Quotable Conversations

At snack time before bed....

Jonathan (running over to his brother) - "Here, Andrew. Here's a cracker."

Andrew (taking cracker piece being handed to him) - (smiles a big smile)

J (with a big smile on his face) - "Daddy, I shared with Andrew!"

Daddy - "That's good, Buddy!"

J (still smiling) - "Mama, I shared with Andrew! That's being kind!!"

Mama - "Yes, Buddy, that is kind! That's very kind!!!"

[The message is getting through!!! We've been working HARD on what it means to be kind to your brother.]

Andrew Translated

In case you're having difficulty understanding "Andrew-Talk", we have compiled the following translation guide.

1. "mah gup".... milk cup
2. "ouh buck"... out back
3. "ip".... chip
4. "unt".... front
5. "abby".... Abby (a friend from church)
6. "ahn eat".... blanket
7. "up".... up
8. "but" and "ooh nee".... Burt and Ernie
9. "oo key".... cookie
10. "ape".... grape
11. "bah bah bah".... chicken (well, it's really what the chicken says!)
12. "mutt uhn".... muffin (and sometimes it means berry)
13. "oc kee".... broccoli
14. "at".... hat
15. "m-m-m-m"..... banana

How'd you do?

Say What??!?

It's me, Andrew. I've been busy learning lots of new words. Here are some of them....

1. "mah gup"
2. "ouh buck"
3. "ip"
4. "unt"
5. "abby"
6. "ahn eat"
7. "up"
8. "but" and "ooh nee"
9. "oo key"
10. "ape"
11. "bah bah bah"
12. "mutt uhn"
13. "oc kee"
14. "at"
15. "m-m-m-m"

How many do you understand? Mama said she'll help translate.
Later.

PS....Grandpa and Grandma Swaim...I hope you figure all these out cause Mama said we're coming to see you soon and I'm gonna have lots to say to you!!!

Songtime with Jonathan

"Twinkle, twinkle wittle star
How I wonder what you are
Up the spout you go
Up you car....!!!"



"A, B, C, D, E, F, G...
H, I, J, K, N, O, N, O, Me...
Q, R, S...
T, U, V...
W, X, Y, and Z....!!!"

Daddy Said

Daddy blowed up our pool and Mama put water in it. It was wots of fun pwaying in it and spwashing in it.

But when I put my mouth down at the water to dwink some, Daddy said I couldn't be in Gideon's army!!

J

My American Idol Tryout...

First some warm-up...

And then the audition tape...

Hey!! Where's everyone going??!?

J

The Bathhouse

This week Mama had to go to the bathhouse. She had to..... What, Mama? You didn't go bathhouse? Oh, you went to the courthouse.

This week Mama had to go to the courthouse. For jury duty. When we waked up on Tuesday we didn't see Mama. We just saw Daddy. Daddy telled me that Mama was at the bathho... I mean the courthouse.

Mama said that she had to go wisten to some people tawk at the courthouse. They had to splain what they did a wong time ago. They got in twouble and they had to tawk bout it.

Then Mama and the other people who wistened tawked bout the twouble and the man and if they thought he was the one who disobeyed.

Mama said it was a hard job to do. She had to wisten and think hawd bout what everybody said. Mama and the other people wistening decided that the man was the one who did something wong. He disobeyed and now he has to be put in jail.

I wish he would have obeyed cause when he didn't obey he made my mama have to go away for 3 days. He made the police officers miss work so they could talk about what happened. He made his mama very sad. She came to talk too.

Mama and Daddy say that God knows when we disobey and He doesn't want us to disobey and He punishes us when we do so we wemember to do the wight thing the next time.

I hope that man wemembers that cause I don't want my mama to go away to wisten to him again.

J

ps...Mama said that if you wanna wead the whole story 'bout going to the courthouse, just go over here. That's where the story is.

Busy Week

Hey everyone! It's me...Andrew!

You know, it's hard getting to this computer to type anything. My days are just so full of playing with Bubba (that's how I say brother) and reading books with Mama and eating and sleeping...AND I have to come down "deps" to even get to the computer. I can do the going up but not the going down. Makes it a real challenge to get to the computer by myself, if you know what I mean.

Anyway, Mama said I could tell you about what we've been doing this week. Monday we went to the store with Mama. I got to ride in the shopping cart and Bubba walked. We put things like graham crackers and milk and cans and bananas (I call them "n-n-n-n-n") in the shopping cart. Bubba got to get something to drink from the water fountain, but I had to stay in the cart. Then after we were done pushing the cart around we went up to a lady and gave her all the things from the cart. She held the things up to a machine and after she heard a beeping noise, she gave the things back to Mama. Then we got in the car and left.

Tuesday was Daddy's day off. Daddy got us out of bed and helped us get dressed and gave us breakfast. We couldn't find Mama anywhere! I heard Daddy tell Bubba that Mama had to go to the courthouse. We didn't see her all day long. But we had LOTS of fun with Daddy. He took us to the place where they put you up in a chair and tell you to sit very still while they put shiny, sharp things near your head. And those shiny sharp things make some of your hair go away. Last time they took me to that place I didn't cry...much. This time I did. Maybe Daddy felt bad for me cause when we were done at that place, Daddy took us to the playground and then to McDonald's for lunch. I loved the food there SO MUCH that I wanted to put as much of it into my mouth at one time as I could.

On Wednesday and Thursday Mama had to go to the courthouse again but Daddy had to go to work. So we went to "Missy Dween's" house. (Mama said that were going to Miss Doreen's house but I like how Bubba says it better.) We played with toys and ate food and took naps at Missy Dween's house. Then Mama came and got us and we went home. It's lots of fun to go to Missy Dween's house, but I missed Mama. I gave her lots of hugs when I saw her.

Thursday night we never got to see Daddy. And we didn't see him on Friday when we woke up either. We didn't see him until Friday night. Bubba said he went to work. Mama said he went to Pittsburgh. What's Pittsburgh? Wherever he was, he's home now and I'm happy. I missed him.

On Friday Mama didn't have to go to the courthouse so we didn't go to Missy Dween's house. Mama took us to see the animals at the pet store. We saw cats ("EEEEEEE") and dogs ("ooof!") and fish ("bub-bub-bub") and birds. My favorite were the dogs.

What did you do this week?
A

We're Not Going to Church...

Last week we had VBS at church. After we ate breakfast we got in the car and dwove to VBS. I told Mama that I didn't want to go to church. I saw that our car was driving to church but I didn't want to go there, I wanted to go to VBS. Mama told me that VBS was at church. I didn't believe her at first...but when we got to church, it WAS VBS! Mama was wight!!

Last year there was a barnyard and farm animals at VBS. This time there was a tent and a dog and twees and some little animals.

I had soooooo much fun at VBS. Daddy didn't get to come to VBS cause he had to go to work. But Andrew came to VBS. "Missy Dween" [Mama's translation = Miss Doreen] was my teacher. And Libby was in my class and Cassie was in my class. We had some music and yelled "Son's Wock Kids' Camp!!" and got stickers and ate honey bunnies and cheddar bunnies and put beads on a stwing and got to see the tent. And we got to play on the playgwound...EVEWY DAY!!!!!!!

Mama came to VBS but she went somewhere else. I think she was with other kids. One day when she came back to get me and Andrew, I told her that I didn't want to go home. She told me that we'd come back again the next day and that we'd get to eat some lunch when we got home, so I decided not to stay.

On the last day of VBS we went outside and ate hot dogs and chips and cookies and ice cweam.

Did you go to VBS, too?
J

Keep Pwaying...It's Working!!

Pwease keep pwaying for my fwiend Pastor Bob. He got to come home fwom the hospital today. But he's still not all better. If you go over here, you can wead all about it.

Oh, and if you leave a comment for him, tell him that Jonathan sent you.