Minte is ADORABLE in glasses!

 Min got a hold of Luke's old glasses a while ago...

 Isn't he super cute?????

And I'm sorry, but this is WAY too cute!

Okay.. the video. But only because I promised it.

As time has passed, my goofiness has passed and therefore I am no longer completely fine with sharing Rachel and my videos, but because I want to keep my promise, I will post one. The one I like most is at Rachel's and I am waiting for it to be sent to me, but you can get the point with this one.

The background behind this song. On the way to Iowa, Rachel had a couple c.d.s that they played on the trip. This song was one of them. In the beginning of the video you will see us look at eachother in confusion. That would be because the song was in spanish in the parts it was English before. So we tried singing in spanish and..yeah...

Oh, and the background of clouds stinks, but try to ignore the bad quality.

So... enjoy. And meet the Emily that's usually hidden. Sometimes. The Rachel part... is pretty normal. (I added that to make Rachel laugh).

P.S.(AND don't feel bad if you choose not to watch the video. )

P.P.S. When I watch the video, it speeds up our actions and not the song. And it ends early. So if the video is wacky, that's an extra good reason to turn off the video.

Back From Minnesota!

We are back!! I didn't mention our trip on the blog because it was a surprise to a certain person and since the person reads this blog, I obviously couldn't mention it!!
So, where did we go? Dad had a conference to go to in Minnesota. My mom spoke to an attachment specialist who said that Min shouldn't be so long without Dad. It could cause problems. So they planned on Mom and Dad and Minte going to Minnesota. Then they decided that they could take all the other kids but me with them. THEN they decided that if my class at Valley was something  I could miss, I could cancel my babysitting jobs, and the families at Battle of the Books could move the battle the next week, then I could go as well. Everything worked out, and we took the long, 9 1/2 drive to Minnesota, Tuesday.

While Dad was in his conferences, we stayed in the hotel doing schoolwork, swimming in the pool, and waiting for him to come home. One day Mom took the younger kids to the zoo. They had a lot of fun, even on the 2 mile long trail they got stuck on! It was fun to have some time in a new place to hang out in!

The biggest part of the trip for me though, was that I got to visit my best friend who recently moved to Iowa. (That's the person we were surprising!) We went to Applebees and met Rachel and her parents inside. I went first and walked in front of Rachel but she didn't recognize me so I started pulling out a chair next to her. She looked up at the weirdo and found it was me!! :-) Then she saw the rest of our family and was especially excited!!

 I went home with Rachel that night and we spent the next day being goofy, taking a walk, taking Senior(or rather Junior) pictures of eachother, and making green, red velvet cake. It was yummy. Just green!

We had so much fun. We made a few videos to a couple of our favorite songs. I'll share at least one with you next post!! You're in for a treat!!

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!