5 minutes of jumping jacks!

Lol :) yeah my brother and I r pretty even. :) but I give up before him most of the time. :) lol

@Rosie: I SOOOOOO like arm wrestles :D I can't beat my older siblings (yet) but I can hold my arm up for a little bit. I am still working on beating them :D

@Carissa- Yeah, I can't beat Christian or Nicolas yet either, but, like you, I can keep my arm up for quite a while (longer than they usually expect :D). I often wish I had stronger arms…..

I wish I had stronger arms as well :D

Arm wrestling, push-ups, chin-ups….all things I'd like to do well. :) But, require strong arms…oh, well…..it's back to hard exercise with me. :)

Yep :D

Did someone mention arm wrestling?!?! Hey, I love arm wrestling! :D
I try to be kinda quiet about it because I guess it's not super ladylike… cough, cough but I didn't bring it up, so who cares! ;)

I have never lost an official arm wrestling match. :P

But… I guess that's because of my deep-dark-secret-that-I-can't-help.
Wanna know it?

In the arm wrestling position, my arm can not bend back really at all. It must be a weird muscular thing that I have (I'm not a flexible person), so in order to win, your going to have to break my arm or rip it out form my shoulder. And that's not as easy as it sounds. :P

Anyone want to arm wrestle?!

Oh, and Jordan can't beat me. ;)

Sure!!!

Lol if I make it to nats we should have an arm wrestling tournament! :)

Totally! :D

IKR? :P :) lol

We should! That would be so much fun :D

Mwahahaha… I'll get prepared! :D

Lol it's like we all work out our right arms for arm wrestling but not the other one!! Lol :) JK. :P disappears not to post again till tomorrow ;P

I, on the other hand prefer arm wrestling with the left… It's simply not fair that everything in this world is made for right handers!

But hey, as we say, "we are all born right handed but only the best of us overcome it!"

Yeah, sure, Jordan… Obama's left handed.
Go figure. I guess you don't have to… he's a lefty, that explains it! :P

Not exactly…..Because Ronald Reagan was left handed, as well as Benjamin Netanyahu!

Hey!!! look at this thing I found:

"August 13th is “Left-Hander’s Day.” Launched in 1992, this yearly event celebrates left-handedness and raises awareness of the difficulties and frustrations left-handers experience every day in a world designed for right-handers."

I am ttly going to celebrate this this year!

Did you know that this year's August the 13th is also Friday the 13th?
Convenient, huh?

Well… I didn't know you were one for superstition!

I'm not. I'm telling you about it.

Jordan, who am I to be one so deviously argumentative about the issue of lefthandedness, when I myself am 95% lefthanded? Perhaps because I welcome the thought of intellectual sparring. ;)
In all, I believe it is hoitie toitie and tittle tattle! :P

Well, maybe it's not, but I couldn't resist the opportunity to use those fun words! :D

Lol I'm right- handed. ;)

In Jordan's defense Tim Tebow is left handed!!! :) lol

That's the day my (miracle) brother was born. Not so bad, huh?

I'll get prepared too :D

@Danielle: Whenever I do arm wrestles I always do at least one with my left arm :D

So here are all the challenges to try :D:

*5 Minutes of Jumping Jacks (Sam…come on, you have got to try it. It's so much fun :D)

*Hop on one leg and see how long you can do it and then switch and do the other leg

*Stand at the bottom of your stairs, jump and see how far you can get.

*Twist your arm and leg, on the same side, different directions

*Lift your arm to shoulder level, and put a heavy textbook on your open hand, and then see how long you can hold it there without having to bend or put your arm down.

*Sit against the wall and see how long you can stay there without falling.

If any of you have more let us know (I think they are really fun :D) and I'll add them to this list.

Carissa- How about sitting against the wall and see how long you can do it before you fall? Nicolas, Royal (Wretched Son #3) and I did this a couple days ago. We were laughing so hard :D

Drag yourself across the floor with only your feet.

That doesn't make sense. Could you please explain it more?

That's hilarious! :D We should try that one…

You can also try hopping up and down the stairs on one foot. Be careful though. ;)

Bethany: Can you please explain it to me?

Basically you hop on one foot either up or down the stairs. That make sense?

No…I mean could you please explain to me what Rosie was saying :D

Yes, your's makes sense but Rosie's doesn't….

Oh, you mean about the wall thing?
Basically you use the wall to support your back and bend your knees like you are sitting in a chair. It gets rather hard on your legs. :P

Oh, okay. That makes sense :D

Oh, yeah, sorry :) I should've made myself more clear on that. @Bethany- Thanks for clarifying for me :-)

I knew what you meant, I do that sometimes.

Oh, I meant Bethany Strang. :)

Hey Sam, have you done the jumping jacks yet? :)

Me: Sitting at the computer, writing as essay on the book of Ezra
Suddenly I hear this weird squeaky sound upstairs in our room. Okay, so this is a pet peeve of mine… I can't stand little noises that go on and on and on and on… It could be anything: something rubbing against the bed at night every time me or my bunk buddy (I share a bunk bed with my older sister–yes, I sleep on the top!) moves, a child's continual crying, or someone humming in their own little world at the table (this one is the worst!)
Anyway, I'm taking a rabbit trail.

I think the sound will stop in a few seconds. But it doesn't.
Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!
I keep writing and stop thinking about it, only for my brain to passively hear that annoying sound.
I'm too bust to get up and stop it, so I endure the torture of a pet peeve.

Five minutes later, Eden comes down the stairs.
Eden: I just did my five minutes of jumping jacks!

LOL :D

Good job, Eden! How did it go?

Haha!! Lol

Great! :) I had to wait to recover from my cold! ;P Tip: Stretch your calves out when you are done! :D:D:D

Yes!
I did something dangerous today. ;) We went on our usual walk and I carried my sister all the way home on my back. I'm not exactly sure how long the walk is, but to carry someone half your weight on your back is very dangerous….when you have an eight song piano performance the next day!! :P Thankfully I'm just accompanying so I don't have to quite as loud and expressionful… :P wow…I like to make up words okay? :P

Hey…. when my adopted siblings first got home, my mom, me and the kids were on a walk. Ben fell in a slight stream and got really wet. It was in the 30's, so I had to carry a heavy kid in a heavy wet jacket, pants, and rain boots all the way up the street and since it was so cold, my mom had me RUN so he wouldn't get really sick. Ok, what were you saying?! :)

That would be exspressivo. ;)
O.o It wasn't Grace, was it?! :P

That's nothing, Eden! I've been told I have a dangerous look in my eyes whenever I'm up to something… and I probably had it when I talked you into licking a 9 volt battery a few years ago! That was dangerous. Lest you think I'm a heartless, cruel, tyrant… I'm not. It was a complete accident.