I am fifteen no longer

I have known this fact for sometime but it just became true this evening when I played three volleyball matches. So three matches, plus four advil, minus the square root of the three burritos (hey, they were small) I had for dinner equals 26 years of age. Welcome to the new math.

Oligochaeta- thanks Wikipedia

Today Bradie became an enemy to the animal kingdom. Actually, she mutilated a worm. I hoped her descent from a vegan lifestyle would occur in the partaking of a chicken breast or even a burger but instead she found a small earthworm and crushed it between two fingers. This move also officially deems her a kid.

Bradie's Song

She sits in her high chair lazily eating graham cracker pieces and playing make believe with the bowl they came in. Her sing song babble is quiet but not quite under her breath. I lean in to lift her tray out of place and smell her baby hair which is sweet but also like nothing, like clean water tastes. In her ear I sing "blue jean baby, LA lady, a seamstress for the band..." I go on and sing other verses out of order and probably off key, but she doesn't care. Out of her chair now, she sways to them anyways and joins along in that same lilting voice.

remember

Here's what happened to some of the women that had been following Jesus that first Easter Sunday....

behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing;

5and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living One among the dead?

6"He is not here, but He has risen Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee,

7saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again."

-Luke 24: 4-7

That's what I'm talking about! Happy Easter everyone!

I am diverse, and not just a pretty face

Here are some sweet vacation shots (except for the bike helmet, that was before). As you can tell Bradie had a fabulous time being doted on by her Grandma and Grandpa. She even got Grandma to go down the slide with her in the park! Work it, Bradie!

I am into doing a lot of "stinker face" right now. Sometimes it happens when I am critically thinking about the arrangement of shapes and colors on my Baby Leap Pad. Other times I make this face while whining and barely saying the word "no".

Chillin' Spokangeles

Well Guillotine was quite fun, but much more so was the new game we learned, Quiddler. Its like Scrabble meets Gin...very fun! Marcus even went down to Uncle's to buy it. Today we ate at Scalawag's with some gals I used to work with and looked at the falls at various vantage points. The river was rushing with a fury I've never seen before. I think Bradie summed it up from her stroller when she said, "whoa!"

It's been a pretty easy, relaxing vaca so far. Right now I am on my second Michael J. Fox movie of the day, Back to the Future II. The folks have an HDTV, a wireless hotspot for a house and a laptop always charged up for use, so Marcus is in "nerdary" heaven. They also have boundless grandparent energy to play with my daughter who goes and goes and goes. I actually feel pretty good at the end of the day and that has been a blessing.