Beware of the Child

I will warn you that if you ever come to our house, you should never crawl around on hands and knees in front of Minte, ( not sure why you'd do that to begin with, but anyways...). Minte LOVES horsies and LOVES horsie rides. He gets excited everytime he sees anyone that looks like they're offering rides. Even if you aren't.

Minte and Hats

This child loves hats. My goal is to get him a Elmo hat for Christmas, (don't tell! It's awesome he can't read yet!) :-) He adores Elmo and would wear hats all day if they didn't make him all sweaty!

 This particular day he decided to try on Ana's swim cap. It was slightly tight.

 His face looked so cute with it on. I didn't get a good picture of it, but his face was all squished and wrinkled like a pitbulls. I loved it!

This is Luke's old sailor hat. It's so old that the rubber band to keep it on was no longer stretchy. We had to cut it off! But anyways, Minte loves this hat!

His other favorite hat is one he got for his birthday. It actually matches a couple of his outfits too!

Not many little kids like hats and will keep them on, but this little guy does!

Good-bye Curlies!

See those darling curls? Minte has the most beautiful curls in the world. I love to rake my fingers through them, (the poor kid!) and they're fun to pull out to see how long they actually would be if they were straightened! He would have some LOOOONGG hair!! I tried straightening his hair with water and he looked really weird!!

The problem with these curls is that they're a bit too long. It makes him hot and then some of the curls are longer than others making the spirals stick out more in different areas. So... Mom is talking about cutting his hair. (sob!) In Ethiopia, they cut his hair so we know from pics what it'll kinda look like, but I love his curls!

Below is a picture of Minte with shorter hair in Ethiopia and another of him with longer hair from a couple months ago.

I hope his hair grows fast!

Funny!

So of course after I write the post below, within minutes funny things start happening. (Thank you, God!) And after dinner during devotions, we start in on belly laughs and those laughs that just make you cry. Mom couldn't breathe. Yeah, that's how hard we  were laughing.  And all because of one, little, six year old girl who has very serious, strange questions.

First random question- "Does God have legs? Then how does he get around?"

Second- "How do we become real? I thought God just drew us on a paper!" (laughter, so she has to add one more thing to make us laugh), "Oh I get it! God made us from trees." An exasperated Dad who wants to get back on subject about temptation says in desperation, "Yes!" and continues on!

"So God throws magic on the mommy and she becomes fat?" Oh Ana.

Dad was desperately trying to get back to the devotions, so he said, "We're not going to talk about that right now." To which Ana replied with crossed arms, "That's my point. How did the baby get in there?"

Then suddenly in the middle of our laughing.. "I've got hair in my bellybutton. Dad, why does hair grow on our belly button?" (Later she had Minte employed with pulling it out.)

And the last one, (well, not the last one, but the last one I'll share). We were talking about Jesus being tempted and Dad asked why Jesus didn't follow the temptations, "Because he was from California!" Ana mutters under her breath.

Oh Ana! Thank you for the laughs tonight!

I need something funny.

I feel in the mood for telling you some funny stories that happened here. The only problem is that I can't think of one. It's not that nothing funny happens here! We laugh quite often, but I can't think of anything to share. There are always Anie's looks, Ethan's stories, Min's words, and Luke always thinks he's funny, but none are coming to mind right now.

Oh, I could share a video Rachel sent to me that made me laugh hard for a long time. But she'd kill me! Course, she's gone 8 hours away right now, so I could probably escape being killed, but I might get a phone call. Course that'd give me an excuse to talk on the phone with her, but she'd probably scream murder in my ear. And I don't want that. So I'll not share the video.

My Dad says I could share the fact that I got lost on the highway the other day, but I think that happens too often enough to be funny anymore.

But I could mention that Dad left the yogurt at MEIJERS last night. Not sure why that's funny, but laugh anyways. Thanks, that made me feel better.

Here's a short story for your interest and entertainment... Ana was staring at the calender the other day when she asked a very serious question.Looking at December 31, she asked,     "So is that the last day when we all go to heaven?" Cause after all, when the calender ends, so do our days.

Maybe I'll think up some more stories tomorrow. Maybe.

School Days About to Start Officially.

School is beginning again. During the summer I sat around doing nothing, wishing I was doing something, and now I will have to be doing something, and I'm not happy with HAVING to do something.

I am a junior this year, Luke is beginning high school, Ethan is in 3rd grade and Ana is in 1st! We sort of began school last week. My chemistry class at KVCC began last Tuesday and Luke, E, and Ana have begun math. Mom tried to go on a field trip every day, but between Min's naps and my using the car, we only went on one Monday to the museum, Wednesday to the library, and Friday they went shopping for material for cloth napkins.

I will be taking pretty much all of my classes at KAT, a tutoring program for homeschool students on Monday, and Lucas will be taking a few there as well. Ana and Ethan will be taking an art class at KAT which will be every other Monday. They are very excited!

Mom is working on school material right now to make sure she's prepared for Monday. It's hard to believe Ethan's in third grade! He's doing harder work!

So, yeah, we start school Monday. I'll let you know how it goes. Oh, and I might not be able to write as much here once school starts again. I'll try, but I'm going to be SO busy running here and there and doing homework! BUT I'LL TRY!

Twist and Shout!!

Minte Gabriel loves cards that play music. Like he likes them a lot. He twirls, jumps, falls, and moves his lips to the music!

Rachel and I- Best Friends

I am SEVENTEEN!!!

I can NOT believe it!!! I am 17! TODAY! How sweet is that??? :-) Of course I know that in 6 months I am going to be longing to be 18, (and an adult), but right now I am thrilled to be 17!

I have my whole day planned. I even get to pick out Ana , Minte and Ethan's clothes. I've even attempted to tell Dad that I get to pick his clothes, but that didn't get very far! ;-)

We are having bagels and cream cheese for breakfast and Pizza Hut deep-dish pizza for lunch. Somewhere I need to fit in mac n cheese... But anyways, so I'm writing this post on the 1st, (my cousins birthday actually!), because I am SOOOO excited to be 17. I even texted my Dad at work to remind him!

So, I'm tired, and that is why I'm extra weird tonight!!!

Oh, annnnnd we're going up north to my grandparent's cottage with three of our friends!! It's supposed to be in the 60's, but we'll still have fun!!!

I'm hyper.....

The Cupcake

Yeah... I think these pictures basically tell the story. Well, maybe there's one part that may be of interest to you. See, I said whoever got the ugliest award should get a cupcake stuffed in their face. It backfired when I was voted ugliest. Thanks guys.

But on to a more intersting subject... Minte!!! Minte is ADORABLE. I know.... you might be tired of the subject of his cuteness, but I rarely am. Except when he's screeching or spitting at me. Even Minte knows he's cute. The world revolves around him and when you ask him if he's cute, he sweetly answers, "Yes!"

Right now his favorite song is the itsy bitsy spider. We ask, "Do you want me to sing Itsy, Bitsy Spider?" He answers, "Yes!" so we sing and he quiets down and listens. Then he quietly says, "Bug!" to get us to sing his song again!

If you ever want a kiss from Minte, you have four to choose from. A regular kiss, Ethiopia kiss, eskimo kiss, and a butterfly kiss. Ethiopia kisses are a kiss on both cheeks. An eskimo kiss is rubbing noses and a butterfly kiss is brushing eyelashes. This one freaks him out sometimes! :-)

Let me leave you with an adorable picture...