A Whirlwind of Firsts

I can't really explain the last week in our home. The best words I could come up with is that it's been a whirlwind of firsts.

1. As you can see in the video above, Dalen learned his very 1st memory verse. 1 John 4:8. He has called my dad and told him several times he will be speaking at The Cleveland Church for Pastor Rony (Maloney). When I get his appearance date I'll be sure to let you guys know ;)

2. Cola laughed for the very first time! I don't know why it happened this way BUT Dalen was doing something outregeous (are you surprised?) and she began to laugh so hard. Leave it to the one who constantly tortures her to bring her a little comic relief. I have it on video and will post it soon.

3. I spoke to our brand new youth group last week. The first week we had 22, the 2nd we had 40! Our kids are to die for-I REALLY mean that. They are a diverse group of excited and passionate souls ready to embrace transformation only God can bring. I just LOVED the one girl who told Mario "Yeah, I'll definitley be back because you black people, ya'll just have so much fun!" HAHAHAHA! What can you do but laugh?! I am so convinced that I need to contact all of my friends in youth ministry and have an open site where we can ananamously post funnies from week to week. I am so sure it would TOTALLY be worth reading!

4. If you are looking at my post time you will find it's 3:19 am! Little Miss C slept upstairs, in a room and crib all alone for the very first time. She has slept by my bed in a playpin for the last 3, nearly 4 months. I must say, there is a totally different feel about my baby girl sleeping all alone than when Dalen did. I can't explain it. Besides her waking up one time for a feed she has done exceptionally well, I would know I think I have watched her all night on our TV monitor (which is a MUST HAVE for you ladies who have a two story house!).

So, as you can read we are adjusting well. God has blessed us with good health, a great church and two entertaining babies. Here are a few funnies from this week.

I don't know if you remember reading about my insane moment when I took Dalen to the eye doctor with me around May of last year. I think I vowed to NEVER do that again BUT considering...I had no choice. New town, new people-no babysitters.

So I went to a walk in place and had BOTH kids with me. Yes, I know-it wasn't an act of bravery it was a total display of stupidity. Within the first 15 minutes Dalen had knocked over a whole display of glasses, torn down the sign in the window and made two friends who I am sure went home to tell their wives of a young girl who had no idea what she was doing.

Dalen's first friend was a man named Nicholas. He had white hair, fair skin but spoke with a Spanish accent. Luckily, Dalen didn't comment on how he spoke. The man tried his best to ignore Dalen. I mean Dalen would go straight up to him yapping away and he would look right passed him like he didn't exsist. Finally, Dalen stood about a foot away from him and began to recite the pledge. This man was SO not impressed and continued reading his pamphlet without even looking up. Finally, Dalen thrust his hand at him and said, "You so im-shure (immature)." Even though he was being so annoying, I couldn't have agreed more. He also told the doctor, "You for-thetic (pathetic)." Luckily, he thought Dalen said, "Just forget it." His vocabulary is out of this word! He is picking up more words than I count!

And I'll leave you with my favorite. Tonight we all went swimming as a family. After all bathing and getting ready for bed Dalen and I sang Healer together. After a few lines I let him sing solo, "You walk with me through the forest and heal my ding-a-ling!" Oh wow, it will forever be a mystery where that word came from! I promise we do NOT say it here!

Much love and thanks to all my readers-unless of course you are the freak that keeps sending me porn links. Oh yeah, and on that note my computer was almost completely destroyed for clicking on one of the links before I knew what it was. Too bad I had one tech savvy hubby!