We’re nearly a week past Texas Independence Day, and I forgot to tell you that I family adequately celebrated with all manner of hoedowns, rodeos, and stomping around in hand-me-down boots. Great fun was had by all these Texans.
(Side note: M originally second-guessed Sam going to school in a Texas-flag shirt. I find this ironic since the only shirt Sam ever wears is a Nebraska football jersey. Or a spirit shirt for his elementary school. One day he will grow up and discover clothing beyond his current wardrobe of Pride Wear. At which point he may be bitter his youth was spent a walking billboard for organizations. Or, he’ll think it’s awesome. Personally, I think his shirt is perfect.)
Other March highlights I may have forgotten to mention…
…the kids sang at a super-fun, huge church choir concert on Sunday. If you’re related to these kids, or you’re finding it difficult to sleep, you might want to watch these videos of our singing crew.
Sam and Elisabeth’s choir: http://youtu.be/xGximYMeKxI (E is front and center; S is on the left)Sam and Elisabeth’s choir with Catie’s choir: http://youtu.be/MpRx2125yMECatie’s choir: http://youtu.be/6tfPj7Clncs (she’s in a red dress on the far left side)Catie’s choir: http://youtu.be/dVtVAO_usv4Sam and Elisabeth’s choir with Catie’s choir: http://youtu.be/YXiDNEksRnI
…every day in March has been 70 degrees and sunny. I hope summer doesn’t pay us back for all these absolutely perfect spring days.
…Wow. So, Nate’s a talker. For the last few days, he’s started one long stream-of-conciousness thought at breakfast that he keeps going until dinner. He’s in that “just talking to talk” stage, so his chatter is 3% accurate (“Mommy! Did you know Sam is a fireman?”), 85% nonsensical (“The dogs want to go outside to take their baths.”) and 99% adorable “I luuuuuub you so wuch, Mommy!”).
…yesterday we were playing outside when Sam caught a lizard. Most every day (for the past eight years or so) one of our kids has caught a lizard or gecko or toad or some other reptile-type animal. They love to set up a caged home–and then promptly forget about it for a few days.
Anyway, Sam carrying around a lizard was really nothing new. Until he said, “This lizard is having a baby!” Sure enough, there was a small reptile-looking animal emerging from the lizard’s midsection.
Which looked suspicious, even to me.
I told him to go and ask Daddy to check it out. M came out to announce lizards do not have babies, they lay eggs. Upon closer inspection, M also announced Sam had actually been carrying around a dead lizard, and those were just maggots crawling out of it.
Which made me promptly throw up in my mouth.
Sorry I had to share it with you.
If you’d like to cleanse your mind of that image, just go ahead and check out those choirs again.
I shall overlook the lizard gag-inducing story and instead tell you how darn happy it makes me to know there’s another little Texan walking around wearing a Huskers jersey on the regular. Jack recently moved from a traditional daycare to a Spanish-immersion school. He has to wear a uniform and hates that he doesn’t get to wear whatever he wants. On Wednesdays, my mom takes him to BSF in the mornings so on those days, I ditch the rules and let him pick his clothes since he’s only at school for a couple hours. I realized this past week that every single Wednesday, he wears cowboy boots, jeans, and that Huskers jersey. These Bible Study teachers must think that we only have one outfit for our poor child. But hey, at least it’s an outfit that shows off his roots, right?
Since its basketball season, I made him wear his Creighton shirt this week and tried to teach him to say “Go Jays!” but…yeah…no such luck.
PS Your card & devotional made my week. Thank you! You are awesome.
Oh my gosh. GROSS GROSS GROSSSSSSS!!
Almost rethinking my lazy pastime of catching up on old blogs. I mean , maggots, really?!?!?! Where are the stairs so I can barf!!!!!!