Word Building

Picture us all in the back yard hanging out as a family. Aidan starts flipping this paddle (like a larger ping-pong paddle) sporadically.

Aidan: "Mom! Dad! I have a new invention!"

Martha/Jay" "What is it?" we ask, wondering what it could be since Aidan has not made his typical modifications to the paddle.

Aidan: "It's an Ant-a-pult." Aidan then quick flips it propeling an unseen ant into the air.

Happy Birthday Aidan!

It is Aidan's Birthday today - I will post pictures on Saturday.

Aidan is getting into Comics

Aidan is getting into comics. As part of the reading club he won a Spiderman No2 comic. We have read it more than once! It is rated for everyone, and is contructed on a very moral and roughly Christian worldview. It is not that he does not harm people, and does not use guns to get the bad guys. Anyway, I hope his reading skills pick up enough for him to read them himself, BUT in the meantime I am enjoying them too :).

Hope is talking

Hope says to me this morning "Daddy, more Peanut butter" and hand me here bagel. Although she talks all the time, I am only begging to understand her. She is not yet 2, so I guess that is fine.

The Feel of an Earthquake on Mid-western Feet

I knew that moving to Southern California might allow me to be in an earthquake. Today we felt a “good” one. I am typing away in my office when I feel the concrete under my desk start shaking my whole office. I run out of my office and around the house to check on Martha and the kids. Aidan is calmly watching PBS kids on television and he says “Mom, why is everything shaking?” Martha and I are calm on the surface only, but go back to business as usual.

The last earthquake I did not feel, but Martha did. I was shaving and I heard Martha yell. I run out to see her and Hope in the doorway. “Did you feel THAT?” Martha asks. I did not so she tells me to look out the window and look at the swinging planter.

Now back in the mid-west there are tornado’s, but there is usually a warning (and a place to hide). I am starting to think I don’t mind snow and wind.

Hope likes cake. 

Curious George can really climb high.