I can't get no sleep...

Sophie came downstairs last night (as she does every Monday night while Jerry and I are watching Americas Toughest Jobs) about 5 1/2 minutes after Jerry put her to bed and said, " I can't get no sleep." We threaten and send her back up to bed. When we come up to go to bed Jerry said, " Go look at you daughter who can't get no sleep." I thought she was still awake.

This is what I found....


I guess she figured out a way to get some sleep after all. She loves sleeping with this sleeping bag..she hates sheets.

YIKES! IKE

We lost a tree to Hurricane Ike. Ike's friend Gustav made our tree crack through the middle and near the top, but Ike came through and blew our tree down. It is dangling right above Jaden's tree house thats under construction. It was one of our favorite trees and HUGE (tall). Oh well at least no one was hurt and it has not broken anything else...yet:(

Pitiful

We woke up Saturday morning to this....

Sophie and Jaden had been playing in dirt in the backyard Friday afternoon, when a few handfuls of dirt got thrown back and forth. A little dirt got in her eye but it came out before she came in the house. I gave her a shower and washed her hair and soap got in her eyes and she began to fist rub them. That night her eyelid was slightly red. As you can see in the above picture that all changed. I called the nurse and explained what all had happened and she told me she was fine and to just put cold compresses on it through out the day. If it didn't start getting better to come in to the office in a few days. Okay so I decided to take a picture to document the swelling. Sophie up to this point had no idea anything was wrong with her eye. She told me it didn't hurt and she would push on it to prove it. Jerry and I had been really staring at her all morning and asking alot of questions about it to the point she finally said," Why do you keep staring at me? What's wrong?" I said go look in the mirror in the bathroom. Now this child had been up for 2 hours barreling through the house laughing and playing with her brother not a care in the world. She gets one look at this eye and comes in the living room and sits in her brothers lap and in her most pitiful voice says, "Jadey look at my eye." She then lays her head on his shoulder. This is when I tell her I am going to take her picture and why. While I am taking the picture I tell her to smile so she doesn't look so pitiful. She says, "I want it to look pitiful." Okie Dokie.

Weird

Who came up with this? Who bought this and thought it was appropriate to put on the rails at our schools daycare? If I was a little person this would completely freak me out. Why do they put the little kids that have no upper bodies outside? Why can't they come in with the other kids? They can't help it if they have no torso or head. What's even more freaky is I think they are bird feeders. Oh yeah that's not scary to a little kid to see birds attacking little legs in blue jeans. Oh well maybe I am the only one who still has thoughts of what scared the living daylights out of me as a 4 year old. This would have given me pause for about a week. I would have been praying every night for those little legs.

Pictures of my sweet sister and her kiddos

Family came in for Labor Day and my sis let me throw her and her kids around and take pictures. They are very photogenic, so as you can see it was an easy job! The only bad thing that happened was that I was swarmed by mosquitoes. Mom had to run to the pharmacy and get me some anti itch ointement. The bites began to swell up as big as half dollars. Oh well they went away pretty fast my body started attacking back:)

Sunday and Monday triumphs

Sophie being promoted and walking to her new class!

She has been so excited about this day!
The Dragon Slayers working through some of their pre-preformance jitters.

"I feel the joy of the Lord falling fresh on me"
After the Showcase Bro. Becton asked all the kids to gather around him on the platform. Jaden went and stood right in front of him. Sophie was finished before everyone else tonight.Jaden started cross country today. He loved it!Stretching out after the run.
Go Eagles!

That's scary

While on my school pick up run yesterday I saw an 18 wheeler with a sign on the back. The sign sent chills up my spine and I broke out in a cold sweat. This is what the sign said. Caution Student Driver. Whaaaaat do you mean student driver and why are you on Briley Parkway? I thought they had practice places for those things. ...get off the open road for goodness sakes. Mercy. Well I am glad that we are all still in one piece and I didn't hear of any wrecks in that area during the news.