July 27, 2012
We were memorizing Luke 24:36-39 for our “Memory
Moment”. It reads:
36 ¶And as they thus spake, Jesus himself astood in
the midst of them, and saith unto them, bPeace be unto you.
39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: ahandle me,
and see; for a bspirit hath
not cflesh and
bones, as ye dsee me have.
We had gotten into memorizing verse 37 and the 4 y/o needed an
explanation of the verse. I explained to
him that the disciples were scared because they thought they had seen a
spirit. Winwin was truly surprised that
they would think this. “But Jesus has
bones!” he said.
Indeed, as the scripture goes on to say, He does have
bones. Sometimes little ones are much
more certain of truths than adults.
This week Winwin wanted to play “shoehorns” and Love Bug wanted
to play “billboards”. Those games might
be more interesting than horseshoes and pool (someone referred to it recently
as billiards and Love Bug picked up on that).
Peanut celebrated his 15th birthday
yesterday! Sticky came off as favored
present giver with the gift of a Donkey Kong game (or some such title as the
boys will probably correct me). Princess and
I had gone shopping and she found a game by the makers of Apples to Apples to
give him. We haven’t tried that out yet,
but it should be fun.
A few weeks ago, I found a fun thing on Amazon for Peanut. It is a mini disc golf game. I thought, correctly, that it would be loads
of fun for the kids since they already had been fond of a game they made up
using yogurt lids as Frisbees. In the
mini disc golf game, the discs are slightly larger than yogurt lids. You can put the goal (similar to ones at a
disc golf park, just smaller and less durable) anywhere you want—inside or
out. Then, you pick a spot to begin
throwing from and play. Hole number 2
starts when you determine a second location to place the goal. And so on. And so on.
Peanut chose his “second favorite” thing for dinner—fried
rice. We also had a yummy malt
shake. Key lime pie was his bday “cake”.
We spent a pleasant morning at the beach on Tuesday. We got down there by 9:30, which meant that
there were parking spaces a plenty and only a couple other beach goers. The weather was perfect, although a little
cooler than we liked for about the first half hour. We enhanced our tans, made a huge drip
castle, played in the water, chatted with friends, played horseshoes and just
generally enjoyed ourselves.
Wednesday was kind of an “ugh” day with having to go to the
dentist to see about fixing a chipped tooth.
But it ended on a high as Princess and I went to several stores, two of
which were for the express purpose of loading up on fresh produce. Lots of good stuff on sale this
week…slurp! Plums, grapes, cherries,
pears, kiwis, cantaloupe, apples, bananas, etc!
So, we have stuffed fridges.
Well, at least for a couple of days.
On Saturday I had purchased a large, sturdy kiddie pool, so
on Monday Princess, her friend and the little boys had fun in the water for much of
Monday. Princess also did a short FHE
lesson for us about Enos, using a puppet that could kneel.
Winwin to Sticky: “What
if a dolphin beat up a shark while they were boxing!”
July 29, 2012
I got a week off teaching at church this week…not. I got snagged for teaching a Primary
class. It was pretty easy. I had 4 little seven year old girls who were
all quite well behaved. We talked about
sharing.
We have been watching the Olympics. The Olympics are awesome. Winwin is really enjoying them, cheering on
his fellow Americans. When there isn’t
an American to watch, he favors the Chinese for some reason. We just watched Allison Schmitt take the
silver. When they interviewed her
afterwards, we realized how much Winwin really has been getting what is going
on. He asked his Dad, “Why did they talk
to her? She only got second.”
This week’s yard sale-ing with Princess was productive as I was
able to find what else I was hoping to find for Love Bug’s bday and I found needed
upgrades to Winwin’s wardrobe. I think
Princess has caught the vision of the value of garage sales. She came out of the deal with a cute little
parasol and Oriental fan. She was a
little saddened that she couldn’t add a Chinese dress to complete her
ensemble.
Dad took Sticky and Peanut golfing yesterday. Princess had a “movie afternoon” with her
buddy. If anyone is looking for a movie
to watch, all the Connoles in our
household 10 & older enjoyed “Mirror, Mirror”. It is a remake of Snow White. It had some fun twists to the story, we had quite a few giggles. It had one scary part so we didn’t
okay it for the little boys.
Okay, ya’ll, have a super de duper week.
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