Daddy and Mommy love me!!!

Today as I was putting Adlai down for a nap, Ella told me that she wanted to sing one song to him. She sang the ABC song, which is her favorite song - we sing it a couple of times to her every night before she goes to bed. After she sang the song, I peeked in on her and she was praying over Adlai (which we also do with her every night). She said "Christy, Aaron, Jon, peoples, Mama, Daddy, puppy (her favorite stuffed toy) and paci. Amen" Christy, Aaron & Jon are on our small group and she wants to pray for them every night. It is a beautiful (and scary) thing that she wants to imitate what we do. How I want to be a good example for my daughter!

Ella has been having a lot of fun with her baby brother - probably because he's interacting more. He smiles all of the time and it is quite easy to make him laugh. He'll even crack himself up while he's playing with some of his toys.

What is going on at our house?? .. the never-ending process of raking all of our leaves. As you can see we started out with quite a task .. but Ella has enjoyed playing in them.

Last weekend Case was sucking up our leaves from about 10:30 in the morning until 4:30 in the afternoon. Somewhere in that time period, Samson ran away .. without his collar on. (We realized that he was gone about 5:30PM!! Yes, we felt awful that no one noticed that he was missing for so long.) We searched the neighborhood for him until about 7:00 and Case even went door-to-door with no luck. We were worried sick about him. The next morning, Case and Ella went to the humane society to look for him and thankfully he was there! It cost us $107.o0 to bail him out! Before he ran away we were commenting on how difficult it was to have a dog on top of our two children. This incident helped us to realize how much Samson is a part of our family.