Nighttime Rise

Sometimes Travis takes Melissa and the girls to school (because he is an awesome husband). We have to leave pretty early to get the girls in their respective rooms at the Children's Place and Melissa to work on time. Since we live in the frozen northland, the sun rises pretty late. Thus, we get to see some pretty awesome sunrises. The other day the sun looked red and Sheinah was facinated by this so she started paying attention to the sky on the way to school. Suddenly, she yelled out "Dad, look, God painted a sunrise for us! How did God do that?" Then she went on to say some stuff we didn't understand. The next thing we heard was something about "nighttime rise." It took us a minute to figure out that she was talking about how the sky gets dark after the sun sets. Travis started to correct her and tell her that was a sunset, but we decided that we kind of liked the term nighttime rise.

Last night, we went out to Perkins to have breakfast for dinner (our whole family can eat for like $15). On the way, there was an amazing sunset that we were watching as we drove. When Travis tried to get Sheinah to notice it, he called it "nighttime rise." Sheinah proceeded to say "DAD (in an exasperated tone), nighttime rise is when the sky turns dark, this is afternoon nighttime rise." If only kids came with a dictionary or something...

Sheinah goes to the dentist

At three years old, we figured it was time for Sheinah to get her teeth checked out. Yes, we realize that this set of teeth will be replaced, but we wanted her to get used to the dentist while she was young. Travis had the honor of taking her since it was at Melissa's check-up last month that the dentist said Sheinah was old enough to come in. Our dental hygenist is amazing! She let Sheinah sit on Travis tummy while she cleaned his teeth. She told Sheinah what she was doing and showed her all the tools. Thus, when it was Sheinah's turn, she was her usual cheerful self. She let the hygenist do the entire procedure without a single unhappy moment.

The best part was when Melissa asked her how her appointment was...the first thing Sheinah told Melissa was that the dentist told her she had to stop sucking her thumb and stop peeing in her pull-up. Now, the real story is that our dentist has a three year-old also. He DID tell Travis that Sheinah's teeth were starting to be affected by the thumb-sucking and that she did need to stop. However, the pull-up statement was exaggerated. Travis and the dentist were just talking about having a three year-old and mentioned that we were working on her getting through the night dry. Sheinah interpreted that to mean the dentist wanted her to stop peeing :)

Enjoy the pictures (they were taken with Travis' phone so the quality is not all that great).

Row your boat

Now we can't exactly remember what got Sheinah to start singing, but we thought you might enjoy the performance. It should be noted that we are not entirely sure what she is talking about when she stops singing, but it sure made her laugh!

Need a vacation

If you are sick of the cold (it was 32 degrees in FLORIDA last week!), take a peek at Travis' travel website. His company is giving away one vacation every month. This month, it is to a resort in the Bahamas. Just go to his website: http://www.ichoose2travel.com/ and click on the Trip of a Lifetime sweepstakes in the lower right corner. The trip includes airfare and spending money. How cool would it be if a Bumgardner family friend won this month. Good luck!

Aisle 19

We love the convenience of shopping online. I think our neighbors think we are strange because we seem to get a delivery of some sort about once a week. We are excited to share a new way to shop online in which we get cash back for our purchases. It's called Aisle 19 and there are about 600 different stores where you can shop and get cash back on your purchases. You can watch this 3 minute video that explains the concept http://www.aisle19.com/Video.aspx?ReferralRepID=905916 and then Click on this link https://registration.escapeintl.com/default.aspx?ReferralSiteID=2&ReferralRepID=905916 to get your own account.

Happy shopping!

Little Laugher

Amaris is at the age where she is smiling for real...not just gas. She smiles best when her daddy makes faces at her. Check out this little compilation video:

It's a pinto

One of Sheinah's favorite movies is the "horsey movie" also known as Moondance Alexander. Sheinah often likes for us to search for pictures of horses on the computer (we do a google image search and let her choose which pictures she wants to look at). Tonight, she asked to see a pony like the one in Moondance Alexander. The only problem was that Melissa drew a blank on the kind of pony it was. Melissa said outloud that she would have to ask Travis if he remembered what kind of pony it was when Sheinah said "Mommy, it's a PINTO." Of course, she was right! Kids have an amazing memory...it helps that she has seen the movie probably twenty or thirty times...but she remembered the kind of pony and her mommy didn't!