March...

Well, working on updating. Maybe by September you'll see pics of summer...OK, OK, I'll try to get a move on here...

You know me, I like videos of my kids singing and such. So, here's one of Annisia singing "All My Life Long".



"All my life long, I had panted
For a drink from some cool spring
That I thought would quench the burning
Of the thirst I felt within.

CHORUS:
Jesus, Saviour, I have found him
Whom mine eyes with joy have seen.
Jesus satisfies my longing.
By his blood, I am redeemed.

Well of water, ever springing,
Bread of life so rich and free.
Untold wealth that never faileth,
My redeemer is to me."

repeat CHORUS

She is still learning some letter sounds like "th". (It probably doesn't help she sucks her thumb!) So she is trying to say the words "thought" and "thirst", but they are eluding her!!

Jonathan posing with his pistol and gun belt.

A new job for the kids (really for Jonathan). Taking out the compost!
Annisia got to carry the bucket...

...but Jonathan has figured out how to dump it without getting all yucky!

OK, so I like checking in on the kids before I retire for the night. Occasionally, I find something I HAVE to take a photo of. This was one such night.

I have NO idea why Annisia is holding the baby brush...no idea. Almost as strange is the way she was holding it when she fell asleep.

Angelic, isn't she?! You oughta see her during the day when she needs a nap or doesn't need something she thinks she needs, or when Jonathan takes something from her, or...

This a different day. Daddy went in to lay down for a nap and told Jonathan to lay with him, nap or not. Just rest. Well, Jonathan said he wasn't tired, didn't need a nap, wouldn't fall asleep, if Daddy made him nap, he's never play again, any other day...you get the picture!

Isn't the photo priceless?! I thought it was so funny how he fell asleep..."nope! Not gonna sleep. Just going to hang out with Daddy. Yep. Just hanging out..." zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Some more singing!

Annisia doesn't need a hymn book to sing hymns! She just grabs any old magazine! She has a huge capacity of memory...it's amazing to me how many songs she knows.



Jonathan loves to sing! He was singing the chorus of "God's Word is So Pure" over and over..."Tis better than thousands of silver and gold, Oh most precious than rubies can be (really written as 'More precious than rubies can be'), To sit at the feet of my Master divine, And hear when He speaketh to me." Into his microphone, all the while looking at the index of his dinosaur book! heehee!

Annisia sings "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"

Really, my kids do other things than sing...but they are so stinkin' cute when they sing these songs. I can't help it...I have to video them! Do you think I need therapy?!

Annisia sang this song for my parents when they were visiting a month ago. I think they told my sis about it, so last night when she and I were talking, I put Annisia on the speaker phone and told her to say something to Aunty Janice. So she did, and then Janice asked her to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game". My kids are born performers..



This was a little later, actually. She sang it again for Daddy so I could get a video.

Tell Me the Story of Jesus

Both of the kids like to sing, and they both sing well! It pleases me to no end to listen to them. Here, Jonathan entertained me with a medley of songs sung into his new microphone from Mollie's birthday party.

If you remember, last November we went home to my parents and Jonathan got to ride in a combine with a young man named Dean. The first song is about combining with Dean. "He combines corn. He combines soybeans and wheat. And Grandma O grinds up the wheat in her grinding machine." Then he segues into "We have party whistles for doing this..." And, finally, a pretty rocking version of "Tell Me the Story of Jesus"! {Ahem}, this is not how we sing it in meeting!

Odds and Ends...

Jonathan and Annisia like to sing. Here's another song...This one's Sing a Song of Sixpence.



One Saturday, Uncle Bret showed up on his motorcycle. You ought to have seen how quickly Jonathan moved to get a jacket and his helmet on! He was ready to ride!



My Mom and Dad came to visit in April. We did a lot of relaxing and the kids got positively spoiled by Grandma and Grandpa O reading to them! Annisia got to take a nap with Grandma O every afternoon! And they brought their wheat grinding machine and some wheat from their farm with them. So we ground wheat one afternoon. The kids thought that was cool! I did too...now I have some wheat flour from my parents farm!

Then we get yet another cheesy grin from Jonathan!

Annisia sings "Humpty Dumpty"

Annisia melted our hearts again with another song. I caught her singing "Humpty Dumpty" the other morning. She loves to sing, and her little lisps and d's for g's and w's for l's are cute...for now!

Happy Birthday, Janice!

It's my sister Janice's birthday today. The video says it all...

Coffee, and sleep, and books, oh my!

Every day, I see yet another occupation in Jonathan's future. Monday, it was a Barista, although I am not sure if this "espresso machine" is up to Starbucks' standards. Can you tell we like coffee in this house?!










Annisia is just happy doing most anything. She likes the music (and the string) from the Poppity-Pop Elephant.

We're getting frustrated here...Annisia slept through the night at 10 weeks. Then at about 16 weeks, she stopped. Now, she can be sleeping soundly when I lay her down, and anywhere from 15 min to 1.5 hours later, she'll wake up screaming. And it's almost impossible to just soothe her without picking her up. So, we've been doing the easy thing and she makes it into our bed where she sleeps on Daddy's chest. I distinctly do not like co-sleeping, so that is annoying, but in the middle of the night, I am for anything that lets me go back to sleep. Any ideas?




Jonathan loves to read. A current favorite is Richard Scarry's (or Scary Richard according to Jonathan)"Cars and Trucks and Things That Go". On Tuesday, he was wandering around the house saying, "Who is that making a mess of the line? (the road workers were painting the dividing lines) "Is that Goldbug? No it isn't Goldbug. He wouldn't do a thing like that. It must be Maniacbug."(pg 37) This is almost a direct quote from the book! Can you tell we read it a lot? Then I got this picture of him reading about SOME ACCIDENT and that it would take Mistress Mouse a MILLION YEARS to fix everything.(pg 64)

Today, he wanted me to sing some songs from a patriotic soft book my parents gave him. It has teddy bears in it, dressed in red, white, and blue. I sang through it and when I sang "America, America", he pointed to each teddy bear and said, "That one's America, and that one's God, and that one's Brotherhood."