Skating with your Mer-Mer

Bibby,
Your sweet "Mer-Mer" took you ice skating for the very first time. You had been talking about it since Thanksgiving and I don't think I have ever seen you so excited to do something. You adore Mer and think she is the coolest thing going.....especially now. You were so brave. I was really surprised. You stepped right out on the ice and for the first while she held you from behind (I know her back is killing her). You then decided to try one of the "helpers" that you push and loved it. You were zipping around with poor Mer grabbing you every time you started to fall. You laughed and laughed. Then, being very brave, you pushed that thing aside and took off on your own. When Mer would try and hold you, you would push her hands away.....really she kept you from face planting several times but you had an absolute ball. Thank goodness we got there an hour before the session ended or I don't think you would have ever gotten off the rink and Mer might have been wheeled out in a wheel chair. You have asked me to go back everyday. I can't tell you how much fun it is for me to watch you two together. She adores you and you her. I can't wait to ruin her little ones one day.

I am afraid you may have sealed your fate......

Virginia,
I promise you I had just posted the last post when I turn around and you had done it again!!! You are so proud of yourself and I can't help but laugh at you.

Hope this doesn't land someone on the naughty list

Virginia,
One minute you are coloring like such a sweet little angel then I turn my back for just a second and you have tatooed your entire body. This has happened twice this week. You get so proud of yourself and think that you have put on "makeups." If you weren't so darn cute and funny.....

You know your dad is a hunter when......

This is what you wanted to play with in the bath tonight!!!!

You did it!

Bibby,
I don't think I have ever been so proud. The Sunday before last the children's choir performed during the 11 o'clock service. You have been practicing for weeks but when it came time to get on stage you completely balked. I mean you had an out-of-body come apart. You cried, you clung to me, you were having no part of it. So Sunday when you were supposed to do the handbells during the hanging of the greens service I was really skeptical if you would do it. Dad talked to you a lot about commitment and if you tell someone you are going to do something you need to do it. Well, you marched over to that table and rang your little yellow bell perfectly. You were so precious waving and the whole entourage that was there to watch you. You seemed so little with all of the bigger kids. Dad was so proud he stopped at the store and bought you a big ice cream cookie sandwich. We'll see how the big choir performance goes on the 16th but you kept saying you just had to watch and see what it was like and you would do it next time.