The girls love to sing! Their little heads are such sponges and they are quite good at remembering the words to songs. Today
this was the song I heard them singing together while they were playing. It's an old hymn that was written in 1939 by E.M. Bartlett. We sing it every once and a while at our church. The lyrics are great and I pasted them below.
This is their other current favorite called Blessed Be Your Name.
Victory in JesusI heard an old, old story,
How a Savior came from glory,
How He gave His life on Calvary
To save a wretch like me;
I heard about His groaning,
Of His precious blood's atoning,
Then I repented of my sins
And won the victory.
Chorus
O victory in Jesus,
My Savior, forever.
He sought me and bought me
With His redeeming blood;
He loved me ere I knew Him
And all my love is due Him,
He plunged me to victory,
Beneath the cleansing flood.
I heard about His healing,
Of His cleansing pow'r revealing.
How He made the lame to walk again
And caused the blind to see;
And then I cried, "Dear Jesus,
Come and heal my broken spirit,"
And somehow Jesus came and bro't
To me the victory.
Chorus
I heard about a mansion
He has built for me in glory.
And I heard about the streets of gold
Beyond the crystal sea;
About the angels singing,
And the old redemption story,
And some sweet day I'll sing up there
The song of victory.
Chorus
The sweetest little guy ever
I am still getting used to his shaven head, but it is growing on me.
Quite the handsome young man
The girls love taking turns pushing each other on the swing.
Miss M looks kind of like Elton John in this picture... there is a picture taken when she was just a few months old where she also looks like Elton John. I will need to find that and post it
Sweet Miss O
Sisters
All 3 of them making special "Batman soup", complete with water, bark dust and leaves. Yum
Dad taught Miss M to do this trick. She is pretending to stick her finger in her ear and touch her cheek.
Miss O loved hanging out with my dad. Yesterday she told me she wanted to marry him.
Monopoly time (we decided this was this was our game for the holidays). I think the game ending with Dad and Mr. J tying for the win.
Gma C ordering at McDonalds
Tom
Mr. J
Notice the desert off in the distance
A happy Mr. T. The first half of the trip, he was not so excited about the cold... or being dressed in his sisters old magenta/purple or snowsuit. Note to self: by future snowsuits in neutral colors.
This is the frizz he had earlier in the day....
Our sweet boy, who for the first time today verbalized "all done." He has been signing it for a couple months but today he said it. He's also getting really good at saying "momma" when he wants me.
The messy, messy playroom and the girls hard at work... especially Miss O
She is actually quite the thorough cleaner. She sticks around until all the toys are put away. Only occasionally do I have to use the v-word on them. What is that, you wonder? "Vacuum!" Whenever I tell them I need them to clean because I am going to vacuum they clean so fast and so well.. because they are worried their toys are going to get vacuumed up. It works great. I wonder how long until they figure out that I never actually vacuum up any toys...
Sitting on the dora couch enjoying their cold, soggy noodles. yum.
"Mom, I wish we could have these cold noodles every day"
