Oh, Thank You

Last night Isaac didn't finish all his spaghetti, so when we got back from our walk around the neighborhood and Abigail got a peanut butter and jelly sandwich he didn't get one. I made two sandwiches though and put his in a bag. This morning when he came and asked for food I said, "Your sandwich is up there in a bag." He was very excited and said, "Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, I just love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches."

Let Me Tell You About Stuff

Let me tell you about stuff was Isaac's opening line as we got in the van to go to church tonight. The rest of the ride went something like this. Well, see those, those are pine trees they're different from other trees. Other trees have leaves and when the leaves lose their chlorophyll the leaves fall off. And there is something else about trees.The main part of a tree is called the trunk, and off of the trunk there are branches and on the branches there are leaves. Now let me tell you about weeds, weeds have something called a stem and on that there are things. Now I'm going to tell you about lights, lights use electricity. When you turn the switch the light gets electricity on it's wires and lights up. The wires are called a filament and when the filament breaks your light won't work even if it has electricity. And lights get hot. Now let me tell you about trains, trains run on tracks. And the tracks have rails that are nailed to the ties, which are wood. Trees are made of wood. And trains have engines that can pull other cars and they are coupled together with really strong chains so the engine can pull the cars.
And this is about the time we arrived at church. He then gave us another summary of lights and trees on the way home. I love that boy, and he cracks me up when he decides to teach his sisters stuff.

Abigail's Breakfast Poem

Five little pancakes sat on a wall
Five little pancakes had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put the pancakes together again.

Guess what we had for breakfast :-)

What gets prayers?

We always say a prayer before eating our meals. Generally Isaac says the prayer for us, but sometimes Abigail is eating food on her own and she'll say it. Today Abigail wanted to have a snack between breakfast and lunch. She chose yogurt. I opened it and as she was getting her spoon to eat she looked up at me and said, "Does yogurt get prayers?" I told her that we pray for things we're thankful for and she started listing all the things for which she is thankful. "Yogurt, and milk, and water, and craisins, and chips, and cereal, and strawberries" so I guess all food needs prayers.

Abigail's new dress

I have been wanting to sew a dress for abigail for a while and today I finally did it. To make it extra special I let her make her own shrinky dink buttons to go on it. She decided to go with the hippo buttons.

Birthday Lunch

Jake has started the tradition of coming home to get the kids and taking them out for lunch, just the two of them, for their birthdays. Today is Isaac's birthday lunch and Jake just called to say he was on his way. Isaac was so excited that he wanted to sit out on the front porch to watch for him. While he was out there he started yelling for Abigail. When she went to the window he apparently told her to go upstairs to his room to lookout for Daddy. So she's up there watching out the window and is going to sound the Daddy alarm. I just thought is was so funny that Isaac thought about having a lookout, and that Abigail actually agreed to do it for him.

He was talking to Me

This morning Jake went straight to work instead of his usual early morning gym routine. As a result he got to see Isaac and Indiana before he left. As he was leaving he kissed Isaac, who was snuggling in bed with me at the time, and Jake told him, "I love you." Well I said, "I love you too" and Isaac rolled over and looked at me then said, "Mommy, he was talking to me." When Indiana woke up this morning she rememberd that Daddy had been home too and started asking for him. I am so glad the kids love their daddy.