Questions of the Day 1/25/09

What is your favorite color?
Sam: Gold and Blue
Rachel: Pink and Purple
What is your favorite letter?
S: H for High School Musical
R: R for Rachel

What is your favorite food?
S: Corn on the Cobb because it is so buttery, and Chicken on the bone
R: Macaroni and Cheese and Chicken on the bone
What is your favorite number?
S: 3 it’s the magical number
R: 1 because it’s first
What is your favorite part of your body?
S: Heart
R: Eyes
What do you like to do?
S: Play outside in the snow or sun
R: Play with dolls

What is your favorite scripture story?
S: The whole Book of Mormon
R: Daniel and the Lions den, the Joseph Smith story and the whole Book of Mormon too.
What is your favorite animal?
S: Ponies (they are small horses) and birds
R: Birds and Horses
What do you want to be when you grow up?
S: An artist, some Artist pictures get hung up in the Temple
R: A big rainbow colored monster (So I can eat daddy and mommy and sisters and the whole earth)
What is your favorite season?
S: Spring- you can pick flowers, plant a garden and sell it to the store, climb trees
R: Spring- grow a garden
What is your favorite holiday?
S: Christmas, it reminds me of Jesus
R: Christmas, we get presents
What is your favorite book?
S: Pretty much the Golden Plates (Book of Mormon)
R: The Book Of Mormon because I have so many of them

EveryDay

I just arrived home from my first girls only game night here in Payette. Oh how I have missed games with the girls!! Nothing like a truck-load of estrogen to keep you going all month. Thanks Ladies! Fellow gamers should be proud, we did quit promptly at 10:30pm as promised to some of the husbands to allow this to go on. ; ) I'm not quite ready to cash it in (too many night shifts??), so I thought I would catch up a bit.

Rachel and Lizzy after church a couple weeks ago. They do like each other every once in awhile. Aren't those the cutest smiles?....Ok, now for what every other day is like....

Lately the girls have stopped thinking that cleaning is their responsibility so.....most of their toys that need to be 'cleaned up' are on time out--for 2 weeks (they'll be free when Rachel hits 4). That leaves them with the options that are in the plastic Walmart drawers under the bed--Dress up!!

Samantha set this up and told each of them where to place her arms when I told her I wanted a shot of all three--all this after one basketball game?? Curse that half-time entertainment.

Is this a sign of what is to come?? Look at those moves, I'm not sure she realizes that she is not even two yet??

All because of the wonderful example of ....

How could you resist? I love what happens when I threaten them with bed before dinner if they leave anything that belongs to them out in the front room. They can be quite creative.
For example: when we were discussing their Valentines project Sam tells me--when asked if she had any pink paper, 'I'm sure I do, Mom, but it is on time-out, so we'll just have to use yours.' Aren't they supposed to be a bit older when they figure this stuff out?? Not to worry--yet another experience well preserved for later blackmail.

Bloggorific

Ok, so the combination of eight somewhat steady hours at the computer (interspersed with some occasional nursing care) has made me want to sing praises to blogs...and people who place links to other people on them. I spent the night looking up and linking to some of my high school, mission, and past location friends. I'm so grateful for the technology which makes this possible. How amazing is it to be able to sift through all those memories of the 'good ole days' as I watched what wonderful people/parents those pesky teenagers/kids became. So thank you to all of you who take the time to record thoughts and feelings, funny kid stories, as well as very significant struggles. I feel I have been blessed to become part of your lives through this night--or maybe it's just the sleep deprivation. All joking aside...THANKS!!