Puppy love....or not

When I heard my friend Renaee was getting a new puppy I was so excited. I knew the kids would love to come see and play with her. So we set up a time and last night Neil and I took the kids over. I talked to the kids all that afternoon and told them how we were going to go see the puppy. They were so excited and ready to play with the puppy. Then we got there. Haven was scared to death, wouldnt even play on the ground if she was anywhere near the puppy and wanted to be held. Justus was excited at first, but when the puppy was so excited to play and as Justus was running she knocked Justus down, he was done with her. Justus just wanted to go play in their beautiful backyard. So, the puppy stayed on the leash and my kids played with everything but the dog!

Fun times in the Backyard

Now that our backyard is done (well, almost - isnt there always something else you wanna do?!) weve been spending so much time outside. As soon as breakfast is over the kids want to go play outside. As soon as naptime is over they want to go outside. They will stay out there forever! Needless to say, I think we will be keeping the sunscreen companies in business! Today I got so much done around the house cause they play so good and I keep the windows open, I dont feel like I have to be out there the whole time. Its really nice. Obviously tho, when they are in their little pools I am there. Backyards are the best!

Bike riding and growing plant

Justus was at it again last night - riding his bike so good. He and Neil went all over our neighborhood. Im so proud of how good he is doing. Then after a long ride, he got in our planter - a favorite place of play between our kids - and pretended to be a plant growing.

Its like...

watching your good friends, your comrades, get shot at and fall wounded. You know by Gods grace and faithfulness they will be alright. But it hurts. You can see the bullet coming, yet not able to do a thing, knowing you might be next.



Thats all I have to say about that.

New Stuff

Gigi and Papa surprised Justus with a new bike. We were so excited! Justus has had an aversion to using pedals, he really prefers to scoot. But we thought if he had a bike to ride he would have more incentive. He was so happy when they brought the bike in. So last night we took him out and just kept encouraging him to use the pedals - well, really I told him that if he wanted to ride his bike he had to pedal-when you ride your bike you dont scoot you pedal and if he didnt do that we would be all done and go inside. Of course he didnt want to go inside so with some pushes and lots of encouragement, he DID IT! I was so proud of him. He rode all down our street then Neil got his bike and they rode together. It was so cute. I didnt get pics of them riding, Ill try to get some and post them later.

And miss Haven got some new shoes. That girl, she loves her some shoes. Literally, she will play with her shoes for 20 min at a time. She will just go and sit in her room by her shoe bin and try them all on. Its pretty darn cute!

One of mine

Friday night one of my girls got married. I met her when she was just 15. She and her friends were in my small group when they were in high school. Now, they are off getting married, graduating college, attending Law School in Boston, living in Hollywood and who knows what else! WOW! These girls are amazing. So while I was at the wedding, I got to catch up with one of them that I hadnt seen since high school graduation. I loved it and I love them! These girls truly are one of mine!

Good guy, Bad guy - a work in progress

So the other day, I heard Haven crying. From the sound, I could tell that it most likely had to do with Justus not acting rightly towards her. Sure enough when I got to the scene and asked Justus (which, I have to say, he is always very honest) what happened, he told me "I hit Sis" Well, we all know that is unacceptable. So I proceeded my mom talk of how that is not acceptable and he would be punished. In his response, he told me he was a bad guy, that is why he hit her. As I inquired further I realized that in his VeggieTales movie, there are bad guys that do bad things. I continued by telling him that bad guys get punished but good guys get rewarded. That Jesus likes it when we are good, that makes Him happy. That people dont like to be around bad guys. Well, since then, I continue to bring the concept up to him. However he still thinks he wants to be a bad guy - I guess its a work in progress!