I am the Lord of Me

Grace LOVES to sing! She can be riding in the car or playing with her toys and just bust out into song. She even has her own playlist of her songs on the ipod that she loves to listen to and sing along with. For the past two weeks Grace has been singing a new song that I didn't recognize. I assumed she'd learned it at school or church since it was about the Lord. Usually if she's singing a new song I like to get it and put it on her song list for her to have or teach it to myself so we can sing it together. Grace's verse went something like, "I am the Lord of me! I am the Lord of me!" For the life of me, I could not figure out this song. I asked her to sing some more of the song and when I would she's seem to have forgotten the rest of it. So I googled it for the world wide web to help me. :) Luckly I found out the name of the song, but only because another Mom blogged that her child was singing it the same way and she finally found out what it was.

Here's her blog post:
Driving home from errands today I heard a sweet voice in the backseat sing, "I am the Lord of me, yes sir! I am the Lord of me." Although Owen got the theology mixed up, I give him props for heartily singing a song--on his own, about God, and without prompting. (He was trying to sing "I'm in the Lord's army, yes sir! I'm in the Lord's army.")

Once I knew the real song. :) I then found the song on YouTube and Grace was so excited that I finally knew was she had been singing! It's definitely been the song of the week, this week!

And just incase you've never heard the song, here's the song with lyrics...

Got Excited

A few weekends ago, Scott and I took Grace to see Ice Age: Continental Drift. While we were at the theater I was SO excited to see this movie poster! I came home and googled the trailer for it... The Wizard of Oz IS one of my all time favorite movies! I'm disappointed that Dorothy, tin man, scarecrow, and lion aren't even in the trailer, so now I'm a little skeptical to go check it out. I did some digging around to see just what this movie was going to be about and supposely this is the prequel to the 1910 'the Wonderful Wizard of Oz', (not the 1939 Judy garland movie and not Wicked). The movie is based on how the wizard arrived in Oz and became the ruler. Anyone want to check it out with me when it comes out? We have to wait until March 2013 to be able to though! :)

Crewe's Birthday Party

Hard to believe Crewe is 4! He turned 4 last month and had a family-dinner get together the evening of his birthday!

Happy #4, Crewbie! xoxo

Playing dress up with some of his new dress up clothes!

We sure do love this sweet kiddo!

Hobos

Ingredients:

Ground Beef

Worchestire Sauce

Onions

Potatoes

Butter

Salt & Pepper

Mix 1 lb. of ground beef, a tsp of Worchestire Sauce, and a tsp of garlic salt. Form ground beef into patties. Place patties on foil squares. Top with slices of onions, then 1/2 tbs butter, then potato slices. Sprinkle salt, pepper, and garlic salt on top. Wrap tightly. Place on cookie sheet. Bake 30 to 35 minutes at 350 degrees.

Then & Now

Yesterday was Grace's last day with her TWO's class! Here's a photo I took of her on her first day and then yesterday!

September 2011 -------------- August 2012

We sure have enjoyed her teachers this year! This afternoon we'll go back for an End of the Year Celebration and then next Tuesday she starts in her THREE class!

Park Play Date

Last week we had a playdate at the park in Edenton with Ayden & Emmie!
Followed by a delicious lunch at Pizza Hut!

Grace said...

A bad storm popped up (8.8.12) with lots of thundering, lightening, and rain.
1.The TV started to blink. Grace said, "(sigh) the weather is messing up my tv (sigh)".
2."Hey look Mom, the trees are waving at us!"

As she's pretending to talk on the phone... "I don't know why Mrs. Tobi isn't answering me... Maybe she's already on the phone... Maybe she'll just send me an email instead." (8.12.12)

I let her have a m&m at a baby shower. Instead of saying thank you she said, "I appreciate it." (8.12.12)

The best one so far... (8.17.12)
A little background, first: I was in a hurry to leave Piratse Cove to make it to church on time. I was headed down the stairs and I was carrying Scott's suitcase. I turned over a little trashcan that was by the top of the steps; of course it was full of tiny little trash that we'd picked up here and there, so I said, "Shit" QUICKLY followed by, "shucks" to correct myself, however it wasn't too soon. A little voice from the bottom of the steps said, "Moooo-ooooom, you aren't suppose to say shit, it's a bad word." After my apologies and talking about how it is a bad word and I was sorry I said it, Grace says, "Well you can still sit in timeout when we get to church."