New Stuff

Ok, I think I have new stuff to talk about. I'm not really sure. So we've been doing a good job reading our scriptures every day! Yesterday Lorien read 1st Nephi 4:18. After she read it she said, "Eeeew!" And made a disgusted face. The Book of Mormon is not for the faint of heart! And today she continued reading vs. 19 and skipped the word, "smitten". Poor girl. After she finishes reading the kids have to sit and listen to me read from the Old Testament. She has a picture book to go along with my reading, but there's only one picture or so for each picture. And I'm worried about reading some of the book to her. Do you think she's too young to be hearing about Lot's daughters going "in unto him?" Of course she won't understand it now, but I don't think I want to explain it when she asks. There are plenty of other parts I'm not so sure I want to read to her right now. And I can't remember what mom did! Anyway, yesterday Lorien and I went to the NASA research/learning center and then the San Jose Tech Museum. It was fun. At NASA we learned about how airplanes fly. and How the space station is run and how astronauts live up in space. We also did an experiment with conservation of angular momentum. Lorien got up on a circular platform that spins, she stuck her bottom way out while holding onto handle bars and keeping her arms and legs straight. The instructor started spinning the disc really slow, then told her to bring her bottom in. The disc started spinning really fast. All the kids had a blast. I think that was one of the best activities. The other really cool one was turning a bicycle tire into a gyroscope, to demonstrate how the satellites up in space moved it's antennae towards Earth. So the kids were to sit in a chair that spun freely and hold the gyroscope to make the chair spin the way the instructor wanted it to go. Lorien was one of the younger kids so she had a tinier tire, it still worked perfectly. Then at the Tech museum we walked through and experimented with: circuits, robots, roller coasters, genetics, music, art, body movement, inside the body, solar power, water power, wind power, human power (bike, turning a wheel), balance, pulleys, deep sea diving and the robots and camera's used, earthquakes (seismographs, simulators and detectors), internet (text language, game play, uses of), ultrasound,  wind tunnels to test propellers, prisms, and a bunch of other things I'm forgetting. Lorien had so much fun. I was wiped out by the end of the day and very grateful that I had dropped Vanessa and Christy off at Grandma's house!
In other news, I got a pot rack at a garage sale for $10, had to buy hardware for $8, and installed it on Saturday. It looks awesome! I was going to buy one for $100 or so, so I think $18 is a great buy. And it looks beautiful where we put it. I'll try to post a pic. Then we also found an amazing chandaleir for over our table. It was only $9 at Orchard Supply, normally $90! So we didn't measure. It looks like something that might fit in Delene's house. Without cutting any chain off it goes all the way down to the floor and the glass thing is about a foot smaller in diameter to our table. So it's huge. We'll see what happens. I'll have to post a pic of that later. It's still in pieces all over the place. The other thing we are trying to do it paint the living room. I've got splotches of paint on all the walls and decided I loved the purple but wasn't so keen on the bright yellow. So I'm toning it down a little, and will have to get a new paint sample to splash up on the walls. I really love the purple I picked! It's called Twilight Blush!!!!!!! Hehehehe:)
The kids are doing the same as last time, still working hard at playing and trying to get their own ways. I'm still thwarting all their grand ideas. But we did work on painting flowers on their walls together. That was fun until a fit was thrown and I ended up finishing it myself. Oh well. We still have to find paint pens to finish the details around the flowers and the stems.
The baby in my belly is growing. I think I'm growing more rapidly, however. I gained 5lbs in one month :/ not good. Well, at least I loose it quick! Oh no! I shouldn't have said that, It probably won't happen this time. *SIGH* Supposedly the baby is the size of a light bulb. I have to call in to get an appointment for the ultrasound. I lost the paper. Curse this pregnancy brain! Oh yeah, I also made the girls matching dresses out of the fabric Brenda gave me! Yeah Brenda! I only took pics of one of the dresses I have to get the girls in the other dresses for pics. So 6 dresses total. Work work work! It was worth it though, don't they look cute?

I'm pretty sure that's all the news for now. Maybe I can write again sometime this year. Hopefully before the baby is born!