We had a big dinner with everything they wanted to eat.
He had four pieces of turkey and two pieces of pecan pie.
She mostly enjoyed the pecan pie again.
We have a lot of leftovers. I cooked as much as I would have if Luke was here.
I am sorry to those of you who are not able to see the videos I post--(sorry Amy), but I have to share this one! I don't even know if anyone looks at the videos when I post them. But this one is hilarious. At first I thought I am just easily amused (ok so I am) but I shared it with Luke and he said he didn't know when he laughed like that last.
If you don't know the original song then you just won't get it. But if you remember the horrible original video then you have to think this is funny.
On Monday at school E fell on the playground and hurt his arm right around his elbow. It was pretty much the same exact thing that K did before. When he came home from school he still could not move his arm much so we took a trip to the ER Monday night. We got an x-ray that said maybe broken, maybe not. Wear the splint and sling and follow up later in the week.
I have to say E is not as good a patient as K was. Maybe it is because he is a boy! So he stayed home from school Tuesday because he was still swollen and trying to get use to the sling.
But fortunately when we went to the pediatrician on Thursday, he said it was not broken and E could take off the splint and start using his arm again. Immediately he wanted to play football with his friends. He was fine. It took a couple more days for him to be able to move it completely without any pain at all and now he is fine.
E usually does not participate in praise and worship at church, he just stands there. Yesterday I looked over to find him singing "Look What the Lord Has Done". I grinned at him and whispered that now he could really say "he healed my body". He liked that a lot. He prayed every night not only for God to heal his arm, but to let him learn to deal with the sling with a good attitude!
I can't tell you how happy to made me to look over and see him singing in church! And at service last night K had to stay out with us until after praise and worship. She usually goes to class as soon as we go into the church but her teacher wasn't there. She must have been happy during praise and worship too, because she was raising her hand. I don't think she knew the words to sing but she was trying to praise anyway. It was really sweet. She wasn't exactly sure why she was doing it until I explained to her it was one way of praising God and then what praise means. She liked the explanation and kept doing it!
Yesterday was also our collection day at church for Operation Christmas Child. We still have some stragglers coming in Wednesday and then I will be delivering the boxes to our local drop off point. You probably know how I feel about Operation Christmas Child. If not, please read last year's post here. I will report later this week how many boxes we collect here. I would love to hear how many you collect back home. I know we don't do as good here as we did back home, but I am not disappointed. Each box is one child who will get a gift and the chance to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ. One little life that may be changed and one more soul that may be added to the kingdom of God. If you haven't packed a box, please do! If you don't know what to do, ask me I promise I will find you someone local to help!!!
I don't know where the rest of last week went. Hopefully I will post more this week.
Okay now quit laughing about the cake. I never claimed to be Martha Stewart. I always bake our cakes. Store bought cakes do not taste any better. Yes, they are prettier but we don't care. She asked for chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and chocolate sprinkles and chocolate chips. And strawberry ice cream. Yeah, I know.
And this is the only present she asked for. A disco ball. I have no idea why.
I remember so much about eleven years ago. I remember how happy I was to have my baby. I remember how scared I was. I remember how beautiful she was and very very much I loved her. She is still beautiful. And I still love her so very much. I just don't know where that baby went. 
This one was in front of an open doorway while we were getting some cool air. There is no air conditioning in there!
She liked to stay on the carpet at the edge as much as possible.
He spent most of his time here.
The birthday girl was a little shaky.
