Matthew's QOD: Thursday

While Sheena watched them today:

"Matthew, what are you guys doing hanging upside down? You guys are
goof balls."

Matthew: "I know but we have to do it."

Also today while referring to his rippling muscles:

"Hey Sheena. I have really big guns. Look at my big guns."

Open your ears

I just read a really good peice over on Scott Hodge's blog, called Two Ears, One Mouth.

I encourage you to click HERE and go read it if you haven't already. I think this information can be helpful when communicating with anyone, not just leaders. If someone is talking, LISTEN.

:-)

Matthew's QOD: Wednesday

Tonight was church night, therefore less free time with the kids.

BUT, he did squeak out a cute one:

"Jake. I'm really smart."
"How smart, Buddy?"
"Really super smart."

The Bible Buster

Sheena just informed me that Jeremiah tore the cover on my Bible.

It's the black one straight ahead. Funny how he doesn't seem to think anything of it.

I guess I don't either, though. I'm getting a new one soon. I wonder if this was him hinting that he wanted to be read a story... hmmm...

Matthew's QOD: Tuesday

Despite the fact that Matthew wanted breakfast at 6:30 this morning,
it was an awesome day. Check the Sheen's blog for the daily details. When I got home, we piled into the Jeep for a quick run to Wal Mart and back. On the way, Matthew started asking about the rig:

"Jake, is your Jeep fast?"
"Yes."
"Really fast?"
"Yes."
"Do you think our's is fast?" (referring to their Trailblazer)
"Probably."
"Do you think it could beat yours?"
"No. Mine is pretty much the fastest I know."

QOD: "Well, I think ours could smoke yours up."

Ha!!! Love it. Cheers to my soon to be 4 year old nephew.


Oh, and if you go read Sheena's latest post, here's the video describing the $.99 entertainment we had tonight:

Matthew's QOD: Monday

Ok, so as I mentioned earlier, the Sheen and I have the boys this week. And some of you know that Matthew is almost 4 years old, and therefore full of intelligence and whit.

I plan to do a Quote of the Day (QOD) by Matthew every day that we have him.

MONDAY:

We just got home from my church league softball game, and while recuperating from the 100+ degrees, Matthew called me into the bedroom with a large grin on his face. He was holding his tennis shoe, and then raised it to my level and said, "Jake, smell my shoe. It doesn't smell bad. It doesn't."

Ummm, ya. What a card. We'll see what tomorrow brings.

Check the Sheen's blog for more pictures and updates with this adventure.

3 Children, 5 Days

The Sheen and I are taking care of Jeremiah's cousins this week. Matthew and Samuel will be staying with us until their parents return from Youth Camp, C4C in Branson, MO this Friday.

We hope to make it fun for them, and I hope to post a few videos over the next week. One of them will include the topic of coffee.

So whether or not you drink it, be sure to check back later.

iPhone Goodness

You may remember me getting pretty excited about Apple's SDK being released.
(Back in Feb and May and June)
Well, it finally released and the application store opened! And in it are many free and not-so-free applications and games you can download over thin air if you'd like.

In the software release, you can also now take a picture, at any time, of your device's screen. So here's a picture of a few of the apps I put on my iPhone. I could go on and on about how awesomely versatile the app store makes this device, but I won't. Just get one yourself :)

And here's a picture I drew with the Scribble application. It's an awesome little free scribble pad you can pull up at any time and scribble away, then save as a picture if you want or shake your phone to erase and start over.

In the last year or so I've become an Apple fanboy, for obvious reasons. Thanks PK.

Letter to JJ

Dear Jeremiah,
You make me laugh. Having you around is like attending live comedy, only it's clean. For example: I loved how you gave me a gigantic, open-mouthed kiss yesterday. Either that, or you thought my nose was a large piece of watermelon and then decided to blow and make a farting sound on my face. You liked that sound. Go figure, like father, like son.

I love that lately you crawl around the house smiling and growling at us. I'm trying to learn that language, so be patient with me.

I love that when you wake up on the weekend mornings, and I transfer you to our bed to snuggle, you decide to slap us and play with us instead. Instead of cuddling like you're supposed to.

I love that sometimes when mom and I sit on the floor asking you to come to us, you decide to crawl right on by us only to acquire a toy you've had available for the past 3 months. What's up with that, bud?

And I love that when we're in the kitchen cooking or cleaning, you prefer to join us and actually help out. I think.

Little Man,
Life with you around kicks butt. I mean bottom. Don't tell mom I said that.

Love,
Dad

P.S. There are two home grown items on mom's blog today: You, and the watermelons. You stud muffin, you.

Friday

I love Fridays. Mainly because it means a two day break from work is right around the corner. I mentioned in a earlier post the business about myself lately. Today is no different:


as I'm honing some of my skills at work in preparation for travelling to MN the 2nd week of August. It will be my first business trip/travel.

Happy Friday everyone! Going to my bro's tonight. Should be a good time.

HOW RICH ARE YOU?

A friend of mine recently sent me a link to a website where you can enter your income to find out how rich you are according to the world (in terms of money).

CLICK HERE

You may be shocked to find out how rich you truly are. I think sometimes people seek God too often to gain more stuff, instead of seeking God because He's God.

Agree?

Quote of the Day

I got a call from a best friend on my b-day. He cruised this blog to see what was new with me, and noticed the pic I posted of my better half and said,

"No offense, but Sheena is beautiful."

I'm like, uh... yahhh!!!

The Crawler, and Love for the Crawler

A few weeks ago I remember Sheena telling me on the phone while I was at the cabin that Jeremiah sat up all by himself for (what we believe was) the first time. It was EXCITING!

Now he's crawling all over the place and pulling himself up wherever he can.

I came into the nursery after church last Wednesday and was told that he climbed the slide all by himself. So he did it again for Dad (aka, me) when I got there:

When you become a dad, you experience a new kind of love that you've never felt before. And when your child shows desire for you, well, wow.

Like this morning. I was busy making espresso and I could hear his little hands smacking the tile with each movement. I looked over my shoulder and saw that he was crawling from the living room, all the way across the kitchen tile floor with a hopeful smile that I would pick him up. Needless to say, Sheena finished making the iced lattes.

Score 24!

I scored big for my birthday today... and the scoring is not done yet if you know whatta mean.

Early Birthday Present

Tonight went like this: dinner, church, wal-mart, snack on the way home, and then my early birthday present:

Root Beer Float



It's all I wanted, and I got it early.

UPDATE: who is that fine lady??

Last Night

Last night was a busy one. I filmed seven or eight different people asking them to share their heart about the Living Word Bible Training Center that my church offers.

Let's just say that you would have like being me last night.

'cuz in all seriousness, it was just me, the LWBTC student, and the Spirit of God.
Oh, and a handful of lights, two cameras, shotgun microphone, couple of couches, and a bit of dialogue.

We'll see how this promotional DVD turns out. I'm a busy man this month.

4th

I love family. I love holidays. And most of the time, these two terms go hand-in-hand. Dad, Mom, Josh and Sarah came down for the 4th. It was an awesome visit.

Snapshot of the crew in Nate and Evan's sweet corn:


More pics later.

Free $15 Dinner

I went online to buy some new tennis shoes at shoebuy.com and looked around a bit. They had a link for promotions and whatnot, so I registered my name, email, etc with the site. This allowed me 10% off my first order.

When I got to the the checkout I noticed an optional field to "Enter Promotional Code" so I went to Google and entered "shoe buy promotional codes" and found a website listing all sorts of codes. Some worked, others didn't. I found a 15% off code that worked, on top of my other 10%. I ended up turning a $60 order into $45. Not bad, eh?

This my friends, is why I like shopping online.