SPRING FEVER ANYONE?

For those of you who don't know, Randy and I went to Mexico two weeks ago. We were only gone 4 nights (didn't want to leave the kids for too long). Someone asked me after we'd been home for a few days if I had spring fever and I said no. Well, that quickly changed. First of all Randy and I don't even feel like we went to Mexico, it seems like a different lifetime. The main reason I have spring fever is because the kids do. They are getting a little stir crazy. They are getting anxious for playing at the park, going to the beach, riding bike, campfires and on and on. Hopefully we just need to make it through March.

I think the kids enjoyed playing with their toys again when we got home, at least for a day. Olivia is really getting into playing Barbies. She's been disappearing more and more. Instead of finding her messing in the bathroom, she's in her room playing.



Isaiah seems very hard to please in the toy department. We get him a really neat pirate ship for his birthday, which he played with some. So, for Christmas we got him a few more things to go with it. He never plays with it. He tells me, "I'm going to play with it when I get more stuff to go with it." I told him he probably wouldn't be getting anymore because he doesn't play with what he has. He doesn't seem to get it. I think, however, I may have discovered something he really likes. Legos..
We bought him a helicopter kit before we left for Mexico and he has put it together several times. Of course now he wants this huge fire station (600 pieces, a nightmare with an 18 month old) that he saw in the instruction book that came with the helicopter. He wanted me to go to the store and get one last week. Finally I looked it up online to see how much it was. I told Isaiah it was $60. "Oh, that's not very much" he said.

I don't really know what to say about Micah. He says new words constantly and cracks us up everyday.
He seems to be the outgoing goofy one of the three. The kids have playing hide and seek a lot lately. Micah really likes playing. He usually goes with the counter and looks for people. Ever once in a while during the day, he'll go over by the kitchen closet (where we stand to count) and say rather loudly, "Nine, ten. Nine, ten". Then he'll going wandering out like he's looking for someone.

Yesterday in the nursery at church, Isaiah says to me, while looking at a little black girl, "Boy, she must go outside a lot!" "Probably not," I told him. "But if you're out in the sun a lot it makes your skin dark" he said. "Yeah, it can. But she was born with dark skin." "How was she born with it?" I know I've told him a few times before that God made people with different colored skin, he just must be really isolated here in Northern Minnesota.

Every once in a while we get on the subject of Satan somehow. Isaiah will often talk about fighting him. Tonight one of the kids Bible stories was about Jesus being tempted by Satan. Isaiah said,"If I saw Satan and I had a fork in my pocket (who knows why that would be) I would stab him in the head. Then we could throw him into the fire." Olivia started to get into to and said, "Yeah, we could make a campfire and throw him in it." What do you say?!