Lauren Jolie is 14 months

This one is a little blurry, but her dramatic face is just priceless!!

And this face....AH! Just love her!!

Fun at the Reston Zoo

It is that time of year again...YAY! We love the Reston Zoo!! It is a great petting and feeding zoo. We went last Saturday morning. It was a bit cool in the shade, but we had a great time!

Two Cool Things....

More of what Isaac is saying these days.....

....After dinner this evening Isaac asked me, "Mommy, when Grammy is visiting at our house does Papap eat at a restaurant?" And I said, "Yes, sometimes he does and sometimes he cooks." Then Isaac said, "Does he cook good food or yucky food?" Then he said, "Daddy tried to cook food once and it was yucky." One evening when I was gone (not sure why, but I think I was sick and at the doctor), Scott had to cook dinner and he attempted to make chicken fried rice, the boys favorite cuisine at the time. Well, it didn't go so well and they did not eat it. Isaac always remembers that when he thinks of Scott's cooking. In his defense, he can cook :)

Also, this evening, he was watching a movie and at the end of the movie a girl and boy were saying goodbye to each other, and he said, "They are going to miss each other alot." Then he said, "They are cousins." WHY is this cool?? Two reasons: 1)The fact that he thought they were cousins and that they would miss each other so much says how much he loves and misses his cousins :) 2)The fact that he thought they were cousins is cool because the girl in the movie was white and the boy was black.

So many questions

Isaac has been asking so many questions lately. It makes me wonder, what is he thinking about that makes him ask these questions.

Today, around lunch time, he asked me who was Mammy's Mom (my great Grandmother on my Mom's side). I told him that her name was Grandma Nell. He wanted to know what she looked like and where she lived. I told him what she looked like and that she was in Heaven. Then he wanted to know who Grandma Judy's Mom was and what she looked like(my great Grandmother on my Dad's side). So I told him her name was Grandma Lawson and what she looked like and that she was also in Heaven. Then he asked about Oma's Mom (Scott's great Grandmother on his Mom's side). I told him I didn't know her name or what she looked like, but we could ask Daddy.

Several hours later, close to bedtime, he says out of the blue, "Mommy, we are all going to die one day." And I said to him, "Yes, we will....but we will be in Heaven with God and Jesus and everyone we know that is in Heaven, so it will be ok." And he said, "Yeah, like all our family." And I said, "Yes that's right." Then he said, "Ok."

Missing Tortoise

We have a pet tortoise, Boo-Boo, whom we have had for a couple of years. Since the weather has been nice, we have been letting him outside during the day, to soak up some sun and walk in the grass. He has also been enjoying some dandelions. We have a big gate that can attach and make a big square, so he is enclosed. Well, this afternoon, I looked out the window to check on him and he was gone!! I couldn't believe it!

I ran down to see if I could spot him and but I couldn't. He had dug in the grass and dirt, till he was able to craw under part of the gate. Isaac was watching all of this from the door. His allergies are really bothering him, so I've been keeping him inside all day, otherwise he would have been right by my side!

When I ran down to check on him, it was 4:40 pm and I had dinner on the stove, so I couldn't stay out looking for him long. So, I came back in and sent Scott a text to let him know what was going on. After dinner, I quickly cleaned up, took the kids downstairs with me and looked outside for about 10 minutes. Still no Boo-Boo. I decided to wait for Scott to get home and look a little better.

I kind of had a feeling he was under our deck, but I was not going to go all the way under there looking for him.....way to many bugs and who knows what else!!!

As soon as Scott got home he went out looking for him. He was only out about 15 minutes before I heard the door close downstairs. I was thinking, wow, either he found him, or he is coming in to come up with another plan.

As he came up the stairs he had a big smile on his face and said, "He's back in his cage!" YAY! Daddy is the hero!!

He was under the deck, underneath the lawn mower. Scott said he was sleeping!! LOL He was probably so tired!

When we were waiting for Scott to get home, Isaac said to me, "Mommy, if Daddy doesn't find Boo-Boo, I'm going to crawl out my window tonight to go look for him." Then he said, "And if I don't find him, I will have a dream about him tonight." WOW....the things he says just blows my mind!!!

Then after Scott found him, I said, "I knew he was under that deck!" Then I asked Scott, "What made you look under the lawn mower?" And Isaac said, "I bet God told him to look under there." So, he goes into the other room and says, "Daddy, did God tell you to look under the lawn mower?" And Scott answers, "Yeah, I guess He did." Isaac comes back into the kitchen and says, "Mommy, God did tell Daddy to look under the lawn mower." "He helped us find Boo-Boo." "He is a part of our family, I'm so glad he's back." LOL!!

Easter 2010

Decorating eggs w/ Grammy

"You're the best Mommy in the world."

The other day after lunch, Isaac says to me, "Mommy, thank you for my lunch." "You make the best lunch and dinner." "You are the best Mommy in the world." So, I said to him, "Thank you Isaac, that is such a nice thing to say to your Mommy." Then he says to me, "It's a good thing you know how to cook, because if you didn't you wouldn't be the best Mommy in the world, and we wouldn't have anything to eat." Then he says, "But Grammy would bring us some food, she knows how to cook." "And Grammy loves to bring people food when they don't have any."

Mom helps with an organization called Meals on Wheels by delivering food once a week to people who can't get out.

It really blows my mind the things he says!!