I Like My Blog Again !

A while back I made some changes to my blog design and I have not like it since then!  Blah!  It was messed up for awhile and I just did not want to commit the time needed to fix it.  I decided to just change it and let it be plain even though I did not really like that change much either... but it was better than it being messed up.  Finally, I have a picture I am happy with and I like my blog again!  The faces of my children are just what it needed.  This picture was taken Easter morning before we headed off to church.  It was a special day for our family not only because of Easter, but because it was the first time our whole family has attended church since Sienna's birth. 

Tongue Twisted

Kids are so funny! Savannah can not say "M&M" to save her life! "Em-an-Mim"... 10 years old and it has her totally tongue-tied.  But we are having great fun with her!  Everytime she says it she says it a different way.

And why is it that some things are tongue twisters for certain people.  Yesterday I was looking for the "blue broom".  The first time you say it is no big deal, but by the time you have gone through the house asking everyone where the "blue broom" is you start to stammer.  Pretty soon you are saying things like "blue bloom".... especially, when no one is listening to you and you have to ask each person about ten times.  ;)  So, I said, "Try saying that ten times fast!"  Interestingly, people actually hear you when you say something irrelevant (and not about cleaning).  Of all the people here my husband is the one that could miraculously say it with getting tongue-tied!  This is the man that I proclaim all the time "can't walk and talk at the same time", but he can say "blue broom" ten times fast.

And you should hear Sierra say Ecclesiastes  !!  She calls it "Ecclesi-nasties".  I highly encourage you to teach your children the books of the Bible at an early age.  Other than the obvious fact that it is great to learn it is also highly entertaining to listen to. 

Embrace the tongue-tied moments.  Before you know it they will mostly be gone.  I have always loved the mispronunciations my children make.  I have had relatives fuss over it and worry that they won't be able to talk right.  Funny thing is that kids seem to learn in spite of a momma trying to keep her babies babies a little longer. 

What Have We Been Up To?

Little Sienna is already three weeks old.  Time is flying by already.  A lot has happened... or rather not happened around here.  ;)  I stilll plan to post about c-section recovery, but I had to delay due to a stomach virus that we all got (Savannah & Sienna did NOT get it).  And now... well, some other virus has hit some of us.  Yesterday I had chills and fever and all the aches that go with that.  Today was better.  Thank God!!!  It's a little crazy here.