Poems?!

We've started a "tea/literature time" after lunch every day. So, today we read poems out of The Kingfisher Book Of Children's Poetry. Here are some really inspiring ones:

The Night
By: AL-KHANSA

My eye cried and woke me.
The night was pain.



YOU
anonymous
You are like the hungry cat
that wants to have fish
He won't wet his claws

I'D RATHER
anonymous

I'd rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log,
than stay in this town, treated like a dirty dog.

And now, here's my favorite. This one is classic.

THE DEATH OF ROMEO AND JULIET
anonymous
Romeo rode to the sepulchre, 'mong dead folks, bats, and creepers;
And swallowed down the burning dose-when Juliet oped her peepers.
"Are you alive? Or is't your ghost? Speak quick before I go."
"Alive!" she cried, "and kicking too; art thou my Romeo?"
"It is your Romeo, my faded little blossum;
O Juliet! is it possible that you were acting possum?"
"I was indeed; now let's go home; pa's spite will have abated;
What ails you, love, you stagger so; are you intoxicated?"
"No, no, my duck; I took some stuff that caused a little fit;"
He struggled hard to tell her all, but couldn't, so he quit.
In shorter time than't takes a lamb to wag his tail or jump,
Poor Romeo was stiff and pale as any whitewashed pump.
Then Juliet seized that awful knife, and in her bosom stuck it,
Let out a most terrific yell, fell down, and kicked the bucket.

Building 429!

Our family listens to K-Love. We didn't used to always listen to Christian music, but the little kids pick up things too easily and, there's a lot of junk out there, so we do now. It's kind of nice to listen to one station all the time. They are a little repetitive with their music selections, but that means that I know all the words and can sing with every song that comes on (which I like doing).
We heard about the Building 429 concert on K-Love about a month ago. The announcer said that it was in Cedarville (about 15min away), it was free, and K-Love listeners would be able to meet the band afterwards. Could it get any better? Well...........I guess it could have been someone like Third Day or the David Crowder Band, but it was free! So, we called up our 2nd set of siblings and arranged to meet at the concert on the 23rd of January.
That was yesterday. We picked up some friends from our homeschool group and drove to Cedarville. It was awesome! No..it was AWESOME! Building 429 is so much better live than they are on their cds. My favorite of their songs is 'Singing over Me'. Which..conveniently I can't put as the music for the blog, so here's a Youtube music video of it:



Actually, this is a horrible video. The sound stinks and you can't really see anything, but apparently people don't like this song as much, because I can't find it on esnips or anywhere else on youtube.

Well, after the concert we got in line to get their autographs. The only things we had for them to sign were K-Love bumper stickers and a few programs. I had left my program by my seat, so I went back to get it. As I was walking towards the doors to go back into the auditorium, the lead singer (Jason Roy) walked right in front of me. I'm not kidding..right in front of me! By the time I realized, he was past, and I didn't want to bug him, so I continued my mission. I think I'm just destined to walk by semi-famous people and not realize it until too late. I did something similar with Condoleezza Rice in Belgium. (but that's another story)
It turned out to not be all that exciting to have walked right past him..we actually talked to all 4 members of the band while they were signing our..uhh..stuff. You could tell that Aaron..something..(I can't remember his last name, and he's new to the band, so I can't find it online either) was new because he was super enthusiastic about everything, and he didn't seem to know all the songs.
The lead singer had a cold and he sounded exhausted (backstage), but he did really well on stage. You couldn't really tell he was sick.
Overall, they're a great band, and we're all glad we got to go see them!


P.S. The picture is sort of backwards somehow. That's how photo booth takes them. It's like a mirror. I promise Jesse didn't sign his name backwards. It really doesn't make a difference with the rest of the signatures though. ;-)

Such Sweet Siblings

Charlie ran up to me and said the following,

"We wrote you a message that says that the monster will be drownded and you are the monster!"

He then exited whilst emitting a fearsome war cry.

Here is the message that was delivered to me by a masked spiderman ninja (a.k.a. Jacinta) shortly after:

MOMOMJACC

I think they love me. In fact, I'm sure of it. :-/

Oh, and take a look at my mom's post from the other day. The post is hers, but the story is mine, and I'm too lazy to write it out at the moment. My excuse? Science homework that I probably won't end up doing anyway.

I rest my case

Mommy (standing in front of Charlie's closed bedroom door: It's ok, Charlie. You can come out now.

Charlie (leaning against the inside of his bedroom door): NO!!

Mommy: Jacinta, you aren't allowed to cut off Charlie's head when he comes out.

Jacinta (standing outside Charlie's bedroom door with a sword raised and an evil glint in her eye): I know that.

Strange Neighbor Children

Who the heck is dressing these kids?!

Yeeeehaww!!!

I don't have to go visit Aunt Sarah in Texas to see a rodeo (though I think we're going to visit her anyway). We had one live today.

Jumpin Jacinta rides the bucking bronco.

An excited spectator leaps from her seat! Note the knocked over piano bench.

Not even Bronco bustin Mei mei could handle this mean horse.

What's this?!?!?!? An unknown masked stranger has utterly defeated the wild vicious bronc!

Apparently it was all part of the show. The 'buckin bronco' appears to be perfectly gentle.

Or is it?

O-H-I-O

GO BUCKEYES!!!!!!!!