Wee Whimsical Wilson Wife Writes

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world . . . as in being able to remake ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi I heard that quote today and I love it! Sometimes that's what I want to hear, I don't have to fix or change the world, just myself! Today was a big day. Spencer learned to jump for the first time! Only 18 months later than Thomas when he learned, so I'm even more proud of him and grateful that he's not as challenged as I thought.  Just kidding, he's really smart and sweet and obstinate but just not good at talking or jumping.  Or water. He cracks me up when he says "wonk" for want. Yick, and yocks are shirt and socks. He can't say s or l or r, or g, or ch, and the list goes on and on... So many words are the exact same from him, poor guy. He's always saying done as in again, all done, come, I came, etc. Although Luke can walk, he can't quite figure out that crawling is supposed to be ...

For Behold, it is easy to give heed to the word of Christ, which will point to you a straight course to eternal bliss, as it was for our fathers to give heed to this compass, which would point unto them a straight course to the promised land. Alma 37:44 I liked this scripture today.  It's easy to listen to the word of Christ, we shouldn't complicate it.  Destination?  Eternal Bliss.

Luke looks like a little ogre to me in this picture.  I occasionally call him jaws on account of his nine teeth.  Yesterday Thomas had a play date so I took my big little boys to the park for a minute before lunch.  Since I took this picture on my phone and the delay made for an interesting action shot.  He looks a million time more handsome and less creepy now that I shaved his mullet off. Luke is now walking a few steps at a time, just between Mommy and Daddy.  He's not brave enough to venture into the great wide open without something to hold onto; a couch, a wall, a brother's hand all do the trick. Luke loves any attention and is all smiles for Daddy when he is around.  He even says Da-da for him, too.  He also says Ma-ma-ma, and my favorite uh-uh when something falls, instead of uh-oh.  Sometimes he signs more and water. He loves his brothers and their roughhousing.  He is brave and impetuous.  We love to see him...

http://www.catinthehat.org/history.htm When Thomas asked me if Dr. Seuss had kids right out of the blue today I thought probably, right?  I don't know.  So I asked Thomas what he thought and he said yes.  He continued, "I think he had kids and they drew the pictures.  He added that Mrs. Dr. Seuss probably helped as well. Well I looked him up and Dr. Seuss's wife was unable to have children.  He actually made some up!  Chrysanthemum-Pearl is one of them for whom he dedicated a book, To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street.  I was also surprised to learn that one year for Christmas he and his wife Helen took a picture with the neighbor kids and sent it to friends and family as their "kiddies."  I guess you learn something new everyday.

Some of you may laugh at the idea of me focusing, myself included, but I'm running with it.  So I decided to deactivate my Facebook account.  Can you believe it?!  I know me neither! I waste time on the computer, and even though I've been able to improve and go a day here and there without the computer I feel like I just sit around staring at Facebook all day, reading statuses, comics, articles and blogs that are posted or shared there.  Even if it's not all day, it's my spare time, and isn't my spare time worth something more to me than to read Facebook?  That's what I thought too. One of my favorite things from TOFW I shared was that the food bloggers , Sarah and Kate don't read a bunch of other food blogs.  This may seem unrelated to quitting Facebook but the connection I draw is that viewing too many other ideas (and just being distracted by them) saps individual creativity. Therefore, I'm trying to focus on what I care about which is my kid...

Today I trekked (went on a long arduous journey) to WalMart to get contact cases and kid sunblock for the pool tomorrow, as well as buttons for the new super cool thing I made for Thomas.  Where else can you get everything from craft notions to beauty supplies?  Where else can you find insanely bad customer service?  It took forever and ever, I used all my supermom skills to keep three boys happy at WalMart without shoplifting; plus I spent more money then I would like to admit right now in case my husband reads this post before he reads exactly how much I spent on mint.com.  On his phone.  Okay, he probably already did. The worst part of today?  I left my last and most precious shopping bag at the store.  Grrr. Here's my chat with John about it.  (close to 9pm-still at work)  me:  hi  John:  hey  me:  how is it going there?  John:  not too bad i am very tired though  me:...