Who's the weird One?

Isaac has always comforted himself by sucking his thumb and rubbing his ear.  His preference, though, is to rub someone else's ear.  Often times I glance over when we are in church and see him sitting on his Daddy's lap, sucking his thumb and rubbing Daddy's ear.

The fact is, most of Isaac's siblings won't stand for ear rubbing, but Joseph will, only because he isn't big enough to get away.  The other day I was sitting on the couch with the little boys.  It was getting close to quiet time.  I had Joseph on my lap.  Isaac was sitting right next to me.  He was sucking his thumb and rubbing Joseph's ear.

"Poor Joseph," I said, "He always has to have his ear rubbed."

Isaac took his thumb out of his mouth and said, "Yeah.  Weird!"

Reformation 2014

Our family did host our annual Reformation party this year on Oct. 31.  We didn't have as many people as usual, which made the whole thing more low key.  Less stress made for a more pleasant evening, at least for me anyway.

This year's theme was the Scottish Covenanters.  Grace did an awesome job of heading up game construction in her precious moments of free time.  Elizabeth, Paul, Lydia and even the little boys all worked very hard in the days leading up to the party to make the evening a success.

We had a lovely time of sharing food, fellowship, games and worship.  We even ended the evening with our own conventicle around a bonfire.

Unfortunately, Grandma Dianne was the only one to think to take any pictures.  The Scottish theme was a good excuse to break out the Macduff plaid.  (Matt wore a Macduff plaid tam, but his "kilt" was not Macduff plaid--it was an old flannel sheet.)

A New House Rule

This rule is not one I ever anticipated having to make, but here it is:   Don't pee on your brother's shoes. (Just because you're mad at your brother, does not mean you can pee on his cowboy boots.)