More Lily Pages

Breakfast, breakfast, my favorite first meal,
Can I have a doughnut, or maybe some oatmeal?
Remember, I can’t like butter or bread,
But please don’t take too long I really need to be fed!
All done! It was so good! Thank you thank you!
You know just what I like! How did you guess? You must like that too.

Good job, now go wash your hands, first soap,
Not so much, Lily, now don’t you mope.
Scrub, scrub, scrub, now for your teeth.

My teeth, my teeth! I love to brush my teeth!
I love my pink paste and princess brush,
Oooo did I see my baby in my room? I better rush
I think she’s stinky and needs a diaper change.
Baby, did you say you were hungry? That’s strange,

Where did your bottle go? Is it in the lego drawer?
I could make a tower… higher, higher, just a little more,
And crash! Jaron, did you do that?
What a cool hat!

Can I try it on? Let me try.
I don’t care if you had it first its mi-
Ow! You hit me! Why!?!
Now I’m going to cry!!!!!

I have to say sorry? But he hit me!
Yes. I took the hat and would be sad if he did that to me.
Okay, I’m sorry and I love you. Let’s play!
I won’t be mean, please stay!

I love to play with you all the time.
Hot or cold, at home or away- anytime!

Thanksgiving Poems by Jaron Magstadt

Thankful Turkey
We are thankful
on Thanksgiving
for fish and meat
and things like turkey feet.

I'm Thankful for...
Telling Mom jokes
Helping Grace with her morning work
eAting food
Napping on Mom's lap
Kids, and being one
Snow
God
lIstening to God's spriit
Vice President
lIly Rose
No school
Grace

What Pilgrims Do:
Thought to sail
bUild huts
Run away from England
King of England wouldn't let them worship God
Eat food Native Americans taught them to grow
Yes, God is faithful

The Pumpkin Pie is Gone!
Mom made a pie
Someone came along and put her face in it,
then she ran away.
Another girl came along and stuck her finger in the pie,
and sucked her finger all day long.
Then she ran away.
Another girl came and put her foot in it,
and then she ran away.
Then a girl giant took the rest of the pie
and then she ran away.
The End

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"It sometimes happens, that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost."- Persuasion by Jane Austen

I just turned twenty-nine a few weeks ago and was rereading Persuasion at the same time. To say the least, I liked this quote a lot. I've been think about life, what I've accomplished compared to what I want to accomplish in my life time and some days I'm satisfied and some days I'm not. But today, I'll just live in today- get what's on my list to get done done, play hide-and-seek with Lily Rose in the new curtains Corey hung up for me, and hope that the anxiety I've faced and the anxiety to come are not too much to fade what beauty I have, because that is most definitely the greatest deterrent to keeping my beauty of youth (although my diet could handle some changes :)). I'm not just meaning my physical beauty either. I mean my energy and blind faith too.

So, here's to pretending I'm a character in one of Jane Austen's books whose twenty-nine with her charm intact!

A Day with Lily, pg. 1

All is dark and quiet in the very early hours,
But soon little ones will awake and show their powers
Against stillness blandness and plain,
And show us the small joys of life that we gain,
When we look closer at the things of each day,
Rather than worrying about tomorrow and letting today drift away.

I hear little foot steps in the hall,
Here comes the beginning of all the small
Little things that will make today,
The next best day of all...




Good Morning! Good Morning! Can I cuddle with you?
There's plenty of room, here I come! The bed can hold more than two!
I know you're awake- stop pretending to sleep,
My tummy's rumbling get up or I'll leap
On your tummy and... ugggghhhhh
By Lori

The Swordfighter

EN GARDE!!!!!

Slashing, Stabbing
Crashing, Grabbing
Flashing, Jabbing
Smashing, Nabbing

Hitting, Fighting
Slitting, Smiting
Spitting, Biting
Splitting, Exciting

OUCH!!!!!!!!



Crying
Sighing
Whining
Dying

Comforting, Hugging
Kissing, Snuggling

EN GARDE!!!!!

By Corey Magstadt

the Snowman

A broken umbrella keeps off the sun.
An oblong head that won't be outdone.
Snow pea eyes and a carrot nose
That leaves orange streaks whenever it blows.

A little too short and a little too fat.
No need for ears or a mouth or a hat.
Beauty is found in the eye that beholds it
And maybe in the hands that rolled it.

By Corey Magstadt

The Books

So last year for Christmas I made Jaron and Lily each a book for Christmas. I wrote a little story about each of them and used pictures of them as illustrations. It was a huge hit and they still read them at least once a day. There is so much psychology and child development about why a child would love this and why its so good for them- motivating them to read, making them feel unique and loved, secure in who they are, etc. but really, it was just plain fun to do and and even more fun to see how much they value them. I've been reading (well, more like skimming) quite a few self-help books and am totally overwhelmed by all the five steps and little phrases I'm supposed to run through my head when I can look at life, relationships, conversations, activities, and see how the right things naturally form when the core issues of my heart are dealt with. These books are a great example. I realized that all of my kids' photos were on the computer and I didn't have pictures albums of them for the year and thought that these books would be a creative way to do it and wanted to make them Christmas gifts that were personal rather than generic. I didn't read about child's self esteem, I just knew. Enough of that tangent.

Since they were such a big hit Corey and I thought we would do it again. This year Jaron's will be a book of separate poems- that's what he's really into right now. He and Corey read two huge Shel Silverstein books in about a week so Corey is using his poems as a model.

Lily's will be about a busy day in her life- full of dancing, reading, singing, playing, whining, eating, not eating, going potty, spending time with family and friends, and finally sleeping.

I'll be posting pages here and there since getting these put together will be a pretty big part of my life for the next three weeks... after I get Lily Halloween costume made.