Love This Life!!

I love that I live in a life and a home where I get to experience things like this:

1. The other day, Rowan and Gage were scooter-ing (yes, in the house--I know...) and they went in by the front door. I couldn't see them, just heard Rowan say, "I don't want to scooter any more. Let's play a different game." Gage, "Okay. Hey, hey, let's play that game where we run and scream." Ro says, "Ok." And to myself I'm chuckling because I'm thinking THIS is a game?? Then they proceed to run around the "loop" (front door through the music room, into the kitchen and back around to the door)-one going in one direction and the other in the opposite direction. And every time they meet up they SCREAM! AHHHHH. (That looks like ahhh, a nice hot bath or something. Not sure how to write a scream. Should it have c's in it or g's like arrgghh like a pirate?Who knows. :) Anyway, it is hilarious because it is not JUST a scream; sometimes it is a full-on startle response, like one of them jumps or they nick each other or there's a head-on collision. Not sure how they don't expect it except that it does happen at different points in the circle each time... It is good, solid entertainment for at least 20 minutes to a half hour. How can you not love that?

2. The other day, this little white dog was out in the kennel trying to get it on with Reba, even though she is fixed. I go out there and think, "As if" as in, "As if we would even consider a little yappy, runt like you if it were possible for her to have more puppies." I go to get him out of the kennel and he has the nerve to bark at me, like I'm the intruder. That made me mad so I got a length of PVC pipe and threatened him. He barked at me all the way across the pasture. OOOHHhh, I wanted to kill him. But I digress, that has nothing to do with loving this life. That happened the following day, when Dave noticed this same little dog out in the kennel. He must have been cussing it, because Gage comes over, looks out the window and says, "Wow, Tank is tiny!" Now, the intruder is probably roughly the size of a large house cat and THIS is Tank:

Yeah, the one that's almost as big as Brennan. That's Tank. Hilarious that Gage thinks that is possible. Wow, Tank must be magic.

3. You know that thing where guys jump up and bump chests? Well, Gage and Rowan were trying to do it the other night and they call it "bumbellies". It was so funny. They are both so close to the same size that it was truly a match as to who would get knocked down, because falling was inevitable.

It makes me so happy that these two "littles" are such good buddies. I am so blessed. I do love this life. It is not always easy, and I guess it's not really meant to be, but there are so MANY bright spots in my life--5 or 6 (children and husband) on a daily basis. And I know when life gets rough I can always "run and scream". Try it some time. I have.