Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Now We Are Six

I used to read that book to Zac, thinking that someday he'd be six like Christopher Robin. Someday. Not today. But it has come. His imagination has taken off and sometimes it does feel like he's in another world, telling me all about his adventures, which to me seemed only a few minutes, but he swears the adventure took hours.

Chayce had ballet class on Zac's birthday, and he wanted to get a photo with her all dressed "like a real ballerina".

All of Zac's friends (well those that could come) gathered around as he opens presents. Notice how flushed they are? They had just finished a game of freeze-tag. The funny thing to see was that two of Zac's friends are much taller than he and one of his other friends (they are older by about 6 months, I suppose a growth spurt will be coming?) and during tag, to thaw a friend you had to crawl under their legs. Well...when the very tall friends tried to crawl under the short friends it looked as though they were giving horse rides because the shorter friend would always fall onto the taller friend. I laughed so hard!


The Spiderman cake. Many toiled hours with toddler help, and it was eaten in minutes by all those hungry children. We fed them pizza first, but I think that 6 year olds are bottomless when it comes to eating. All of them talked about how their moms tell them they eat them out of house and home.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Zac's first post (a poem)

This evening Zachary kept singing "3,3,5,5,10,10." It took me a while to connect the job I just gave him (clean up Jill's weights) to the numbers (she has pairs of 3, 5, and 10 pound weights). I decided to challenge him and asked him what the sum of the 6 numbers where. He quickly came up with the pairwise sums and with a little encouragement, got the total. Then he spouted off the poem in the previous post, which he wanted to save for his mom. I talked him out of using printer paper, but he wanted to type, so no is a contributor to our blog.

10+10 is a mystery

3+3 is 6
5+5 is 10
10+10 is a mystery

the world is earth

Friday, September 25, 2009

Coconut Oil Giveaway!

Hey, if you have ever wanted to try coconut oil, "A Nut In a Nutshell" is holding a giveaway that is simple to enter for a $32 jar of virgin pressed coconut oil. It's good stuff. Winning it IS the cheapest way to procure it you know...
http://www.anutinanutshell.com/2009/09/tropical-traditions-coconut-oil-review.html

Good luck!

Oh, and if you tweet (which I don't) you can get lots of entries. Contest closes Tuesday, Sept. 29.

Monday, September 21, 2009

To Our Grad School Friends...

Monday, September 7, 2009

Hitting The Road


It's done! The Blueberry Stomp has been stomped. Whew! It went well. My friend Cheryl & I ran together (which means that whenever I had to slow down for a minute because I felt yucky because I'd had a head cold all weekend, she waited for me!), and we finished this race in 1 hour 45 minutes and 21 seconds. For you math nerds, that 11 minutes per mile. My favorite part? The starting line was made of REAL blueberries. The name of the race is literal, those berries get STOMPED before the race begins. Would I do it again? Hmmm, just maybe...but I suppose we'd have to still be in Indiana.

Friday, September 4, 2009

A Take On Creativity

I loved this. It's 20 minutes long, but I really related. I also thought of President Uchdorf's talk during this. Create. Even as a mother, home maker, wife--or should I say ESPECIALLY as a mother, home maker and a wife?

Enjoy

My very favorite part is the picture of the brain cell held up next to the picture of the universe. All coincidence? Ha! I think not.