Kysa just came upstairs with something very urgent to tell me…
Kysa—“Mom, I mad at Raleigh, because he say me a “why-A”. (“why-A” = liar)
She continued, “ Raleigh’s a “why-A”, because I mad at him. He say me a “why-A” because I am mad at him. Because I need my puzzle pieces. I need to do them!”
OK Kysa.
…they won’t be babes for long.”
This is the advice Grandma Rue gave me at the end of our phone conversation tonight. She’s great.
I just thought I’d post my message handout for visiting teaching this month. I visiting teach with Chris Valentine—what a treat to be paired with someone who is so on the ball! We visiting teach Noelle Brizzee, Angie Good, and Stacey Marshall.
Alice Schenk is one of my mom’s good friends. She just completed her second Ironman in a great time…at the age of 50! AWESOME. (She also kicked my butt in the Turkey Trot 5K only four days after the Ironman!)
Cady Williams scored 40 in our overtime 93-90 win over Columbia Basin today. What a pleasure to play with Cady again, though it was strange wearing CSI jerseys. Guess that’s what happens when they cancel your alma mater’s sports program. L Grandma Ro watched the kids…dad was my chauffeur. Our team was Merrilee Udy, Brooke Kerbs, Cady, Kim Hemenway, Laurie Crocker, Shayla Bingham, and me. Coach Bate coached us again. He’s cool.
The Skyline varsity didn’t fare so well in their opener at Weber State against Clearfield H.S., losing by 20. The junior varsity won. They play Justin Nelson’s Syracuse team tomorrow night.
We play Lethbridge tomorrow at noon. They look pretty weak, and CSI blew them out last night. Columbia Basin lost to SLCC by two points, and SLCC is ranked #19 in NJCAA. Whatever that means…
I sure am enjoying this little blast from the past. I hope I can do it next year.
I am attaching our Gillette Christmas Party Invitation…the project I did tonight while Raleigh, Grandma Ro and Grandpa Jer-Bear went to the Minico boys game.
Tonight after Kysa used the bathroom she said, “Mom, I don’t want to go in the toilet. I don’t want to die. I don’t want to be all gone.” She didn’t sound stressed when she said this, but I made sure she knew the toilet was safe. She goes to the bathroom several times a day, but definitely not #2 and she’s still in diapers. Maybe this is the problem???
Last night Kysa was picking things she liked (a game called WhoNu or something like that) and she picked “climbing trees”. She said, “I’m like a cat mom.”
Tonight Ky wanted to sleep with her puzzle and her “dragons”, little toy dinosaurs. She usually calls dinosaurs dragons for some reason. She let me cut her fingernails and her toenails tonight before bed, and she’s so good about it. The only thing close to complaining I got was the comment, “That one was a little hard mom,” which she said a couple of times after I cut her toenails.
As for Shay, she is putting more sentences together all the time. She likes puzzles like her sister, calls them “puzz-ees”. She also cracks me up when we leave anywhere and it’s dark outside, she says, “Spooky!”
We have our Christmas lights up on our house and it’s a good thing…otherwise we might get kicked out of the neighborhood. Raleigh was pleased when I got them all up today. He was good company while I worked on the roof. There are only 4 houses on our street that don’t have Christmas lights, and only a few on Robb St. I think it could be the most festive neighborhood in Idaho Falls other than Candy Cane lane. Yet another reason why I love living here.
