on a whim, i entered a picture of me and allie for a photo contest and by golly, we were picked as one of ten semi-finalists for the month!  so if you wouldn’t mind…  could you please vote for us?  here’s the link to see the pictures: https://www.mywhitecloud.com/momandbaby_voting/Register.jsp or here: http://www.mywhitecloud.com/momandbaby/VectorLeaderBoard_popup.jsp?uid=2345000002717&ucc=436E797C thank you!

we’ve recently begun using My ABC Bible Verses: Hiding God’s Word in Little Hearts with mikey and allie as part of their bedtime routine.  it’s been really great so far, especially for mikey who’s at the age where he can memorize things so easily and has lately been very interested in what things mean.  i’ll usually read the story a couple times during the week, the first time i read the story, i say the verse three times and have the kids repeat after me.  the rest of the nights i’ll say, “mikey, ‘a’ is for ‘a soft…'” and then he’ll go on to rattle off the verse complete with the text reference. …

it occurred to me that allie’s never had both her parents all to herself.  ever.  so yesterday, we decided to remedy that.  phil had the day off, so after we dropped mikey off at preschool, we scooted over to krispy kreme with allie.  we let her choose her donut (ended up with 20 since she wanted the mini-donut with chocolate icing and rainbow sprinkles.  turns out they only sell the mini ones by the box.  darn.  heh.), then we sat down and enjoyed a little time with our girl. allie was fascinated looking in the big windows where you could see the donuts cooking in the oil, then getting flipped over…

first it was the beehive of 06.   its supposed to keep working do we have anything stronger daddy, there’s another one!   sunscreens: my face: olay complete defense sensitive, kiss my face face and neck. walgreens sunblock with zinc oxide for face nose & ears spf 45+ everyday: kids:  mustela spf 50, california baby sunscreen spf 30, aveeno baby sunblock spf 45