Grumpy old man...

We are officially into summer. We smell like chlorine and need the airconditioner running. So Claira is almost finished with her swimming lessons. Jeremy likes to call it swimmig torture. She screams the whole time. She also claws at you and pinchs. She loves the water, that is not the problem. It is the structure and she is unable to choose what she would like to do in the water. Our second born does not enjoy being forced to do anything. You may have ice cream for her but to feed it to her would only cause her to become a grumpy old man. (I know she is a girl, but I have met many of grumpy old men and she is one when unhappy). She has finally stopped screaming when we clothe her. Right now taking baths is becoming a problem. She use to love them and would let you put her in anytime. Well now she does not want to go in. And after many many minutes of screaming in the tub we reach for her to take her out and guess what...Yup, she does not want to get out. What a headache. I love her to pieces. To see her laugh is amazing. She has 2 dimples one on each side of her cheaks. Her smile is so adorable. She even enjoys making others laugh. So it is not that she is unhappy, she is full of joy most of the day. But when she is forced into somthing that was not initiated on her own, this is where we encounter the old man in her. Oh well just 2 more days of swimming and than she is on her own accord.

Lets go to the movies...

Well we took the girls to their first movies last night. We went to see "Kung Fu Panda". I would put one of those picture icons here but I am not savvy with the computer. So maybe you can just picture it in your head. You know that big panda in a kung fu stance. Yup that's the one. Well it started off great than after 10min of intro and trailers the movie started. About 20 min into the movie Claira started to get the wiggles. She wanted to walk around the dark theater of complete strangers and say "Hiiiiii"! She is into saying hi to strangers everywhere we go. So than she tried to stand on the seat with a booster in it. Screaming as I tried to catch her before she fell. We walked to the back of the theater and she touched all the lights that light the path. Jeremy and Madeleine had migrated to the very front row of the theater. Claira and I finally joined them. As we were all getting a bit of motion sickness watching animated kung fu we finally found our spot in the theater. The girls loved the front row and stayed there the rest of the time. All in all the movie was a blast of humor. We really enjoy Jack Black. We also made a family memory and spent a little too much for snacks and evening tickets. I think this will happen again....Next year!

Prayer from a mighty heart...

So we have always put our girls to bed with a kiss and a prayer. We also have taught our girls to pray for sickness or anything that hurts. Madeleine is at an age where she will volunteer to pray when we are sick or do not feel good. Jeremy has introduced a new ritual for prayer. He has Madeleine choose a friend to pray for (in hopes later to have her pray for others who may need prayer or when there is a rift in relationships). He than asks her to pray for one of her family members. Last night she chose me. This was her prayer....

"God, Jesus pray for healing and for mom to go to church with me. Pray for love and for mom to go to gymnastics with me. I love her you love her too. Amen."

This is the best thing ever. God has given us a little prayer warrior. By the way I am sick and have been for a few days and missed church. This really made an impact on her for her prayer.