Astronauts

On Sunday during church, Lillie and I had this gem of a conversation:

Lil: "Is heaven in outer space?"
Me: "Uh sure, yes."
Lil: "Is Jesus an astronaut?" Ha ha.
Me: "Uh, no, but He created outer space and all the planets and stars."
Lil: "He must have been tired!"
Me: "Jesus rested on the seventh day, so he must have been."
Lil: "Was He sweaty??"
Me: (silence) "I don't know."

I'm glad she left it at that!

Mardi Gras Weekend

I know that this doesn't mean anything to most people, but it's a big deal around here. Eric has Monday and Tuesday off of work for the holiday. There are parades almost daily...or at least, there were. It's been pouring rain outside today and all the parades have been postponed or cancelled. I sure hope that the weather clears up at least one day in the next four days so that we can say we've been to a Mardi Gras parade. I'm sure it won't hold a candle to the Rose Parade, but I still want to experience it.
Another damper on the day is that Eric is on-call this week. In fact, he is off fixing someone's tooth right now. I sure hope he isn't there all day. Because of the rain, he's taken the car, and I don't know how long I can take being cooped up on a Saturday. Last time he was on-call, he was called in 4 times, I hope it's less than that this week. PLEASE!!

Trip to Baton Rouge

 

Eric and I made our first trip out to Baton Rouge last weekend to attend the temple. It's hard living two and a half hours away from the temple, and so we were overjoyed when our friends wanted to swap Saturdays so that we could go. It was wonderful, of course, and we're hoping to do it again sometime.

4 Year Well Check

At the end of last month, I took Lillie to the doctor for her well check. I can't remember any of her stats. Grrr... the military nurses don't tell you what they are, and even if they did, everything is in centimeters and kilos, so I don't know what they mean anyway. Stupid. I do remember that she was just above the 25 percentiles for height and weight. I know she weighs 30 lbs on our scale. I guess I should pull out the measuring tape to see what her height is... oh well. She was so cute to see interacting with the doctor. She was a little shy but also loved getting all the attention. One thing she did NOT like, however, were the four shots that we had to get that day. It made my heart ache to see her hurting. Lillie was mad about it for a couple days. She did get a sucker and a sticker and I took the kids to the children's museum afterwards to help lessen the blow.

Henry at 20 Months

 

Henry hit twenty months back on the fourth. It's crazy for me to think that he's closer to two years old than one. In fact, I was expecting him when Lillie was this age. Whoa, whoa, too soon. But really, he's such a delight to have in our home. Henry is starting to put a couple words together, he's saying new things all the time and is getting easier and easier. Lillie and Henry get along very well. They play together a lot: trains, cars, dolls, doesn't matter. He calls her "Wee", sometimes "Wiwee", it is so cute. He's a tall kid and weighs about 25 lbs, 5 less than Lillie. Still loves to play with cars the most, trains a close second and planes taking third place. He's still a mama's boy, wants to get in a little snuggle time everyday. Loves to read books and climb on things. He races around on our sectional at top speed, sometimes falling off, thank goodness nothing has been a serious injury so far. Henry still loves his binky, we've been trying to get him to only use it during naptime and bedtime. Sometime's he'll throw it back into the crib and sometimes we have to hide it the moment he puts it down. I love being his mom.