Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Muzzer, Baby Fosters, and all that sort of stuff...
Well, about two weeks ago I wrote up SEVERAL funny, new stories for this blog, but the computer FROZE just as I was ready to POST the completed stories. I lost it ALL, and was so frustrated that I didn’t have the heart to go back and start over from the beginning. Today is the first time since then that I have had time to post again…and I am getting wiser this time and writing this entry in “Word” and then will PASTE it over to the blog so that if my computer freezes again, at least I will have an ‘auto-save’ copy I can retrieve! Unfortunately, I can’t recall the two funny stories I was writing that day…my memory is terrible any more.
Rayna continues to delight us with her unique pronunciations…Sunday morning she was going on and on about the cute little baby Fosters. Grant was baffled until he looked over to see the magazine photo she was chatting on about. There were three ‘baby’ FOXES gracing the cover of her magazine. Rayna has always been pretty formal, too…always calls her brother ‘Douglas’—never the more familiar ‘Doug’ and always calls me ‘Muzzer’—never just ‘Mom’.
Rayna’s prayers are rather unique, too… Preparing for our trip to Canada, I had to determine each of the childrens’ height and weight. We have also been blessed with unseasonable warm days—especially the last few days. It seems Rayna has been gathering all these facts together and it came out in her prayers a few nights ago as she prayed: “Dear Lord, please help Douglas as he goes to school. Fifty-two pounds. Sixty degrees. And all that sort of stuff. Amen.”
Doug, meanwhile, uses his prayer time to report on every one in the family’s behavior…letting God know just who has had a ‘good day’ and who has had a ‘bad day’ (politically correct code for who has minded or misbehaved).
Rayna watched “Spirit” this last December and has never been the same since. For months now she has spent LONG portions of her day immersed in her alter ego…a horse with a somber, haughty air who moves JUST LIKE SPIRIT in the animated movie. She is a dead-ringer for Spirit’s mannerisms and facial expressions and she stays IN CHARACTER for unbelieveably long stretches at a time. This can be a bit embarrassing. Sunday morning she was in character and neighed at the Calvary Choir as they finished their program and filed past her out of the church. It is also a bit disconcerting when I notice her at a restaurant EATING from her Aunt Lynne’s outstretched hand—picking the food bits up daintly with her lips.
Darcy is a natural on a horse. She has been riding Begins bare-back all over these forty acres and up and down the road almost daily. She has even been riding the more spirited Lightening bare-back recently—laughing with delight as the horse races in circles around the corral. Rayna, rides bare-back almost every day, too, on Lightening, but only as I am LEADING him. Saturday (on her birthday) she was riding the calmer Begins bareback in the corral and I was making him kick it up from his normal WALK in the corral to a peppy trot. About the third time I did that, Rayna fell off. I felt terrible. She has such good balance on the horses that I was surprised she bounced off. I should have known she would have more trouble staying on the horse through a bouncy trot, though, because her little legs are still so small that they don’t go very far down the horse’s sides…and Begin’s mane is not thick and long like Lightening’s, either…which is a consideration when all you have to grab hold of is the mane! Rayna would have never fallen if she had been in a saddle. The experience hasn’t daunted her a bit, though…she is still wild about riding the horses…just not interested in going fast unless there is a saddle beneath her. ¶ 2/28/2006 05:30:00 PM
Rayna continues to delight us with her unique pronunciations…Sunday morning she was going on and on about the cute little baby Fosters. Grant was baffled until he looked over to see the magazine photo she was chatting on about. There were three ‘baby’ FOXES gracing the cover of her magazine. Rayna has always been pretty formal, too…always calls her brother ‘Douglas’—never the more familiar ‘Doug’ and always calls me ‘Muzzer’—never just ‘Mom’.
Rayna’s prayers are rather unique, too… Preparing for our trip to Canada, I had to determine each of the childrens’ height and weight. We have also been blessed with unseasonable warm days—especially the last few days. It seems Rayna has been gathering all these facts together and it came out in her prayers a few nights ago as she prayed: “Dear Lord, please help Douglas as he goes to school. Fifty-two pounds. Sixty degrees. And all that sort of stuff. Amen.”
Doug, meanwhile, uses his prayer time to report on every one in the family’s behavior…letting God know just who has had a ‘good day’ and who has had a ‘bad day’ (politically correct code for who has minded or misbehaved).
Rayna watched “Spirit” this last December and has never been the same since. For months now she has spent LONG portions of her day immersed in her alter ego…a horse with a somber, haughty air who moves JUST LIKE SPIRIT in the animated movie. She is a dead-ringer for Spirit’s mannerisms and facial expressions and she stays IN CHARACTER for unbelieveably long stretches at a time. This can be a bit embarrassing. Sunday morning she was in character and neighed at the Calvary Choir as they finished their program and filed past her out of the church. It is also a bit disconcerting when I notice her at a restaurant EATING from her Aunt Lynne’s outstretched hand—picking the food bits up daintly with her lips.
Darcy is a natural on a horse. She has been riding Begins bare-back all over these forty acres and up and down the road almost daily. She has even been riding the more spirited Lightening bare-back recently—laughing with delight as the horse races in circles around the corral. Rayna, rides bare-back almost every day, too, on Lightening, but only as I am LEADING him. Saturday (on her birthday) she was riding the calmer Begins bareback in the corral and I was making him kick it up from his normal WALK in the corral to a peppy trot. About the third time I did that, Rayna fell off. I felt terrible. She has such good balance on the horses that I was surprised she bounced off. I should have known she would have more trouble staying on the horse through a bouncy trot, though, because her little legs are still so small that they don’t go very far down the horse’s sides…and Begin’s mane is not thick and long like Lightening’s, either…which is a consideration when all you have to grab hold of is the mane! Rayna would have never fallen if she had been in a saddle. The experience hasn’t daunted her a bit, though…she is still wild about riding the horses…just not interested in going fast unless there is a saddle beneath her. ¶ 2/28/2006 05:30:00 PM
