Eliza's Adventurous March

Eliza has had a pretty adventurous month....AND we still have a few days left...cross your fingers!

The picture to your left is a picture of Eliza's eye. I drew an arrow to where she was stabbed with a mechanical pencil. Jane was trying to get the top off her Hello Kitty pencil and as she pulled she stabbed the pencil right below Eliza's eye. Fortunately there was no real damage. Although now Eliza has a nice tatoo from the graphite the pencil left behind.

The picture to the right is Eliza's lovely broken arm. While playing on the monkey bars at school this month Eliza's jacket got caught under her hand and she slipped off the bar. On the bright side, initially the doctor's thought she had broken both her wrist and her elbow. But after the swelling went down they determined that she DID have a broken wrist, but that her elbow probably only had a small fracture that DID NOT need to be cast.

What we've learned.....ACCIDENTS HAPPEN....BUT....they could be worse! Thankfully in each of these instances the Lord protected our sweet Eliza from real harm.

AHHHHHHHH Can we say 2????

Our beautiful baby Lucy turned 2 last week. I still can't believe it's been two years since she joined our family. She adds warmth, love and a sense of humor to our home.

As for warmth, Lucy loves to sit with mom and dad. She stays up extra late each night snuggled up with one of us.

And love, well she is a good combination of Jane's tenderness and Liza's spunk. She has no problem giving you a good whack and then putting her arms around you and saying "I sowwy, I wuv you!"

As an example of her humor, this afternoon I changed her diaper...which we are trying to get her out of --soon...at least by our July family vacation to San Diego! After changing what we lovingly refer to as a "stinky" diaper, I asked her to go throw it in the garbage. Liza happened to walk in the room right then and Lucy went chasing after Liza with diaper in hand yelling at the top of her lungs "LUCY BABY POO....THROW ON LIZA!"

That's our LUCY...and we're keepin' her!

BTW: What do you think of her feather boa? She think's she's quite spectacular.

Lucy's Chocolate Adventure

Dad spoils his girls! Each girl got roses and a balloon for Valentines. Then after being out of town a few days this week, he spoiled them once again with a box of chocolates. Well, mom found Lucy in the kitchen today and this is what she was up to. Can anyone say sugar high?! She obviously was one satisfied customer!

HIKING WITH THE COUSINS

This is where Matt takes Eliza and Jane on fairy hunts. When the cousin's came for a visit over the Christmas break, the girls wanted to take them to see where the fairies live. If you look close, you may see a fairy or two also. Thank goodness for photo editor! Matt really likes to spoil the girls...

P.S. Poor Matt and Porter. They're always the only boys...even the dogs a girl. Anybody have some boy's they want to loan out??? That would save me nine months of pregnancy:)

A BOY NAMED REESE....

So first of all, I need to give you a little background on our little Eliza. Eliza is a very loyal person. She loves people, so when you make a friend of her, she will be loyal to you to a fault.

Last year in Kindergarten she met a boy named Reese. Since August of 2007 the object of Eliza's affection has been Reese. It does not matter that Reese no longer attends her school or that she hasn't seen him in over 8 months. If you ask Eliza who her prince charming is, or who she is going to marry it is without fail, Reese. Her part in the primary program this year (they got to write their own parts...) stated "I want to get married in the temple to my prince charming Reese and have a happy family forever. When you ask her how she is going to get married to Reese when she doesn't know where he lives any more...she simply says "Don't worry mom, Reese will find me!)

A side note: Jane... during the same time period has already had a crush on Matthew (not dad, although he [dad] wishes he were the only object of ALL his girls affection), Jake, Drey, Mason and now Zach. (She's a little fickle!)

Now that you understand the background, I can tell you about the conversation Eliza and I had today. It starts with Eliza coming up to me and saying, "Hey mom, Ms. Dafoe sometimes gives us a choice about what we want to write in our journal about at school. Next time it is my choice I am going to write about ......................... me and Reese -- and we live in a castle. We have a swimming pool and a hot tub. We have a pond that has a purple sea horse drinking water out of it. Reese and I will have four kids. We will have two girls and two boys. Reese will take care of one girl and one boy. I will take care of one girl and one boy." I then ask "Eliza, who will take care of the kids when daddy Reese goes to work?" She says, "Well Reese can't work on Saturday's because Saturday is the day kids play with their dads. And, Reese can't work on Sunday's because we go to church as a family that day." Then she looks at her fingers and starts singing the days of the week song while counting on her fingers..."Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday....Thursday....that's a good day. Reese can go to work on Thursdays."

Oh to see the world through the eyes of a six-year-old. My 34-year-old eyes see...castle, swimming pool, hot tub and a pond with a purple sea horse....how are they going to afford all of this when Reese only works one day a week :) Oh to be six again!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MOM AND DAD

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