John Luke

He has such cute pronunciations! His “pr” comes out “cr” and his “br” comes out “gr” … so his paintings are “cretty” (pretty) and he might have used the color “grown” (brown)… too cute! 🙂

H1N1

I found out today that most of the “confirmed” cases of H1N1 – aren’t. MOST places are testing for influenza, and if it tests positive for Type A (the most common), they are ASSUMING H1N1 (which is a SUBSET of Type A, and NOT as common), instead of being *sure*. Therefore, the numbers they are reporting ARE NOT ACCURATE. Just […]

October Update Letter

Here’s the bulk of the letter I used to update the grandparents this month: Sarah Ruth has grown taller, and her feet easily reach the floor when she’s in her walker now. We even had to move it up a notch! She’s also working hard at trying to crawl. She has started babbling “Mamamamama” but it seems to translate to […]

Learning about the human body

No, I’m not taking anatomy lessons. I’m doing research based on issues that have cropped up here. First, a few years ago, I learned about how the gall bladder works – its function in the body. I found that the gall bladder is to the body what the oil filter is to a car, and bile is to the gall […]

Rachel’s Horse, revisited

In a previous post, I mentioned that Rachel had been doing a lot of crocheting, and the photo associated was one of her creations – a horse. We decided to enter it in the county fair in September. It won the blue ribbon! And $5 🙂