playing

A scene from "Life at the Johnosn's"

Here is a short clip from life here.

The setting; the Johnson family living room.

The characters; Papa Johnson
Mama Johnson
Molly Johnson
Heidi Johnson
Lars Johnson

Our curtain opens with Papa lounging on the couch. He is reading a magazine(Ladies Home Journal, I think). Mama is also on the couch sitting at the other end with her feet in papa's lap. Lars is on Mama's lap and Heidi is perched on Papa's foot and leaning against Mama. Molly has not appeared yet.

Narrator; "Nap time has just come to a close although Molly seems to still be sleeping. Lars woke up a short while ago with a very sad little cry. Mama went to rescue him and he promptly fell back to sleep on mama's lap. Right after Lars fell back to sleep a sleepy but smiley Heidi came down the steps and joined the others on the couch.

~Lars' head falls over onto Heidi's chest/lap as mama and Heidi are trying to get comfortable. Mama starts to wiggle her foot to try to wake it from sleep.~

Heidi; (looking first at Mama's foot and then down at sleeping Lars) " We should stick your shoe in Lars' ear."

Mama; (giggling) " I don't think so we should never stick anything in our ears!"

Heidi; "my friend sticks her shoe in her brothers ear all the time."

Mama; (still trying to not laugh to much) "Doesn't it hurt him?"

Heidi; " yes, he cries, Waa, Waa, and her mom tell her, STOP."

THE END
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A very small excerpt I know.

as an after note, last night Heidi came in to our room to say she had a penny down her throat.
now I'm wondering, will it harm her in any way in there? Since she didn't choke on it she should be fine right?

At the movie theater

Last night we went to the movie theater. This theater seemed to have really big chairs, even I could fold up in them really easy. Molly folded up in hers and she could put her feet right up next to her ears! The bottom picture looks like she is climbing out of it!

nap time!

Today the babies naps got interrupted. so I sat with them on the couch until they fell back to sleep. A little bit later I looked at them and this is how they were sleeping. SO CUTE!

Papa

Derek is going to be Deploying soon. We are sure going to miss him. He is my children's favorite playmate. He is also who we go to when we need comforted. Like last night.
near our house is a railroad track that is very seldom used, so seldom that I've only heard them twice since we've lived here. Last night just after we went to bed a train went by. It blew it's whistle and it scared our baby boy. He came to our door saying, "scared," and he needed his papa.
Papa also is good for riding.;)

A Note To The Do-It- Yourself-ers

When you have a problem with your Auto, Please, Please, do NOT use expanding foam under the hood- anywhere!
Today Derek is replacing the washer pump on our truck. it happens to be A LOT harder to do because the previous owners, whoever they were, tried to fix the washer fluid hose with expanding foam.
So, when somethings not working, use duct tape. just kidding. fix it the right way.:)

Around Here

This week the girls and I have been getting excited about Valentines day. We made cards yesterday and today we made decorations to hang on our walls. Derek has the camera today or I would have put pictures on here. We are also making cookies.
The girls love doing crafts and to help me cook so that makes all of this very fun for them.
The picture above is from a day that we decided was "We love Papa" day. The kids made cards for him and I made Pad Thai soup which he had been wanting. than we had a candle light dinner. followed be the chocolate lava cupcake recipe I had posted earlier.
The other evening the neighbor boy, Samuel, brought over a really big activity coloring book over for the girls. The girls have really enjoyed that.