Rings . . . Tails and the North Pole

Before this day gets away from me I need to blog two conversations that I've had with Lia.

Without giving the entire background to this story I have misplaced my wedding ring and another ring that I have worn since my first trip to China. Both rings were here Friday and are now no where to be found. Todd and I have talked to both kids and neither of them has a clue to where they are. Yesterday Lia said that she thought that Wilbur had taken them. Wilbur if you have followed this blog is her imaginary friend and at times husband. This is how our conversation went:

Lia: Mom, Wilbur took your rings.
Me: Lia, you need to talk with Wilbur. I'm very sad that I can't find my rings.
Lia: Wilbur, Mom wants her rings. . . . Wilbur said my brothers and sisters took them.
Me: Lia, do you know where my rings are?
Lia: No, my brothers and sisters took them.
At this point Todd takes Lia to her room and tells her to think about where she might have seen the rings. A few minutes pass and Lia comes running from her room:

"Mom, Mom, my brothers and sisters took your rings to the North Pole! Hurry, we got to get there quick and find them."

This morning I woke up extra early to enjoy some quiet time and reading. I was sitting on our couch, sipping tea and enjoying my devotion on Colossians when my sweet Lia-Joy woke up. Really? She never gets up this early. I explained that it's too early for her to be up but she wants to be with me and so I say that she can sit with me quietly while I read. Let's just say my sweet Lia has not had a lot of joy this morning. She wants to eat chocolate and I have told her that we can have some later but that just makes her angry and she has had two "go to your room and calm down" moments in the last couple of hours. The last time she was disrespectful and I held her for a minute and explained that if she had another outburst or was disrespectful that she would have a spanking. This is what she said:

"Mom, I don't like spankings. Spankings are disgusting and they hurt my tail."
I tried really, really hard not to laugh but I couldn't help it. So much for my moment of discipline.

Tractor Ride

The first photo was taken by Lia. She's a pretty good photographer.

The second photo was taken by Zach. I like that this picture captures the motion of our tractor ride through the tree farm.

Photo project

We have two friends that have a weekly photo project called WORD. It's a really cool project and I always look forward to viewing the pictures they have posted each week. The pictures always have some aspect of words in them because they both love words.

I thought this would be a cool project to do with the kids. Each week we will have a theme, the kids will take pictures of things that relate to that theme and then I will post one picture from each of them.

It will be fun and interesting to see what their perspective is and what they find to capture. Hope you will follow along.

Christmas Tree

Baby Jesus

I was doing some work at the computer and Lia climbed up into my lap. She needed some Mommy time so I picked her up and we sat down on the couch to snuggle.

Lia loves to create scenerios for us to act out. Here's the scene she created this afternoon.

Lia: Mom, you be Mary and I'll be baby Jesus and all the people will come to see me and be excited.
Mom: You want to be baby Jesus.
Lia: Yep, the Son of God.