A Jumble of Different Topics

My hair after I had been sanding the dry-wall mud.

Justice fell asleep under the piano while I was playing it.

Jonni

Cousins

Self explainitory


Life around here lately:


Our house is currently torn apart, as we are putting up new sub-walls in the piano & living rooms, to add insualtion. My living room is now in the basement. But it'll be so great when it's done! New paint, new rugs, some cool tile things that I'm planning to do, and we'll give the floors a strip & a shine. Can't wait! Then we move on to my bedroom, then the children's bedrooms, bathrooms, etc. Fun Fun Fun.


Amy installed a game called popcap on our computer for the kids, and John & Bruce & I have been playing it a lot. Too funny. We enjoy it, kind of a boggle / scrabble type game.

Here's a link: http://popcap.com/launchpage.php?theGame=bwa

I ran 8 1/2 miles of all hills on Saturday. Am I a stud or what? (What.)

We had our 2nd round of the stomach flu within the past 2 or 3 weeks. Yay! The first round got nicknamed the J-Bird Flu because Justice was the first to get it. We passed it on throughout our house, to both of Bruce's parents and to everyone in my parents' household. We were trying to see how many different states we could send the flu to. (of course we weren't trying!) Bruce's dad incubated it on his way to Alabama, we rather ruined his trip. Sarah stopped by on her way out of town to drop off her dog. And our neighbor (who is a pilot, and travels all over the country) stopped by on just as they were leaving for California. Everyone got better for about two weeks, then my neice Jonni came into town and she and two of my boys started throwing up. I hear that we got my sister-in law, Suzanne sick too. Sorry everyone!



Skip this paragraph if you are weak of stomach! This means you, Suzanne :)

Sunday I was awakened at about 4:30 am, by the need of me cleaning up about 3 or 4 barf messes. Joy! So many blankets and sheets to wash! Ugh! I finally laid back down at around 6:00 only to be reawakened by Lydia telling me that Justice had had an explosion up in his crib. Sure enough, his diaper could not contain the massive amount of poo that he had dished out. It was all the way up his back, and into his hair, down both arms, in the crib. More blankets and sheets.


I am happy to report that we are all currently well. (Except maybe Suzanne, again sorry!)



Ross woke up from a nap to say that he dreamed that he didn't exist.



Well that's all I can think of for now, and I really need to get to bed. Running at 5:00 tomorrow morning!

My Hands

Shameful

Ahh, Better!

Crushes

We were at Family Math Night at the kids school last night, and getting ready to leave when Ross saw a cute little girl that he evidently had some fondness for. He ran up to her and did something. (I didn't see that part). She chased him back, and he hid from her. His face was so red! He was all giggly, and trying to hide from her. It was really cute/funny. He obviously had a crush! Too funny. I'm not doing a good job of describing it. Lydia was teasing him on the way home (we all were, but Lydia was going a bit too far with it), and I had to remind her that I knew a secret about a crush of her own. That shut her up in a hurry!

I told her that I put something about her and a boy on my blog (Mr. Rogers). I've been dangling that bit of teasing over her head for a couple of days. She was worried. Ha Ha!

Are my children are growing up too fast, or what?

Happy Birthday Ross!

Mr. Rogers and Lydia

Bruce and I overheard Lydia watching Mr. Rogers and commenting on his song that he always sings, at the end of each episode. It went something like this:

Mr. Rogers: Lydia:
"It's such a good feeling to know you're alive." --"But you're not."--
"It's such a happy feeling, you're growing inside." --"You're not."--
"and when you wake up," --"you're dead."--"ready to say" --"you're dead"--
"I think I'll make a snappy new day" --"No you won't."--
"It's such a good feeling, a very good feeling.
That feeling you know that I'll be back" --"No you won't."---
"When the day is new,
and I'll have more ideas for you" --"No you won't."--
"And you'll have things you'll want to talk about." --"But you're dead."--
"I will too." --"No you won't."

Construction Time

We are building sub-walls, on the exterior walls, to add insulation (which we formerly had none of). The kids thought it was great fun to be allowed to write on the walls. We even did some scribbling for family night.

Really Needed Some Gum!

This is Mark going out barefoot, in the snow, to get some "work gum" from Bruce's truck.

Shower Time!

Justice likes showers! No more baths. He walked in (wearing his jammies) while Mark was having shower a couple of weeks ago, and liked it so much that now I shower him all of the time. I put him in here with Ross & Mark and they were having so much fun! I wanted to photo/video it, as it was, but that would have been inappropriate. We had to do some posing, which totally didn't catch the fun, but oh well.

It's Been a Heck of a Year!

Happy Birthday to Justice!

In The Mean Time...

I know we're all waiting for the big mystery to be solved, but since I can't do that yet, here is what else has been happening around here:


Mark as usual.

The J-Bird as usual.

We had our first slumber party! It was fun. A great group of girls!
Can't believe she's nine already!

Mark and Zach's handy work.

Quite the pair! Love 'em so much!




My life just got a lot busier! Jinorman has learned to climb. Argh!