It's starting

Brita asked "why" at least six times about the same question tonight at dinner. Why? Why?

Walking and crawling

Benton is getting around like crazy these days. I left him happily pulling stickers off the wall a minute ago and Brita just informed me that he was hiding in the bathroom now. That kid is quick.

He also claps now. A couple weeks ago he wanted to learn. A few days later he finally got volume and now he's a great not-on-demand clapper. I'm so proud.

He also says "Mom". And he's working on the letter "L" today. Such a smart kid.

Musicals

Brita watches quite a few musicals. Or rather, she watches a few musicals quite a few times. Because of that she comes up with great things to say every so often.

I gave her lunch today and she said, "That smells good enough to eat."

She often says that she wants to make the most of things. Like when she's in the back of the car on the way to the library, she'll come out with, "I want to make the most of it!" Which of course she follows up with, "Will you help me, Rosemary? What makes you think I know anything about.. You're the world champion." It's so fun to get the memorized dialog from a two year old.

She says lots more, but I can't think of any right now because I have allergy brain.

Stupid question

Anybody know what to do when all the thread just accumulates down in the bobbin area and gets all messed up when you're trying to sew? It also does that thing where there's tons of thread on the bottom side of the fabric getting all nasty and the top thread is normal looking. It's kind of to the point where it can't even sew, though, because of the problem I mentioned first. And I know I've fixed it before, but it's frustrating and I just want someone to tell me what to do.

So tell me what to do, okay?

Laziness

It's like all the blogs I read are conspiring to get me to clean my house. Come on, people, Post something new. Or tell me about your blog so I can read it instead of mopping the kitchen.

Future spies..or just future busybodies

One of Brita and Benton's favorite things to do is sit on the couch and look out the window. It makes them happy about 98% of the time. Getting them down makes them sad about 45% of the time. They like to watch the cars and the people who walk past.
Brita also likes to wave but she prefers to do that outside where she can run the people down while waving at them.

(Brita is holding up the sides of her mouth in this picture to smile.)

Foods

Brita is eating quinoa with basalmic vinegar.

That's just one of the many foods that I think are strange for her to like to eat. Just so you know.

Basketball.

Monica got a basketball and hoop for Christmas. We finally got around to setting it up. It's a hit.

Brita is a huge fan.
We just need Peter to be around all the time to help her make baskets--after all, dribbling is only so exciting.
Monica likes it. Success.

My lesson

Today I taught the lesson in Relief Society. It was pretty fun. I kind of put off preparing it for a while. I finished my outline in the Mothers' Lounge about two minutes before Sunday School got out. Too bad Sunday school was so interesting today, or I would have been done sooner.

Lots of people made comments. Probably more people wanted to, but I had the kind of blind vision that only teaching a lesson can bring. I think it went okay. It was about scripture study. I kind of have no idea what I said. Several people told me the they appreciated it, so it sounds like the Spirit took over at some point.

I didn't get to make the final remarks that I wanted to, so I'll make them here. In a recent training meeting they were talking about organizing the things you have to do into essential, necessary, good, and on down things to do. When it comes right down to it the essential things are the things that lead us back to Heavenly Father. It doesn't really matter how much time we put into our family here if we aren't doing what we can to make sure we will be part of that eternal family. I don't know if that makes sense, but it was kind of eye opening to me. We really do need to be doing those essential things. That's why they're called essential.

So I guess now I'll only have my rolls to occupy me during Sacrament meeting and Sunday school. Or maybe some day I'll get on top of things and actually have my calling done by the time it's time for church to start.

And that's that. There you go. Now you know I taught a lesson. The end.

What some people won't do for ice cream

Benton just started crawling. Happy day.