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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Third Time's a Charm

Yesterday was a day off from school. The reason? We're not sure. I heard it was a teacher work day, but all the teachers I talked to were taking the day off.

To celebrate our freedom, we drove down-town and met Jason at work. He took us on a tour of the tunnels, which the kids loved. Then he took us to see his cubicle. The kids were impressed that Daddy worked in one of those amazing skyscrapers that make up the Houston skyline. Jason ditched the rest of the day's work and came with us to the Children's Museum. We STILL missed the areas Randy wanted to visit (see here and here for our previous attempts) due to some construction. We bought a year's family pass and will go back after the renovations are finished in March. Still, the kid's had a GREAT time and Jason did an amazing job recording our day.

Here is a link to the slide show on YouTube. Posting it here just didn't do it justice to Jason's hard work.

1 comment:

Susan said...: The slide show was great. I think Caroline sure looks a lot like her cousin, Lucy. (who's hair has gotten so long and pretty!); February 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM

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Funny Things My Kids Say

(Finally- one from Emily)

There was quite the discussion on what we could have for treats during Family Home Evening- ice-cream shakes or chocolate cows. Emily came up with the solution. She told Tyler, "You can have a shake, and I can have a cow!"

Lucy just walked in with one of her stuffed dogs. She says his name is "Doggy Doo."

At scriptures tonight, Randy was actually participating. I was starting to see the tell-tale signs we were losing him. In an effort to engage him in what we were reading, we had the following discussion.

Me: (referring to Matt. 11:5) Randy, what does "deaf" mean?

Randy: (stuttering and stammering) Uh, not able to hear.

Me: What does "blind" mean?

Randy: Not able to see.

Me: And what does "lame" mean?

Randy: (no hesitation) Not able to be funny.

Bullet chewed up one of Lucy's toys- something from a Happy Meal that she never played with. Later, I found her sitting on the couch, cuddled in a blanket, still weeping. "Do you know why I brought my blanket downstairs?" she asked. "To catch my sadness," she said, as she wiped her face.

At church, our primary was practicing for their Sacrament Meeting. At one point, Randy sneezed and stood up for a Kleenex. As he was blowing his nose, he leaned over to our first counselor and whispered something in her ear. She started to laugh and then mouthed to me, "I'll tell you after." She told me that Randy had said, "There's too much singing. I think I'm allergic to music."

"LUCY! Don't change it to chimpanzee!" ~Randy, chastising his sister for changing the language setting on his Nintendo DS to Japanese.

"Mom is always right. Sometimes." ~Tyler

It's that dreaded time of the year again- fundraiser time. This year it's frozen cookie dough. Therefore, Cookie Monster is making appearances at the school. He was greeting kids as we dropped them off this morning. Lucy was so excited to say hi and that Cookie acknowledged her with a special wave. As we were driving away, Lucy looked back, sighed and said, "Wow, I've never seen Cookie Monster in the wild."