Deficient?

Yesterday at the grocery store my bagger kindly pointed out that Matthias pokey up, feathery hair is a sign on Vitamin A deficiency. (See exhibits 1-3 below...yes, Matthias does my laundry for me. It's his rent.)

Exhibit 1

Exhibit 2

Exhibit 3


Now seriously, does this kid look deficient in anything? I did some research though...

"Vitamin A is essential to vision, wound healing, bone formation (e.g., teeth), healthy skin and growth, mucous membranes, and lactation. Further, it may also be a factor in preventing cancers. It is important to the immune function, and has been shown to have antiviral properties." ecureme.com

Having heard nothing about this from my doctor, I looked for symptoms. This site list some symptoms of Vitamin A deficiency. Matthias has none of these symptoms.

My diagnosis...lots of static electricity. I think it's cute. We'll go with it.

After having read the symptoms, if you do suspect Vitamin A deficiency in yourself, try out some of these foods high in VitA: vegetables, milk, eggs, kidney beans, fish (cod and halibut), and liver. (Yum, liver)

Taylor pointed this out to me as we are in the process of purchasing a new mini-van...I'm not sure what his point is?

Learning

James has a book with a page of famous people in American history and as we were looking at it I realized that I actually know next to nothing about quite a few things, but in this case Pocahontas and Sacagawea. So I decided to find out what I could. While some information was not well kept and it a little controversial, I enjoyed learning more about these two women.

Matthias learned how to take care of babies yesterday. While we were watching a friend of ours (Chloe aged 6 months) she started to cry. Matthias kept trying to give her a binkie and when that didn't work he finally took the binkie out of her month and gave her a doll bottle. He was very cute learning to be soft and share toys with her.

James and I talked about Math yesterday for Preschool. As he put it for Dad, "We learned counting." He can now count to 5! We also talked about shapes, sizes, and sorting. And played some I SPY.

Taylor is learning about washing machine pumps and how to fix them. I will keep you posted on how successful his learning is. Keep your fingers crossed! For now we are wearing an interesting assortment of clothes (I did go do a batch of undies at a friend's house). =]

Hope you learned a lot today too!!

Remember

Well, I should be asleep, but I wanted to type something that has been on my mind and I just reached a great conclusion to...

Several days ago I mentioned to Taylor how sad it was that James and Matthias weren't going to remember this time in our lives. I mean, how many memories do you have of being one or three years old? And this is my whole life right now...everything we do I try to remember (well, most things). All the laughs and games and smiles and help and learning...it is all being stowed away in my memory (and in this blog). These kids crack me up, they teach me, they love me, they humble me. And they are not going to remember it!

James won't remember that he cried for his binkie for an hour this morning, he won't remember that his friend Spencer brought him a cookie and he was so excited, he won't remember that we danced to country music all morning or built towers with Legos. He probably won't even remember Gugi and Conco (his imaginary friends who are sleeping with him right now).

Matthias won't remember he was so brave to go down the tallest slide at the park, he won't remember that he was so excited for his ice cream tonight, he won't remember the fun songs we sang at Family Home Evening. He won't remember the very memorable country music dance or being rocked to sleep by his daddy.

And I was sad.

But then I knew that they will remember mom stayed home and played with them every day, that daddy always came home and tickled them. They will know that they are loved beyond measure, that I will do anything for them and I tried my best to help and teach them. They will know that Heavenly Father loves them and Jesus Christ lives. They will remember that our home is full of love and peace and happiness.

They will remember they are loved.

James Speak

Lots of James' speak, only 1 minute until church, so...

Kristi: Your face is so cute. Where did you get such a cute face?

James: From heaven and Jesus.

Juke

To see a demo of my cool new phone click here. I ordered the teal one.

Now that is pretty sweet, eh.

Taylor got a grayish KRZR.

We're pretty excited about our new phones since our old ones have been through quite a bit and do really weird, quirky things these days like go blank, buttons don't actually work, calls never connect on our side, and overall pretty poor sound quality. Although, for having been dropped in a swimming pool mine is quite a feat of modern technology.

Which one, which one??

I am having a ridiculously hard time deciding which scooter to get James for his birthday...so I am turning the vote over into your hands. Please carefully consider the following two scooters and give me your feed back...

Nextsport


Razor



Price is a non issue, as is shipping. This is strictly functionality and coolness. Just leave a comment with your vote. Thanks!