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Praying

For a long time I have had difficulty getting Heidi to close her eyes and pray with me. She didn't understand why she would have to be quiet and listen to me as I closed my eyes. So I gave up on trying, unfortunately. Just recently I decided to try it again. I was laying on my bed with both girls facing me on each side when I turned to Heidi and said, "Shh, let's be quiet and pray."

So I closed my eyes and began to pray. When I glanced over at her I saw that she was sitting still and squinting her eyes, listening to my words. I continued praying as Trudi just stared at me. I said a prayer that Heidi could really understand. When I was finished I told her to say "amen." In a cute little voice she said it as good as she could.

My heart could not have been happier. I finally got my daughter to pray with me. Now she always enjoys praying with me.

My Husband

As nice as it was for my husband to go get me makeup that I needed I clearly see why it's always better to do things yourself.

Here's what I showed my husband to get as well as wrote down details of the product for him



Here's what he returned home with

Their Favorite Time Together

When I go into the bathroom in the evenings with Heidi and turn on the bathtub, Trudi will start throwing a fit from hearing the faucet running, wanting to take a bath. Even if she is having a good time playing with Gus in the other room her mood will suddenly turn sour because there's nothing she enjoys more than taking a bath with Heidi. It's so funny to hear her scream to me from the other room, as though she is yelling, "Wait for me!"

Now that she is big enough to take a real bath I put both the girls in the tub at the same time every night. It's their highlight of their day because they get to splash together and Heidi gets to practice sharing toys. They were having so much fun last night that I decided to take another photo to post on here.

Random

I haven't posted some pictures lately so here's a few:

My favorite summer outfit on Heidi


Trudi trying out some Graduates finger food


A photo of me since my face rarely shows up on this blog (only I was at home to take it)

A Good Memory

Growing up, my sisters and I loved to watch every competition of gymnastics that would come on TV. We knew just about every name of each international gymnast and loved to critique like a judge with their routines. When they were finished we could pretty much guess what their score would be before it was even posted. We really knew our gymnastics. I still love to watch it even today but it's not the same. Not just because of the lack of originality but because the sport is missing two people: Bela Karoli the coach and John Tesh the commentator.

John Tesh, the musician, was really the man for me. In ways he was so bad of a commentator that he would tell the same background story of a gymnast, forgetting that he had just mentioned it in the competition the day before. You never got the feeling that he was letting people know what happened who didn't see day one of the competition. You would feel that he was repeating the story for sympathy for the gymnast being so poor back at home. He was so dramatic when great things would happen in the sport, even letting out tears when Shannon Miller stuck her vault in 1992. I always had a good laugh as I would listen to him name the nicknames of the gymnasts, i.e. Goddess of gymnastics and Belorussian Swan.
For years I knew that if I could meet any celebrity it would be him. Well, one day back in 2004, I was working behind the counter at Starbucks, thinking nothing of the people in front of me. Then suddenly my eye caught someone. IT WAS JOHN TESH! I could not believe it! I didn't know what to say at first. Then I thought of a gymnast's last name who I know was one of his favorites. I said (as I remember), "Do you remember Boguinskaya?" He looked at me in utter shock. "Wow! I can't believe you know about that part of my life!" He said.

"Are you KIDDING??" I said laughingly, "My WHOLE family has watched you for years covering gymnastics. My older sister would die if she knew that I spoke to you."

He was so thrilled that I remembered him from that part of his past that he asked me for my sister Julie's number so that he could call her right there in front of me to say hello. When he got a hold of her on his cell phone she didn't believe it was him when he first called. But the more he spoke the more convinced she was that it was him. She practically screamed on the phone in laughter and was in shock that she was talking to the man we laughed about for years, in a real humorous way.

When I asked him what his favorite moment was of gymnastics I expected him to say some moment where a Russian didn't let down her country by winning gold. But instead he said that it was the moment when Kerri Strug landed the vault for team USA back in 1996.

I've posted a link to a video, which shows Tesh talking about a gymnast barely hanging onto the balance beam. I laugh every time!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7311703611214346121&q=amanda+borden&ei=GCtrSL3qE4yErgOHjY2bDw