Up, Up, and Away!!!

Jacen is totally into superheroes right now. He runs around the house yelling, "I'm Super Duper Jacen!" "I'm coming to save the day!" His sunglasses have become his super hero shades, and he wears them all day, or at least carries them with him. And on Sunday, when Ethan forgot to tell the nursery worker Jacen's name, he introduced himself as "Hero". He loves The Incredibles, Larry Boy, and Super Why! And he can sing all of "Superhero" by Go Fish:

Up, up, and away! is all I want to say
When I fly away and I save the day!
If you're a bad guy on the run
I'm gonna get you just for fun.

Fear is something I don't know
I'll fight for justice wherever I go!

I'm a superhero flying around
No need to worry, you're safe and sound
Battling evil, fighting for good
I'm a superhero in your neighborhood!

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This is what I woke up to this morning. Not good. Not good at all.


On the bright side, I have photographic proof that the earth is actually getting colder, not warmer. Eat your heart out, Al Gore.

Too bad she's blind

Here's a great Jacen story:

He and Amber drove past the courthouse this morning on their way to a Bible study. Jacen noticed Lady Justice at the top and said, "Look, there's a man up there!" Amber replied, "Yes, that's Justice." On their way home, they drove past again. Jacen waved and said, "Hello, Justice!"

Priceless.

Would you please sit still?

Jacen has this problem; we call it wiggling. He is incapable of sitting still for more than 8 seconds unless he's watching a movie or his favorite TV show. This becomes especially problematic during payer before or after meals.

A while back we decided it was time for him to learn to pray himself. A side benefit of this has been that he is much much better about sitting still when we are praying, but he's regressing a bit. He folds his hands and closes his eyes when we ask him to, but as soon as the prayer starts, he is talking or banging a fork on his plate or eating what's in front of him. When we pray before bed, he bounces up and down or waves his arms as he says every line.

I started praying with him at bedtime and added a prayer at meal time once last week. I'm going the route of teaching him a sort of rhyme for his prayer, and Jacen is slowly picking up the bedtime one. I'm not particularly pleased with the ones that I know from my childhood, so if anybody knows a good bedtime or mealtime prayer for kids, I'd love to hear it.

Though he's not sitting still while we pray, Jacen definitely knows what we are doing when we pray, and that's one of the best things about being his dad. If you ask Jacen what we do when we pray, he says: "Talk to Jesus!" Awesome.

Mom's Side of the Story

This is my first time posting on this blog. I thought I'd just let you all know what Jacen and I have been up to while Ethan is out saving the world, one legal case at a time.

The weather has been cold and rainy lately. Jacen is a pretty high energy kid, so I try to have some sort of organized activity every day, whether it's something out of the house that we go to, or a craft or activity that we do in the house. Thankfully, we've had a few big things start this week. MOPS started on Tuesday, and Coffee Break started on Wednesday. Both of those take a good chunk of the morning. Jacen loves to go and play with the other kids. At Coffee Break he is part of a Sunday School type program; they have organized lessons and crafts, and even a memory verse to learn for the next week. Today we went to the library, another favorite activity of Jacen's. He can play with the toys and do puzzles in the Story Hour room while I look for books. Today I let him get a music CD also (Veggie Tales!), which was quite exciting. He listened to it 4 times before Ethan came home for lunch.

I completed my training at Blue Mountain today. I passed all of my tests on the first try (yipee!), and have my first shift on Saturday.

Other than that, my days are pretty normal. I spend my afternoons doing laundry and cleaning, or working on my Bible Study (in addition to MOPS and Coffee Break, I'm doing Beth Moore's study of Esther). The evenings that I'm not working I've been enjoying Dancing With the Stars (my current favorites are Donny, Louie, Melissa, and Mya) and the PBS specials on the National Parks (makes me want to travel!).
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Jacen quote of the week: "Super Duper Jacen to the rescue to save the day!!!"