At dinner, William was having a hard time eating his green beans. Everyone else was done, and he was still struggling. We even put parmesan cheese on them. I was being firm and telling him he had to eat them and wasn't going to get down until he did. (And they are GOOD green beans--tender, long, fancy style). Well, for some reason, he asks me for a piece of paper. He just recently got into decorating paper. So he finds the printer paper, gets a pencil, and "writes" a jagged, squiggly, long line. He shows it to me and tells me he wrote "No" on it. (Regarding the injunction to eat the beans). I reminded him that he WAS going to eat the beans. He then said, "Now it says, 'Yeah.'" Unbelievable!!

Ladies, I stumbled on this great looking blog--homeliving.blogspot.com. It's pro-homemaking and looks very wholesome and edifying. I look forward to taking the time to read it.

I'm sorry I posted this many pictures of the same thing. I thought it wasn't working when I was uploading. And then I couldn't figure out how to delete some pictures on edit. So, Kristi and Mom, if you haven't seen the movie Napoleon Dynamite, you would definitely be scratching your head. It made my day to find this costume...for Zach, yeah, that's it, Zach!! Vote for Pedro and all your wildest dreams will come true!

Zachary captured this rare photo of a male and a female Redman taking their young for a walk at the Puyallup River. When William wasn't using the scooter, I got to. It was surprisingly fun! I didn't grow up with those.

What else is new? Jessie is at a different school. Friendship thing not happening at old one. I just started the book about Andrew. I am going to keep my kleenex handy. Watched "Shall We Dance,"albeit by myself, this weekend. I dare you to watch that, ladies, and not spend hours on the internet trying to find ballroom dance lessons nearby. I actually, seriously want to.

William cracked me up yesterday when we were at this lake taking a walk. He tumbled down a dirt trail and immediately said, with his usual passion, "Stupid dirt!! I HATE YAT DIRT!!" It was SO FUNNY!! Today, he asked to be picked up, and I don't know how it started, but we had a priceless little talk about Heaven and why we're not there already and how we have to die first. He wanted to know why we couldn't be HOME yet!!! I hadn't mentioned the word home--I almost got chills!! He believes the way we'll get there is by a rocket. And Jesus will have toys, candy, and gum and will take care of us. So that's that. Now you know.