Kangaroo

We apparently aren't tired of the animals yet.  This afternoon, Daddy took Madison to the local library where once again Wildlife Wonders was on hand with a presentation, and a few animals to show off.  This would be the third time in a few weeks that Madison has seen Wildlife Wonders, thanks to the recent visits at KidPak.  This past Sunday, they were at the church with all kinds of reptiles - Madison missed that due to our vacation.  HOWEVER, she made up for it today, as she saw a Madagascar boa, a glass lizard, and a baby alligator as well.  The favorite might have been the kangaroo though - Madison got to pet this little girl, who showed an extra interest in Madison as shown in the picture above.   I think baby kangaroos are called a joey.  It's difficult to call a girl kangaroo a joey though, as that's a boy's name, right?  Anyway, she had a good time at the library, and of course we picked up a whole lot of new books while we were there.  And movies too.  The library has been such a valuable resource for us!

Madison was definitely on a pony kick today, playing with the ponies, and watching them onscreen for a bit.  It's so entertaining listening to her play - her dialogue back and forth is priceless as she imitates each pony interacting with each other on some grand adventures.  She's making up stories as she goes along, using her imagination, and not at all embarrassed to be talking it all out as the ponies spread their adventure all over the great room.

We did quite a bit of catching up today, and cleaning too.  It's been a week to do just that, and we've been doing it at a nice, slow pace.  We've got stuff to do though:  a list is there of things to accomplish.  One at a time, we'll knock them all off the list.  One impending item is a BYOT item.  We want to get Madison something better than a Kindle, so we're doing a bit of research on what to get her.  We didn't want to spend too much, as we didn't want a high-priced item off to school everyday just yet.  So there we are with that.  And there are other tasks to be done.  Right now, Mommy is preparing the guest room for Nana and Ba-Ba to arrive on Sunday.  It'll be nice to see everyone again.

We were wanting to keep the nautical theme going with movies tonight, so we started this new one that we got at Goodwill that nobody had ever seen before:  it was a movie adaptation of the television series "Flipper."  And... we shut it off about twenty minutes in.  Fortunately, Daddy was on hand to falsify what was going on in front of us on the screen - who on earth thought that was a good idea to put in a family movie?  We stayed with it a little longer, but there was one more scene on top of that and we got to the point where we were wondering what else could be in this movie and decided not to chance it.  Note to self:  watch movies ahead of time to see if they are okay.  SO ANYWAY, back to Spongebob!  We're on this Spongebob marathon right now, and yes, nautical nonsense is something we wish.  We still have some other themed movies to watch, including "Finding Nemo" and "Dolphin Tale."  The theme continues, as we keep writing new material for our upcoming series.  In fact, we chose our memory verse for the series recently - and Daddy even did a little write-up about it.  Here it is below:

Memory Verse: "Once again You will show loving concern for us...  You will throw all of our sins into the bottom of the sea." Micah 7:19 NIrV

     Are you looking to go deeper?  How about to a place called Challenger Deep?  It is the lowest, deepest known point in the ocean, located at the southern end of Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.  It’s 35,756 feet down – that’s nearly seven miles straight down.  Throughout our entire history, only three people have made it that deep – the most recent visit in 2012, for about two and a half hours.  If you want to know where the bottom of the sea is, look no further.  
     It is a place on this earth that no one goes, where no light reaches and the temperature plummets to extreme lows.  It’s hard to imagine surviving down here, and yet God has created life that not only survives, but also thrives.
     One thing does not survive though.  In the book of Micah, it is written that God tosses our sins to the bottom of the sea.   We are very happy to report that recent explorations of Challenger Deep didn’t discover any our sins piled up for all to see.

     And that’s because they are gone forever.  When God was saying He’d throw our sins to the bottom of the sea, He was simply making this point:  they are going to a dark place where they will die, and be gone forever.  Nobody will remember them ever again, because of God’s loving concern for us, and a love that’s even deeper.