MR. Inventor, LOOK...

both ways before you cross the street.
Today, I watched from the window and a big boy who told me about his snow dream, ran out of the house 5 minutes before the bus came.
Somebody didn't look all 4 ways before he crossed the street. I couldn't run out to grab him because I was not presentable, by any means and I am still getting over the trip to ER yesterday for the FINGER.

The FINGER got stuck in the door.
IT is now sour and sore.
It is blue and poor DAD is on the floor,
His pain is so bad.
He's got meds which are so strong and the pain still seems to last so long.
This is the story of the FINGER!

2 Young fellows still waking up to smell the coffee!

Enjoying a blueberry muffin on brothers' birthday!





Grasshopper and my best friend!






Naturalist Ethan, Strikes again!

When I stumbled out of bed,

and walked out of the door of my bedroom, I found a spinning boy in the hallway. Aimlessly spinning and singing and spinning like a planet. He knew that this was the wrong thing to be doing at 6:30 am. He knew that I would reprove him for such aimlessness, so he just stopped. I wanted to say what were you thinking about, Ethan. What was the motive and thought behind that movement in the morning. I don't even have the energy to get out of the bed this morning much less, to spin like a top at the top of the stairs, just tell me what you were thinking and maybe it will make me spin like that too. He didn't think that I was going to say that, so he stopped and I went about my business and he went about what he was supposed to be doing.
Sometimes all that's needed to bring order is the presence of a parent. Thank God for the grace to be that to him.

Late, Late, Late

Running to the bus, thank God for good neighbors. They held the bus and today was an early day for the bus. She said this is going to be the time for the rest of the year. God is so good to give us neighbors who would graciously hold the bus. They look so beautiful in the morning while I am stumbling out of my bed and still there is sleep in my eyes running my little guy to the bus. 2 days to 5 now!

For the Love of PETE!

How long were we going to wait until we got glasses for this young man? Everytime he gets them fixed it is only for a few days that he has them fixed and he breaks them again. Here we go again. Got them fixed and today when I got in the car, a curious and obviously newly seeing boy was investigating a funny book with more candor and observation than usual. It is great to see the curiosity in a 9 year old! See well, my boy!

Mommy, guess what I got from school?

I borrowed "Nate,the Great" I finished it in 10 minutes. I find the snake book and the wolf book alot more interesting. Is that okay? Okay, son, that's okay, just try reading some books about people sometimes, okay?

Some people are posers.....

And some people are doers!
Doers are hard to get a good picture of, but they are always busy. Sometimes busy following Indiana Squirrel around the park and sometimes getting into trouble and sometimes discovering some new way to make the family a better place to be. Such is the expression of the precocious 9 year old called Ethan.

Serve em up, Electric Man!

Serving is fun, at nine for the electric man, doing everything that he can. He spent 1/2 hour on the courts and 1/2 hour on the swings and running around the track. He said he ran until his little heart was going thumpety thump in his chest. A likely story...:) We have to maintain the physical exertion.