JUNE:
When we were singing the song “He’s Got the Whole
World in His Hands” and Strider kept asking me questions about it… At first
they were easy, like “Don’t the lions and the tigers bite Him when they’re in
His hands?” But they got harder… like
“How do His hands not get sticky when He holds all the soap in His hands?” Hmmm….
Rayna now has 4 songs that she “requests.” The code is:
If she says “joy joy”, then she wants “I’ve Got the Joy, Joy, …” If she waves her finger around, it’s “This
Little Light of Mine.” If she puts her 2
index fingers together, it’s for “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and if she waves both her
hands around, either with fingers splayed out,or in fists, then it’s “The Wise
Man Built His House Upon the Rock.” It
takes a discerning observer to know which one’s which!
The other day I was trying to write something down and
Strider kept peppering me with questions, to the point that I finally said in
exasperation: “Strider, you’re going to have to stop talking because I’m
writing and I can’t do two things at once.”
To which he smugly replied, “Rachael Ray can!” (When we had watched “30 Minute Meals” a few
weeks ago, we noted how she was good at doing so many things at once… I think she’s his hero!)
Rayna is getting pretty sly these days. When Strider was playing with his “little
people” the other day, she sat and watched him quietly for a few minutes, then
slowly crept up and snatched one of them.
She frantically crawled away laughing, and then ended up dropping the
person, but still ran away giggling!
Strider announced the other day to Pete that he wanted to go
to “McDoniels.” Pete asked him what he
wanted to eat there and Strider said “a banana.” Pete told him they didn’t have bananas, so
Strider said, “Ok, then grilled cheese.”
Pete told him they didn’t have that either, so Strider finally asked,
“Well what DO they have??” Pete said a
cheeseburger, and Strider said, “Oooh, that would be yummy!”  |
| Dressing up as mice |
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| Letter "M" day! |
AUGUST:
Rayna is still the dancing queen here… She is always going over to turn on whatever
music she can reach, and then just bops around incessantly. Even if she hears music in the car, the top
half of her is wildly dancing away! She
also likes certain cell phone rings – they get her up and dancing
immediately. I think she could dance all
day!
Strider is still mind-boggled by the concept that God has
the whole world in His hands… Now he
wants to know how God makes food to eat, when his hands are busy.
The other day I saw Rayna come out of Strider’s room looking
very suspicious holding an empty cup that I knew had formerly contained
water. “Uh oh,” I said, “we’d better
clean up that water!” But then Strider
quickly said, “No Mom, I already cleaned it up earlier when she spilled
it.” I couldn’t quite believe this was
true, so I asked him to show me how he did that. He led me to the linen closet where he showed
me how he had stood up tall to reach a towel… Turning around to see my face
that was showing surprise, he grinned and said, “I’m just getting a little bit
big!”
Speaking of Rayna acting suspiciously…. she likes to act all
sneaky (like pretending she’s not about to dart out of the room by walking
slowly sideways until she’s out of the line of sight and then turning and
running out) but she also likes us to know when she “gets away with
something.” Even if we try to ignore the
37th time she does the same thing she’s already been punished for 36
times, she’ll keep coming closer and closer to us until eventually she’s waving
the evidence of her misdemeanor in our faces, as if to say, “Helloooo… Aren’t
you going to do something about this??”
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| At her 2nd birthday party |
But she’s also getting quite sweet… Now whenever I pick her up she gets a big
smile, looks me right in the eyes, says “HI!” and then kisses me on the
cheek! I love it…
