The good and the bad...

I finally started Lydia in her own little preschool at our house. We did Joyschool with friends last year but things didn't work out this time so I thought why not make it just Lyd's and I...and since I'm feeling better, I decided to start.

Lydia has so much fun learning. I've just made up my own curriculum so we had "Shapes Week" this week. Lydia's face just lights up when she gets the answers right. It's funny because now she tries to teach me. She'll aske me what the shape is and I'll get it right then she'll blurt out in this very motherly, happy tone, "That's right, good job!" It's so cute. I just love this girl.

Here she is playing musical shapes (just like musical chairs accept you don't take the shapes away, you just name the shape you've danced onto after you've stopped the music). Don't mind the outfit. She's in the phase of picking out her own clothes (I put my foot down when we leave the house though :)

Then today we learned about bubbles and how they're round and shaped like circles. Making snow angels was WAY too bright for Lyd's though. She had to sqeeze her eyes VERY tightly. She thought it was hilraious.

Larry has to always know what's going on. He can't just relax indoors if we're outside. If you know the Lar dog you know that he HATES cold weather but he stayed outside with us for 45 minutes and froze his butt off just to make sure nothing cool happened while we were out there. It was so sad to watch my shivering dog and this sad, pathetic, little face for 45 min. in the only snow free part of our yard.

Another step to becoming a young girl is that Lydia had her first official sleep over with her cousin Lizzy at G-ma and G-pa Johnsen's house on Tuesday night. They said that they had the best time. They laughed and played...just couldn't get enough of each other. Then sleep time came and of course that didn't go so well. They were put to bed but laughed and talked until almost midnight. Needless to say, they both took naps the next day. Thanks G-ma and G-pa. Lydia had the best time.

Now onto a bit of bad news. I won't really go into too much detail...I'll spare you. But we found out a few days ago that my dad's cancer is back. I'm not sure that I ever blogged about it the first time but he's only been cancer free for 15 months. And honestly it sucks that he has to go through all of this again, and so soon. Same surgery as last time, same horrible recovery (he's still not back to normal from the first surgery). My father is strong and I know he has a lot of faith but it's still such a sad thing to hear and take in. So any prayers you could give I know would help. We have a lot faith and I think we've all come to the conclusion that we will be okay with whatever the Lord's plan is. There's great peace in that way of thinking. It's hard but I know that the Lord knows all things and he will give us comfort if we just have faith in His plan.