cheetahs

RP= a very smart 7 year old, working on /s/

Me: "Why do you not play cards in the jungle?"

RP: "umm, I don't know."

Me: "Because there are "cheetahs" out there!"

RP: "Ms. Amy, thats not funny."

Me: (using my good pragmatic skills to explain the joke) "Yes, it is...it's funny because Cheetah sounds like Cheater and you don't want to play cards with a cheater!!"

RP: "No, I got that, it's not funny becuase Cheetahs don't live in the jungle, they live in the grasslands."

Me: "Why do you not play cards in the grasslands?!"

RP: "Its still not funny."

new reading...

I bought "Captivating" by Stasi and John Eldredge a long time ago, and started reading it with some friends, but never finished...so, I picked it up again this weekend and LOVE it!

Some things I enjoy being reminded of:

• I am a beauty.
• There is a great adventure for me!
• I am irreplacable.
• My heart matters more than anything else in all creation.
• God created me and my heart and my desires and my life!

...more to come, I've only read an hour or two!

Mani/pedi

on my way out today, i just stopped by my friend emily's blog (http://singlehappens.blogspot.com/ ) very funny...

she had a link to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWrY77o77o

and i was cracking up!

so, check it out!

glad i am not a cheerleader!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULk30EEMIY4

*this is dedicated to megped82!*

Memorial Day Weekend!

My parents came into town for business and for a surprise party for my aunt Allison...which was fun!

The party was Friday night, I was the decoy - I had to go shopping for a dress for the river walk - so Mom, Allison, Julie and I went to Cato's and when we came back -SURPRISE! there were 40 people at her house!

Julie and I = great decoys!

Allison and Erik blowing out the candles

Lindsey and the Balloons

Then Saturday Morning, I got up and drove to San Antonio for Katie Ritze's Bachelorette weekend! We ate at the Riverwalk, went to Howl-at-the-Moon (email me if you want to see the video of her on stage b/c I can't post it for the world-wide-web to see) and then went out dancing!!

Diva Bride!

Jamie, Catherine, Mary, Katie, Megan, Amy on the Riverwalk

Meg and I - ready to CELEBRATE!

Jamie, Amy, Katie and Mary - In the Car

Sunday: We went to float the Guadalupe River!! It was so fun! One of the families who had a house on the river set up a Kareoke thing and we made Katie climb out of the river and sing to everyone floating! (I wish we would have a had a water proof camera!) Then ate in Gruene, Texas and came home to laugh and visit and hang out!

Marissa, Catherine, Tina, Katie, Jamie, Megan, Mary and Amy in Gruene, Texas

Monday: I drove back and laid out with some SLPs and then saw my first ever Indiana Jones movie...don't need to see 1, 2, or 3 - I hear they are all the same! Then came home and made this blog!

Happy Memorial Day weekend everybody!!

Ode to Ice Cream Cake

Whoever thought of combining ice cream and cake together, was a GENIUS!!

We had ice cream cake for a going-away-party, which I LOVED!

and I got a new camera! so, expect some fun pictures of this weekend! its pretty cool - the whole back of it is a viewing screen that is a touch pad too! also, you can edit and save pictures on the camera! pretty fun!

Good Advice

5 year old; target /f/



"Mish Amy, I wike dolpins..."
"Make a good /f/ sound...dolFins"
"Mish Amy, I wike dolFins and I gonna see dem on my happy moon"
"On your what?"
"On my happy moon."
"You want a dolphin in your happy meal?"
"No, my happy moon"
"Your happy moon?"
"Yesh, you know afer you get mawwied, I wanna see dolFins on my uh happy moon."
"Oh, I see...Do you mean Honeymoon?"
"Oh yeah, I porgot dat word."



(My aunt really took that dolphin picture when we were on Balboa Island, not on a "happy moon" though)

Same kid; quickly becoming on of my favorites:

target: /sh/ sound

We were doing lots of different types of fish...gold fish, rainbow fish, blow fish, etc...one of them was a crawfish...I am trying to get him to say crayfish...

"I know dat one, it a scorpion."

"Oh well, it looks like a scorpion but it's a crayfish...let's use that word since we are practicing our /sh/ sound."

"Well, I sawd a scorpion once...it wuh in uh toiwet, but it nah duh kin wi waduh in it buh de kin dat boys use (not the kind with water in it, but the kind that boys use)....yeah, my dadi sayz not tuh put my penis near it cuz it could huwt me."

"Good advice buddy."

True story. I don't know how I kept a straight face.