Safety First

I made the girls some "stick" horses. I didn't use sticks. I feel that sticks in the hands of my children are dangerous. (If you follow the link and the video doesn't work for you, I apologize. It was working, but I can't get it to right now.) So I made my own sticks, out of fabric. These sticks bend. Much safer.

Weird, weird, weird

At the moment we apparently have two phones -- a home phone and a cell phone -- with the same phone number. Weird. What happened is this: Ray finally relented and got a cell phone on the condition that the home phone number would become his cell phone number. I'm fine with this -- this means I don't get all his business calls with questions that I can't answer, it also means I don't get all the telemarketer phone calls. I'm really liking this. Anyway, the instructions to activate the cell phone were to wait until the home phone stopped working, then call and do all the activation stuff. So, yesterday Beth called my cell phone to inform me that she tried to call my home phone and it didn't work (exactly a week after initiating the switch). I activated Ray's cell phone. I called the number several times, it always went to the cell phone. Ray got the the telemarketer calls yesterday afternoon. :-) The weird part I noticed yesterday was that I could still make phone calls from my home phone and the number still showed up the same on caller ID. Weird, but whatever, Ray's cell phone was getting all the incoming calls, that's what I really cared about.

Then this morning my home phone rang. Having been only a day since I stopped having a home phone I didn't think much of it at first, but after a moment realized it shouldn't have ever gotten the call. The call happened to be for me, conveniently, if it only works when someone is trying to call me instead of Ray I would be fine with this. But, I was a little worried, so as soon as I got off the phone I dialed the number -- it went to Ray's cell. Weird.

I'm sure it won't last long, Ray is supposed to be getting the home phone disconnected fully. But it's still weird.

You may not know...

that Lil is a runner. (Unless you have been reading my blog for a while and remember this post.) She is currently training for a half marathon. Anyway, before and after her runs she stretches, as all runners should. This post is to document one of those stretching sessions. Not really because Lil wanted her stretching documented (I believe she wasn't excited at the prospect), but because of her stretching companions.
Yes, Lil is turning my girls into runners. They love to stretch with her. They love to "read" her running magazines (although they get very concerned that all the runners have cold legs/arms/bellies, due to the lack of clothing covering those parts). They regularly tell me that they need to go run fast.
As you can see, they are getting quite good at the stretches.
This last pic is, perhaps, my favorite.
A story to go along with it: one day while I was making dinner I turned around to see the girls lying on the kitchen floor, much like you see them in the picture above. I had no idea what they were doing, so I asked. Cora looked up and said, "Stretching." Okay, I went on about my business. A few minutes later the girls were wanting me to let them out the front door so they could go running. Then it all made sense to me. When I told Lil the story she knew exactly what they were doing.

By the way, happy birthday, Lil!

Upside Out

The other day, Ruby took her jammies off, turning them inside out, and held them up. "It's upside out," she said.

All ready for the day

Is something wrong?

An invalid should never be left alone

Good thing Lil had the girls to keep her company after having her wisdom removed.

Oops, make that wisdom teeth.

Nurture vs. Nature Quiz

Question 1:
Give a girl a football and she will
a. kick it
b. throw it
c. rock it like a baby and sing it to sleep


And, no, I didn't teach her that.