Sunday

This morning, Craig woke up with a horrible pain in his ankle. He has the gaut, but usually just in his toes and the ball of his foot. Since he could barely walk, he decided it would be best if he stayed home from church. Drew was acting silly and was not cooperating to get his clothes on, so just Mikayla and I headed off to church! It was a moving message on the Bible and abortion. We also had the director of the Carolina Pregnancy Center speak with us today as we kicked off our Baby Bottle Boomerang Campaigne. We will be filling baby bottles with change, bills, or checks to be donated to the Carolina Pregnancy Center so that they can provide free services to women in crisis.

Since Mimi was in a Continuing Ed class today, we were on our own for lunch. So we enjoyed pizza and then had a nap! After our nap, Poppi came over with chocolate milkshakes for Drew and Mikayla! They surely enjoyed this afternoon snack. We watched the Carolina Panthers play football, and Drew showed Poppi how he plays his VSmile Video Game System that Santa brought him!

After Poppi left we had supper (we offered to feed him but he said he was fine), then headed to Bilo to get some cherry juice for daddy. Mrs. Dana at church told me that cherry juice would help with the gaut and Craig was willing to try anything (well not anything, but you know what I mean). After we returned from Bilo, Drew and Mikayla played a little more.

Drew decided that he wanted to try out his roller blades that Poppi got him for the first time! First, daddy got him all padded up, then he put on the skates. It was so funny trying to watch Drew stand up with these things on! Finally, he was able to stand up and actually did pretty well,even if he was only on carpet.

Mikayla's new laugh. She squints her eyes closed and covers her mouth! It is really cute, even if I do say so myself!

Before bed, we picked out three stories to read. Drew picked out one of his Thomas books, Mikayla picked out Good Night Moon, and mommy got the Dick and Jane storybook, and we began reading them in that order. When I got to the Dick and Jane storybook, Drew was very enthusiastic about reading it himself! While reading the first story (Dick), I would read a page and then Drew would reread the page. Then, while reading the second story (Jane), Drew was beginning to read some words by himself without me saying them first. By the time we had gotten to the third story (Baby), Drew was reading it almost completely by himself. He learned the words "Dick", "Jane", "Baby", "look", "see", "oh", "and", and "funny" tonight! I can't wait to start on the next story (Spot) tomorrow to see how he does with those words! While Drew and I were reading these stories, Mikayla was reading Good Night Moon from memory. This was a great way to end our night and the weekend.