In Search of Myself

Sick Jake

Lou dropped Jake off at mom's this morning, and told me I should leave early since traffic is big time blocked on I-24 today.  So I left early, but it still took me over an hour to get here (usually takes 20 to 30 minutes.)  I was here about 5 minutes when my mom called and said that Jake had puked, majorly.  'Doh!

Normally, it wouldn't be an issue, but mom is leaving for Indiana this afternoon to visit Kathy, and was needing to go shopping and running around a bit first.  Of course she can't do that with a sick Jake.  So I'm leaving work at noon to get Jake so mom can actually get out of town at a decent hour.

I'm usually more than happy to take time off work, but I have SO much to do and was hoping to get myself totally caught up today.  Ah, well.  We can't have our way all the time.  :)

Wanna read something cool?

New article posted at ACOT: click here to read 

"Mommy, what are we doing tomorrow?"
Creating a visual activity calendar for your children

It talks about how and why I made this:

More Jake pics

Seriously, work is still killing me.  But I'm taking a break for a minute.

This is a marble run we built last week, all on our own (without guidance from directions.)  We built a pretty cool one yesterday, too -- will try to get a picture before it gets accidentally knocked down again.

He was just sitting like this on the top of the couch . . . told him to freeze and I grabbed my camera.  He looks SO much like Lou in this picture!!!  You can really see the difference in the before and after his haircut in these two pics.

All 50 states!

A certain someone now knows how to put together a wooden puzzle of the United States (each state an individual piece, except a few in New England) ALL BY HIMSELF!!!

(considering how many ADULTS I know who don't know where most states are?  I'm pretty dang proud of this.)

Oh, and he also got a haircut.  :)

Holy cow

Work is crazy this week.  Like, crazy.  No time for posts.  But wanted to say hi!

Still more Zoe pages

mom just called me to tell me she liked the "Got Dirt" page (hey, I try!), so I told her I'd post more pages that I just finished.  I can't take much credit for any of these, though, because they are all quick pages or templates -- which pretty much means drop your pictures in and add some text and sometimes an element or two.  :)

More Zoe pages

Actually, I've made more than this today, but they're boring, so you just get to see these:

Deep thought about God

Man, Jake is asking a lot of questions lately, and really trying to figure out the world.  He likes to ask why something happens, and then ask what if it didn't.  Like driving home "Why is there a road here?"  "Umm . . . so we can drive home?"  "But what if there WASN'T a road here?"  "Then we couldn't get home, I guess."  And his reply: "But then we could ride in a HELICOPTER!"

So last night before bed, we were reading a book and Jake suddenly says "What if God made us kittens when He made us?"  I said "Then I guess we would have tails and say meow."  Jake thought that was funny.

Then later I was singing a silly song and he covered my mouth so I would stop.  I said "Don't cover my nose, I need to breathe!"  He said "But WHY do we breathe?"  So I explained to him (for the umpteenth time) that to be alive, we have to breathe to get air into our lungs, our hearts needs to pump blood through our body, and our brain has to be thinking.  This prompted a "why?" so I replied with my stand-by answer "Because that's the way God made us."

Then he said "But what if we didn't know God's name?"

umm, wow.

I'm still jealous, 'cause *I* never had a kiddie pool

No, those flowers are not part of the layout.  Zoe sits kind of funny sometimes, like a frog, which isn't appropriate for internet viewing.  :)

P.S. by my count, I have 9 more Zoe pages to make, and then I will be caught up through Oct. 2006 of mom's pictures.  And that's having starting with Nov. 2005 . . . I guess mom is on her own with all the film pictures she took.  I only work with digital.  HA HA!  This project is never going to end.  :)

hee

I just called Lou on his cell to tell him something funny about work, and he answered the phone "Starbucks, this is barista Lou speaking."  ha ha!

oh, and how sweet is this: he was going to the store on Saturday and asked if I wanted something.  I said "No, but can you stop by Starbucks on the way home and get me a slice of pumpkin loaf?"  (I LOVE THAT STUFF!!!)  When he came home, he not only had the pumpkin loaf slide, he also remembered which kind of frap I like and got me one of those!  I was very happy.  :)