School Picture

Yesterday we were playing with Play-doh.  Shannon said she wanted to make things that go with a doctor's office.  I watched her as she made and decorated a round ring.  "What is that going to be?" I said.  I was thinking ace bandage, blood pressure cuff....

 

She replied, "it is a bracelet, for patients going through a hard time."

 

Shannon may not choose to be a rocket scientist when she grows up, but I'll take compassion over rocket science any day.

 

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Today I asked Shannon what her library book was that we needed to return.  "I don't know," she answered.  "I don't know either," I said.  Then Christopher added, "Oh, so it's the I Don't Know book!" 

 

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Be careful when you ask a preschooler to count to 20 while playing hide and seek.  Today I was in a cramped closet spot for an unmercifully long time while I heard, "...9, 10, 11, 98, 99, 22, 23, 25..."

Doing our part to preserve for our children the freedom and prosperity we have enjoyed.

Hiking in Beatiful Pennsylvania Autumn Weather

Food Adventures

Having no chocolate chips in the house to deliver on the promise of chocolate chip pancakes, Doug improvised with a brownie mix that had chocolate chunks in it. He made the pancakes with the brownie mix as his base.
Apparently longing for the caramel apples she had seen, Shannon mimicked one with a chopstick.

The other day, Shannon apparently told a boy in her class that she had a crush on him.  He responded back immediately, "Oh, that's good, because I have a crush on you too!" 

The boy's mother told me this.  So it begins, at age 5.

 

Last night I had a hilarious dream that my parents had some landscaping done in their front yard (which they really did).  As I was walking by during the process of clearing away some of the bushes and weeds, lo and behold, I discovered a new neighbor!  It was a little old lady and her husband, living in a quaint little house between my parents and the Taylors!

Aaron's Soccer Picture for Fall 2008

Funny Stories

I decided to start writing down my funny stories in a Word document before senility sets in. I think I will forward most of them to my blog, unless I get complaints. Here is the first one:

 

c. 2005 – When we were in the process of adopting our son, Christopher, there was a window of time in which we knew we were getting him, but couldn’t go over there yet. During that time, we were told we could send him a care package. We carefully assembled a package with a blanket and a photo album. In the album, we included a picture of each of our family holding the blanket.

                We knew his name was Lian Chen Yang. Leslie had a Chinese friend translate small messages for each page. And on each page, Leslie typed the message “Lian, we love you.” Or “Lian, we can’t wait to meet you.” Then we mailed our personalized package to his orphanage with great expectations.

                Unfortunately, we can never be sure if it had much impact. You see in China, they name people last name first. So Lian was his last name, not his first. What is worse, the convention in China is to name all the children in the orphanages after the province in which they were born. Since Chen Yang was born in Lianyungang, his last name was Lian. And so was every other child’s in the orphanage.

Before Our Hike at the Goods Nervous Chris?
What a Crew!

Chris' First Day at School All Tied Up at the Game
A Morrissey Artis Paints Jupiter. Guess Who.

Necessity is the Mother of Invention

You Tube Videos on the Housing Crisis

I dare you to watch these. I am so tired of hearing that "deregulation" is to blame. Government-mandated bad loans and cheating, thieving Democrats at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are to blame.

 

There. Now it is off my chest.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p1Wc2NFa3w&watch_response

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_597487