• I love watching my kids play Just Dance Kids on the Wii.  Their cuteness just tickles me to no end.
• I know I’ve told you that before though.  It just never gets old.
• I watched a Christian film called The Encounter the other night.  Like Fireproof, once you get past the first few minutes of a less-than-huge-Hollywood-budget and a couple of not-the-best actors (well, as if I’m a great judge), then the story is very engaging and powerful.  I recommend it!  It’s on instant Netflix if you subscribe to that.  Hollywood has surely spoiled us!
• I’ve watched it twice already.  :)
• Chris is going to build us a coffee table and end tables.  I’m SOOOOOO excited!!!
• Guess who is going to Home Depot this weekend?  :)
• I found these online earlier today:  http://www.atouchofarkansas.com/2010/10/big-coffee-table-end-tables.html   Scroll to the bottom to see the finished product.  We’ll probably stain them the same color as the entertainment center that Chris and his dad built for us a few years back.
• We picked up S from preschool today where she brought home a nativity scene project.  I asked her, “Who’s in there, S?  Who is that?”  Her response:  ”I don’t know.  We can figure it out later.”
• Also today, as we were picking up S, we were walking in and G’s friend C was walking out.  They are the same age and good friends.  Both boys saw each other from a distance and ran fast towards each other, banged together, and hugged and hugged and hugged and giggled and laughed and turn and spun, then FINALLY fell to the ground still laughing and wrestling a bit.  Then G says to C:  ”That was fun!  Let’s do it again sometime!”  Mindy and I nearly fell over laughing.
• Then we pictured them doing that whole crazy manly chest bumping thing when they are older.

• Makeover!  Ha!
• It only took me over six months of non-posting and a few years of the same look.  Truly….sad.
• In the past seven months, G has entered 1st grade, in a sense, but is reading marvelously and flying along in math.  S is almost halfway through her preschool year and having a great time.
• S will turn 5 very soon.
• FIVE.  five.  5.  1 2 3 4 5.
• Not possible.
• For the post month, she has been telling everyone that her birthday is “tomorrow”  or “in five days.”
• Meanwhile, G is hitting up everyone he knows for “cents.”  But this is how it comes out.  ”Do you have any sense?”  Ha!  I have received many puzzled looks.  Then comes the explanations of what he is really asking for and why  (coins for the poor people in South Africa…long story for later).
• In other news, G has lost is 4th tooth and is riding his bike without training wheels.
• This means we had to buy bikes because we could no longer keep up with him on our two feet.  Hello, exercise!
• S is enjoying dance class and dramatic moments of her own choosing and creative fashion, often several times a day!
• Here’s to not guaranteeing a daily blog post but hoping to keep friends and family updated on the kids and the hilarious thing they do.  Love to all!

• Oh, the randomness of family life.
• I’ve given up on regular blogging and surrendered myself to the idea of random blogging.
• So there you have it.  Irregular posts it will be.
• As if you haven’t figured that out already.  Ha!
• I went to get a manicure/pedicure for the first time in a million years this past weekend with a sweet friend, Kelly.
• Ok, so maybe it wasn’t a million years…but it was about 4.5 years…since S had been born.
• It showed.
• My first klutzy move was to dump half of my purse contents into the foot tub thingy as it was filling up.
• Oh yes, I know how to make everyone around me feel coordinated and classy.  It’s what I’m good at.  :D
• Translations of services and language barriers were left to Kelly.  ”Yes, what she’s doing.”  Scent?  ”Yes, what she’s doing.”  Deluxe?  ”Uh, yea, sure, whatever she’s doing.”  I am my own person that way.
• Then there was the awkward moment when Kelly was gone getting her eyebrows waxed and my lady (I think) asked me if I wanted mine done.  ”No, no thank you.”
• Two minutes later, the lady next to her, thinking perhaps I misunderstood, asked in clearer English if I wanted my eyebrows waxed.
• I was beginning to feel self-concious.
• But firm in my desire that my hair dresser is best at this skill, I stated again,  ”No, no thank you.”  *big grin with my now big bushy eyebrows raised loud and proud*
• I clearly need to get out more and do more girly things.
• Kids are doing great, always keeping us on our toes.
• We love G’s sensitivity and sweetness and S’s zestness for life is such a joy to behold.

You know this is the gift for you if the thought of a specially designed notepad-per-month just makes your heart go pitter-patter.  This gift did indeed make my heart go pitter-patter.  My sweet friend/mentor Barb got this for me for Christmas and I have thoroughly enjoyed every first of the month because it means….I get to get out a new note pad and list-away!!

Yes, I’m a little weird like that.

I did a little google search and you can find them here.

• Well, no, I didn’t disappear again.  We apparently had a cloud of viruses hovering over our house.
• Flu, cold, flu, cold, bronchitis, flu, cold…
• S and the nebulizer became good friends.
• Maybe not so much.  She really didn’t care for it.
• It’s raining AGAIN.  We had two days of sunshine in a row.  We felt like we hit the lottery with that much sunshine.
• G is doing really well in homeschool – he finished  his kindergarten readers and phonics workbooks already.  We are working hard in math and science now.
• G and S are both in the middle of their Upwards Basketball seasons now.  It’s a really great program with devotionals in the middle of each practice and game.  G is so excited that he has learned how to dribble.
• For S, we really focus on NOT spinning circles for all of practice nor being dramatic during the games.  She is learning to dribble the ball, too.
• Next up:  swimming.
• I have started day 1 of a couch to 5k “running” program.  I say “running” because I’ll most like be alternating walking/running through the ENTIRE program due to my asthma.
• I seriously thought I was going to die yesterday.  But I did it.
• Whew.
• *insert encouragement from commenting friends and family*  *BIG GRIN*