Rum-pa-pum-pum

While Grandpa was out and about in our neighborhood, he came upon a yard sale. His find has brought great laughs, fun and creativity. We've had no headaches, yet, possibly because I'm so excited to be playing it myself that the children banging on it is almost music to my ears.

Set up is as close as we can figure out to being right.


Tim drums a beat.


One of the delightful laughs.


Ami bouncing while Tim drums. (Notice the knit winter gloves on her feet? Those make them "Monkey Feet." Really quite a funny play time around here.)

Technology

So I was adding a new blog to our blog list today and somehow unbeknownst to me, I deleted our "Blog List" with everyone's blog address. If I haven't looked at it within the week, it's not on my history. So many addresses are lost. Please let me know your blog address again so we can keep in touch. -Melissa

Spiderman

Tim's favorite clothing are his spider-man undies and pajamas. How does he do when there are real spiders, man?

I was changing in the back room, and Tim hollered through the door that there was a spider in the house. I ask him to watch it so we could kill it once I got out. He said okay.

A moment later I heard his pre-pubescent yell, "IT'S MOVING"!

"I'll be out in just a second." I responded, "Are you still watching it?"

"YES!"

When I came out, I saw Tim, standing on a stool, in the bathroom, leaning with his head around the corner.

"Where's the spider?" I asked.

"Down there!!!" He pointed 15 feet down the hall towards the kitchen.

"I thought you were watching it?"

"I am! It's down there."

Oi vey.

Winner

Congratulations to Richard for winning the table and chairs competition! Good job taking the get engaged challenge! Next comes the adventurous part!

State Delegate

David was selected as a State Delegate at this evening's caucus meeting. If you have political items you would like to chime in on related to that responsibility, please email him at

davidhoffmanem5@gmail.com

Thank you.

Jell-o

Maggie's teacher received an interesting birthday present today. At breakfast, Maggie determined she needed:

A card,

with a picture,

and Jell-o, "Some of the kind we had for dinner last night in the fridge".

Thankfully, we finished up the green Jell-o the night before. Disappointment faded as she raided the pantry. So, she taped the card to a box of fusion berry Jell-o.

Her teacher probably thinks we are nuts. Speaking of nuts, I wonder how those would taste in Jell-o...

Mingling

This just in!

Apostate unaccountable children mingle hymns with Bon Jovi and others!

So, there may be some downsides to using Lego Rockband to help the children develop a sense of rhythm and pitch.

Running through the hall goes Tim singing:

"Shot through the heart! and you're to blame, you give love... a bad name... cause..." (tune change) "Jesus wants me for a sun-BEAM!... (tune change) "What's that coming over the hill, is it a monster? Is it a monster?"

Down the hall Maggie is singing the chorus to Blink 182's Aliens exist while Ami is harmonizing with "I am a child of God"... except that she has got one part of the song wrong...

"And He has sent me ears" (as opposed to the curriculum approved, He has sent me here).

I guess we'll have to wait for the Millennium for Rock Band: Hymnbook to come out. Til then...

"We're accidentally in love, accidentally in lo-o-o-ve, accidentally in love... at home."

Twitchy Little Cougar

It's the most wonderful time of the year! March Madness is upon us again. This year's family picks reflect the level of interest and serious nature of the selection process.

David - Two years ago, he produced a bracket that took 70th place, out of over 18 million entries, only to be thwarted by his 17 year old sister and 5 year old daughter last year. This year his picks reflect trust in defense, experienced big men and quick guard play.

Melissa - Picked the teams that were the easiest and fastest to write. David was less than pleased.

Maggie - Based decisions on 1) team / cheerleader uniforms 2) rank 3) familiarity. "Since BYU has the most modest cheerleader outfits, they will win because God is on their side, right Dad?" "Only eternally darling, only eternally."

Tim - Completely random.

Ami - Whichever team was easier to say.

Susanna - We would read two teams. If the right arm twitched first, the first team got choosen, if the left arm twitched first, the second team, if she fell asleep, she got a cold hand to the back of the neck, and that would cover about 7 or 8 more picks of twitching. Amazingly, (not joking) she ended up picking BYU to lose in the final to Texas A & M. hm...

Let the games begin. Now how much sick leave have we saved up? ...