Sticky Kisses

David has started summer semester, 9 graduate credits, 8 weeks. Out of a 7 day week, he now is completely busy on 6, during that time our family will increase to 5 . In the meantime the 4 of us spend our 3 meals together and 2 of us will probably suffer 1 massive stress induced brakedown.

On Monday, we left the children at some friend's houses and went off on our yearly escape. This year stayed at a four star spa and resort in park city (www.wgparkcity.com), which was awesome. We relaxed, read, went golfing, played games, hung out in the spa, and enjoyed getting treated like royality by the staff. I started reading a book called "Twilight" by Stephanie Meyers. David already finished it and its sequel.

About three months ago, our little lady set a couple goals: first to stop sucking her fingers and second, to learn to read (Which we considered a third grade level to count). She also choose rewards for meeting those goals. Though she has only earned two suckers out of 90 days, she did accomplish her goal of learning to read. On Saturday she went to pick out her reward of a book. Somewhere she inherited good taste, so the book she picked out was a blue, leather bound triple combination and bible set with her name engraved upon the front in silver lettering. If you give a mouse a cookie... so she also received a powder blue carrying case and scripture markers. Fortunately she does not know about the scripture mastery stickers yet so we did not need to drop fifty bucks on that yet. And here David thought he was going to get away with buying her a little Dr. Seuss book for ten bucks. hehehe. She has been reading about three verses a day since then, without needing help except on words like Zedekiah. Not bad for just turning four a few months ago.

If Alfred Hitchcock really wanted to scare parents, he would have made a movie starring our boy. His ability to find random sharp objects in the house and wield them is frightening beyond compare.