Family Moments

Today, my first blog....something I've been noodling around in my head for awhile. At least this might be an online scrapbook of sorts.

A SNAPSHOT OF TODAY: 7/25/08
We had some family fun today. Our new (to us) trampoline is up and has been for several days. Thank the Lord for it! My kids are moving and shaking and if they ever appear to not know what to do...now they know. As long as they are careful and noone gets hurt. Does it seem that it takes a fraction of a second for them to get comfortable with something and then they go right on to mastering something extreme (in this case flips)?

We also spent the late afternoon and early evening swimming at Mona's pool. What fun that finally is now that Gabe has learned to swim with waterwings and isn't grabbing me (and my suit) at all times. Isaiah and Elly who were not too excited about even getting their faces wet in June are now doing cannonballs and flips off the deep end (with some floaties) just to make me feel better. I could use octopus arms but at least today Kev and Mo were there so it was 1:1 correspondence :).

I found a great book in the stash from Swenson's today...on dinosaurs from a Christian perspective. Isaiah is thrilled with it and I'm sure I'll have it memorized by the time I'm done. We learned that what have been drawn for dinos are not necessarily what they looked like. That dinos may have been around as recently as the 1500's and may exist in remote jungles today. That the Great Flood would have made the perfect conditions for making large numbers of fossils...that occurring about 5000 years ago. And we're not through yet...

I also read from the Brrm Brrm book...a book I made for Isaiah when he was into tractors which was a copy of one my mom made my brother, Luke, when he was a baby and called all large movers Brrm Brrm's. I suppose I'll have to come up with a better format than construction paper, magazine pictures and contact paper for Gabe's next one. I need a new one; I'm tired of the old one but at least I can read it with eyes closed :).

Thank you, Jesus, for these little ones and their laughter today. For Kev's chance to come out a play for awhile...for a new blog to record my thanksgiving.