Dash and Baby Jack-Jack

Well Eli decided this morning what he wanted to be for Halloween. I saw a costume in an advertisement of the little boy in the Incredibles and I showed it to him. A grin appeared and a loud "Yeah, I want to be an Incredible!" Last night he ran around the house pretending to run super fast like Dash, I don't know why it didn't occur to me sooner. He is excited. He wants me and daddy to be Elastigirl and Mr. Incredible but.....ummmm I told him probably not. Ha ha. But I thought how cute would it be if Kai was Jack-Jack the baby incredible! So cute, I think.

A simple act of kindness

I thought this was cute. Today while Eli was on his way into church a man that we don't know well was walking vertical to Eli and when he got close to him he patted him on the head gently. I looked at Eli to see if he noticed but he didn't seem to, he just kept walking with out evening glancing up. Then like a second later he said to himself but loud enough so that I could here him..."What a sweet man". I asked him why he thought that and he said, "he just patted me on the head". Awwwww, I thought that was so sweet. When the man patted him on the head I didn't think Eli had thought it to be of any significance. But he did, inside he felt that man touch his head and it immediatly warmed Eli's heart. I wonder how often that happens in my life. That I touch someone and to me it looked like it didn't faze them at all but in actuallity touched them deeply or just enough to make them smile inside. Maybe just a "God bless you" to a gloomy cashier or a "You look beautiful" to a lady at church. They may not act as if what i said affected them much but you never know what they are feeling inside.

Kai is now saying a few words. Of course only me and Rick can understand them but they count all the same. He says thank you, I love you, Bubba, Mamma, Dadda, what is that, and his all time favorite.........ELI. He loves his Eli. He shouts for him if he is not around. He is a precious little monster!

Cute and Silly

Cuteness and just plain Silliness!!

Lego Math and Little blue Bible

This is Eli's Math lessons. It is an interesting way of teaching him how to count, add, subtract, learn his colors, enhance his motor skills and I think help his imagination and patience. Eli knows all his colors but for some reason he gets green and pink confused. He very often will call green pink and pink green. We are not sure why. Maybe that is how he sees them? He has done this for at least a year now. Anyway, he loves to do his math lessons everyday. And when he does his lesson and if he does them well he is allowed to build with the legos. Here is one of his creations.

It was a building with stairs on the side. He was very proud. He is doing so well............he is amazing me with his readiness to learn and his quickness. He is learning to read and can read these words:

See.......mat.......rat.......sat.....me......and he could read any words with r,a,t,s,m, and e in them. He knows all of those sounds and he knows how to sound out a word. Oh, I wanted to post a picture of him and his blue bible to show you how much he loves it. This is at a birthday party or get together in our apartment for his "girlfriend" Breanna. The whole time he carried his bible around and pretended to read it.

These pictures are just some of the fun that Eli and Kai have experienced here in Dallas. The MacDonald's here is or are just huge and frantically exciting for a 5 and 1 year old. Ikea was not so fun until the end when they had a play area for them to romp on. And Joes Crab Shack was a fun and relaxing time for all of us. Rick and I can sit and talk and they can play it up on the play ground. It is so nice here but still even with all these new and exciting things right in our reach like we have always wished for there is something that just doesn't feel quite right. As I tucked Eli into bed tonight I thought about how well he has taken this whole move. It has not seemed to bother him or Kai in the least. From the very beginning they both went to sleep in their room as if they were home in Natchitoches. It has been a true blessing............that I am thankful for. We thought Eli would have a little harder time. Now it is us that is having the hard time or maybe just me. I miss a lot of things about our 1st home. I often miss our fridge with all of my pictures on it and my window seal right above my sink and I knew I would just because I felt like those two things I saw a lot of and they were just for some reason special to me. So, anyway I just wanted to share some pictures of the boys.........all 3 of them. Be blessed.

Class is now in Session

Well, Eli started school last monday officially. I have to say he is enjoying it very much. As of right now we are having class at the table in the dinning area. In about 98 lessons he should beable to read and write, which he is very excited about. He wants to beable to read his little blue bible, he carries it around with him everywhere. Yesterday when we were in "class" we were learning about the sun and he asked me why it didn't fall from the sky like everything else? Good question, huh? How does it stay there? I told him that God does not allow it to fall because he is holding it up (forgetting how literal he takes everything). He looks at me puzzled....."doesn't it burn his hand?" Ha ha, I laughed and explained that God doesn't hold it with his hand he just doesn't let it fall because he is powerful. "God is magical!" he said. Well, yes I guess he is magical. I love when he tells me what is on his mind like that. He makes God so real to me and so "magical and simply radiant". There is nothing like seeing God and His creation through a childs eyes.