A Dress for Ruby

I made this dress for Ruby today. I'm pretty proud of myself considering I could barely turn a sewing machine on a year ago. I found the fabric in a remnants bin at the store so it only cost 52 cents. She has plenty of clothes, but when I saw this fabric, I couldn't resist.

Emily started Multiplication this week. Once again, she's a natural. I tried to make the focus on the concept of multiplication, not just memorizing the Times Tables. She picked it up easily because she understood the reasoning for it. We also started Creation Science this week.

Lily is learning about letters and their sounds. I found a website for preschoolers where I can just print out the coloring pages for things like "B is for Bible" and "C is for Cross". Then when she is finished coloring them, we will tape them to the wall.

Nolan destroys things while all this is going on. I have a full time job getting him to clean up his messes and keeping him from waking the baby. He is starting to sing songs so it is very cute.

We will need some prayer if you think about us this upcoming month. Paul will be out of town for two weeks to train for a piece of equipment that we are buying. He will drive to Indiana and back twice. My kids are great, but I will be seriously outnumbered for a week at a time. I will definitely need a spa day after this

Emily's Art

Ceilidh Kids

"Ceilidh", pronounced "Kaylee", is the Gaelic word for gathering of friends and like minded folks for a festive time.

Paul has always sang Irish songs with the kids from the time Adam was a baby. They sing them in the car, at bedtime, all the time. Yesterday I had Adam hold Ruby while I was working in the kitchen. I heard all the kids singing to her and had to sneak up on them to get this one. You can barely see all five of them, but I had to sneak because the big ones would have been mortified if they had known I was taping. I might have an Irish quintet on my hands.

Our Trip to Texas

Our first adventure was to the Dinosaur Valley State Park. It had rained quite a bit for a few days before we got there so the dinosaur footprints in the river were not visible. We were going to tour the Creation Evidence Museum also, but it was closed for remodeling.

It was too hot to take the little ones hiking, so after a few pics with the dinos, we went up the street to Dino World.

The rare picture of me since I'm ususally the one with the camera.

We had a lot of fun with this head statue


They had an area to dig for fossils. The kids had a great time of it.

Lily's Texas Birthday Party

My beautiful baby with my beautiful cousin.

Getting cooled off.

Ruby Elizabeth with Aunt Elizabeth

Catching the pet chickens

Our Day at the Fort Worth Zoo

Feeding the birds. This is one of our favorites at this zoo.

On the kimoto dragon statue. My little sister was with us. Isn't she pretty?

The reptile house is another favorite.


Ruby pretty much slept the whole time.

More Texas Pics

Great-Grandma with her girls

My Papa with his two Rubys
Ruby Elizabeth and Augusta Ruby

Nolan doesn't care that it's a pink Barbie Jeep as long as he gets to drive it.

On our way back to Georgia, we stopped at a rest area to have a picnic lunch. I have always loved these derrick picnic tables. You probably have to be from Texas to really appreciate them.

Lily's Party

We were headed to the park yesterday to have Lily's birthday party when it started raining. The closer we drove to the park, the faster the rain fell. I was trying not to panic. Paul, who was following me, called and said to call everyone and just tell them to go to the Bowling alley near the park. He was definitely my knight in shining armor at that moment. And I'm thankful for my wonderful father-in-law because he took all the pictures. I was scatter-brained and forgot. Everyone really seemed to enjoy it and Lily was very passionate about her new love of bowling. To view the slide show, just click on the link below:
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Happy Birthday to Lily!!!!!!!!!!

My Sweet Lily turns 4 today. She and I spent her Birthday Eve in the Emergency Room. When Paul got home last night, Emily, Lily and Nolan were playing tickle with him on our bed. Somehow Lily's elbow got hyperextended. I put an ice pack on it, gave her some motrin and she seemed to be sleepy, but okay. I went to the store to buy food for her party and when I got back at 9:30, she was moaning in her sleep. I got her up to make her go to the bathroom and she started crying again and couldn't move her arm. So we went to the ER (with Ruby in tow). When asked how bad her pain was she pointed to the frowny face that had an 8 under it. The X-rays came back fine so the nurse said that Lily had what was called Nursemaid's Elbow. It's where the ligaments get hooked around the end of the bone in a wierd way. The only way to fix it is to manually move them back. So the nurse grabbed Lily's arm and manipulated it until we heard a "click". This was with much screaming from Lily, but two minutes later she sat up on the bed and pushed herself up with both arms withour even a wince. They put her arm in a sling and sent us home all in about an hour. This morning she picked up a 3 liter jug of water so I know she's fine. I'm taking the picture of her with her sling on for posterity's sake.