Funny stuff

Okay, I just had to write these things down before I forgot...and I guess you can read about them too.

Cait:
She's in big girl panties now and has been for almost 1 week. She is not potty trained, she is potty trainING. She still needs lots of encouragement, rewards and reteaching. Well last week, right before I put her in panties we were doing the pull-up thing ("poo-poop" as Cait calls them). Well, I smelled a stinky and I knew it was coming from a certain someone's pull-up. I said to her, in my most serious and disappointed voice, "Cait.....did you go poo-poo in your pull-up?" And she looked up at me with her most solemn disappointed face, shook her head and said, "No, bubby did."
Yea, uh huh. Bubby poo-pooed in YOUR pull-up. What a stinker (no pun intended)!

Cait lives from the minute she wakes up until the minute she drifts off to sleep as some imaginary character. She goes around asking all of us, "Who you be?" Then we must proceed to pick our character. Her favorites are Princess Leah and Queen Amadalah (if she is one, then I am automatically the other). She also loves to play Cinderella, which means by default bubby is prince charming (she thinks the prince is Cinderella's daddy! Isn't that sweet?) and I get to be the beloved "step-mutha". I say, "I don't want to be the step-mother because she is so mean!" But as my husband always reminds me... someone has to play the bad guy!

Cait and Benjamin DO love to play Star Wars, but it has been a good opportunity for us to teach them a few things through it. We tell Cait that girl's don't fight with the light sabers. The boys fight with the weapons and protect the ladies. Oh, she milks this!!! How many times a day do I hear this pitiful cry, with Cait dangling off the bed, park bench or couch, feet 1 inch from the ground saying, "Help me! Luke Skywa-kuh, help me!!!!"

Benjamin:
Benjamin goes with me to teach my music classes on Wednesdays. He loves being with all the kids and being with mom. One day I was teaching this finger play chant that teaches the names of the fingers, but also isolates them to help aid in their fine motor skill development. It's called, Tommy Thumbs. Anyone heard it? It goes:

Tommy Thumbs up and Tommy Thumbs down, (point up, then down)
Tommy Thumbs dancing all around the town, (wiggle that finger on both hands)
Dancing on your shoulders, dancing on your head, (wiggle on those body parts)
Dancing on your knees, now tuck them into bed. (tuck those fingers under your arms)

Well, the following verses are the "Mommy pointer" and "Baby Pinky".
Well in front of the whole class, the teacher and God, Benjamin said..."Mommy, we forgot the daddy one." Visualize this...his "daddy" middle fingers pointing up isolated. He wants me to lead the class in a verse about the daddy finger. Of course, we left out the daddy. We have Tommy, baby and mommy...where's daddy? So the other kids think it's a great idea also and start to get their fingers in place for the new verse. AHHHH!!!!
"Oh...we're all out of time kids! Sorry, maybe another day!
I can hear it now. "Honey, what did you learn in music today?"

Sweet innocence!

Right now Benjamin is going through a lullaby phase. He wants me to sing the same two lullabies to him every night before bed. Do you know the words to the traditional lullaby? It's so victorian sounding. I love the eloquent wording. I've had to explain it to Benjamin over and over again, but he still loves to have it sung to him. I thought I'd post it here.

Braham's Lullaby
Lullaby and good night, with roses bedight
With lilies bedecked is baby's wee bed
Lay thee down now and rest, may thy slumber be blessed
Lay thee down now and rest, may thy slumber be blessed

Schlaf, Kindlein, Schlaf (Sleep Baby Sleep)
Sleep, baby sleep
Your father keeps the sheep
Your mother shakes a little bough
A dream falls gently on you now
Sleep, baby, sleep


Sweet dreams everyone!!!

Life with mono and my new chef

Chris has decided that he wants to start getting up much earlier every morning so he can be less rushed and actually have something resembling a life at home. This is week number 2 of Chris getting up at 6:15. He showers first and then gets on the computer. My new favorite habit of his is that he has been cooking these awesome breakfasts for all of us. This has included, eggs, bacon, toast, and today...omelets with turkey and cheese!!! What a treat. I told him that he's been holding out on me these last 7 1/2 years concerning his culinary skills. I am definitely digging it!

On a different note, I am learning to adjust to life with mono. Less sugar, more sleep, more aches, more headaches, lots more pills, less commitments...it's been pretty easy so far. I feel pretty good with the exception of my back that has been in knots for a week now. I have woken up with a "
kink" in my neck for the last 6-7 days....yeah, getting old. Or maybe I'M getting OLD! If 30 is old, then we have a lot of bad news up ahead.

I hope everyone has a great week. It's supposed to rain here in Dallas everyday this week. Yea! I better pull out the ideas for inside activities. We're gonna be going stir crazy come Thursday.

More Belated Birthday

I hope my sweet friends don't kill me for putting up these pictures....buuuutttt, they'll get over it if they do! HA! Two of my dear, dear friends had birthdays last week. One, on the day I left for my trip and the other on the day I returned. How could I let those days go by without reminiscing how far both of those friendships go back.

I'll start with Kathryn Byrum (Sowell for those of you who met her in the last 6 years). Kathryn and I were in the same year in college and had several mutual friends over the course of our first two years at Univ of Mary Hardin-Baylor. She was a Remschel (spelling) girl and I was a Burt girl (Burt Babes as we called ourselves! So modest!). Kat and I were majoring in the same thing and both in choir...and everything else (it's a really small school!) but we never got to know each other very well. Because of our mutual friends Lori and Melissa, we became roommates our senior year of college. We cooked meals for each other every week. The 4 of us each had a night that we were in charge of feeding all 4 girls a decent home-cooked meal (I still make her Ritz cracker chicken casserole and chicken pot pie for my family). We carpooled together everyday to our education classes to save gas. We studied together, cleaned to avoid studying for finals together, we climbed in dryers and washing machines together just for the sake of a picture, we became Calvinist together (thanks to her future hubby, Eric), we cried together about boys and graduation, which we also did together...Then we were bridesmaids in each other's wedding and eventually celebrated the birth of 4 children between the two of us together. We now attend the same church and are still able to share our daily lives with one another. This is what is called a lifetime friend...through many changing seasons you know you will remain friends.

Happy 30th birthday Kat! Love you!

Now for Danielle Hudspeth (now Danielle King)...
Danielle and I also met because of mutual friends at UMHB. She was very smart and I wasn't so much. She was a Spanish and Literature person, and I wasn't so much. Spanish nearly killed me...mainly because I was not diligent in college. Many regrets...oh well! I think it was about my junior year in college that Danielle and I really started to become good friends. She and I were never roommates, but we considered her an honorary one!! (You know what I mean, don't you Dani?) She was the dearest and truest of friends. Now tears...we shed lots of them together! Danielle is such an encourager. I still remember some of the sweet encouragements that she gave me in our college years that have stuck with me all this time. We did so many crazy things together! We were "Charlie's angels" together, we were cute primitive cave women together, we smoked cigars together (is that TMI?). I witnessed her getting chosen to receive the "Loyalty Cup" (which is a tremendous honor) and she was and is still my class president (class of 98!). She was a bridesmaid in my wedding and the gift she gave us for our wedding still hangs in our bedroom today. We have celebrated the birth of 3 children between us and that has been such a blessing! She still is an encourager to me in the faith. She sharpens me and does so with so much humility. Thank you for that example, friend!

Happy 30th birthday Danielle. I love you! Your friendship is so dear to me!

The picture below shows us having a Chinese feast on our apartment floor. The picture after that was taken on a girl's trip the 5 of us took to Galveston island just weeks before I got married (I was the first of the 5 of us to tie the knot. Everyone else followed closely after).

Me, Danielle, Kat and Lori

Kat, me and Danielle outside our condo in Galveston

Happy (Belated) Birthday to YOU!!

This is a "shout out" to Miss Aisha...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY friend!
I hope your day yesterday was perfect!

Much love,
Tamra
(for the whole fam)

Home Again....continued

Here are some pictures from my trip. The last half consisted of time at my sister's house with baby Eli, time in Sugar Land with Chris's family and then back again to West Columbia for Eli's birthday party! He's a big 1 YEAR OLD!!! He had his first sugar...his cake and he LOVED it! He clapped and smiled at us because everyone was watching him eat his cake and videoing and snapping picture after picture. He was adorable!

After the party we left straight from Danyel's house to go back to Wylie. After hitting two different traffic jams and a huge rainstorm, we finally made it home at 10:30...a 6 hour drive! Thank God for DVD players!!
We are SO very glad to be home!

I LOVE CAKE!!!

Cowboy Benjamin

Benjamin having breakfast in bed...green pancakes!

a sweet moment

Eli's party table

Mom and Dad with their grandbabies

Home Again

I'm so glad to be home!!! Our trip was wonderful, with only a few minor kinks. We arrived in Tomball on Tuesday, right on schedule and met my parents at Chili's for supper. As we were eating our meal, one of my best freinds from high school, Sandi Quire...now Sandi Crawford walked in with her hubby. They were there celebrating their 8th anniversary and sonogram news of baby #3 being a girl. I sang in Sandi and Chance's wedding 8 years ago and witnessed their vows. It was neat to see them on their anniversary so happy. Actually, they had baby #1 seven years ago and then couldn't conceive again for years. They decided to adopt and welcomed a precious baby girl into their home almost 2 years ago. Low and behold...she found out she was pregnant with #3 just a few months ago. God is so good.

I had a great time with my sister, her little boy Eli and my parents. We scrapbooked a little, watched "Pride and Prejudice" (great flick!) and just hung out. We went one day to visit my granny Johnson in her new assisted living home. We hung up pictures, unpacked boxes and straightened up her new place while she loved on her three great-grandbabies.

Thursday I met Chris's sister Aimee and my neices at Chick-fil-a. The kids played and played and played! They were so happy to see each other. After lunch and about an hour and a half in the indoor playground, we went back to Aimee's house. The kids were playing in the dress-up clothes when Benjamin found a court jester's hat. That hat holds MUCH sentimental value for me and my little guy had no idea. You see, my junior year in college Chris and I were broken up. We were off and on throughout our college years, but we had been off most of the Fall of 96 semester. It was November and time for the Miss Mary Hardin-Baylor Pageant. I was Director of Contestants that year and Chris was the entertainment. He was an emcee dressed as a court jester who did little interludes in the pageant and was VERY funny, of course. He also gave this amazing monolog that he had written about the woman of his dreams that he had been waiting for. He described her very poetically and in great detail and ended with saying that he wanted to marry a "daughter of the King". I sat watching that monolog and I was overcome with jealousy. I wanted to be that girl...the girl he was talking about. Without telling him or persuing him I knew he was the one for me. One week later he called me up and said that he felt that I was the one for him. We got back together and were engaged one year later.

When I saw Benjamin put that hat on I was rushed back in time and flooded with sweet memories of that semester when the Lord opened our eyes to each other. Here is a picture of me, my roommates and Chris at the reception following the pageant that night. Who would of known that I would have a picture of our precious little boy wearing that hat 10 years later.
More on the rest of my trip later.....

Bon Voyage

Well the kids and I are leaving today for a trip to Houston. It's Spring Break and so I am not teaching music at the preschool this week. We're taking the opportunity to go see our family for an extended amount of time. Here's the itinerary:

Tues - leave around 1:00
Visit granny Johnson in her new Assisted Living home
Go to my parents in time for dinner

Wed - go pick some berries at the King's Orchard in Magnolia
Visit with GiGi and Poppa, aunt D and baby Eli some more (Ryan is out of town on a youth trip)

Thur - Go play at aunt Aimee's with cousins Mikaela and Macie
Back to GiGi and Poppa's for dinner and sleep

Friday - Go shopping, maybe have lunch in town with GiGi
Head over to Aunt D's house in the afternoon to help her get ready for Eli's birthday party and stay the night.

Sat - Visit some shops that aunt D has been wanting to take me to. End up at the iron shop (where Nonni works). Go home with Nonni to stay the night.

Sun - Go to church with Nonni and PaPa
Go back to aunt D and uncle RyRy's for baby Eli's first birthday party!!!
Head back home around 4:30 or 5:00

I won't have access to the internet for most of the trip, so if any of you need me you can reach me on my cell!!!

Love you,
Tamra

Daddy date with Cait

While B and I were in Kindermusik class today daddy took some pictures of his girl. She's wearing her new pink boots, which she is very proud of!

The Lanyard

My husband exposed me to a poet named Billy Collins. He was Poet Laureate of the United Staes from 2001-2003. His writing is very witty and often quite humorous. I thought this funny poem would be especially appreciated by the mothers out there...

The Lanyard
The other day as I was ricocheting slowly
off the pale blue walls of this room,
bouncing from typewriter to piano,
from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,
I found myself in the L section of the dictionary
where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard.

No cookie nibbled by a French novelist
could send one more suddenly into the past-
a past where I sat at a workbench at a camp
by a deep Adirondack lake
learning how to braid thin plastic strips
into a lanyard, a gift for my mother.

I had never seen anyone use a lanyard
or wear one, if that's what you did with them,
but that did not keep me from crossing
strand over strand again and again
until I had made a boxy
red and white lanyard for my mother.

She gave me life and milk from her breast,
and I gave her a lanyard.
She nursed me in many a sickroom,
lifted teaspoons of medicine to my lips,
set cold face-cloths on my forehead,
and then led me out into the airy light

and taught me to walk and swim,
and I, in turn, presented her with a lanyard.
Here are thousands of meals, she said,
and here is clothing and a good education.
And here is your lanyard, I replied,
which I made with the help of a counselor.

Here is a breathing body and beating heart,
strong legs, bones and teeth,
and two clear eyes to read the world, she whispered,
and here, I said, is a lanyard I made at camp.
And here, I wish to say to her now,
is a smaller gift-not the archaic truth

that you can never repay your mother,
but the rueful admission that when she took
the two-tone lanyard from my hands,
I was as sure as a boy could be
that this useless, worthless thing I wove
out of boredom would be enough to make us even.



"And let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9
And what we will reap from the Lord will be far greater than the sweet gift of a homemade lanyard!

A thought on a lazy Sunday afternoon

Today it is so hot here in Dallas. I love having the windows open, fans on in the house and wearing shorts and flip flops. Chris and Benjamin took a daddy-son field trip to the high school. Chris wanted a big open space to throw the ball to Benjamin. They took along the football, soccerball and the baseball, bat and gloves....no telling when they'll get back. Such a good feeling though to know that B is getting some much needed daddy time!

I sat down for a minute here at the computer to write out something that I started thinking this morning about the fruits of the Spirit. We know that as believers in Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit bears spiritual fruit in our lives. This is the mark of a true believer. A person who confesses Christ with their mouths and also lives a life characterized by the fruits...love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. The fruit that the Spirit bears through our lives is beautiful, pleasing to the Father and also appealing to those around us.

So, this got me thinking...as wives we strive to make a home that is comfortable, clean, calm and accepting, filled with good tasting foods and appealing smells. We strive to have things in order and in their place. We know that these things bless our husbands and children and all those who enter through our door. But what about the wonderful-smelling, appealing fruits of the Spirit that are being cultivated in our lives? Aren't our husbands and families so much more blessed by the cultivation of these things in our lives? Oh, to be the recipient of love, patience, kindness and gentleness. What a blessing to share a home and life with a woman that is at peace, that is faithful, good and self-controlled. Oh to share in those fruits with her...isn't that so much greater of a blessing even than the tremendous blessing of a well-kept home?

So when thinking about cultivating the fruits of the Spirit in my own life, the thought crossed my mind that of course it pleases my Savior and yes, I will be blessed by the fruits immensely...but so also will those around me. I can bless my husband with these beautiful, appealing and pleasing fruits. By grace alone...through the Spirit will I be able to bear much fruit for his glory and the blessing of those around me.

What Is WRONG With Me???....Mystery Solved!

Well, after many persistent back and forth phone calls to my doctor's office, I finally got the call back this afternoon around lunch time. The nurse told me that my blood work came back...and I have mononucleosis. YAY! Mono....I always wanted to have mono! Aren't you jealous?

Well in the few short hours since I found ou,t I have done some research. It turns out that lots and lots and LOTS of people have or carry the Epstein-Barr virus. Most people never experience any symptoms from this virus, but can pass it from person to person infecting others without even knowing it. About 15-30% of infected people, however experience a season of low immunity, low, low energy, sore throat, swollen glands, body aches etc. called mononucleosis. This "mono" can be triggered by one or a combo of things such as being overly tired, stressed, eating too much sugar (sweets or carbs), consuming too much caffeine, etc. This little season of mono can last 4-8 weeks usually. It is most common in people 15-35 years of age. Once you've had "mono" you're unlikely to have it again full-blown, but you can experience some of the symptoms again and again through time because of still having the Epstein-Bar virus. Flare-ups can be triggered by the same things that caused mono in the first place.

So basically, if I want to stay well:

• I need to stay rested and get plenty of sleep
• I need to have sugar in moderation
• I need to keep caffeine in moderation
• I need to go to the Lord with my anxieties and cares instead of stewing over them and letting them affect my body physically! Wretched man that I am...

Thanks to all of you who gave your ideas, tips and encouragement to me on how to boost my immune system and get well. It does feel good to know that I was not crazy! My immune system was compromised greatly and I wasn't doing all that I needed to do to get better. Now I know a little better and I plan on honoring my husband and those who depend on me day to day or week to week by taking care of my body so that I can be well and strong and able. This is all dependent, of COURSE on God's grace in my life. Thank you God that I am dependent on you for breath after breath...day after day...year after year. Thank God for the limitations that He puts on our life...ya know? It's such a good reminder of the fact that we are human. God is God. He is the CREATOR and we are the creatED. We need food, sleep, shelter, health. God needs nothing. He is God! And it's also good to remember that this earth is not our home. Heaven is our home!! No more pain, no more sickness, no more cares. I can't wait!!

For Benjamin

by Chris, "Son of Fog"

To My Son

you, me, the irony
of listening to the crash test dummies
at the auto shop

and the realization that re-do's
don't come in your size shoes
makes me stop

and take stock of this brief moment . . .
that time won't wait for what i meant
to do, fly with you, make you into

the kind of man i was supposed to be
having wisdom, knowing responsibility,
leading you, teaching you, believing you

will grow up, but don't rush, let's pretend
while we can, that super-heroes always win in the end
and chase our shadows where time ticks

away in the darkness of a crocodile's belly,
if it's gonna tick, why not let it go silly
in a land where i can pick

you up and throw you into
the air a thousand feet up, and always catch you,
hitting the ground never in view

because here, where time ticks on the wall,
i cannot bear the weight of letting you fall . . .
re-do's don't come in your size shoes.


~sof

To My Daughter

I had to share this poem that Chris wrote for Cait a few months ago. I love it. The picture he took of her, posted along with the poem, is the icing on the cake. I don't really understand his ability to put life into words as he does so beautifully, but I'm grateful to get to share in his work. Benjamin's poem coming tomorrow...

To My Daughter

everytime you make me tea
i have to remember to drink your smile
and remember that your tea is always best
with a little sugar.

and i have to remember mondays
and blueberry coffeecake
and being home to hold you
with your arms around my neck.

because i'll need to reach back
when i come home to see you
making tea for someone else,
with smiles and sugar, or

sitting in my chair on friday night,
while you're out getting coffee,
planning your cake,
your arms around his neck.


~sof

Psalm 100

"Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Worship the Lord with gladness;
come before Him with joyful songs.
Know that the Lord is God.
It is He who made us, and we are His;
we are His people, the sheep of His pasture.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving
and His courts with praise;
give thanks to Him and praise His name.
For the Lord is good and His love endures forever;
His faithfulness continues through all generations."

What Is WRONG With Me???

Either I am a hypochondriac, or I am going through a really rough patch of my body falling apart. Is this what t feels like to get old? If so, I'm doing something really wrong, because I'm too young to get "old"! Here's the scoop.... (for some of you this is a little bit of a repeat.)

Since November, I have had the stomach bug 3 times, I've had allergies, I've had a cold that turned into a sinus infection and had the cough that never dies, I've had pink eye in both eyes and now I sprained my ankle (today) and my doctor tested me for mono last week! Hypochondriac? Maybe, but vomiting doesn't lie...trust me and colds, allergies, coughs, and pink eyes are evident to all as well, right?

Hhhmmmmmmm.....

I think I'm sickly. Meaning I'm in a short period of sickliness. This, to me, is most unattractive! When my husband thinks of me, the last thing I want him to think of me as is sickly, weak, fragile, frail. Sexy, huh? And what about you guys? Who wants to invite the sickly, snotty, hacking coughing, eye oozing family over for dinner or a play date? Okay, so maybe I'm exaggerating just a little, but you get the point.

So here's why I need YOUR help (visualize a white-haired patriotic man aiming his pointer finger right at you)!!!!
I need help to get well. Maybe I have forgotten everything from Biology class (who am I kidding? Of course I've forgotten everything from Biology class!) and learning about bacteria and viruses and how to avoid those nasty little critters. I'm doing what I know to do, but I HAVE to be missing some things! Help me!!!

Here's what I DO know (this will be a short list, because I do not know much):

• wash your hands with antibacterial soap long enough to sing "Happy Birthday" 2 times.- Okay, I wash all day everyday, my hands are chapped, cracked and bleeding. I rarely wash long enough to make it through stanza 2 of the Birthday song.
• Avoid touching public doors knobs, railings, faucets, and other's hands. I go to great lengths to turn off the faucet with the paper towel, not touch the rail, etc. but I cannot avoid holding/shaking other people's hands. I am a music teacher who teaches circle songs, greets parents, gives high fives (instead of hugs) for a great job, etc. I did invest in MORE antibacterial gel to rub all over my hands in between each class or whenever I feel the icky germy feeling
• Eat right - Sugar lowers your immune system drastically. The sugar in one soda is enough to shut the immune system down for 24 hours. I do LOVE sugar and see how this might have played a part in my sickies. I also know nutrition through your food/vitamins build up your system and enable you to fight off things.
• Secret Weapons - Jenni told me about her secret weapon "Airborne" that she and Jeff take. Yeah well, the day after she told me all about it she got a terrible cold (from me I think) and so I don't have much faith in that product. Second, Mindy told me about her secret weapon called "Cold-eez" that lines the throat with zinc to prevent bacteria from being able to grow there. Does it work? Mindy says it does for her, but she is so healthy already! Would it work for me? Not sure. I'm gonna get some.
• SLEEP! Thanks to Mindy I got 4 and half hours of sleep last night (I love you Min and the conversation was worth the lack of sleep!!). So, I'm tired. Here's my problem on a day-to-day basis though. I work hard all day to do chores, lesson plans, tidy house, care for kids, etc and say I will go to bed early. But, at 10:00 I think..."In only 2 hours I could see Chris if I found 2 more hours worth of stuff to do!" And who can't find 2 hours worth of stuff to do, fun or work? So I do wear myself out at times. But I can't complain, my husband gets less sleep than me and the worst he's had all winter is a cold. What is up with that? Don't get me wrong...thank God he has not been sick, we are so grateful!!!! God knows we need Chris to stay well.

(Excuse me, I have to blow my nose)

Okay you people out there, what am I missing? Help me. I'm ready.

On a little side note, my doctor gave me this mega vitamin shot in my hip last week...wow! That was not fun. Great concept right? So painful! Even more so afterwards because the vitamins deposited right at the sight of the injection and my hip swelled up bigger than a softball...HUGE! She told me it might "knot up" a little. I had to rub and rub and rub it to make it disperse into my body. Pain.
That's gonna be good incentive for me to pop the pills daily so I don't have to get another one of those!!

I love you guys and I hope all of your families are well! I hope we're right behind you on that road. Can't wait to hear your ideas!

Monkey Fever

Today we went to the Fort Worth Zoo. What a fun trip! It was "Homeschool Day" and the place was packed with children and their moms. I kept overhearing conversations between moms and their kids. This was definitely an educational trip for most of these families. I just took my kids because I thought it would be cool to see some animals up close and personal. Maybe I need to get with the program next year!

We went with my dear friend Christy from church, her mom (Jen Jen) and Christy's four children (Shelby, Grant, Jack and Michael, her baby is only 3 months old). Benjamin, Cait and I were discussing our fun, fun trip tonight when Benjamin said, "Mommy, I want to have a little baby at our house like baby Michael. I said, "Well, we'll have to talk to daddy about that one." Then I asked Cait, "Would you like to have a baby at our house?" She lit up immediately and started to dance as she said, "YES! I want a baby MONKEY!!"
What a silly girl!

Here are some fun pictures from our day. Hope everyone has a great Friday!!

A young elephant playing ball

Christy and the kids

The "gang"

Zebras!!

Me and the kiddos

Light Sabers

If you know my boy Benjamin, then you know that he is fastinated with Star Wars. He discovered it a few months ago when he found an old magazine that his daddy had with lots of pictures from the movies and such. Chris had given him all his old Star Wars figures probably a year before, but Benjamin had no idea what they were really. Well now he knows and he is hooked! He got a light saber for Christmas (and so did daddy). This was his all time favorite gift (and the cheapest, go figure!) for the year. He plays with it from the time he wakes up until the time he goes to bed. If he's in a good guy mode he is Luke Skywalker or Qui Gon Jin (spelling?) He has his little sister hooked now and she walks around the house pretending to be "hincess Leya".
Today was a GORGIOUS day here in Wylie. We were outside eating our lunch at the playground. Benjamin wanted to let Cait have daddy's light saber so they could both have one to fight the bad guys. She didn't seem to have a waistband to hang the saber on like he did. So Benjamin raised up her dress and hooked it on her diaper. She was walking around the playground with a light saber hanging off her already about-to-explode diaper. What a hoot!
Chris was home today and able to witness their funny antics. Unfortunately, the reason he was home is because he has pink eye in both of his eyes. He feels fine, but we know he is contagious for 24 hours after starting the medicine. Bummer, but nice for him to get some extra sleep and a day to be at home with us and getting stuff done.