20 July 2005
praise: the kids are in bed for the night-that's always a wonderful thing!!
prayer: auburn is teething (still). she's been working on these teeth for about a month now. i can actually see the prongs of one of her molars under her gum, but they have yet to break through. poor little girl. i can't wait to have them break through-then maybe i can have my happy girl back.
playfulness: the happy girl thing may be a lost characteristic lasting longer than the teeth issue. auburn has increasingly been showing her depravity. she's beginning to act like her brother. landon had real issues this morning. i know that it didn't help having his cousins here, but he was out of control. auburn has been demanding her independence. unfortunately, she's not really ready for it in so many ways. they are definitely stretching me and causing me to trust God and ask for wisdom much more often.
my little man is growing up much to quickly. just a few moments ago, i went to give him a glass of water, and i asked him "what do you say?". his response (in a very dignified tone) "thank you, mother." don't know if i'm ready for the mother-bit. i think i prefer "mom" or "mommy" still at this stage of life.
we celebrated landon's freedom to begin eating dairy again by going to dairy queen today. landon has been looking forward to his ice cream cone now for over a week. he did a great job this past month, and honestly, i do not remember him complaining about it even once. he even came to the point that he was asking "does that have dairy in it?" when he came across something new. i think we may have problems with the "dairy-but-reduced-quantity" stage, though. he's already been begging for more dairy tonight, stating "i love dairy!" one serving of dairy a day may be harder than no servings. we'll see.
today at lunch, landon made a fascinating discovery regarding small chip clips. he found out that if you put the handle end in your mouth, bite down, and then release it slightly, you can send the clip flying across the table. he had his cousins (and me) in stitches as he repeated this new feat over and over.
i allow landon to help me pick out the vegetable for supper (helps him to eat it better). tonight, i asked him what kind of veggie he wanted. he told me the red one. i was really confused since we have never had any red veggies (treating tomatoes as fruits). we went downstairs to the pantry, and i showed him all of his choices. he started crying and asked for the red veggies "like at the store." then he pointed to the lower portion of the pantry and said "down there." i opened it up and was amused by what he was refering to. he wanted the box of veggie tales fruit snacks. so..., we had those veggies, and then ate corn for supper.
smoothie blender has been a success so far. dave even took smoothies to his age of empires game night tonight. so far, i've made watermelon smoothies, apple cinnamon tea smoothies, and mocha java smoothies. dave drinks the mocha javas and i drink the others. the apple cinnamon tea one was really good. a side benefit from the watermelon smoothie was that i decided to pour all of the juice leftover in the watermelon rind (after sraping the fruit out) into an ice try and freeze it. the watermelon ice cubes are a really good treat! landon enjoyed eating one tonight.
well, i need to get to bed. 5:30 seems to be coming earlier and earlier (even though i know that is impossible).
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