The Heart of a Child...

School is almost over and Hailey brought several of her notebooks home yesterday. She didn't bring them to me until this morning. One of them was her journal. I started flipping through it and came to this entry. I wanted to share these sweet thoughts she wrote about her Papa.

Boys and Their Toys

Randy came home from Orlando last week with a new toy. A guy that works for him was getting rid of this mini dirt bike. It was just too good a deal for Randy to pass up. He'd told Tyler he was getting one so Tyler was anxiously awaiting his arrival. Needless to say Tyler was dying to get on it. He's never ridden a motorcycle before so Randy gave him a crash course on how it works. It took him a little while to figure it out but as you can see he's now tearing the streets up in the neighborhood. He rode for hours the next afternoon. We told him the neighbors were going to call the police on him for disturbing the peace!

Sadie's latest adventures

Sadie has been a real stinker the last few days. Yesterday she was a screamer. She screamed about everything! She ended up in her room (we have a doorknob cover on the inside of the door so she can't escape) for a time out. She cried for several minutes then she got really quiet. I knew she was probably into something, but waited before going to check on her so I could enjoy a few peaceful moments. When I went into her room, she was sitting in the floor emptying the last of the bottle of baby powder into her potty seat (which we only use as a stool now). It might be humorous if this was the first run in she'd had with baby powder. She had gotten in trouble a few days earlier for "dusting" her room with the stuff, so she knew better.

Tonight she was getting ready for her bath and brought a towel into the bathroom. Instead of setting it on the counter, she put it in the bathtub which was already full of water. Bath towels can soak up a lot of water! Not long after that she was playing with a stick horse in the living room. I caught her standing on the coffee table trying to touch the ceiling fan with the horse's head. She got close enough to knock a few piles of dust off the fan!

Oh, and I forgot to mention that before the towel and horse incident she was outside with a stick she found butchering one of my potted plants. Stay tuned for more.......