Currently Watching Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed By Ben Stein, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, Mark Souder, Gerald Schroeder see related

I recommend the aforementioned movie.  Good stuff.  I like that Ben Stein.

I haven't put up any pictures in a while.  Pictures first, then funny stories.

Funny stuff from Shalom this week...

Today Calvin was grabbing for an electrical cord.  Hannah said he shouldn't play with it.  I was carving a pumpkin and asked if he should have the knife instead.  Shalom said, "No, Calvin shouldn't have the knife because he will cut his eye out and then he'll only have one eye."  Well said.  It's fun to watch her start to connect the dots of logic in normal every day conversation.

I think it was last week some time that she had pooped and I came in to find her entertaining herself as she often does by speaking for various characters that she has invented.  In this case, she was throwing little toilet paper wads into her potty.  The little poop fish was saying, "I want to eat some too," but the big poop fish was saying, "No, I'm going to eat them all."  Eventually he decided to share.  [She was not touching the poop, fyi.]

We're getting closer to our new house.  We have taken the First Time homebuyer class to get a $4000 grant toward our downpayment, which is actually $6,000.  It's a bit complicated, but the long and short of it is that because we bid higher than HUD appraised the house, they will only let us get a loan for the appraisal value, leaving us to come up with $6,000.  As with all things, we're just trusting the Lord to provide for our needs, and as always, He is using many and various people to take care of us.

This week we got a free cabinet grand piano and a free fridge from people listing on craigslist.com.  Special thanks to Chris Beaty for helping me load the piano, and special thanks to Ben Reis, Mark Coddington, Craig & Corina Garrison, Chuck Maycroft, Chuck Medberry, Chris Hiegel and Chris & Randy Beaty for being willing to help me unload it.  [I planned better for the loading than the unloading...]  It was really heavy!