Creativity

Griffin really loves his Sunday School class and has a great time learning songs in there. Today they must have taught him, "I have decided to follow Jesus". I have heard several rendition of this song as he is playing. My favorite so far is "I have decided to camp with Jesus".

Scrapbook pages

I did some online scrapbooking the other day to get some pages done quickly. It is pricey but much faster and less stuff to drag out. Anyway I was asked if they could post some of my pages on their website gallery. If you want to check them out, they are on www.howfasttheygrow.com and you can look in the gallery.

Alls Well That Ends Well

What a crazy day we have had. When I posted this morning, I never thought it would get this wild. We had someone coming to look at our house at 2:30 this afternoon and our neighbors offered to watch the dog for us. In the past he has done very well and there has been no problem. We were headed back to their house to pick him up when we got the call. In our house, "the call" when referring to Elvis means "he has left the building" yet again and bolted. This set in motion another 2 hour manhunt of chasing the elusive Italian Greyhound through the neighborhood and praying he doesn't run into traffic. After an hour of driving around, I headed back home with the boys to see our 2:30 showing appointment arrive 2 hours late (gotta love it) and want to see the house. So we left again. Needless to say we have WONDERFUL neighbors who were all looking for our dog. We finally got a call that someone had captured him (no easy feat) about 5 MILES away. He had just kept running and I guess ran out of steam. I am so glad that someone found him because I never would have thought to look for him where he ended up. So alls well that ended well. Our fondue dinner got off to a late start, but the boys had fun with it. And Gray also enjoyed modeling his new sunglasses and saying, "cool" a lot. Griffin's favorite gift was his new wallet and umbrella. He even bought us ice cream earlier today:)

Happy Valentine's Day

While it was a bit on the early side (6 AM) and I wasn't ready to wake up yet, I did have the sweetest little Valentine ever come for a snuggle. Griffin came in with a card an Ghiradelli chocolates and a big hug. Then he even waited until 7 to go downstairs to check out his presents so that he wouldn't ruin his surprise. But he heard Gray making some noise, so he decided to sit outside his door and serenade him with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Gray soon joined in and we had quite the duet very early this morning. Tonight we are making cheese and chocolate fondue for our Valetine's Day dinner. Happy Valentine's Day!

I'm just being helpful

Last night I was helping Griffin get ready to brush his teeth (meaning that I was holding all of toothbrush, paste, mouthwash, and whatever toy he was needing me to watch), when he said, "Mom, thanks. You're such a helpful woman. Do you know what I give helpful women? A notebook". Kind of random but sweet anyway.

Kindergarten?

So Brent and I have tentatively been planning on keeping Griffin in preschool one more year and sending him to kindergarten when he turns 6. He is a late summer birthday so he would barely be 5 if he went this year. When we had our parent teacher conference in October, his teacher really recommended giving him another year of preschool. For kicks I applied to a local private school to get some testing done and see what they recommended. He went in last Saturday morning and loved it. He kept talking about the fun games they played and how he loved kindergarten. Today we went in for the conference where we learn how he did on the tests. He did pretty well. He was dead average for the concepts portion and at a 5-6 year old age level for language (no surprise to anyone who comes across my child). His weakest area was motor skills mainly fine motor and he was slightly lower than average. Overall they said he was "wiggly", "talked constantly", and needed repetition of directions at times. Then he recommended him to start kindergarten next year and offered him placement in the school. It is all kind of overwhelming. This school has a pre-K program so I was sure they would recommend that. Especially when they started off the conference by saying he was the youngest kid that they tested that day. We still are thinking we will wait for kindergarten, but I am interested in seeing what his current teacher thinks at the conference in March.

Communion

Griffin has been wanting to read his Children's Bible a lot lately. The other night we read about the Last Supper and I was trying to relate it to Communion at our church service. Today at church we had Communion. So I pointed out the Communion table to him and reminded him of what we read in the Bible. At the start of the service, the choir started singing and Griffin got upset and said, "I thought we were going to communicate today".