oh yea

Oh yea, if you are around brooke and she wants to give you a kiss. Make sure its on the cheek. She has started this thing where she kisses us on the lips but its not a quick peck. She holds ya there a few seconds. She even turns her head and moves it some.

I asked her where she learned that and she said "On the Little Mermaid."

So Disney is teaching my daughter to make out. Great.

My little runner

Friday night Nick, Hunter, Brooke and I went to the dirt track races w/ some friends.

At intermission they called all the kids onto the track and were having 20 yrds or so running races by age group.

4 and under went first so Brooke was up. On go, she took off and to my surprise took the lead (there was 7 or 8 kids, not alot). One little boy was close to her and kept putting his arm out trying to stop her (lets be honest, hes lucky she didn't turn around and knock him down) but he couldn't get her and she won the race.

It was cool. They gave her a trophy that said "0-4 First Place July 2010 Butler Motor Speedway." She was so excited.

Hunte raced in the 7-8 age category. He got 3rd, which was good because he was in la-la land when they said go, so he got a late start and was running barefoot. He was happy though. the racecar he was rooting for got 3rd so Hunter thought that was cool

Money

Last spring we started giving our kids an allowance for doing certain chores. Then they have 3 banks. One for spending money, one for saving and one for giving. Most of the money goes into spending but about 10% goes into each saving and giving.

Hunter has not ever said anything about it. Brooke on the other hand has thrown a fit since day 1 about putting money in giving and saving. She wants it all to spend.

Over the summer we got out of practice of doing chores and getting an allowance. So I started it again this past week. Sunday is pay day and it worked out well because Brooke came home from church w/ a small bank to collect money in and bring back to church.

Brooke however on the way home said that she was putting spending money in the bank. I ignored her for the time being.

Later in the afternoon I added up the kids chores and told them it was time to get their allowance. As we were walking upstairs (so that I can supervise them putting the money in the correct places) Brooke went in to a full on fit. I couldn't understand what she was saying. Then all of a sudden she yelled "I don't want to give any money to God!"

HHmmm... I'm am out of words. Not sure how to follow that up. :)

graveyard

We all went to the lake w/ friends last week. It was so much fun. Both kids swam in the lake and we caught lots of fish. Plus, just relaxing was so nice.

Behind the house was a cemetery. Scott heard (I'm assuming from Greg) that there were some headstones from the 1800s in it. So, of course, Scott wanted to go look. I try to stay out of cemeteries so I politely declined. Brooke stepped up to the task (was there any doubt).

When Scott and Brooke were walking up to it Scott saw the fence and said "I wonder how you get in there."

Brooke answered in true Brooke form "I think you have to get dead first to get in it."

That's my girl :)