penny likes to mimic everything the baby is doing. if we go crazy with excitement cuz he's crawling around, she gets down low and crawls around and wants her picture taken too.

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simon started babbling a few days ago. A-da-da-da, a-da-da-da.

So cute, so full of life and happy and because he got rid of the binky, he had to sleep train. i hate it, but he slept all night last night. couldn't believe it. puts himself to sleep with only a blanket next to his face. not sids scary at all. seriously.

i've got to try and help owen.

Funny things owen says

when his friend michael came over yesterday, owen said.

"so, what brings you here?"

When he was at luke house for a bday party, brooke told me that he went into the bathroom and was in there for a long time. when darby came to the door and asked if he was ok, Owen said,

"i don't usually tell people this, but i'm constipated."

today when he was getting paper for me to put into the printer he said,

"in case you mess up, i got a bunch more."

Penny has decided to call sophie, Gigi and she calls owen, "I"

This morning i put her in the johnny jump up and she'd yell, 'gigi, gigi, gigi, gigi,' until sophie said what and then shed say, see! and she'd spin around and around or she'd jump up and down over and over again to sophie's big reactions, of course. so then she'd do it over and over and over again. "gigi gigi gigi gigi"

Finally, sophie said, "show Owen"

Then she went, " i, i, i, i, i, i" until owen said what and then she'd spin or jump to show him.

This went on for at least a half hour. long enough for us to know for sure that when penny says, gigi -- that means sophie. When she says, "I' that means Owen.

i love my babies.

Also, simon got his 4 big teeth in. he also got rid of the binky which means he has to sleep train now. poor dude.

parties

Pennys party was fun. I have to say it was different than i imagined, and i don't know why.

Blah, never mind. it was perfect.

Simon is scooting everywhere. he goes on an off the rugs, turns corners, pulls up on crib rails, toy baskets. He just crawled over to a basket in my room, pulled his upper half up enough to reach in and pull out penny's tutu. SOCute. probably for a week now.

Today was a wierd day

it was busy. very busy. the kids were in the for quite awhile today.

I started out going to the pilates class with Maureen McClain up at the church. a bunch of girls were there. lyndsay, valerie with their crazy boys and it was loud and slightly obnoxious. ok, really obnoxious. lyndsay was hit in the cheek by valerie's little boy sawyer who was wielding a bat. she let him bring a weapon, classic.

then i drove to jon heder's house to pick up the bag i left at the oscar party on sunday night. then we came back home and the kids slept took their naps in the car and i tried to tidy the house. Then they woke up, we got some food and then i got a call from Sarah Outwater.

Sarah Outwater. i am her visiting teacher, she is blind and has an amazing conversion story. she was called me crying and asked if i could take her over to no. hollywood

scripture jouranal

Duh,

The woman at the well. i've seen/heard it a thousand times and yet the story didn't make sense until now.

Rebekah, the woman at the well. i never understood her significance.

Abraham sent his servant to find a wife for his son, Isaac in his homeland. He let his camel drink at the well.

The servant prayed for the damsel to offer him and his camels water so he would know it was the woman the Lord had chosen for Issac. Rebekah did just that.

The servant dwelled with her and her family, the servant told the story of how the lord prepared him and her to her father and brother.

He asked if he could take her back to Abraham, they said...let us keep her 10 days and then you can go.

He asked to go today, they brought rebekah in and asked if she would go with him.

She said yes. and they promptly left.

My favorite verse, the last one; 67:And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was ^acomforted after his mother’s ^bdeath.

The Official Scripture

More Thoughts

Brandon and Rachel still don't have a job. they were so close today. he tested for a sit com and didn't get it. they're dying. beyond dying. Here's hoping they get something this pilot season, otherwise we will have new neighbors renting their house next door while they move to utah. aaaah, That's not good.

I've been feeling good this week. There was an amazing talk given by a new member of our ward about prayer. I had such strong feelings in my mind and heart about the truthfulness of the things he was saying.

The things i remember,

1. we have to be willing to ask.

2. we have to be reading the scriptures to hear

3. we have to be willing to act.

4. we must be willing to ponder.

Something I heard a long time ago was, "We speak to the Lord through prayer, he speaks to us through the scriptures."

This is one that i've always had a hard time with reading the scriptures regularly. always. it makes me mad. I'm really good at the pondering part. I can think about how to solve problems i might be facing all day long. i feel like i have a prayer in my heart all day. i pray in my mind a lot during the day. I need to get better at kneeling, though. it's not the same to lay down and pray.

But, there are a lot of things i've been helped with lately. things i KNOW didn't come from me but from the Lord. I couldn't have done any of these things without my Heavenly Father.

1. laundry - much better, not perfect. but much better.

2. trying to keep the house clean. i've finding more energy, not always, but like tonight, i HAD to get some stuff put away. i'm not ok with piles anymore. at least NOT as ok.

Need to work on.

1. food. labeling, calculating, quantifiying and really knowing my budget and what we eat.

2. scriptures with my kids. ugh! scriptures with my kids!! i REALLY don't want to fail grandma's challenge. Not getting a lot of support from Doug on this. but we are able to talk more about this stuff without arguing. we had a good honest talk about FHE yesterday that resulted in a really good family night last night.