First Hair Cut

Adelyn had her first haircut this past Sunday. Her hair had become pretty shaggy and was always in her face. She hates to let us pull it up, so you could never see her big beautiful brown eyes. A friend from church came over and trimmed it up for us. I think it makes her look older and more angelic.

Aftershocks

Sometime between 12:30 and 1:00, I was awakened by the rattling of our bedroom door. Last time that had happened, we experienced an earthquake. I sat up in bed thinking that I must be imagining it. I live in Indiana, surely I wouldn't experience two earthquakes in the course of a week. I had convinced myself it was a dream until I heard the news say that there had been a pretty big aftershock (4.6). The good news is that we have our own earthquake detection device, the bad news is that now I worry about earthquakes!

Dancing Gym Bear

Abigail has been taking gymnastics for the past year at a local gym. Instantly she fell in love with the tumbling and the balance beam. This past session, we moved her to an older class called Dancing Gym Bears. It is 30 minutes ballet and 30 minutes tumbling. She likes the ballet slippers that she gets to wear and I like that it teaches her grace and poise. She has started jumping off things and throwing her arms in the air saying, "Ta-da." Here is some video of her from this past week doing her 'plie' and 'revele'. She not quite American Ballet Theater quality yet, but she's working on it.

EARTHQUAKE!!!

I never really thought I had to worry about earthquakes here in Indiana, but I guess I was wrong. I experienced my first earthquake and it was a little scary. I woke up this morning when the door to our bedroom kept rattling. I couldn't figure out why it was rattling continuously, so I woke Scott up and asked him what was going on. The door rattled for several seconds and then the whole house swayed back and forth for a few seconds. Completely freaked me out. I think I said, "What in the world is going on?" Both Scott and I first thought it was a tornado, so we jumped out of bed to go get the girls to the basement, but then the swaying stopped and we realized that the weather was fine. The door was still rattling, so I put my hand on it to make it stop and I could feel the vibrations through the door. We turned on the TV just in time to hear the meteorologist say, "I think we just had an earthquake." I guess the epicenter was 66 miles northwest of Evansville in a town called North Salem, IL. They are saying it was a 5.2 magnitude. I know Indiana is on a pretty big fault, but I never thought I would be able to say I felt my entire house sway back and forth. I really thought my house was getting ready to collapse! Thankfully the girls slept through the entire thing.

Scott is ABD!!!

What does ABD mean?

Absolutely Best Dad
Against Budget Deficits
Always Being Dapper
Anti Being Drunk
Awesome But Dull

You can come up with your own meaning to the acronym. It really stands for All But Dissertation. What it means is that he has officially met all of the requirements for his Doctorate of Education with the exception of completing his dissertation. Two weeks ago he sat for his "comps". Over the course of three days he sat in an empty room and had to provide written responses for 12 questions pertaining to everything he has learned in graduate school. After writing close to 50 pages worth of information, he had to return to Ball State today and complete the oral portion of comps. He stood in front of his committee and answered questions based on what he wrote two weeks ago. Of course he was worried and stressed about the whole thing, but did very well. He never gives himself enough credit for being so smart and hard working. I like to think he did so well because he had an amazing study partner and support system (me). Anyway, all that is left is to finish his dissertation. Check back in a year and I'll let you know how he is doing on that.

I'm very proud of him.

Worship

You don't have to be an adult to worship God. It amazes me how early our children have learned to sing their hearts out to God. We were on our way home from a birthday party tonight and they were singing along to the Veggie Tales at the top of their lungs. We are used to Abigail belting out lyrics, but it gets pretty loud in our car now that Adelyn joins in at full blast. They keep us laughing. When we got home from the party, we decided to video tape their concert. Scott had out the video camera and I had the regular camera so that I could post some video to the blog. Everytime I stopped recording, they would start up again. I know this is a lot of video, but I couldn't decide what to cut. So here are the Wyndham Sisters live and uncut.

God Is So Good


Adelyn Dancing


The Big Finish


The Big Finish 2

Spring Break

We had a great Spring Break last week. It was full of a lot of activities and the girls had a great time with friends and family. Mom came into town on Tuesday night with Jennifer and the boys. We had brownies to celebrate Austin's birthday and the boys had a good time running circles around our downstairs. Wednesday everyone went to the Indianapolis Children's Museum. Abigail really enjoyed spending time with her cousins. She chased Austin around and was his little shadow for the day. Scott, the girls, and I took mom back to the airport on Thursday for her to fly back to Florida. We ate lunch in the food court and watched airplanes take off and land. The girls and I went back to the Children's Museum on Friday to meet a friend of mine from college and her little girl. Abigail and Lydia hit it off instantly and held hands while they walked around and played. Like I said, it was a VERY busy Spring Break. Only 6 weeks until summer vacation!