Notes From All Over

* Faith is playing over at our house all day today with Allison. We went to the Ivey's for a bit and watched some videos of their girls doing ballet. Allie still has troubles pronouncing her "th" sound so she calls her friend "Fafe".

* Last night our home team and the Crabb's home team got together and worked on finishing the infant nursery at church. If I don't paint again for a year I won't mind a bit.

* We are on the hunt for two things: 1) a vehicle to replace my Honda Accord, and 2) a new mattress. I can't believe we might actually buy a minivan. This is too disturbing to write about now. I may have to blog about that later. The mattress: this I am excited about. We bought the absolute cheapest thing when we were first married -- it's time for the thing to go. The question is . . . do we get the sleep number bed or what? I don't know a blasted thing about any of those beds.

* Ryan is suddenly ALL over the place. No, he's not crawling. Not quite, anyway. He does roll, and shimmy, and inch, and twist. Basically he gets where he wants to be. He is just dying to play with his big sisters. They are mothering him more than ever too. Allie has decided that he can be her "Baby Alive". (For people who do not play with kids all day, there is an ad running right now about a baby doll that actually drinks and does, um, other things.) Anyway, she is so excited that she has a Baby Alive. She even calls him that.

* Emmie's new favorite song is "Jesus Loves Me". She sings or hums it all the time. It occasionally is usurped by the Barney song, but mostly "Jesus Loves Me" is her chart topper. We think she has a good voice. But what do we know . . . we're just the parents.