I haven't forgotten about this blog. Just have had a couple of busy weeks with our project. It's a very different kind of interesting than my usual funny stories about Pax and our family, but feel free to check out what we've been up to the last week or so on our other blog: www.fivetofivethousand.wordpress.com.
I promise to come back here soon with pictures and funny stories... we've got a ton to share!
Monday, March 8, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Monkeys
Paxon has been a monkey lately. As in monkey see, monkey do.
The other night I was brushing my teeth while he "brushed" his in his bathroom. I noticed him watching me, then tilting his head to the side at a funny angle. Then, I caught my reflection in the mirror and realized I was doing the same thing.
We've had an influx of ladybugs on the south side of our house. This is a story for another time, but if you have suggestions to get rid of them, I'm all ears. I've been sucking them up with the vacuum. Pax has been very into this process and has been helping me hunt them. Instead of dragging the vacuum in and out of the laundry room closet each time I need it (which is 40x daily), I just stashed in temporarily behind the curtain in the kitchen. When I got home on Sunday afternoon, Pax was napping, but I found his "vacuum" stashed on the other side of the window behind the curtain.
Today, Travis was working on his bike. He flipped his bike over onto the seat and handlebars and got out his box of wrenches. Pax wanted his "bike" out too, so we opened the garage door and got his tricycle out. A moment later, I heard a crash and saw that Pax had intentionally pushed his bike over in order to work on it like daddy. He even had to go inside to get his tools "yike Daddy."
The other night I was brushing my teeth while he "brushed" his in his bathroom. I noticed him watching me, then tilting his head to the side at a funny angle. Then, I caught my reflection in the mirror and realized I was doing the same thing.
We've had an influx of ladybugs on the south side of our house. This is a story for another time, but if you have suggestions to get rid of them, I'm all ears. I've been sucking them up with the vacuum. Pax has been very into this process and has been helping me hunt them. Instead of dragging the vacuum in and out of the laundry room closet each time I need it (which is 40x daily), I just stashed in temporarily behind the curtain in the kitchen. When I got home on Sunday afternoon, Pax was napping, but I found his "vacuum" stashed on the other side of the window behind the curtain.
Today, Travis was working on his bike. He flipped his bike over onto the seat and handlebars and got out his box of wrenches. Pax wanted his "bike" out too, so we opened the garage door and got his tricycle out. A moment later, I heard a crash and saw that Pax had intentionally pushed his bike over in order to work on it like daddy. He even had to go inside to get his tools "yike Daddy."
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Five to Five Thousand
After reading the book A Million Miles In A Thousand Years by Donald Miller, our minister has been talking about the story we write with our lives. Travis and I both happen to have read this book at the beginning of this year, and so it has spurred some conversation in our home about what kind of story we want to tell in the things we choose to DO in our lives. It's caused us to reflect on the sort of boring story we live through every day. Not to say that our life together does not have any meaning or purpose, but many days, we are going from alarm clock (or Paxon waking us up) to bedtime with the purpose of getting our work done, our house clean, our bills paid, our meals made, the laundry folded, some errands run, some TV watched, and on and on...We are existing within the confines of our daily responsibilities and habits. We've been discussing ways that we can write a better story for ourselves and for our family. What do we want Pax to see us doing? Are we really living intentionally?
Not to say that we don't find a lot of ways to love each other, laugh together, and do good things together, but if I'm honest, I see some room to make a much more interesting and meaningful story with my life and our life as a family. So Travis and I have been discussing this lately. Enter the Holy Spirit.
Last Sunday, our church gave out $25,000 in increments of $5, $10, and $20 and challenged us to think of ways we can use whatever we were given to write a better story for our lives. The only catch is that we couldn't give it back to our church in any way. We had 3 days to think/pray about it and then 2 weeks to do something with it.
We had some great ideas immediately, but decided to follow what was asked and think/pray for 3 days. Glad we did. We decided we wanted to build a well in Africa with an organization called Just Hope International-- this was not my original idea of what to do with it, but quickly became apparent that it was what we were supposed to try. It's well known that most diseases in the world come from a lack of access to clean drinking water, an issue that could easily be solved, and is being solved by different organizations who dig wells in third world countries. Typically, the cost of digging one of these wells is around $5,000. The problem is that Travis and I got $5 in our envelope. In order to build a well, we'd need to grow that money x1000. And I HATE asking for money... for any reason...My detailed oriented mind is telling me this is crazy... $5 to $5000 in two weeks... how is this going to happen? Still, the message was clear. BUILD A WELL. So, we are trying something crazy.
Within a few hours, we had put together a facebook group and a blog. We had an email address and people are JOINING US in this story. It's crazy and exciting. I am not sure what will come of this, maybe we'll just get a couple of hundred dollars, maybe we will build a well in 2 weeks, but even thinking about this sure beats folding laundry while catching up on the DVR.
Not to say that we don't find a lot of ways to love each other, laugh together, and do good things together, but if I'm honest, I see some room to make a much more interesting and meaningful story with my life and our life as a family. So Travis and I have been discussing this lately. Enter the Holy Spirit.
Last Sunday, our church gave out $25,000 in increments of $5, $10, and $20 and challenged us to think of ways we can use whatever we were given to write a better story for our lives. The only catch is that we couldn't give it back to our church in any way. We had 3 days to think/pray about it and then 2 weeks to do something with it.
We had some great ideas immediately, but decided to follow what was asked and think/pray for 3 days. Glad we did. We decided we wanted to build a well in Africa with an organization called Just Hope International-- this was not my original idea of what to do with it, but quickly became apparent that it was what we were supposed to try. It's well known that most diseases in the world come from a lack of access to clean drinking water, an issue that could easily be solved, and is being solved by different organizations who dig wells in third world countries. Typically, the cost of digging one of these wells is around $5,000. The problem is that Travis and I got $5 in our envelope. In order to build a well, we'd need to grow that money x1000. And I HATE asking for money... for any reason...My detailed oriented mind is telling me this is crazy... $5 to $5000 in two weeks... how is this going to happen? Still, the message was clear. BUILD A WELL. So, we are trying something crazy.
Within a few hours, we had put together a facebook group and a blog. We had an email address and people are JOINING US in this story. It's crazy and exciting. I am not sure what will come of this, maybe we'll just get a couple of hundred dollars, maybe we will build a well in 2 weeks, but even thinking about this sure beats folding laundry while catching up on the DVR.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
And give you... doughnuts!
We visited Krispy Kreme for the first time with Paxon recently, and thus, the doughnut has made it's grand debut in our family life. Mmmmm. Now, I prefer more doughy, bready style doughnuts, but Krispy Kreme has a great thing going, plus you can watch as the doughnuts are made in mass. It's an interesting process and the sweet goodness of the end result was not wasted on Paxon.
We end our night time routine with bedtime prayers and a blessing over Pax. As we prayed with him a few nights ago, we paused as we normally do at the end of our prayer to let him fill in the last word...
May the Lord bless you and keep you.
May the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you.
May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you...
Pax: (normally filling in "peace" here, instead enthusiastically shouted) DOUGHNUTS!
A few days later, this trend was still going on. We decided to continue on with the prayer without pause to the word "peace" and eliminate the opportunity for "doughnuts" to enter our nightly conversations with God. Pax's reaction?
Pax: I no yike (like) peace. I yike DOUGHNUTS!
We end our night time routine with bedtime prayers and a blessing over Pax. As we prayed with him a few nights ago, we paused as we normally do at the end of our prayer to let him fill in the last word...
May the Lord bless you and keep you.
May the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you.
May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you...
Pax: (normally filling in "peace" here, instead enthusiastically shouted) DOUGHNUTS!
A few days later, this trend was still going on. We decided to continue on with the prayer without pause to the word "peace" and eliminate the opportunity for "doughnuts" to enter our nightly conversations with God. Pax's reaction?
Pax: I no yike (like) peace. I yike DOUGHNUTS!
Monday, February 1, 2010
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it SNOW!
We enjoyed a rare real snow of 4 to 6 inches here. Because snow here is so rare, it almost complete stops the hustle and bustle of daily life. We've loved being snowed in at home and relaxing the last few days. Pax wasn't crazy about walking in the snow, but he did really like our snowman.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
The Darndest Things
A few Pax tidbits from the last couple of weeks...
Tissues Not Needed
Pax entered the room picking his nose.
Me: Pax, do you need a tissue for your boogers?
Pax: No, I just getting them out.
Me: I know, buddy, but let's get you a tissue to put them on.
Pax: No, I'm fine. Flicking whatever he got onto the floor.
YouTube
Pax loves the movie and characters from Disney's Cars. We were watching the accompanying Pixar short films featuring Tow Mater on Youtube.com. We'd watched a few 3 minute videos and I closed the window on the computer.
Pax: No, Mommy, don't turn it off.
Me: Pax, we've watched like 52 videos. Let's go play in the other room.
Pax: I need watch just one more. Said in a sing-song voice.
Me: Why, so you can watch like 53 videos?
Pax: Oh, yeah! Ok!
Pretty Awesome
Pax got a new room from Santa. He's been sleeping in it for nearly a month now, but still it's quite a novelty in our lives. Another post sometime to feature the new room, but this for today.
Pax: Let me show you my room, Mommy. You like my new room?
Me: Yeah, I do!
Pax: Shrugs. Yeah, it's pretty awesome.
Pax Dawg
Eating a local restaurant, I returned from the salsa bar to hear this.
Pax: Acting silly says some unintelligible gibberish
Travis: For real, dawg?
Pax: For shizzle, my dizzle.
Caught off guard, we laughed. Then he proceeded to say it to many other restaurant patrons. We may be eating at home for awhile.
Mr. Table
Putting Pax down for a nap, he asked about a little table that used to sit in the kitchen. He used the table for playdough and drawing, but we'd moved it out of that room when we had our Christmas tree in there. Even with the decorations put away, the table has yet to move back in.
Pax: Mommy, move that playdough thing back in.
Me: Are you talking about your little table that you use for playdough?
Pax: Yeah.
Me: Have you missed your table?
Pax: Who's Mr. Table?
Tissues Not Needed
Pax entered the room picking his nose.
Me: Pax, do you need a tissue for your boogers?
Pax: No, I just getting them out.
Me: I know, buddy, but let's get you a tissue to put them on.
Pax: No, I'm fine. Flicking whatever he got onto the floor.
YouTube
Pax loves the movie and characters from Disney's Cars. We were watching the accompanying Pixar short films featuring Tow Mater on Youtube.com. We'd watched a few 3 minute videos and I closed the window on the computer.
Pax: No, Mommy, don't turn it off.
Me: Pax, we've watched like 52 videos. Let's go play in the other room.
Pax: I need watch just one more. Said in a sing-song voice.
Me: Why, so you can watch like 53 videos?
Pax: Oh, yeah! Ok!
Pretty Awesome
Pax got a new room from Santa. He's been sleeping in it for nearly a month now, but still it's quite a novelty in our lives. Another post sometime to feature the new room, but this for today.
Pax: Let me show you my room, Mommy. You like my new room?
Me: Yeah, I do!
Pax: Shrugs. Yeah, it's pretty awesome.
Pax Dawg
Eating a local restaurant, I returned from the salsa bar to hear this.
Pax: Acting silly says some unintelligible gibberish
Travis: For real, dawg?
Pax: For shizzle, my dizzle.
Caught off guard, we laughed. Then he proceeded to say it to many other restaurant patrons. We may be eating at home for awhile.
Mr. Table
Putting Pax down for a nap, he asked about a little table that used to sit in the kitchen. He used the table for playdough and drawing, but we'd moved it out of that room when we had our Christmas tree in there. Even with the decorations put away, the table has yet to move back in.
Pax: Mommy, move that playdough thing back in.
Me: Are you talking about your little table that you use for playdough?
Pax: Yeah.
Me: Have you missed your table?
Pax: Who's Mr. Table?
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