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Hi,

On a more serious note, please visit my alter ego blog post at Help Out a Great Endometriosis Organization...Yankee Candle Fundraiser. Please forwarded the information on about the Yankee Candle Fundraiser to everyone you know.

I suffered from this disease since I was a teenager and here's My History with Endometriosis.

Please help out the 7 million girls and women in the US and the 70 million around the world with this disease. It would mean so much to me.

~Jen

While Mommy and Daddy are Away...

...we will play with Nana and Papa















~From Ryan, Katie, and Bella

Pictures of Day out With Thomas 2008

Daddy finally took the pictures off of Mommy's camera from our Day out with Thomas this year.

We hope that you enjoy them!!!



















~from Ryan, Katie, and Bella

Two preschoolers...one hour...one room

I'm not even going to bother telling you about their "fun" on July 7th outside of the fact that this is my room (along with Katie's) and my brother and sister were "playing" in there.




This is what Mommy saw when she first opened the door.



Not a pretty scene is it???




I wasn't please either since all of the clothes in my dresser were emptied out onto the floor.

~Bella

Music Request this afternoon...

The music came at the request of my oldest daughter, Katie. She really wanted it on. I ask her if she wanted this or other music like Sesame Street and she said with her emphasis added No I want to see the video that we got at Christmas. The kids got a children's video with dancing and singing on it from us.

The kids were dancing today to children's music DVD. They were having a grand ole time. At times all three of them were dancing to the music in their own way. Katie was trying to imitate the people and children dancing. At times, Ryan was either dancing or drumming to the music on the drum. Bella was busy trying to jump up, marching, and dancing around the room. By the time I got my camera, all they did was stop and smile or make funny faces at the camera. So I put the camera away out of reach of the little ones. They were giggling through the songs and singing along to the music.

During the DVD, they stopped dancing one by one and sat down next to each other. Ryan was in the middle while his sisters were on either side of him. They were all snuggling up underneath a blanket for my bedroom that I hadn't folded up yet. Ryan had made sure his sisters were tucked in.

They were singing once more to the music. Then the big conversations came up about music, who was going to play what musical instrument all located in their Bee Bop Band drum (Katie was playing two shakers, Ryan was busy conducting who was playing what instrument at what time, and Bella was busy shaking her head no to the instruments Ryan was giving to her to play) and more.

One of the songs was Happy Birthday, another was Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, another one was 10 Little Indians (okay not PC but it was on the DVD), and more.

Did I mention that Katie's requested video that we watched, the children music video, is a Korean children's video??

Music is universal. I listen to all sorts of music that I don't know most if not all of the words to. I listen to some German (I grew up in a church that was started by Germans so we sing alot of German Christmas hymns), a little more Spanish, Georgian Chant, Celtic, and Korean. And that's in addition to the English speaking groups/solo artists and genres that I listen to. I listen to 50s Rock and Roll music right up to today's stuff. I also listen to classical music and I love Mozart's music in particular. I feel wonderful when I'm listening to each of the different types of music since each puts me into good mood (whether it causes me to sing or hum along to it, dance to it, or just relax to it).

This children's music video was put on this afternoon because my daughter highly requested it. Maybe she needed to see and hear some kids' singing and was sick of Wiggles or Sesame Street songs. Maybe this type of music makes her feel all happy inside and that shows on the outside of her by her beaming face. Maybe she wanted to watch it and try singing to it since it's Korean. The title of this children's video is 동요나라 or Dance and Sing with Jumi and Dienna.

Seeing the kids dance and sing, play and have a discussion about the instruments and about the music was wonderful enough to me and I enjoyed listening to it and dancing to it with the kids too.

~Jen

Please view this video

I saw this on Margie's blog and finally had the chance to watch it. It made me think as well.



Let me know what you think.

~Jen

More preschooler questions for you to answer...

How does a river get made?
Why is the sky blue?
Why is that airplane chasing the other one? Mind you we told Ryan that the first airplane (the Cessna) was bringing the other airplane (the glider) up very high in the sky so that it can glide back down to the airport.
Did you know that milk comes from cows?
Why do birds fly?
Is it going to thunder again?
Is THAT a coccoon??
How do fish get made?

So I'm curious, how would you answer my two oldest children's questions?? Particular answer the one about how fish get made to satisfy a 4 year old little boy's and a near 3 year old little girl's curiosity.

~Jen