More Language from the Little

Just some funny and very real soundbites to paint a little picture of 3.5 year old Lasa these days....

• I bwoke my bone a wittle bit, but I ok. I not bweeding.
• FOOwishness. (after she heard me mutter Foolishness! to myself at something Noah did)
• I can't eben dweam (even dream) about it! (I can't even believe it!)
• I don't wike da cwoss. Cuz dats why Jesus died.
• Flewiduh - Florida
• Biedoh - spider
• She calls from the potty, "Mommy, can you come wipe meeee?" and then when I come in she has pulled her shirt over hear head to hide and is giggling uncontrollably. Every. Time.  
• When I tell her to wipe herself once in awhile, she laments, "but I too ty-ohd (tired) to wipe my stinky bootie!"
• I don't caw you Muddoe anymore. I caw you Mommy.
• Bubota for kubota at Papa's house
• "You betta bank (spank) his bootie," she advised me.  When I didn't, she said, "Welllll, when i bite Anna's toe you bank MY bootie!"
• Dat one is my favewit (favorite) toof (pointing to the bottom right eye tooth)
• Evwy time I dwink my milk too fast, my head feews wike it does when I am at da hot tub.
• Anna?  Sometimes I feeuh vewwy (feel very) mad about stuff.
• Why is Hans a bad guy? 
• Co-ation - creation
• Don't judge me! (when I gave her a wide-eyed look)
• Dis a tweeezer (twizzler).
• When Josh told her she can't marry him, she insisted, "I can mawwy you wif my magic powers. 
• I need to gwow up so I can fix dat and put cwose on Bunny (when she couldn't fix something and had to wait for my help.
• When Molly died, I asked her how she was feeling.  "I feew mad."  She consoled a weeping Anna by saying, "Maybe hot chocowate will make you feew bettoh (better)."
• undodand (understand)
• Can you hold my finger up and show me what's 12?
• Bednight - goodnight
• One day randomly at dinner, "I am happy wif dis chicken!"
• While I clipped her toenails, "My pinky toe is so cute! It's my favewit (favorite)!"
• bwockwy - broccoli
• Ow!!  Anna hutt (hurt) my feewlings (feelings)!
• Let me get a pitshir of dees shoes; i wike shoes.
• Mommy, you wook so bootiful.
• When her hair was in braids for almost a month, she confessed, "I miss you doing my hair."
• I love you, but I don't love you, but I love you.  (she does this affirmative/negative/affirmative statement all the time in all the ways with all the silly grins)
• Did you know dat cows make milk???????
• Did you know my skin is smoover (smoother) den (than) yohs (yours)???
• Yoh (your) hayuh (hair)is almost wonger (longer) dan wapunzel's (rapunzels).
• Whispering in my ear with Nutella breath, "Mom, do you know I wuv you?"
• When I had a headache, she asked if I needed to see the head doctor.
• To Anna, when in a bad mood in the car, she said, "Wite now, why (while) I wittle (little), I don't feew (feel) wike happiness anymore."

Basically, you see how hard speaking is when you have yet to master your r's, th's, and l's. ;) Precious moments.

Lord, Remember Me

Ummmm, this.  This song!  Took our breath away when our worship team sang it for us at the Good Friday service.  I was in love with it from the start.  HAD TO HAVE IT.  Definitely take a listen, read the lyrics, and love it, too.  Amen to every single word. 



Lord, Remember Me
by Andrew Peterson

Lord, remember me when you come into Your kingdom
Lord, remember me when you come into Your kingdom

Who can ascend the hill of the Lord?
The one who utters no untrue word
Whose hands are clean, whose heart is pure
Who can ascend that hill?

There is none righteous, no not one
We are prodigal daughters and wayward sons
We don't know half of the hurt we've done
The countless we have killed

Our priests are cheats, our prophets are liars
We know what the law requires
But we pile our sins up higher and higher
Who can ascend that hill?

And I am a sheep who has gone astray
I have turned aside to my own way
Have mercy on me, Son of David

Lord, remember me when you come into Your kingdom
Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom

Now hear the voice of the Word made man
The spotless sacrificial Lamb
"A body you gave me, here I am
I have come to do Your will"

And no one takes my life, you see
I lay it down now willingly
And I will draw all men to me
When I ascend that hill

On Sunday You came as King
On Monday washed the temple clean
On Tuesday You told of what will be
On Wednesday You waited patiently
On Thursday You said it is time
I'll drink this cup 'cause it is mine
On Friday, Lord, you poured the wine

Like a thief on the cross, as he hung there dying
For crimes, there were no use denying
While the righteous Judge hung right beside him

How could I not recognize You?
How could I not recognize You?
How I could I not recognize ... my Lord?

My Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom
Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom

Just days ago the sky was stone
The trees were standing stripped to the bone
You could hear creation groan

But I write these words on an April day
And the earth is drinking the early rain
The hills remember green again

We've heard this story all our lives
Still, we feel the pain of the crucified
And the end still comes as a surprise

But before the breath there in the tomb
Before our joy sprang from the womb
You saw a day that's coming soon

When the Son will stand on the mount again
With an army of angels at His command
And the earth will split like the hull of a seed
Wherever Jesus plants His feet

And up from the earth, the dead will rise
Like spring trees robed in petals of white
Singing the song of the radiant bride

And we will always be, always be, always be with the Lord
And we will always be, always be, always be with the Lord
We will always ...
Be with the Jesus

My Lord, remember me (we will always be, always be)
When You come into Your kingdom (always be with the Lord)
Lord, remember me (we will always be, always be)
When You come into Your kingdom (always be with the Lord)

2019's Easter

For Lent this year, we participated in a family devotional similar to the Jesse Tree tradition at Christmas, which we love so much.  Every night's devotion had an ornament to symbolize that part of Jesus' life/ministry from birth to crucifixion and resurrection.  It was such an excellent Easter tradition to start!  So glad ladies from our church came together to do the ornament swap, making prep SO much easier.  So thankful for the really thoughtful conversations and applications my kiddos could pick up from the daily readings.

Night before Easter -  basket preparation with our usual egg trail that leads down the stairs up to the fun stash. We still have the kids all share one basket, but I did get a larger basket this year.  Ha! The one we've used all the years before is the one Josh got for me our first Easter together, so it's seen some life - going from a family of 2 to 5 now!  We'll keep that bad boy for Lasa's egg hunts in the year to come instead.  It's pictured below the hunt at Rebecca's house. ❤️

Easter morning delight!  (Anna's favorite surprise was a pack of erasable pens and Wonderloom; Lasa's was a little stuffed horse; Noah's was the Spiderverse movie and a pitcher for making his lemonade; also, they are all kinda gaga for the giant slinky - Easter surprises are my fave to shop for!)

How cool is this view of Nashville Easter morning ... there was a dense fog alert.  Dense fog? I'd say so!  Amazing view. 

Good Friday this year I posted opening lines from Before the Throne of God Above as it was the hymn stuck in my head this holiday.  Easter morning, I posted the closing lyrics.  I just love them!  Speaking of Good Friday - Our church's Good Friday service was just amazing.  My favorite yet.  Wish I had it on my iPod to listen to and sing with over and over again!  Though we did not sing this song there, ha!

Dressed and ready for church Easter morning. Pretty babies!

After church, we enjoyed an awesome lunch with our good friends from church, the Brogdons, and let the littlest of our crews have their own personal egg hunt outside.  Big sister did the hiding of the eggs.

 

 

 

 

Quick Easter selfie back at home before putting Lasa down for a nap and taking in a long slow sunny sweet afternoon at home.  

Anna's First Fiddle Recital

We didn't even realize until 4 days before it arrived that Anna even HAD a recital this week.  It conflicted with the Seder meal at church last night and, to be honest, Anna and I both wished we could skip the recital and go to the Passover Seder as we had originally planned.  I was so annoyed at how poorly communicated this recital was and Anna, bless it, almost never practices at home, so I had really low expectations that it would be worth missing the Seder over.  But Josh insisted that we'd be at the recital no matter how much Anna and I moaned and groaned about it. So fiddle recital it was.

And as it turns out, it was a lovely performance (not counting the wiggly whiny 3 year old at my side) and I was beaming so proudly at my Anna girl who beamed so proudly from the stage herself.  Don't even get me started on the cuteness bound up in her serious expression for every bow she took following each song.  We missed the Seder sorely, but we were not mad at the recital in the end.  HA!

The performance was a joint Fiddle/Ukulele Recital from those classes at CHET. 

 

Isn't she lovely? Picked out her outfit and had me do some braid idea she had for her hair to keep it out of the way.  I just barely pulled it off, but man that child was delighted with how it turned out.

 

 

 

 

Anna's favorite pieces to play were Come Thou Fount and Boil the Cabbage.  She claims she plays Come Thou Fount on the violin and Boil the Cabbage on the fiddle, which I totally get. ;)  After the recital, I am so glad that Anna has already decided to do a second year of fiddling next year.  It's a group class, but I can see her moving to private lessons after that.

Spring Sweetness

Spring sky view sent to me by my dear friend, Becky ...

Those pretty blue robin's eggs all hatched (four total) and it makes our day to see the baby birds' development every day.  They have opened their eyes now and reach so much higher in the nest with the faintest little bird cries when momma bird flies in and out all day feeding them.

 

 

 

Becky and crew got baby ducklings a few weeks ago... we hustled over there this last week to see them before they already turned to full grown ducks.  They grew fast.  They are so darling!!  I don't know which is cuter - the waddling, the way they stay together, or the muted quacking they squeak out.

 

We are delighted at this other nest we found out back, situated in the kiwi vine on the trellis.  It's a cardinal's nest and that momma doesn't care how close we come, she is not gonna fly away from her eggs.  Ha!  Isn't she precious??

 

And speaking of precious, well ... you know.  Those bunnies of ours. 

 

Getting Going in the Garden

Josh and the kids are hard at work in the yard every single day lately.  It's looking so nice and so refreshing in spring bloom.  The greenhouse is much neater and more orderly this year, which is my personal fave.  Ha!  

 

 

 

Where the pool is gonna go this year ... 

 

 

In Which We Are Giants

NY Giants, that is.  Giants for Noah and Anna's flag football season which got started last weekend.  Josh and I are pumped that they are on the same 4th-6th grade team ... requiring much less practice and game time to have to juggle in our schedule.  The teams practice for an hour on Sunday afternoons and then the game follows immediately after.  Perfect!  

 

 

 

 

Precious pic Josh sent me this week ...