Well, I've added a Twitter account to my right sidebar...hopefully, I'll update this more often than my blog.  You can have my updates sent to your phone in the form of text messages, but I don't know why anyone would want to do that :-)...you can also just read my updates on my sidebar.

Since that's not enough to say in a post, I'll give you a few more Sam'isms and Susanna'isms.  They are priceless!  I WILL add some pictures soon...these kids (all of them!) are just so cute (am I allowed to say that?).

In the past month or two Susanna (3) and Samuel (2) have become obsessed with the song "Awesome God" by one of our favorite artists, the late Rich Mullins.  Their second favorite song is also by him and is called "Step by Step".  There is nothing sweeter than hearing young voices praising God, and I think God probably even has Himself a chuckle when he hears Sammy sing, "Our God is an aweful God, He reigns from Heaven above..."  He also runs around singing, "O God, O My God"...which is close to a line out of Step by Step, but to those that don't know what he's singing, it sounds an "aweful" lot like him taking the Lord's name in vain. 

Susie's new word is "very" or should I say "berry"...EVERYTHING is berry-something.  "I berry don't need to go potty".  "I berry want to go outside."  "I berry don't want my beans, but Sammy doos."  "I berry not sleepy momma, 'cuz I berry just got a lot of sleeps"

As the older three and I were trying to accomplish some schoolwork the other day, Susie and Sammy had found the empty laundry baskets.  When I looked over at them, Sammy was sitting in one on top of the couch, holding on for dear life with Susie standing behind him getting ready to send him over the edge in the basket.  She very lovingly instructed him, "You don't need to cry, Sammy"...He sheepishly replied, "OK" and off he went giggling as he plummeted to the floor.  They were thus occupied for the next hour.

This one is a bit of potty humor, so scroll on if it is not to your liking...but with little ones, sometimes you just have to laugh at the stuff they come up with in the bathroom...  Susanna is completely potty trained and has been since New Year's Day, praise the Lord!  However, in recent weeks, she has developed a fear of #2.  She is getting better, but for awhile she would just scream when she felt like she needed to go and hold her bottom.  She was then paralyzed and I would have to run to her, race her to the bathroom, unclothe her and toss her on the potty.  ...and by that time she didn't have to go anymore.  5 minutes later...scream, grab, run, toss...wash, rinse, repeat...   Last night she gave me "the look" and I said, "Susie, go to the bathroom".  She replied, "I don't need to, I just have alot of food in there", pointing at her tummy.  I answered back, "Yes, honey, but when your tummy hurts like that it's time for the food to come out."  She dutifully went into the bathroom and a little while later declared that she had gotten 2 stinkies out (she is very detailed).  When I got into the bathroom, she was peering into the toilet.  She turned to me and said, "Momma, there's 2 stinkies, but there's no food in there...just stinkies." 

Last one for now...this one happened about 2 months ago, but we re-tell it alot around here.  It's one of those stories that will only age to perfection over time.  We were driving along in the van one afternoon, all of the kids happily listening to some music when out of nowhere came a blood-curdling scream (and not the "I have to go to the bathroom" scream).   The scream was followed by panting and more smaller screams and finally the words came from Susanna, "Momma," gasp, grunt, squeal, "I can't" heavy breathing, whine, "get my shoe off" grunt, scream, "momma, I can't get my..."  and just as quickly as the silence had been broken, there came the sweetest little voice out of the very same mouth, "I got it, Momma"  All of this happened in a span of only 15 seconds.  Absolute panic to absolute cheerful calm in 15 seconds.  ...and the Oscar goes to...