Tidbits & Tiny Talk

David's painting from Sunday School this week. Titled, "Snakes," by the artist.

I can not begin to tell you how wonderful it was for me to have to wait for David to come out of his class at church last Sunday. For about 2 months prior to starting visiting this new church, David was dreading going to church on Sunday. He bawled hysterically when we left him in his class, and I got paged to extended session each week. When we got to church this Sunday, he ran into the classroom & started playing & interacting with the other kids. He never looked back at me. After Sunday school and church, we then had to wait for him to finish his puzzle, gather his things, and almost reluctantly come to the door. It was very exciting! (for me to see him enjoying church again)

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In the car, I asked him if he had a Bible story in his class today.

Uh-huh.

What was the Bible story about?

God.

hehehehe...

Here's some other stuff I've heard this week...

David has a little toy airplane. On the bottom is printed that it's a Super Sonic Jet. Another airplane has the same body style, but is painted differently. This is how he refers to the second jet: Super Split Ba-Jet. He belongs to Super Sonic.

I found it rather difficult to type with a 3-year old head in my armpit, so I said, "Would you please get your head our of my armpit?"
He replied, "My armpit belongs to your armpit."
Then he stuck his armpit on my arm and it was still hard to type! : )

Getting our tires rotated made quite an impression on David this morning. As he played with his big truck car carrying case today, he flipped it upside down, started spinning the wheels & said, "I'm rotating the tires!"


Today I learned that a 16-month old can't digest a whole wheat (with added wheat bran) banana nut muffin very good, no matter how much she enjoyed eating it for breakfast yesterday! I'll not be feeding her that again. It didn't really jive with cloth diapers, either... : (

Elizabeth's vocabulary never ceases to amaze me. Today in her high chair, she sat hollering, "I eat! I eat!" over and over again! And she was packing it away. (after getting cleaned out, no doubt!) For supper she ate squash baby food, fruit baby food, 2 grapes, 2 whole wheat Ritz, and I thought she was done. I made some fish sticks later & she ate 3 or 4 of them! She kept pointing at them saying, "Go-fish!" Then I showed her the difference between a Goldfish cracker & a fish stick. She still called them "Go-fish!"

She has also started linking words together like "I eat!" "Go play!" "Play ball!" Notice everything she says has an exclamation point! I must tell her it's ok a lot, because tonight she didn't want to go to bed, so when I went in to lay her back down again, she just kept repeating, "OK, OK, OK" as if she was trying to comfort herself.

Ups & Downs

It was exciting when we pulled in the driveway and saw this drilling rig sticking up in the air. Piers were scheduled to be dug today! The kids & I parked & got out with just enough time to snap a picture as the tall thing was starting to lay back down on the truck. "Wow, that was fast!" I thought. Then the operator explained to me that Mr. Builder had called them off for the day. My shoulders fell. Rain chances & an unmarked gas pipeline not even on our property were the culprit. It didn't rain today. Just reminding myself, all in God's timing. Guess we'll try again on Wednesday.

David's Latest Creation

This is David's latest masterpiece, titled My Four Cars. Can you find Wingo, Boost, Snot Rod and DJ in this photo? (from the movie Cars) Click here to see the notes on the photo on my Flickr.

This Week at the House!

I can not tell you how exciting it is to see work on the house starting!!!
This was Wednesday. The guys were building the forms for the foundation. Here's the stack of forms. Notice that they brought their own microwave to the site!

There were absolutely no workers at the site today (except for us). That was kinda disappointing. I raked up a ton of mesquite twigs. Dad dug a hole & worked on his signal mounting plan. He also found something interesting in his pile of railroad signals and is showing it to David...

A chicken snake curled up on one of the lenses!

Oh, the joys of country life!

This is what the house site currently looks like:

Rebar in the foreground is prepared to go into the piers. There are little orange flags all over the flat site, marking where the piers will be drilled.

Here's the fam resting in the shade while I walked around.

Time to Practice CPR!

It's time to practice your CPR skills!
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Today at the House!

Hopefully, "Today at the House" will be a common post title as things actually start happening at our house site! The first delivery of supplies was brought in this morning and Dad strung an electric fence around the site to keep the cows from tearing it up.

This evening we headed to town to do some errands. One of the things on the list were some "work boots" for David. The old shoes he'd been wearing as work shoes were quickly getting too small. We found these fireman boots at Tractor Supply. I liked that they had handles & he could pull them on all by himself! The rest of the evening he talked about his work boots, that he could go through mud, and dirt, and grass, and dust, and water, and... After tromping around for a little bit at the house site, they got nice & dusty, so he declared: My work boots are dirty! I've been working hard!

I can't remember what these things are called that go up just outside the actual edge of the house, but they went up today from that load that was delivered this morning! And there's David, working hard to remove a big rock from the house!

Cute Pictures & After the Storm

This was Friday at the house site. David was saying "cheese" for the camera.







Elizabeth, the toothy, has now started eating apples skin & all! I wasn't really expecting it when I gave her an apple to play with, but over the course of a few days she devoured the whole thing! Then when she saw the apples at the grocery store this evening, she had to have one! So I found small red delicious apples 3 for $1 and just let her go to town on one of them!


The big storm at Grandpa's blew down a really big hackberry tree onto the roof of his greenhouse. Dad has been helping cut up the tree so it could be removed. I wondered how they were going to get the higher branches, but Grandpa had a plan! He put Dad in the bucket of his tractor & lifted him up to them! Now, doesn't that look like a fireman!?

Hot Stuff!

What an exciting day!!!

My day started bright & early today! In fact, I didn't sleep much last night because I was so excited about attending my first library book sale! I dropped David & Elizabeth off with Grana & Papa, then headed to FW to meet Dad.

A little "incident" along the way made the day even more exciting... Dad called to see why I was taking so long to get there. I just told him I was waiting for the police to get there. Moving along...

The stack on the left are books that we'll be reading in Preschool or Kindergarten. The stack on the right are a bit older. But with paperbacks for 25¢ and hardbacks for 50¢, I think we did pretty good! It was totally overwhelming when we first arrived, but once I started finding a few books that were on my list, that quickly passed. Dad even enjoyed himself, contributing most of the fire truck books and about 8 or 9 others. He came in real handy when it was time to take the box to the car, too!

Last night, Dad got a call from Mr. Builder & told me that I might want to go out to the house site to take a before picture. So here's what it looked like last night about 6pm:

And this is what it looked like at about 4pm today! Ground has officially been broken!!!

Talk about an exciting day!!!

Let's Get This Puppy Built!

After 3 days, we got the shed finished. See the Tiny Talk post below to see the building finished.


Mr. Builder, as I will call him here on the blog so that there will be no confusion with my nephew who has the same name, told us this evening that he wants to break ground for the house next week!!!!!!!!!!! Praise the Lord & pray for our building process!!!!

Today, Dad finished clearing the path for the power line. Now we just have to wait on Oncor to come install it. Also waiting on the well and the septic analysis.

Happy Birthday to Us!

Sunday we got together at Grandma & Grandpa's house to celebrate the April birthdays! As the oldest April birthday, I complained about trying to fit all of our candles on the cake. So the youngest birthday boy had the bright idea to put our combined ages on the cake!

Apparently, no one noticed that the 8 had fallen over & was covered in icing.

Me + Dad + Will = 80 years old!

(April 18, April 4, April 25)

It took all 3 of us to blow out the candles!

I'm just glad she used number candles rather than 80 individual candles!!!

David enjoyed his piece of cake very much!