The Heaths: Bean Bags and Sister Missionaries

Friday, February 20, 2015

Bean Bags and Sister Missionaries

Derek and Bryce have been getting bored with all the cold weather indoor play and I happened to find a tabletop bean bag toss on sale, so... we discovered Derek is natural at this game. He has seriously impressive hand-eye coordination. He started off standing straight in front of the target and tossing the blue bean bags (the red ones were deemed Bryce's). Then he moved off to the right of the target, then he sat down, then he tried some crazy trick shots that never made it, but he was having fun with it. :) Bryce was content to sit right at the base of the target and push his bean bags through the hole with an enthusiastic "I did it!" Derek is seriously awesome. If he likes something, he always asked to take it or show it to Isaac, Andrew and Emeri (sorry, Oakley, you'll make the list one day). :) Bryce is starting to learn the same behavior and offered to share his popcorn with me today (seriously, he LOVES popcorn, so that was huge).

You know when you find people who are just like you and you mesh instantly? It's few and far between, but thank heaven for these gems! It all started when Sister Baker and Sister Hixon were over for dinner about a month ago when someone made a subtle Doctor Who quote... and the sisters GOT IT! Instantly, the three of us were talking pretty much all things fandom and I could almost hear Mitchell and Tammy roll their eyes as I basked in the brilliant glow of friendship. It literally takes one to know one and those are the special ones. I helped the sisters with setting up their ancestry.com LDS accounts today and, while they were waiting for my computers to be set up, Sister Hixon challenged Derek to an arm wrestling contest. Hehehe. After a few false starts before Derek finally understood the rules, Sister Hixon was very surprised when Derek started forcing her hand toward the table. She increased her pressure, he increased his and Derek finally got her hand onto the table. He kind of cheated at the end when he used both hands, but hey, that's still impressive. :) As we started the ancestry.com accounts, we started commenting on cool names in Sister Baker's line (she carries a fan chart with her of her ancestors. Cool!!) and that started us down the slippery slope of baby names... we rode that wave with all hands in the air! WEEEEE! We share a fascination and appreciation for oddball, vintage, gorgeous names that most people (myself included) wouldn't ever use as a first name, but we all thought them fair game for the middle slot. :D