and ABEDNGO!!!....

have you ever seen this video??

or what about this one??


hilarious right!!?? well my husband was obsessed with them!....he knew every word by heart.........which then in turn inspired him to pull a team of volunteers together to but this video together!!!!....
(this video is a tribute to all of crossings children's ministries volunteers...it was played at "kick off" training....the first person represents the greeter/check-in volunteers, the second person represents the Sunday school teachers, the third (played by Michael foster) represents the tech/sound volunteers, and the fourth person(my crazy husband)represents the worship/music/band volunteers).....

please feel free to show EVERYONE this awesomelly amazing video...can you tell...im kinda proud :)

a few of Pipers quirks...

~she can say....daddy,momma,night-night,nana(for banana),nan-nan (although they are similar, we can distinctly tell the differences in the last 3 words :) and MANY other "words" that we have no idea what she is saying! ;)

~she can sign...more, eat, milk(nursing), drink, bird, fish and diaper

~they other day piper and kennedy were walking into her room for the both to be changed...when i asked "who's poopie"...piper raised her hand! I'm not kidding!...and she actually was poopie!!!

~She runs...thats right RUNS at 13 months!

~she does all the motions to "patty cake" like a champ!

~we were looking through her "baby words" book the other day...i was just going along, pointing to all the pictures and naming the objects...then i turned the page and immediately she points the the picture of the banana and says "nana" with all the

~she gives hugs like they are going out of style...she gives them as a greeting, if you are sad or hurt,if you tell her "i love you" if you ask for one...and sometimes just because :)

~her favorite foods are pinto/black beans, carrots, broccoli veggie burger patties, any kind of bread, scrambled eggs, blue berries, oranges, yogurt,cheese, applesauce and ice cream!

~she finally LOVES books...i have been checking out about 20 new books a week from the library. Her favorite book is a fisher price book called "how big?"...each page we say real loud "SOOOOOO BIG" she anticipates us saying it and flips out! its awesome.

water4...

a friend from church, Dick Greenly, a few years ago had an amazing vision of bringing water pumps to areas (i think mostly Africa) where water is VERY scarce...this video explains exactly the impact he and his team are making in the lives of these families in the villages...wow!

Craig Bay/Western Uganda Video of Water Coming Out from Water4 Foundation on Vimeo.

BEAUTIFUL!!

to learn more about this amazing ministry called Water4 Foundation check them out here and here...

the only way i can ever get anything done around here!....

they should give these as baby shower gifts!! ;)




*disclaimer: no pipers were harmed in the making of this blog post :)

this is why i love her....

Ali...thank you for sharing...you made my YEAR with this ohhh so professional news segment...