Category: my Kids

Tallie: I had a GOOOOD sleep.

Caleb: I had a good dream.

tallie: I like my sleeps better without dreams. I always don’t have dreams when i sleep

caleb: you sometimes have dreams.

tallie: well, sometimes i dream…ya.

If you look at the top image you will see Tallie’s handwriting practicing her letters on the words “Hug Caitlyn”. she wasn’t copying anything but just trying to spell out the words phonetically. Of course she miss-spelled a couple letters in Caitlyn’s name but the interesting thing here is that she actually wrote out the letters you see in the image below. the above image is a mirror image of what she wrote. It definitely has us thinking…this wasn’t something she consciously deliberated over and isn’t ordinarily dislexic and is only 5 years old. She regularly impresses us with her drawing ability and it’ll be interesting to watch how she grows creatively

I found a hair on my pear and i think it’s kind of rare
I got ants in my pants and it makes me want to dance
I got bling on my ring and it makes me wanna sing
Got a fly in my pie and I think i’m gonna die (it makes me wanna cry)

gotta jiggle gotta wiggle when i really start to giggle
I hug my bear without a care when I’m in my underware
Feel like lead in my bed, i can’t even raise my head
I am tired, I got fired, I drink coffee to get wired

verse omitted at Kendra’s request:

I see red in my bed and I think i might be dead

I met a funny man in Kalimantan
he tried to cross the desert and melted in the sand
I asked him “did it hurt a lot?”
he said, “I’m feelin’ fine, but i’d be thinkin’ better if I hadn’t lost my mind”

Oh, the cool wind blows
and where it’s goin’ no one knows
but it sure keeps us on our toes
that’s how it goes
that’s how it goes

I went to see a king who got eaten by a frog
I sang a song beside him on his favorite hollow log
He tried to sing along with me but something in his throat
Sang out even louder, it turned out to be a goat

(chorus)

A really big man who built big trucks
had sprockets in his pockets and twenty-seven bucks
He drove into the jungle for to catch himself a croc
But the only thing he caught there was a case of chicken pox

Tallie came up with the “chicken pox” to rhyme with croc. Caleb had an alternate “rock” and “croc” which i worked into a different version…

Flying through the jungle
He climbed up on a rock
Much to his amazement
He was sitting on a croc

2009

at the breakfast table i’m feeding Karina, Tallie comes out with,”I know why we need bones. If we didn’t have bones we’d be all floppy and squishy…that’s why we need bones.”

apr 25 – Tallie’s smothering baby Caitlyn with love and says,”she’s sooooo cute, I could just throw up.”

Aug 31 – she says to me in the kitchen, “I know why all little kids want to grow up.” I say, “Why’s that?”
“because then they can have their own pets.” I tell her that it’s fun to be grown up but it’s a lot more work too. Being a kid is a lot of fun without a lot of work (at least my kids). She says, “when i grow up i’m going to marry a farmer.” Odd it seems to me, i try not to laugh…”why’s that?” “Because then i won’t have to pay for a horse.” aaah, now we have the point of it all.

the other day Kendra asks Tallie to get a hair band from the bathroom so she can finish doing her hair. Tallie thinks this an opportune time to pose the question, “why do i have to do all the work around here?”

What a clear portrayal of the ignorance of many of our petty complaints in the face of God’s service towards us. It is his joy to bless us and give generously to us but much of that joy is destroyed when we fuss about the small part he may ask us to play. That small part is meant to draw us into His own “joy of giving”. To become more like Him is our ultimate joy…I hope i can remember that the next time the crabby cloud settles on me.

Yesterday we went to my parents church and the kids went to sunday school. they gave an invitation to the kids to receive Jesus and Caleb and Tallie both went up.  You’d think we’d be excited about it…turns out Kendra (my wife) was a bit upset that they would do something that huge without letting parents know what was going on. I can see her point, especially if that was the first time kids had made this decision. She had a discussion with them about this. It’s important to take care with these matters of the heart. Both our kids have already received Christ and we talk to him together quite regularly…so in our case i could accept there may be some value in them wanting to do it again in a more public context. but with them being so young i’d want to know how it was handled and what kind of effect “group pressure” may have had. Kendra felt a bit like something precious was taken out of her hands.

when Caleb came back from SS he told Kendra “I sacrificed Jesus.” At least we had a good laugh in the midst of it.