Random Stuff

- The girls want me to cut Abram's eye lashes because they are really long and the they think only girls should have long eye lashes.

- We are just now using up the last of the toilet paper a few different people gave us shortly after the kids come home. It is a fun reminder of the goodness God poured out on us through so many people providing things we needed in those first few weeks.

- We had "Operation: Clothing Upheaval" yesterday. Out with clothes for the cold, in with clothes for hot weather. I handed down a pile of my winter clothes to my oldest daughter for next year. WHAT?!? That was certainly not something I anticipated I would be doing.

- While on the subject of clothes I just have to say a HUGE THANK YOU to the number of people who have given us clothes for the girls over the past many months. It has been such a blessing to have a stash of extra clothes in the basement for when the girls need something. If the stash doesn't have what they need then I put it on my Goodwill list. You either love the hunt for a great bargain at Goodwill or you loathe it, right? I'm a lover. I usually try to get my grocery shopping and other errands done in time on Friday nights so I can  stop at Goodwill before it closes at 9:00p. I search for and only buy the good stuff, like a pair 4T Gap jeans in perfect condition for $1.69. Or a super cute Puma exercise outfit for Isaiah for $1.69. I usually only buy a couple things at a time and the time spent searching is therapeutic. And I admit it . . . finding really nice clothing for less than $2.00 each (for the kids) is a bit of a high for me!

- Last night at dinner one of the girls said her "licker" hurt. She was referring to her tongue. Jason and I laughed and laughed! Sometimes I don't want them to learn to speak English really well because some of the things they say are so cute and/or funny. Lickers is a great example of how their language is coming along. They know how to communicate just about anything they want . . . it just doesn't usually sound like normal English. My mom has said that when she comes over she often can't understand what they say. But, we understand because we are with them all the time. The language barrier hasn't really been an issue since since about month two.

- We still eat 15 eggs as a family for breakfast everyday!

- The girls were astonished to learn a few weeks ago that the trees in our backyard are not avocado or orange trees. They were quite disappointed. Claire keeps begging us to get orange trees. Don't we wish?!