Winding up Summer

Quick Noahism-
From "Side By Side"
"Oh, We ain't got a barrel of . . .honey. Maybe we're ragged and. . . Hungry"

Well I guess we know where his mind is. It makes sense in a weird sort of way. He Loves, Loves, Loves honey and will drink it out of the container if I let him.

My mom sent us a homemade cup holder with green acrylic cups with everyones name on them. She used an old circular microwaveable plastic muffin tin to put the cups in, and Viola! much less dirty cups since we can just rinse and reuse knowing that we are only getting our own germs. Evelyn has Noah convinced that the water tastes better out of these green cups. She told him that it turns into lemon lime flavor. (:

We have been doing a lot of science this past week and will do more this next because I bought a subscription to an online Science camp for the summer and we were so busy we didn't do as much as I had thought we would. One of the activities that was a great hit was a magic trick that Alayna spent a long time perfecting. She learned that if you stack a cup, a smooth book, a toilet paper tube and a ball -then smack the book out, hard but straight, the toilet paper tube has less inertia and will go with it, but the ball and cup have more and will stay where they are resulting in the ball falling into the cup. She got so good at it, that after 10 times of success in a row I let her do it for the camcorder with an egg and water in the cup. It worked perfectly. If anyone wants to see it I'll post it on here.

On a scarier note, poor Alayna witnessed her sister, Izy, have a Seizure a week and a half ago. It was a tonic clonic seizure and the Lord has blessed us not to have any more. We are of course following up with the doctors. We will be fasting and praying that she will be healed and not experience anymore of them this next fast Sunday, the first Sunday in September. Anyone who would like to join us is welcome.

Otherwise she is doing great and is definitely making progress. She is able to stay all by herself in a tall standing position and is going for longer and longer times sitting and in a hands and knees position.

We feel very blessed and are grateful to have such wonderful friends and family!