Miniatures

Bob has been planning to build me a secretary desk/shelving unit for my crafty stuff. To try to work out some of the bugs ahead of time, he has been making scaled-down models of the stuff he wants to build. Here are some examples, one of the secretary (with accessories) and then a miniature of a planned device we may need to make use of as the girls near the end of their teenage years (modeled by Prince Phillip and that prince from Cinderella who has no name). Actually, both princes were broken and Bob was gluing them.

:)

Not too much going on

Just a couple of pictures to post. I do have to post a bit of Dessa-speak. We've figured out that Ella is pronounced "uh" and Lily is "Yee." For example, Ella and Dess were playing on the couch and after Ella got down Dess said, "Uuh. Weh ah yoo? Wayz uh me!" (Ella, where are you, wait for me!)

Summer Fun

I have not yet mastered photo placement in this blog thing yet, but here are a smattering of pictures from this summer. A bit of Lily's mini-birthday party, random stuff and playing in the "interactive" fountain at Spokane. Sure wish I could figure out how to place text next to the picture I want to write about. One is of a dinosaur mountain "playset" as the girls like to say. There is one that shows you what Dessa does to disobedient toys (the stuffed cat). Note Dessa playing the keyboard with a plastic hamburger patty. See if you can see which picture has a smile pasted over a frowner.

Prayers

Here is a compilation of a couple of Lily's prayers lately:
“Heavenly Father, would you please thank you for our Lord. What kind of fruit was it Adam and Eve ate? Please make a big heaven that’s like a hotel with floors so the ants can’t get us. Please make the volcano (Mt. Vesuvius in Pompeii) get up and walk away because I know it doesn’t like people. Please make it stay in it’s crack and make all the people get not dead because I don’t like that. Amen.”

Some funnies

Just now as the girls are cleaning their room, I heard Ella singing. I recognized the tune as being "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" but she was singing the whole tune to the repeated word "bowel."

This morning as the girls were playing, I overheard Lily saying, "I'm not dead, my legs just got cut off." I never expected that sort of thing with girls.

The girls have been becoming more involved in praying with us, but sometimes I'm at a loss for how help them. Times like when Lily says, "I'm going to pray that God would send us a fairy. Or three fairies!"

One good thing that comes from the girls being interested in fairytales is that it helps them have a better understanding of God's work in some ways. The other day Ella was excited to tell me about a flower blooming and she said, "God made this flower bloom, it's magic!" I was able to reply, "Yes, Ella. It's God's magic!" I love that fairy magic and God's magic aren't so very different after all. What an amazing world we live in!

When Mom's stressed out

A few days ago, I was exhausted (as usual) and crabby. I plopped down in a chair and said, "girls, Mom's stressed out!" Ella immediately said, "Maybe we could help you. I can make lunch! I'll make peanut butter and jelly. (Lily says "I want tuna.") Ella: I can't make tuna fish, but I can make peanut better and jelly!"
So I let her! Lily decided to help, too. All I did was open the jars. I did have to scoop about a third of a cup of jelly off Lily's sandwich and put it back, leaving her with only 1/4 cup on her bread. It definitely perked me up.

Even more pictures!

For some reason Dessa would lift her leg every time Grandma gave her a sip.





Ella has just baked some playdough cookies in her play oven. She's quite proud.







When dinosaurs ruled the yard.






This is the picture of Lily's dinosaur I promised. Her name is Purdy, not Alice. Alice is a REAL imaginary dinosaur Lily has created. She lives in the zoo.





We took our middle seat out of the van and the only place to store it is in the family room. But the girls made good use of it.






Lily said she wanted to be warm and cozy.

I have new pictures posted on each of the following two posts, so check them out as well!