Dancing Queen

Today I'm off to Boston for a dance competition, the New England Dance Festival. I'll be dancing Pro-Am with my student Paul on Saturday morning, in the Silver Novice division, then I'll be dancing West Coast Swing Jack and Jills on Saturday night, and finally Richard and I will be competing in Division 1 on Sunday.

Starting next week I plan on educating you folks on competitive dance terminology, since I know most of you have no idea what in the Sam Hill I'm talking about.

He's Baaaaaaaaaack!

Eric's home!

It's Not Disobeying, It's Pretending!

Have I mentioned that Zachary is a master at mind control?

My parents were here this past Monday night, watching my kids while I went to rehearse. When my mother put Zachary to bed, he tried to convince her to let him sleep in Ava's room. Mom knew that wasn't something I normally let him do, so she said no. He asked her a few different times, but she didn't give in. Then he said "Mom lets me sleep in her bed all the time". Well, Mom knew that wasn't true, but she was so tired of him at that point that she let him sleep in my bed. After all, Grammas are allowed to do those sorts of things.

Last night, I had our new babysitter coming over to sit with Zach while Cole and Ava did evening VBS and I taught a dance lesson. She's a sweet introverted homeschooler, and I knew she'd be no match for Zach. So before she came I prepped Zach.

"Zachary, when Sarah tells you it's time for bed, you can NOT tell her that you're allowed to sleep in Mommy's room!". He said okay, with a grin.

I then mentioned to Sarah when she arrived that Zach might try to manipulate her about the sleeping arrangements.

When I got home I asked her how the evening had gone. She said it went fine, but Zach did try to mess with her mind. When she said it was time for bed Zach said, "Okay! Now Sarah, let's pretend that Ava's room is my room, and my room is Ava's room!"

She said he did it so quickly and casually that she almost fell for it.

Love Made Clifford Grow So Big

Ava has always loved her stuffed Clifford. Yesterday she drew a portrait of him.

Emily Elizabeth would be proud.

Monday Mornings With Zachary

Today Zach answers some random questions from a list that I found on the web.

Bible Study Methods, 8.06.09

Bible Study Methods part 1, by Bob Lewis, is now available for download here. Let me know if you have any trouble downloading this. I will be using this method to deliver Dad's videos from now on. In the future, if you'd like a copy of any video that has expired from the file share site, just send me an email and I'll upload that video again for you.

This is the first class in a series designed to teach you how to study the Bible. I apologize for the poor lighting, I couldn't find a great spot to video from. I'll also try to work on better video quality for next time.

My battery died at one hour. There was about 20-30 minutes more after that point. The homework assignment was given out after the battery died. So if you're in need of the homework assignment, send me an email and I'll get it to you.

Boo!

Cole's first Halloween. I can't decide who is cuter...