Kate Liv

Little sister arrived at 12:36 p.m. weighing 7 pounds and 7 ounces and measuring 19 1/2 inches.  Kate is Greek origin for pure, and Liv is a Swedish name meaning peace.  We love her.

It's thundering outside

Lucy: Daddy, where does the thunder come from? Is there a guy up there shooting it in the sky?

Daddy: Great question. Lets talk about it.

Lucy: So it's going left and right. It's going each way.

Daddy: Yes. And when God lets it rain...

Lucy: The water drips from the clouds. The sun is right here (points). We're right there. But there's a big earth like this. So you don't have a way to get out. But we can drive. Watch this (touches the wall with her head).

Conversation over.

Bunny Hugs

We call them hoodies, but in Canada they're called bunny hugs.

Map to the Pet Store

Lucy loves maps. We have one in the car that she holds and follows along with while we drive. Today she drew a picture of a map from our house to the pet store and then it explained it to me so that we could go get bunny food (so that we could have bunnies again), a hamster or a dog.

Progression of names (for Baby Sister)

First it was "Ariel," then "Clarence Flower." Today Lucy thought "Annalinda" would be a good name for Baby Sister before settling on "Larries." "Larry?" SueSue asked. "Noooooo, Larries."

Isaiah

Our nephew sweet Isaiah Benjamin was born to Alathea & Justin and big brother Henry on May 9th and went home to our Lord that night.  We love him; he is missed.  These are some of the verses my brother Paul read at his service:

Psalm 86:1-11
  ¹ Bend down, O LORD, and hear my prayer;
      answer me, for I need your help.
     ⁷ I will call to you whenever I’m in trouble,
      and you will answer me.
   ¹² With all my heart I will praise you, O Lord my God.
      I will give glory to your name forever,
   ¹³ for your love for me is very great.
      You have rescued me from the depths of death.

Isaiah 43:1-3
    ¹ But now, O Jacob, listen to the LORD who created you.
      O Israel, the one who formed you says,
   “Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you.
      I have called you by name; you are mine.
   ² When you go through deep waters,
      I will be with you.
   When you go through rivers of difficulty,
      you will not drown.
   When you walk through the fire of oppression,
      you will not be burned up;
      the flames will not consume you.
   ³ For I am the LORD, your God,
      the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. 


Revelation 21:1-4
¹ Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone. ² And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
   ³ I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them.^{[a] 4} He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.” 

Isaiah 65:19-21
   ¹⁹ I will rejoice over Jerusalem
      and delight in my people.
   And the sound of weeping and crying
      will be heard in it no more.     
²⁰ “No longer will babies die when only a few days old.
      No longer will adults die before they have lived a full life.
   No longer will people be considered old at one hundred!
      Only the cursed will die that young!

Revelation 21:5
 ⁵ And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.”

Abby's 1st Self-Portrait

(She took the picture with my iPhone camera while being pushed in the Target grocery cart)

Surfing

Pull your weight

On our way to visit Charissa & Derrick

Rangers

Ice Skating Lesson 2.3 Tap the Toes

Saturday Morning Waffles

The Laundromat

"You waked up me"

Easter Sunrise Service at White Rock Lake... "Christ died and rose again for this very purpose - to be Lord both of the living and of the dead." - Romans 14:9

Dallas Morning News was also there taking pictures.

Easter Eve

"The Tomado"

We took shelter from the tornado. Lucy wore her bike helmet and watched a movie in the bathtub.

Great Wolf Lodge

Pushups

Driving to Houston

Favorite Cereal is Life

Night & Day

New Wakeboard

Ice Skating Report Card

It's Time

Rink Dad

#3 of 6 Ice skating lessons.

Outside

Lucy likes to collect roly polies and put them in her blue sparkly purse. Abby LOVES jumping on the trampoline. Lucy stopped (on the climb into the trampoline) and proclaimed, "Mom! Our garden is soooo beautiful!". [Those are weeds, honey]

Funnies and Facts 2.2012

• Abby likes to help set the table
• Lucy: It [the owie] melted.

Bedtime

Abby thinks she's too big for her crib. Tonight was the best from all the ones we've tried this week. Lucy asked me to leave when we put Abby with her, and they were both asleep in less than a minute.

Vaccines

Lucy got 4 "shocks;" Abby got 1. Lucy stats: height 39" (45th percentile), weight 34.8 lbs (50th percentile), blood pressure 98/52. Abby stats: height 29.5" (5th percentile), weight 18 lbs 4 oz (-3 percentile), head circumference 46.3" (50th percentile).

Funnies and Facts

• Abby will drop flat to her tummy to look for a paci under the crib. She looks like GI Jane on mission stomach crawling.
• Abby loves brushing her teeth
• Lucy LOVES playing tickle bug
• Lucy: I have 3 owies on me, but they'll melt.
• Lucy (while doing her most favorite thing, watching Dora): Why is she wearing that? I don't like her outfit. I don't want to watch Dora.  [It was the fireman episode and Dora was wearing the fireman uniform] 

* Lucy: Where do balloons go? (We had helium balloons for her birthday party, and she loves letting them go and watching them float.)
Me: I don't know. What do you think?
Lucy: I think they go to Bethlehem to Mary & Joseph.

Due June 17 (Father's Day)

I Love God

Lucy: Mommy... (She was playing by herself in her room.)
Me: (Going to her room.) Yes?
Lucy: I love God.

Sloan Christmas

This year was our family's turn to read the Christmas story (Luke 2). Bryan prepped Lucy to say the "Glory to God in the highest" line. When it came time, he pointed to her and Lucy happily said, "Glory to Noah!" We all laughed. She tried again. "Glory in the highest of the Lord!"

Christmas Shopping

(Bryan and Lucy had been shopping that morning. We were eating dinner.)
Lucy: Mommy, I have a secret. Daddy got you boots.

Fall 2011 Quotes & Conversations

FALL 2011 Quotes & Conversations [that I want to remember]

* Me: (answering questions about Samuel)... We'll see him in heaven again.
Lucy: I think it'll be too far.

* Lucy (while wearing her camo dress) saw a cat outside and told us, "We gotta shoot that!"

* Lucy: I left a monster at Robby's house.

* Lucy: I just want to play and stay at home and be a kid. I don't want to go to school, and I don't want to jump on the trampoline, and I don't want to go to kindergarten. And I don't want to grow up and be a big girl. And I don't want to go to the store anymore.

* Lucy: I can't jump really high because I don't have a tail.

* Lucy: (pointing to a fuzzy caterpillar) He's wearing a jacket.

* Lucy: This mountain is kinda really cool. Those are mountains so I think I can climb them up all by myself.

* Lucy: Dogs make girls happy. I have lots of names for my dog. (We don't have a dog.)
Me: What do you want to name your dog?
Lucy: Max

* Lucy (after seeing a dog run past our breakfast nook window): Is that my dog?!

* Lucy (playing with her cousins): I'll be the daddy. You be the sweetheart.

* Lucy: (pointing to the bath tub drain) Where does the water go?
Bryan: (gave a long answer)
Lucy: So that's how that works.

* We were driving in the car listening to classical music to calm the girls. A piano concerto came on (I only know that because I thought it was so pretty even I looked at the XM Satellite dial to see what it was.) When it ended Lucy clapped enthusiastically.

* Lucy: Everybody loves Lucy.

* Daddy: Where's Mommy?
Lucy: She's at the Errands Store

* Lucy: It's taking a long time to grow up.

* Lucy: Mawma!!! (Channel Will Ferrell's "Mama! Meatloooaf!)

* Abby: Maw-maaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

* Lucy: Why do I have to share everyday?

The Sweetest Thing

Lucy and Jane were playing "Mommy."
Jane: "I'll be the mommy"
Lucy: "I'll be the Daddy, and you be the sweetheart."

Names Lucy has for Abby {and herself}

- Abby
- Abby Sue
- Sugar Booger
- Sweetheart
- Abi-GAIL
- {and for herself} Lucy-GAIL

The New Tree Swing

{We pull up to Home Depot}

Lucy:  "Mommy! I came here with Daddy for my ladder for my swing!"
(We just got a wood swing that we hung on the tree in the front yard.)

"I bringed my Bear and all my animals."

{We walk in}

Lucy:  "Mommy! I'll show you where the nails are!"
And she did.