Book Report: Catching Fire

This week I finished reading Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. Oh, Suzanne.... how I wish your books would go on and on.

I hate reading series books until they ALL come out because I hate waiting between books. However, I read the first book, Hunger Games, last spring not realizing it was the first of a series. I was already sucked in when I found out the second book did come out for months and months.

But I couldn't wait when this one came out. And now I can't wait for the next one. Hurry up Ms. Collins! And thanks again, Amie, for tipping me off on these books.

Sleepover

The other morning, AJ & Noah, were pretending "Sleep-over". They went and got blankets and pillows and pretended to sleep off and on during the morning.

Can't Hurt to Try...

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Mutiny

Apparently, suggesting the possibility of having something other than homemade pizza for "Stay-Up-Late-Basketball-Friday" is grounds for severe punishment by my three male family members.

Heaven forbid we consider anything else for dinner. What was I thinking?

Need something light to read now.

I just finished House by Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti. And I'm shocked that I even finished it. Not by lack of quality in the writing, but more because it's a horror movie in written form. Seriously. And I don't do horror movies.

Had this been a movie (it actually might be, I thought I caught that somewhere), I don't think I could have even watched the previews. But does it really surprise you coming from Dekker and Peretti? Yikes.

It did keep me reading and made me want to finish to see how to ends. I had to keep trying to get my head around the idea of a Christian fiction book with so many evil, scary elements included.

I know there are s.c.a.r.y elements to the spiritual world. I mean, that's where "scary" started, right? But reading about it.... phew... not again for a while.

Looking Back: Tickle Me AJ

Remember This??

My Brut was just a giggling baby

AJ the Brut

Notice AJ's black eye and fat lip?? They are the result of two completely separate incidents of him hurting himself. Don't worry, though, it was nothing a cookie (eye) or popsicle (lip) couldn't solve.On side note, this week we attended preschool open house and officially registered AJ for the fall. It's the same preschool that we sent Andrew to and we were pleased with the program.

We had been talking up preschool to AJ before the open house.... this to the kid who would be totally happy staying in his jammies all day and never leaving the house. He's our homebody. AJ told us several times he was not interested in going to preschool.

So we were really hoping that the open house would change his mind. Plus, his good buddy (and fellow kiddo I watch), Noah, will also be attending the same class. Noah and AJ seemed to have a great time at the Open House. AJ was happy to play with all the toys... not too interested in talking to his future teacher...but I think overall, it worked. The last couple days he seems excited about it and has even asked us when he gets to go.

Come next fall I will be putting on the hat of Mom's Taxi service.

Learning the New Testament

Book Report: The Midnighter's Series (3 Books)

I recently read and finished another series by Scott Westerfeld. Another set of Sci-Fi books (what is wrong with me?). I really didn't have any other books lined up to read and had already read the Uglies series by Westerfeld not too long ago.

Anyway, this was another set of good, but not great, books... Fine enough to keep me plugging through the series, but ready to move on to something new.

My Boys are Animals!

I mentioned before that my boys received wonderful homemade costumes for Christmas from a family friend. They love them!