Intersection

Yesterday was a God day. I'd surrendered my plans while driving the kids to daycare. The plans had included cooking, cleaning, organizing "my box," and hopefully shopping for a new mattress. Just "me" things. Had another whole day off to do them if I needed to, so nothing was pressing. I had a nudge to visit a friend and chose to listen. Turned out I ended up being in the right place at exactly the right time and got to see His love for a friend I've been praying for, and a renewed sense that he must see me as well. And I had the awesome privilege of hanging out with these two beautiful people! Its been a long time since I've had an experience like that. I probably don't listen to the nudges very often. Being spiritual is really about just being obedient to the One who knows better than I do.

Hand in Hand Park

Today, the Hand in Hand park.

Now, is that a Beautiful Person or what?

I was taking these pictures of his feet and later realized I'd caught a squirrel!

Special Olympics

Yesterday we attended the Special Olympics in Radford. I wish I could say we spent our time cheering on these awesome athletes. But mostly I was chasing my own little athletes. I think they have opposite polarity: they always run away in the opposite direction from each other. I am thankful for the many volunteers, like this guy here, who helped me retrieve one while I was chasing the other. Judah kept running in the way of the awards ceremony and even climbed on the podium where an athlete was receiving his award.

There were activities set up for the "Young Athletes" and their siblings. 

 

But our favorite of all was the bounce house.

And Judah liked dancing to the DJ. Today I made the mistake of singing "Shake your Booty!" because Anayah joined in. I needn't have worried though. She quickly turned it into "Shake your Judah!"

I discovered that kettle corn is on our list of allergy-OK foods so I got them a treat. Turns out Judah, who normally loves popcorn doesn't like kettle corn. Anayah loves it.

After the Olympics I went for a run along the Riverwalk trail in Radford. We ran from Bissett Park back to the Stadium where I found Judah's harness (you know, for his leash) that had slipped out of the stroller. We also found a cool Sycamore tree that looked like a cave. That's not a ghost. Its the sun.

Judah and Anayah love to take trips in the jogger. Our outings consist of two short jogs with a long play break in the middle. Today we went to the park.

And of course, Judah and Anayah always get along well because the jogger is spacious and doesn't allow them to infringe on each other's personal space.