December 3, 2007
When you what Mia what she's doing and she tries to answer "nothing"- she usually answers "anything!"
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We're working to fill in all eight slices of a pizza picture to earn a trip to Chuck E. Cheese. Slices are earned by staying in your OWN bed all night. Needless to say, Mia has earned 4 of the 5 potential pieces this far. One night Jackson came to our bed around midnight. David was explaining to him that had had to go sleep in his own bed if he wanted a slice of pizza. "
"I just wanna snugglebaby for 1 minute, Daddy!"
and he crawled over and clued himself to me. He did go back to his bed but was back with us before the sun came up. A couple nights later he came again. David went through the deal again, concluding, "so don't you want to go back to your bed so you can get a slice of pizza?"
In his sleeping stupor Jax answered,
"I need to fink about it."
The snuggles won out.
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January 7, 2008
Eli makes the sweetest sing-songy breathy baby noises. I love it.
His favorite thing to look at is the couch and loveseat material.
His favorite thing to chew on is his toes.

Eli's nicknames:
Ewi
Ewee
WeeWee
Mr. Littleby
Wee Guy (Poppy calls him that)

from Jackson and Mia:
Geegee
Giddy, sometimes "Gid"
Mr. Giddy
Giddy Boy
Giddy Boo
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January 20, 2008
David, Jackson and Mia are curled up together in the recliner watching a Hillsong United worship DVD. A few minutes in Jackson said "I like it, Daddy!" They kept watching- there were a lot of people on the stage. David said "Look at all the people worshipping God with their hands" (in the audience). When it panned back to a guy on stage Jackson asked,
"Is that God?"
"No, buddy, that's not God. We can't see God- He's not a person. He's our Creator. He's invisible. We just talk to Him even though we can't see Him and have faith that He's there."
"Faif? What is faif?"
David and I looked at each other like "how do we explain?"
Jax cont'd thinking aloud. "Faiful."
(Repeating it as he heard it in a song.)
David said "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."
Jackson had no idea what that meant, but the answer seemed to satisfy him- for now.
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January 22, 2008
Jax came down the steps this morning telling me he needed help because his button came untied.

Our toilet was out of order today so I told Jax he couldn't use it.
"I fink you need some new batteries, Mom."

Mia was downstairs in the living room with me while Jax was upstairs playing. She looked at me and said "I'm gonna go upstairs and check on Jackson. You stay here and watch da wedder." (weather)

Roofers came to fix a couple places on our roof. Jackson and Mia are always excited for anyone to come to our house. J said- "Those men are gonna like Giddy."

Mia's cusswords:
DUNGO
MINKY
JUKA
CHUCKO
GONGY
PASQUALE
BOO-PAH
NOOKAH
PEACE ON EARTH!
FLEA MARKET!
and Aunt Emmy's favorite- "SHADRACH!" as she walked out of the room after not gettting what she wanted.