog quicker or write better notes.  =O

The other day, I asked where Daddy came from.  Ruby had a ready answer: "from the funny farm" where you "get all funny 'cause the workers are funny."  It alllllll makes sense now!  ;)

Oh, I had a birthday, so am now the ripe 'ole age of 32.  My birthday was on Sabbath, and there was a church social that night.  So, I spent the last few minutes of being 31 playing hide and seek with up to 15-20 kids or so.  ;)  Ruby went around organizing, asking kids to play.  She got a few to play with us, and had me hide first, and then all the kids looked for me.  They all walked past me.  After a while, I figured that, being young children, their attention span had probably been shot and that they'd moved on to something else.  Oh, contraire!!!  Ooops.  ;)  We proceeded to play for a good LONG while - like until the kids left.  Ruby couldn't figure out why more and more kids wanted to play when they intially told her they didn't want to.  I told her it's 'cause we were all having so much fun they decided to join in.  ;) 

Earlier in the night, this kid was chasing me.  He was FAST.  Like, I really had to run at times, and he almost caught me a time or two.  He kept saying, how he didn't know how I was so fast.  I told him I'd been running for a long time.  ;)  At one point, he said something about "getting his flash on" or something, and then he really kicked it up into high gear.  Kids are just crack-ups.  Anyhow, later, he was talking smack about how he was going to catch me.  I told him I didn't even know his name.  His name is Jaden.  I told him that my daughter's name was Jadelyn.  I asked how old he was.  6.  SIX.  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!  I almost was caught by a SIX YEAR OLD?!?!?!  Wow.  And then I was sore the next day from the running.  Okay.  I really AM getting old.  =O

Then, on Sunday, Tracy, Darb, Andrew, Jonathan, Hannah, Karl, and Linda came over for a bike ride.  We rode the almost 12 miles into South Haven, ate lunch, and then Tracy, Darb, Andrew and I (and Karl, mostly) rode back to Grand Junction.  My tail end is still sore.  And my shins started hurting today.  =O  But it was overall a lovely, and WINDY ride.  And was up to 72 degrees.  In November!  Wee-haw!  ;)  Anyhow, after we got back home, a few of us played kickball.  While I was outside playing, Jadelyn woke up from her nap.  Isaac went in and checked on her, and then Tracy did.  Jadelyn had a poopy diaper.  =O  I haven't changed one of them in a good LONG while.  Well, neither had Tracy.  But she sure loves her "Zadelyn", so she changed it.  Jadelyn informed her that she needed a spanking for pooping in her diaper (which I don't think I've ever said.  Just that she'd need a "consequence".  ;P), but Tracy told her that since she'd pooped when she was sleeping, it was probably okay.  Jadelyn told her, "I'm glad you're here!"  Ha!  =)  Earlier in the day, Jadelyn had told Tracy that we eat sugar "on holidays".  =)  I asked her about it later, as I didn't know she knew the word "holidays", and she said that holidays are "Sabbath".  Oh.  True.  We normally eat dessert on Sabbath.  ;)

Ruby has been sick since 12:05am (or probably earlier, but I was sleeping =O) on Monday morning.  Poor kid.  She last threw up at like 9:30am today.  And spent most of the day laying around and sleeping.  She really perked up after some applesauce tonight.  Hopefully she feels better tomorrow.  And hopefully the rest of us don't get sick.  My stomach felt yucky yesterday some, and now I have a sore throat coming on.  =P  Anyways, yesterday Isaac set up a train track in the living room, where Ruby could watch it.  Today, he was asking her if she wanted to play with him because he "wouldn't be rough".  Alas, she was too ill.  So, he went outside, and worked and worked and scraped and scraped the little tiny dusting of snow we had on the deck until he had a bucketful.  Then he brought it it and held it by the couch so Ruby could play with it.  He knew she'd want to play with it since she couldn't go outside.  Have I mentioned that I love that kid?!?!?!? 

Jadelyn needed a little blanket on her head today.  Just in case her baby doll slobbered on her.  Goofball.

At lunch I asked Jadelyn where she came from, and she told me she came from a zoo and a monkey.  Sometimes she sure does act like it!  ;)

Tonight, Isaac said "quick" instead of "kick" and "twain" instead of "sain" all by himself!!!  Go, Buddy!  Though I must admit, I'll really miss "kick".  ;)

At worship tonight, I asked the kids if they ever saw someone and thought, "wow.  That person is really good!" (Because Isaac's pretty white snow he brought in melted and was all dirty and yucky.  And we were talking about how none of us is good - even if we look like it on the outside, but how Jesus will make us white as clean snow.)  Anyways, the "goodest" people the kids could think of are as follows: Ruby - Jadelyn, Isaac - David, Jadelyn - Isaac.  You see, Ruby and I struggle more than most in this family!  =O  Yikes!!!!!

Tonight, Jadelyn prayed, "help me to be good.  But I hit."  Honesty.  Honesty.  No hitting today, though!

And that's about all I can remember!