Random Sampler

This week has been full of a bunch of random incidents. On Friday, for activity days, the girls put together Mabel's puzzles, so of course, Mabel had to put them together too.

Mabel putting together her puzzle with daddy.

On Monday, I put Sam on the bathroom vanity for a few minutes and he got into the cabinet, found Mabel's lip gloss and applied liberally.

Sam showing off his pretty lips.

On Tuesday night, Sam decided that he had so much fun playing with his school bus that he couldn't part with it and wanted to sleep with it that night. Nick will tolerate him sleeping with a carebear and a pink bunny, but put his foot down when he wanted to sleep with the bus.

Max has been busy "practicing" his smile lately. Here's some of his most recent attempts. He might have to relearn how to smile once his teeth come in.

In Stake conference last weekend, the area authority counseled us to turn off the TV during dinner to promote conversation and family bonding. Unfortunately, dinner conversations around our house are rather lacking. However, Mabel and Sam have started paying great attention to what is printed on their shirts. So during tonight's dinner conversation, Mabel was telling us that Sam had Curious George and she had flowers. She was then in deep thought, and I asked her what she was thinking about and she told us that Tinkerbell was on her shirt yesterday. On that note, when we were eating dinner yesterday, Sam kept pointing at the picture on his shirt and saying "helicopter.....up in the sky".

If we aren't busy talking about their shirts, we're usually asking them if they have to go potty, if they just went potty, if they can sit down, or if they want anything to eat other than pickles and ranch. So, we've come to the conclusion that this is one of those commandments that doesn't make sense immediately, but we have faith that someday dinner conversations will blossom more than the flowers on Mabel's shirt.