Future Figure Skater

On Saturday, I had the TV on figure skating just to have a little background noise. I left the room to grab something from the bedroom. I came back and found Micah spinning around. I was wondering what he was doing. Then he pointed to the TV and started doing it again. It was so funny. Of course Grant had to join in since we were laughing at Micah. He's been real jealous of Micah.

Masterpiece

I took Micah to storytime last week for the first in about a month. He was so shy and stayed in my lap during most of the hour. We usually leave after the music and story part,but I decided to see how he would do during the activity part. They had markers and a coloring sheet for them to color. Markers were a bad idea. He had them all over his hands and face. He even was licking his paper trying to lick the marker off the page! He made a lovely piece of art which is hanging proudly on my fridge!

Brothers

Micah is so fun to play with now. I think my favorite age is from 15 months to 3yrs. They learn something new everyday and are acutal "real" people. Micah is now able to play with Grant. I use that term loosely because Micah likes to ruin whatever Grant is playing with. Micah adores Grant and follows him all around the house. The other day, Grant wanted to play dress up and he wanted Micah to play too. Here's a pic of them. I think Micah looks like one of the bird guards from Robin Hood!

Prayers for Kelly, Scott and Harper Stamps

Kelly went to the same college and was in the same social club as me. She graduated a few years before me,but we have a lot of mutual friends. Kelly and Scott have been trying for a couple of years to have baby. God blessed them in April. Yesterday she had Harper around 7:00pm. There were some problems. Harper is now in Tulsa(they live in Fayetteville, Ark)waiting to have a heart and lung transplant. You can go to Kelly's blog by clicking on the link Kelly's corner. Please lift them up in prayer.

Long Lost Friend

I love facebook!! Facebook has given me the chance to get back in touch with so many old friends. This is great for a person like me who has moved to a different town about every 3 years since I was 5 yrs old. The longest I have ever lived in one place is 6 years that was in Belize. I've now been in Shreveport 5yrs. Anyways, facebook has helped me get back into contact with my friend, Tracy. She was a bridesmaid in my wedding and we kind of lost contact with each other when I moved to Jackson, Ms. Well, facebook has reunited us and she happened to be in Shreveport last week on her way home to Branson. I met up with her a Superior and we chatted for awhile. It was long, but I'm blessed that we were able to spend just that short time together. It made me realize how much I miss seeing her and spending time with her. We hope to get up to Branson and visit with her family.

Christmas Party, haircut, McDonald's and a car wash

G had his class party last Thursday, so I went up to the school to see him and take part in the fun activities. There was no lunch bunch so we had to 2 hours to spend together before we had to pick up M from MDO. G loves to spend time with me or Dan without Micah around. So we went and got a much needed haircut, had lunch at McDonalds(yummy?!!,and got a few last minute Christmas presents before picking up M. After we picked M up we headed over to the car wash. I guess I've never had M with me when I've had my car wash because he had a fit. He was screaming, crying, and trying to get out of his carseat. G on the other hand loves the car wash.

Advent

We had the honor of lighting the Advent candle Sunday at church. This is the second week of Advent. I never really understood Advent until recently and I've been reading a book by Lisa Welchel (Facts of Life fame) called Adventures in Christmas. Its a book filled with hands on ideas to teach your kids about Advent during the Christmas season. So far we have only done one activity and that was about candy canes. The book tells you about the orgin of the candy cane and how they came about. The activity for that day is making candy cane reindeers, pass them out to people and explain the meaning. I had Grant take a bag for his show and tell last week since they were talking about the letter C. During show and tell, they have to describe their object and he explained the story of the candy cane.
The next activity is making Christmas Trees out of sugar cones and decorating them with candy. Then we will read and learn about the history of the Christmas tree. We won't be able to get to every project and day because I just got the book a couple of days ago.
We are trying really hard to teach Grant the real meaning of Christmas and all that it entails. Another book I recomend is A Fruitcake Christmas by: Max Lucado. We are making this book a new tradition in our family. We are going to read it on Christmas Eve instead of The Night Before Christmas.What are some of your traditions?