If you take a dragon to school...

...you'll have one proud dragon keeper! Mrs. Petet invited our Bearded Dragon (Dr. Jones) to visit Ben's Kindergarten class today. I don't have to tell you how proud Ben was to show him off...you can see it on his face. Thank you Mrs. Petet for letting us share!

I LOVE my IPOD

I bought an Ipod on Ebay and it came in the mail yesterday (Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Blazin!). This morning I ran 3.33 miles in under 30 minutes...my best time ever I'm sure. All the way from my house to Walgreens at the 291/152 intersection and back. It was awesome. I wanted to keep running, but was out of time. I need bigtime help with my running playlist (Emily and Savannah?? Rebecca? Peter? Anyone?). I loaded these random 11 songs that I struggled to think of last night...some good for running, some not really. I never listened to the Jonas brothers before, read someone's blog post who likes to run to them, and I agree. A couple are from "Another Cinderella Story", a teen dance movie I rented a couple of months ago. Not my usual movie genre, but I loved it, watched it twice, can't really explain why. Can you help me with some more running songs? What are your favorites?

Long Way to Run Peter Breinholt

Queen Ole Peter Breinholt

Express Yourself Madonna

We're All In This Together The Cast of "High School Musical"

Tell Me Something I Don't Know Selena Gomez

New Classic Drew Seeley & Selena Gomez

Free Ride Edgar Winter

Peace Train Cat Stevens

Moonshadow Cat Stevens

S.O.S. Jonas Brothers

Pushin' Me Away Jonas Brothers

Babysitting

We babysat our friend Stacey's two boys for three days last week while she had surgery. Here is a cute picture of baby Kaden. He is three months old. The boys were so fun to have. There was always something to do...diapers, feeding, picking up, playing. Both so calm, and both sleep through the night.

Sam Stands! (1/13/2009)

This actually happened last Tuesday, January 13th (for the baby book), but I haven't had any blogging time this past week. Sam actually is standing independently now. He just sort of did it all of a sudden, which makes me think he probably could have done it sooner if I'd made him try. I'm sure the Botox last month helped make this possible. We are so proud of you Sam!

Daddy’s home!!

This is a belated post. He’s been home for almost two weeks, but I thought these reunion pictures were precious. The boys have been hanging on him non-stop.

CTR

The boys both got CTR rings at church on the first Sunday of the year. (CTR stands for “Choose the Right”). They were both so proud of their rings, especially Sam. He also got an "I am a Child of God" crown, which he proudly wore all day announcing to anyone within earshot: "I'm a king! I have a ring!" He graduated from nursery this Sunday and joined the big kids in Primary. I still can’t believe he’s old enough for that!

Dare Devil

Sam had Botox injections the day after Christmas to help relax some of his tightest muscles. This is a video I took of him a week or so ago doing something he couldn't have done before the injections. He came up with this game on his own and kept at it for quite a while. Within days of the injections, he is more agile, and more confident physically. It's really amazing.

Hulk SMASH!

Love this picture of Ben...

Sam's ABCs

Sam used to sing the ABCs with about seven letters: ABCDXYZ. Very efficient. Now, thanks to the LeapFrog refrigerator alphabet toy, well, watch and see...

Bowling

We took cousin JJ bowling with us last week. The boys had a lots of fun. I the picture below of Ben and JJ, and Ben was upsted because he didn't get to hold the ball. Then we took one of him with the ball and he was happy. Drama!