Just to capture it...

We worked with Ruby tonight, to get her to eat foods she wouldn't normally eat. It's been too long that she's been demanding of cheese, chips and fruit as the main foods she would eat (with very few exceptions--like crackers, cereal, dry fruit, and candy!).  Tonight we got her to eat salmon (and she liked it!! and took more bites on her own!!) and potatoes, and peas.  So she got a little scoop of ice cream for all of that hard work!

Kaleb and Noah ate all of their food last night and earned ice cream (we didn't warn them about the reward--we just rewarded the ones who ate well...). Tonight, Isaac, who really doesn't like potatoes, said "if I finish all of my potatoes, can I have some ice cream tonight?" And then he finished his plate off!

Ruby keeps saying "yep" to everything. "Did you eat salmon tonight?" "yep." "Did you like it?" "yep." :)

Ruby is infatuated with anything Winnie the Pooh. Her favorite tv show is "My Friends Tigger & Pooh." I got Huggies Baby Wipes ($1 each at Albertsons w/coupons!) and didn't even notice that the container had Pooh characters all over it. She picked up a container this morning and started shouting "Pooh! Pooh! Pooh!"

Karry got a Wii fit with b-day $$ (thank you mom & dad!). The kids *love* it!! Ruby did the running game today, and it weighed her & Karry checked her height. It said she was overweight!!  All of our boys are below the 5th percentile in body mass index (per recent doctor visits!), but Ruby is over weight. Hee, hee! :)

Ruby is also obsessed with dogs. She wants to pet every dog she sees. She's afraid of the owners, but she loves "a goggy" or "a puppy." We have 2 books about dogs, and they're going to be all worn out/ripped/bitten, etc., very soon, I think. 

She sings "Holy, Holy, Holy" everywhere, including through the grocery store (loud!). Today she picked up my hymn book, opened it and started singing it!

Isaac had a hard time eating a nectarine today because he's missing his 4 top front teeth!

3 cute things Kaleb said today:

"When I'm a man, I'm going to save up enough money for an airplane and a Wii, and also, I'm going to do coupon shopping." :)

and

"Mommy, when I'm a man, I'm just going to marry the one wife that God tells me to marry. And if Satan tries to tell me to marry someone else, I'll say 'Get away Satan.'"..."and Mommy, I hope my wife doesn't choose to work. I want my kids to have their mother at home."

and

He said he wants to have 8 kids when he's a man, and he said he's going to adopt most of them from England. Karry said "oh, if there are any left" (you know, the birth rates). And Kaleb said "God is always making babies, and when He puts it in my heart to adopt some babies, I will write to them, and then I will go to England." :)

He's thinking an awful lot about these things!  

Ruby calls milk "gilk" and says "me me" for "excuse me," even when someone else (like a brother) burps. :)

We taught the kids "King of Kings and Lord of Lords" and I showed them my little dance for that song. Isaac wanted to learn it.

Isaac, about ice cream: "mmmm....isn't this delicious?"

Noah is the only one of the kids who can even come close to doing a cartwheel, and he likes doing it. When he was littler he did somersalts and said "look Mommy, I made this up, it's called a 'frog'". :)

Kaleb: "just think of all of the wonderful things we did today...." =>

(um--cleaned their room, did some chores, read some stories, ate meals, took a nap, helped with laundry, read more stories, played in the backyard, picked up the family room, played the wii, ate ice cream, listened to Daddy read Narnia...yup, that's pretty much the day!!)