Yummy jello

Can likes to get into the pantry to find things to eat. Yesterday while Mom was taking the bigs to the bus stop he came to me with two boxes of Jello and wanted to eat them. I don't think that he has ever had Jello before so I told him what it was and said that Mom could make it for him when she got home. A short time later I found him sitting on the couch dipping his finger into an opened box of Jello. He held up his finger and said, "yummy Jello." Fortunately he hadn't had time to pour it all over the couch.

Yesterday was "culture" day for spirit week at the boy's school. Since we are only plain old boring Americans, Dec decided to dress up based on his Mormon culture. He went dressed in a shirt and tie with a missionary name tag. Mom expected a call from the school saying that he was not allowed to dress as anything overtly religious, but I guess that they were feeling unusually tolerant today because he said that nobody made him take his name tag off.

I heard a story about homosexual, but not religious, tolerance on on the Dennis Prager show yesterday. An exerpt from the news report that he was discussing:

When a few classmates razzed Rebeka Rice about her Mormon upbringing with questions such as, "Do you have 10 moms?" she shot back: "That's so gay."
Those three words landed the high school freshman in the Principal's office and resulted in a lawsuit that raises this question: When do playground insults used every day all over America cross the line into hate speech that must be stamped out?

Lets bend over backwards to prevent "hate speech" against homosexuals, but never mind the religious insults. Of course the kids who teased her about being Mormon didn't end up in the Principal's office because Mormon's aren't a "protected" minority.

Images - Colorado Aspens

I took this at the YMCA near Winter Park, CO (09/20/03).

The pace of change in our world

An interesting look at some statistics regarding the times we live in. (via Hugh Hewitt)

Crazy kids

Today is crazy outfit day, or something like that, at school. The boys thought that they looked pretty funny. I told them that I didn't see much different from any other day.

Blowing out the cake with the candles

We had Sul's party with friends on Saturday and then on Monday we celebrated as a family. He only got a watch from us because he wants heelies (those annoying shoes with wheels in the heels) and we thought it would be better to take him with us to pick them out. Since he had cake on Saturday, Mom made him a pan of lemon bars for the birthday celebration. We didn't think think about the fact that powdered sugar on the top of the bars wouldn't go so well with blowing out the candles. This left a bit of a mess.

Early birthday party

Yesterday we had a birthday party for Sul. It was a few days early, but he didn't mind. I'm sure that the ice cream cake helped him get over the fact that it wasn't really his birthday.

We had quite a crowd of 8-9 year old boys at our house. They went on a treasure hunt that required disguises and a lot of running around. After this they alternated between jumping on the trampoline and playing basketball. There was also a pretty crazy silly-string war. I think that a fun time was had by all.