They Can READ!

Last night Isaiah READ a book to me via Skype!!!! Can you believe it? He is only 3 3/4 years old and he can read!!! What a gift :-) and Ellen and I played type the word and trick me and she read everything I typed! (except I did trick her with supercalifragilisticexpealidocious... at first but she got it!!! ) Ellen is 5! Five and she can sound out any word you put in front of her. These are amazing kids! And not to leave Brennan out- he and Petey are developing a long distance relationship :-)and while we were reading Brennan entertained himself by taking cans and boxes out of the pantry (at least I hope it was only cans and boxes :-) )

Emerson at 3 months

We had a wonderful visit with Bry and Emerson yesterday. Between Wood calling Emerson, little 'e', hot rod or sport coup and Bry calling him "ed" or 'buddy'- I have to stop and think every time I talk to him who he is :-). Nevertheless we had some wonderful conversations. He is quite a flirt already.

Hungry little beggars and the beach is frozen

Wee Free Men and 30 days in your shoes

Can't remember what that DVD you got us for Christmas was called Sarah but I keep meaning to blog about it. We REALLY liked it. Wood and I liked different episodes the best. I really was struck by the living on minimum wage one, as well as the born again Christian living with Muslims for a month. In both circumstances the people were soooooo stretched. I really liked it. Flying into DC today I listened to Wee Free Men and love how it is written. So many great metaphors and analogies it is really easy to visualize the story (my favorite so far was comparing sheep grazing on a green hill to puffy white clouds in the sky) Also got quite a tour of the Capitol and the Mall flying in (flew right past the Mall and by the Jefferson Memorial which is one of my favorites), all spiffed up for the inauguration. Can't wait. My hotel room has a great view of the Capitol building. This is all just so exciting!

Petey's beach is gone!

We got some rain this week while I was in the real winter wonderland of Niagara Falls. Over 3 inches of rain and it made the lake rise 5 feet. Petey's beach is gone!!! See the bouy markers that I have taken pictures of us standing next to before? Wow what a couple of inches of rain will do! Also notice the full moon on the upper left.

Lounging about

All we did all day long was watch parades and football - what a trio of lazy bums!