Where's The Fire?

This morning, Emily, Ally and I were walking out of the classroom our church meets in to go outside to the nursery building, which is a modular next door. Anyway, I got caught up talking to someone and Em ran ahead, or so I thought. As soon as I could break away I ran to the nursery building and all the way back to the classroom we have it in. And to my dismay, no Emily. I ran back out and walked into the building where the classroom to our church was, and I asked those around me if they had seen Em. Just as I finished asking, the fire alarm in the huge 2 store library/classroom wing went off. My first thought? No, not that a fire has broken out but that Emily has done something. Call it experience or mother's intuition but I was correct. WAY down the hall and around the corner Emily had pulled the fire bell. The bell was followed by loud screams, so Joel, Leslie, and I ran down the hall at a sprint. She was terrified at what she had done. She hung on to poor Joel for dear life when he got to her. The fire department had to come out and turn the alarm off, which by the way is ear peircing we've found out. This week church started over a half an hour late. I hope we didn't single handedly get ourselves booted out of Simpson for good!

I'm sure you have seen enough of my blogs, but...

I thought this was so cute. She is really not feeling good from her shots and the little bear was the only thing that would make her happy. She just sat there and held it. She is really enjoying blankets and animals lately, something which my girls have in common! This bear was supposed to go to Tricia from Kari, but Em fished it out and I didn't find it until after the box was shipped. Sorry girls, but Ally is enjoying it if it is any consolation.

Four Month Update

Ally had her four month check up today. It went really well. The doctor says she looks wonderful and is very strong. The nurse was surprised she could stand up like she does. She gets a lot of practice with that, it's her favorite position when she is in our laps. She loves to stand and smile. We even put her in her walker and she is able to hold herself up, she thinks it's great. She weighed in at 14lbs. 8oz. and was 26 inches long, which puts her in the 75th percentile for height. Em and her are pretty close, Ally being a little more round. At four months Em was 25.5 inches and weighed 13lbs. 6oz. But we love Ally's thunder thighs, they are so cute!! She is now also cleared to eat cereals and yellow/orange veggies. However, someone should explain that to her because she doesn't think she needs anything but what mommy can offer. But we'll keep trying. She also got 3 shots, and all in all she handled it very well. As soon as she pulled the last shot out she stopped crying. I think Emily took it harder than Ally, it freaked her out a little. Although, I think a little part of her was just glad it wasn't her. She hates shots of course and made it known that she didn't need any! By the time we got home, both girls were very happy and ready to play!

A conversation with God...

Last night Emily was in bed and she kept telling me she was scared. I think she could hear the suspensful music from the movie Mike and I were watching. So after the movie I went in and laid down with her for a minute. She started chatting as usual and the subject of the morning came up. She said, "mommy, God will bring up the son in the morning and then we can get out of bed." I said, "Yup, but it isn't time yet." and she said, "Mommy, Jesus is coming back soon." And I said, "He is." And so I asked her why is Jesus coming back. And she told me, "because he loves us and wants to be with us. He is going to come down from heaven and get us." VERY surprised she not only knew that but was telling me very adult like, I told her that she was right and asked her who told her that. And she looked at me, Like Duh mom, and said, "Jesus did". I said Jesus told you that? And she said yes, and even pointed to where Jesus was when he told her. Then she went on to tell me how Jesus lives in Heaven and loves us and then repeated the whole thing about how Jesus will be here soon. I was shocked. We talk about how Jesus lives in heaven but haven't gotten as far as he is coming back and so forth. I've asked around, my parents, nursery workers, family etc. and no one explained that to her. I'm not totally sure who taught her that. Maybe someone will enlighten me on that end! Anyway, I've learned we should never under estimate what God can help our children understand. And you never know, maybe God did talk to her!!

Mike has been begging me to let him give Ally baby cereal, so I finally broke down and let him try. She is almost four months, and the doctor said four to six months is the time to try. Anyway, the first picture is her first bite and the second is her reaction. She wanted nothing to do with it. She wouldn't even open her mouth for it. She just stared at us like "No, don't even try." She is really a nurser, she just took a bottle on Monday night. We went to the Jesus tour concert and didn't want to take her. So she was kind of forced to take a bottle, luckily she did really well. It was a big step for mommy to be able to finally leave the house for short periods of time!! The third pic is just one I thought was cute. Mike couldn't believe that I was actually going to let her wear her adorable little "do-rag", I thought it was cute and I got a lot of comments from other women.

That's all for now...Ally goes into the doctor on Tuesday so I'll write with all her new info next week. Just to let you know...she's a chunk!! She'll be taking down Emily soon, if she can catch her that is!!

Mike's Tests

Mike just recently had to take two tests for his securities licenses, series 6 and 63. I'm not sure that I've ran into anyone that passed them the first time but Mike did. He took one on Monday and one this morning and got over 86% on both of them. So he did really well. I'm really proud of him, he worked really hard for these. Now I think he can finally concentrate on the agency with full force. Watch our Redding!!

Anyone in need of a mutual fund now? =)