Cake Feet

"Mommy, I cake feet!", he tells me as he drops the cupcake box lid on the ground in the living room.

I now know his stride is approximately 12 inches (after cleaning up the frosting from every other step.) :-)

Beating New Paths

So I just skimmed a few chapters of Chime, by Franny Billingsley.

I didn't like it enough to want to read the whole thing, BUT, I found myself intrigued by the way it describes beating new paths in our minds. It's like CBT, but described in a new way, which improved my understanding of the concept. Beating new thought paths is so incredibly difficult. Why is that? And how do we get such distorted thought paths so deeply worn in our minds in the first place? 

While I didn't like the book (the writing style irritated me, which is why I read the first five chapters and skipped to the last two), I'm grateful I read part of it! 

A GREAT GF sugar cookie recipe

Don't want to lose this, so I'm posting it here.  A friend shared the link with me; it's from www.glutenfreeonashoestring.com and make delicious GF sugar cookies. Ren helped me (I should have taken pictures), and they have his seal of approval, too.

http://glutenfreeonashoestring.com/soft-frosted-sugar-cookies/

I Would Have Gone With Jonah, Myself...

Rather than hand over the iPad so Ren could watch Thomas, Robb was showing Ren silly animal pictures on Facebook when he came across this video:

Farren's reaction:

F: What is? 
Pause.
F: That Jesus.
Pause (while Mommy starts busting up laughing).
F: Jesus go bye-bye.


(And Mommy and Daddy laughed even harder!)

Crocodiles

Ren is really into crocodiles.  Well, crocodiles and trains.

For Christmas we went to UT to visit Robb's family. We had awesome weather, plenty of fun with cousins, and...a stomach bug.  Yesterday we were shopping and Robb's stomach growled, loud enough for Ren to hear.

Ren: What's that sound?

Robb: That's my tummy.

Ren:  There's a crocodile in Daddy's tummy!

On the upside, our illness is providing some minor entertainment.  :-)

Happy 2014!

2013 treated us well (I got a wonderful new job, Robb was asked to apply for the Artist in Residence position at Craters of the Moon, Ren has been healthy and happy), so we're sad to see it go.  Here's hoping 2014 is equally awesome!