Alyssa has been listening to a primary CD on repeat in the car. Tonight we were listening to "When I Am Baptized" (the rainbow baptism primary song). After listening to the second verse Alyssa said to me, "Mom, she said when she is baptized her arms are washed away!"
Well, that would be interesting! I think I am glad that our wrongs are washed away and we are actually allowed to keep our arms! I'm pretty sure no one would join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints if we were all armless!
6.28.2014
6.25.2014
Primary Songs and Rain
I like listening to rain fall on the roof. Living in an apartment the closest I get to this experience is in the car. Couple this with a sweet three year old singing "I Am a Child of God" and my day is made.
6.17.2014
The Dentist and the Big Woods
Alyssa and I went to the dentist today. She hit her teeth on the floor while spinning around like Elsa two weeks ago and now one of her teeth is starting to discolor. The dentist said she is fine unless it abscesses. Her tooth may just be "bruised" and will turn a normal color again! We are glad that she isn't going to be toothless though. Three years old seemed a little young for that!
My dear visiting teacher, who is an excellent example of keeping your children engaged in learning and reading told me about their bedtime ritual. Each night as part of it she reads aloud a chapter book. I have heard of people doing this with their toddlers. I even tried once, but it didn't work to well. I felt inspired by her success (she's done it for over 12 years) and decided to give it a try again. It is my Read Aloud Book Project. It has been about three weeks and so far, so good!
We finished reading Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder today. We have been reading each night before bed and this week it has turned into each time we feel like reading. Alyssa really enjoyed the book and the time we spent together while reading it. She mostly picked out words here and there and would laugh about them. I don't think she quite understood the whole plot, but she loved the few and far between illustrations!
We are excited to start our next book - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis tonight. (She calls it her "temple book" because it has a picture of a castle on the front.) I am sure we will both enjoy it!
My dear visiting teacher, who is an excellent example of keeping your children engaged in learning and reading told me about their bedtime ritual. Each night as part of it she reads aloud a chapter book. I have heard of people doing this with their toddlers. I even tried once, but it didn't work to well. I felt inspired by her success (she's done it for over 12 years) and decided to give it a try again. It is my Read Aloud Book Project. It has been about three weeks and so far, so good!
We finished reading Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder today. We have been reading each night before bed and this week it has turned into each time we feel like reading. Alyssa really enjoyed the book and the time we spent together while reading it. She mostly picked out words here and there and would laugh about them. I don't think she quite understood the whole plot, but she loved the few and far between illustrations!
We are excited to start our next book - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis tonight. (She calls it her "temple book" because it has a picture of a castle on the front.) I am sure we will both enjoy it!
6.11.2014
Summer Has Begun
Last week I went to girls' camp with the lil' ladies in the Jackson Mississippi Stake. Mentally I decided once I did that, summer had officially begun!
Alyssa spent the week with Nana, Papa, Ria, and JL. They swam, went to the "Muffets", went to story time at the library, slept in a tent in Alyssa's room, painted their nails, and sang Frozen day in and day out. Maria found out how truly persistent Alyssa can be when it comes to playing Frozen, but she was a trooper. It was Alyssa's first time away from Erik and I for an extended period, and it seems that all went well!
I had a blast at girls camp. I was a little bit hesitant to go. It had been a little bit of a bumpy start during the preparation phase. Let's just say I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to do there and then on top of it a sweet girl in our ward, the daughter of the stake young women's president and mastermind to camp was diagnosed with cancer. It was gut wrenching, to put it mildly. Yet camp went on! We had a most splendid time. We kept Afton and her family in our prayers and partied on. I wrote lyrics, camp style, to "The Best Day of My Life" originally by American Authors. They went a little something like this:
Alyssa spent the week with Nana, Papa, Ria, and JL. They swam, went to the "Muffets", went to story time at the library, slept in a tent in Alyssa's room, painted their nails, and sang Frozen day in and day out. Maria found out how truly persistent Alyssa can be when it comes to playing Frozen, but she was a trooper. It was Alyssa's first time away from Erik and I for an extended period, and it seems that all went well!
I had a blast at girls camp. I was a little bit hesitant to go. It had been a little bit of a bumpy start during the preparation phase. Let's just say I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to do there and then on top of it a sweet girl in our ward, the daughter of the stake young women's president and mastermind to camp was diagnosed with cancer. It was gut wrenching, to put it mildly. Yet camp went on! We had a most splendid time. We kept Afton and her family in our prayers and partied on. I wrote lyrics, camp style, to "The Best Day of My Life" originally by American Authors. They went a little something like this:
I packed my bags for my girls camp
Hoping I don’t get too damp
Wo-oah-oah-oah-oah-oh-oh
Wo-oah-oah-oah-oah-oh-oh
Friends will be my company
Giving me felicity
Wo-oah-oah-oah-oah-oh-oh
Oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oh-oh
Chorus:
Testimony’s stronger, woah
Light within me’s brighter, ooo
Girls camp rocks my world
Oo-o-o-o-o-o
This is gonna be the best week of my summer
My su-u-u-u-u-u-ummer.
Oo-o-o-o-o-oooooo
This is gonna be the best week of my summer
My su-u-u-u-u-u-ummer.
Break
We play out on the lake with friends
Wishing this will never end
Wo-oah-oah-oah-oah-oh-oh
Oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oh-oh
Zipline, hiking, and canoes
Service projects that we do
Wo-oah-oah-oah-oah-oh-oh
Oah-oah-oah-oah-oah-oh-oh
Chorus
Break
I hear it calling outside my window
Racoons and coyotes
The stars were burning so bright
We ate smores til midnight
Mission Impossible
Chorus
Now go memorize it and when the song comes on the radio, sing it at the top of your lungs over the original. The youth camp leaders made up an awesome dance that included the macarena. It really couldn't have been any better.
We are enjoying our swimming pool at our apartment complex. Today's weather is heavenly. If the whole summer could just be like today.
Alyssa is keeping us on our toes as always. She says the funniest things. So also is finding buttons on my that I didn't know I had with her. She is still a vivacious reader. We have started reading Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder after I put her to bed. I was hoping it would calm her down sooner and would no longer stay up until 9:30. It hasn't worked, but we still enjoy the time together.
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