Things here are good. It snowed this week and will probably stick around for a while this time. But consider how awesome January was I really am not upset about having some snow now! Tom and Hayden went out in the backyard yesterday and built a snowman, it was really cute, I'll post pictures later. Danica has started to smile in response to her toys and other stimulation; it’s really fun to play with her. Every time she wakes up Hayden gets excited and starts yelling “She’s awake, she’s awake, now I can play with her!!!” Danica has a little cradle cap on her head in the front where she should have hair but actually doesn’t so it looks a little funny. Today I used the special cradle cap shampoo I had for Hayden and that seems to have helped a lot. Hayden is cracking me up lately because he is constantly using the word “suddenly”. He loves to retell every event that happens and when he talks he says everything happens suddenly, it’s pretty funny. Yesterday we were driving to the library for story time and he started the following conversation with me:

“Mom, heaven is up there.” (Pointing at the ceiling.)
“Yep, that’s right Hayden.”
“Heavenly Father lives there.””You’re right, where did you learn about that?”
“I learned it in singing time with dad.” (Tom was his substitute teacher this past Sunday so they must have learned it in sharing time.)
“That’s great Hayden.”
“Mom, does Heavenly Father have a house?”
“Yes, he probably does.””Well, what color is it?”

And on went the conversation about what he thinks. Just so you know, he figured his house would be green. He’s such a funny kid! He is obsessed with being the bad guy in all the scriptures stories. We were at a friends house to watch the Superbowl and someone made him a balloon sword and so he started to run around saying he was King Laban. He also likes to sing the song about Nephi’s Courage while acting like Nephi’s older brothers. I just keep telling myself that this is a phase! Right??? Oh yeah, one more story to prove my point that Hayden is always listening and absorbing everything (Barb saw this first hand when she was out here)Anyway, on Sunday a guy in the ward that we know what bearing his testimony. Hayden had not even looked up from his crayons and toys, I figured he was oblivious to what was going on until the guy mentioned something about his wife. Without skipping a beat or looking up from his drawing Hayden said to me “Was her name Debbie?” Sure enough, that is his wife’s name! He really was listening! It’s very scary to think about what he watches me do all day!
So I made the mistake of bearing my testimony on Sunday so we got called to speak on Sunday. I think Tom mentioned this. Speaking in church is terrifying for me but I just keep reminding myself that everyone is so busy with their kids they won’t even remember my topic. We were going to bless Danica last Sunday but a few of Tom’s friends that he wanted in the circle were not going to be in town. So we were going to do it this week but now that we have to speak we don’t want to just be worried about our talks and unable to enjoy the special blessing, so who knows maybe next week… maybe things will keep coming up and we’ll do it at the reunion…

Okay, one more thing. I discovered the down side to writing comments is the extra time it takes to login and write the comment, or to click on the comments link and wait for it to pull up. If you really are planning to sit down and post something then it probably is easier to just add into what you’re writing. Anyway, just thought I would add my observation since I had mentioned about the comment option earlier. There certainly are pros and cons and times it makes more sense than other times.

I am excited today because I get to go to IKEA for the first time. We need a new little computer desk for Hayden and they have some cute ones online so we are making the trek to Pittsburg (2 hours away) to do some shopping. I hear such great things about the place that even if we buy nothing it will be a fun little adventure! We thoroughly enjoyed Lost last night, hopefully you all did too! Marnie we saw you on Ellyn also! We watched it in slow motion and could see you running! Pretty fun! Glad you had a good time! Keep in touch!