Rand phrases

Rand: "My friend A__ made a so fabulous picture of pirates today."

Rand is praying like a preacher man at mealtime. It's a hodgepodge of the Lord's Prayer, stock saying ("Lord of Lords" or "our wonderful heavenly father"), lots of things to be thankful for, and finishing up with "Amen! Come, Lord Jesus." It goes on for about 3 minutes and is sweetly hilarious.

Rand is getting better at horseback riding. He is figuring out that horses take muuuch longer to turn than any electronic gadget and is doing a good job learning how to tell a horse what he wants. He wore spurs for the first time yesterday and declared them "so fancy" and wanted to wear them all evening, until they hindered his haybale climbing.

We had a fun visit with Great-Grandpa and Great-Grandma Fisher for a couple of days. We went out to Yogurtland, had blueberry pancakes, and visited Rand's school. Grandpa, Ella, and I had breakfast at McDonalds, and Grandpa came with us to riding lessons one day. We drank lots of coffee and had such a nice time visiting with them. It is sweet to watch Grandpa play with Rand and Ella and tell them tall tales and jokes that they don't quite understand, but laugh at anyways.