Coming home from the thrift store tonight Jaelle was whining about Josiah not sharing some candy he got. As we came into the house she went over to the couch and sat down next thing I hear her say, "uhhh, grrrr...I can't cry, I can't make any tears..." I then asked her "what? did you just say you can't cry? Why do you want to cry?" Then she told me, "Well, cause Josiah wouldn't share his gummies! I can't make the tears come out."
I then started laughing at what she said and she then moved to the dinning room floor where she sat down crossed her arms leaning against the wall and tried looking grumpy and cross till we tickled her and got her to smile and laugh!
ahh, i remember trying so hard to make myself cry when I was upset at something Chad did and I wanted to be angry at him! HaHa!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Chicken Pox
I just got an email from Josiah's teacher saying they sent home a little girl in his class with a confirmed case of Chicken Pox. She has had the Varicella Vaccine (so has Josiah) and the nurse said she didn't feel sick because of that until now that she broke out with the pox this morning.
Interesting, I have wondered about this I remember when I was younger that is was such a big deal to make sure your kids got the chicken pox, (chicken pox parties, expose siblings if they hadn't gotten it yet, etc.) now a days because of the vaccines I hardly ever hear of kids getting chicken pox.
I know i've had it twice and when Luke was younger is when it started changing, when the vaccine was becoming more popular. According to Wikipedia the vaccines started to be given in 1995. We have entered a period where the effectiveness of the vaccine can be gauged. If you are interested in this check out Varicella Vaccine in Wikipedia. Well, hopefully Josiah won't get chicken pox!
Interesting, I have wondered about this I remember when I was younger that is was such a big deal to make sure your kids got the chicken pox, (chicken pox parties, expose siblings if they hadn't gotten it yet, etc.) now a days because of the vaccines I hardly ever hear of kids getting chicken pox.
I know i've had it twice and when Luke was younger is when it started changing, when the vaccine was becoming more popular. According to Wikipedia the vaccines started to be given in 1995. We have entered a period where the effectiveness of the vaccine can be gauged. If you are interested in this check out Varicella Vaccine in Wikipedia. Well, hopefully Josiah won't get chicken pox!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Vegetate
The dictionary's definition of vegetate is
1 live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way : if she left him there alone, he'd sit in front of the television set and vegetate.
2 dated (of a plant or seed) grow; sprout.
• [ trans. ] cause plants to grow in or cover (a place).
3 Medicine (of an abnormal growth) increase in size.
ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin vegetat- ‘enlivened,’ from the verb vegetare, from vegetus ‘active,’ from vegere ‘be active.’
I was contemplating this as i was attempting to overcome the feeling to "vegetate" How did
veg, vegetable, vegetate words that sound like they should define being healthy, active end up being used to mean be lazy, dull, inactive?
So next time i am tempted to ("veg", as in be lazy and do nothing productive) i shall remind myself that it comes from a word meaning enlivened, active and BE ACTIVE!!
1 live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way : if she left him there alone, he'd sit in front of the television set and vegetate.
2 dated (of a plant or seed) grow; sprout.
• [ trans. ] cause plants to grow in or cover (a place).
3 Medicine (of an abnormal growth) increase in size.
ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin vegetat- ‘enlivened,’ from the verb vegetare, from vegetus ‘active,’ from vegere ‘be active.’
I was contemplating this as i was attempting to overcome the feeling to "vegetate" How did
veg, vegetable, vegetate words that sound like they should define being healthy, active end up being used to mean be lazy, dull, inactive?
So next time i am tempted to ("veg", as in be lazy and do nothing productive) i shall remind myself that it comes from a word meaning enlivened, active and BE ACTIVE!!
Saturday, October 17, 2009
It's another rainy day and the sparrows are chirping like crazy right outside, beautiful morning!
I have set a few goals for my self this week, month actually. I am trying to get in shape (and lose weight) and also to finish reading all the way through the bible. I've come to realize that my walk with the Lord and more specifically how well i am doing in it is very closely connected with the other disciplines in my life. Example, if my house is a mess and I haven't done a workout in more then a few days most likely I have not been spending time reading my word either.
But if and when i am faithful with my job, my responsibilities, as a wife and mother in regards to keeping up on house work, reading to the kids and spending time with them playing or just doing stuff with them that doesn't involve having a movie on and also when i have been consistent with exercise then it's that much easier to be consistent and faithful with reading my word and spending time in prayer. My "calling" is to be a wife and a mother so it makes sense to me that when i am being faithful to that calling when i am being obedient in the little things then i will be faithful and obedient with the bigger things.
Just ramblings anyway my goals right now are to lose 5lbs and finish reading through the bible (I am just finishing 1 Corinthians) before I start watching any more tv shows on the computer, (with a few exceptions in moderation) and the second thing is to try and do a work out 20 min or more six or seven days a week for 30 days and I started this challenge/goal on the Oct. 13th. (I've got about 25lbs to lose)
Anyhow that's where I am at! Now I am going to go read my bible and enjoy the rest of this cloudy and rainy morning!
I have set a few goals for my self this week, month actually. I am trying to get in shape (and lose weight) and also to finish reading all the way through the bible. I've come to realize that my walk with the Lord and more specifically how well i am doing in it is very closely connected with the other disciplines in my life. Example, if my house is a mess and I haven't done a workout in more then a few days most likely I have not been spending time reading my word either.
But if and when i am faithful with my job, my responsibilities, as a wife and mother in regards to keeping up on house work, reading to the kids and spending time with them playing or just doing stuff with them that doesn't involve having a movie on and also when i have been consistent with exercise then it's that much easier to be consistent and faithful with reading my word and spending time in prayer. My "calling" is to be a wife and a mother so it makes sense to me that when i am being faithful to that calling when i am being obedient in the little things then i will be faithful and obedient with the bigger things.
Just ramblings anyway my goals right now are to lose 5lbs and finish reading through the bible (I am just finishing 1 Corinthians) before I start watching any more tv shows on the computer, (with a few exceptions in moderation) and the second thing is to try and do a work out 20 min or more six or seven days a week for 30 days and I started this challenge/goal on the Oct. 13th. (I've got about 25lbs to lose)
Anyhow that's where I am at! Now I am going to go read my bible and enjoy the rest of this cloudy and rainy morning!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Another note about the zoo
Just another quick note about our adventures at the zoo. . .
during the zoomazium's creature feature for the toddlers out of about 35 kids or so Jaelle was the most out spoken answering all the questions and in her enthusiasm to answer she said pretty cute things. The lady leading the show was asking the kids what the names of different stuffed animals were that she was showing them, a duck, a lizard, a chicken, a snake, a frog and so on, so when she pulled out a ostrich Jaelle yelled "it's a sparrow!" and the flamingo was a penguin and then again a little later when asking the names of the birds again the ostrich was called a "gooseling" (half goose half duckling?) ha ha guess next time we visit the African Savannah at the zoo we will have to work on identifying the Ostriches!
during the zoomazium's creature feature for the toddlers out of about 35 kids or so Jaelle was the most out spoken answering all the questions and in her enthusiasm to answer she said pretty cute things. The lady leading the show was asking the kids what the names of different stuffed animals were that she was showing them, a duck, a lizard, a chicken, a snake, a frog and so on, so when she pulled out a ostrich Jaelle yelled "it's a sparrow!" and the flamingo was a penguin and then again a little later when asking the names of the birds again the ostrich was called a "gooseling" (half goose half duckling?) ha ha guess next time we visit the African Savannah at the zoo we will have to work on identifying the Ostriches!
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
So today I took Jaelle and Enoch to the zoo after dropping Judah off at school.
It was pour down rain most of the time we were there but still a lot of fun. I am really enjoying the membership we've gotten for the zoo. It a pretty decent sized zoo and it took us four trips before we actually saw everything in the zoo. But today was neat we got there just in time for the creature feature at the zoomazium (an indoor climbing/exploring place for kids) the kids got to pet Roberta the hen :-)
Then we went to see the gorillas and because it was pouring outside they were all right up to the windows out of the rain all the older gorilla's were napping but the almost 2yr old Uzumma ( a little girl gorilla) and one of her sister's (Ngozi or Calaya don't know which one it was though) were up playing with each other. Uzumma was walking up to the glass looking out at us and then she would kind of jump back and pat her head and rub her tummy. Then she was pestering her sister, (reminded me very much of our kids) at one point Uzumma's sister got up from her spot in the corner and went to the bathroom and while she was taking care of business Uzumma ran up and started rolling around in her sister's spot then as soon as she was done she charged at Uzumma chasing her out of her spot then looked at us and started spinning on one foot before she plopped back down in her spot. Just like Jaelle and Josiah when they are fighting over their favorite spot on the couch.
Anyway we watched them for about a half an hour and then went back to the play place for a while before heading home!
It was pour down rain most of the time we were there but still a lot of fun. I am really enjoying the membership we've gotten for the zoo. It a pretty decent sized zoo and it took us four trips before we actually saw everything in the zoo. But today was neat we got there just in time for the creature feature at the zoomazium (an indoor climbing/exploring place for kids) the kids got to pet Roberta the hen :-)
Then we went to see the gorillas and because it was pouring outside they were all right up to the windows out of the rain all the older gorilla's were napping but the almost 2yr old Uzumma ( a little girl gorilla) and one of her sister's (Ngozi or Calaya don't know which one it was though) were up playing with each other. Uzumma was walking up to the glass looking out at us and then she would kind of jump back and pat her head and rub her tummy. Then she was pestering her sister, (reminded me very much of our kids) at one point Uzumma's sister got up from her spot in the corner and went to the bathroom and while she was taking care of business Uzumma ran up and started rolling around in her sister's spot then as soon as she was done she charged at Uzumma chasing her out of her spot then looked at us and started spinning on one foot before she plopped back down in her spot. Just like Jaelle and Josiah when they are fighting over their favorite spot on the couch.
Anyway we watched them for about a half an hour and then went back to the play place for a while before heading home!
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Okay so it took me a little longer to get frequent this blog site again. It seems to have turned out to be a very busy week. Thursday I went to Women's Bible study which has just started. It's a beth moore study which i haven't decided yet how well i like it yet but i go to women's more for the fellowship then the studies. Friday Josiah had the day off of school so we invited some friends from Kent to come up and go to the zoo with us and they did. It was a fun but a little on the crowded side so not quite as enjoyable as when it's just me and the kids or judah, me and the kids ;-) And all the kids have a touch of a cold. The week has gone by really fast. ;-)
Monday, October 5, 2009
Well, it has been awhile (again) since i've written anything and a lot has happened since we moved. I am not going to write a lot now but I do intend to write a little more frequently. This week is Judah's second week of school and Josiah is doing really well in Kindergarten. Tomorrow is his first field trip to a Pumpkin Farm. (however, he is coming down with a cold so if he's really sick in the morning he won't be able to go ;-( I am praying he is well enough to go)
That's all for now.
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That's all for now.
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