Walker Dollahon

February 18, 2013 · 

LOL. While Missy Hooks Dollahon, Maggie, and I are in Ethiopia this week Shepherd, Eva Rose, and Ike at staying with my folks in Houston. Shepherd was forced to sleep in the same bedroom that my grandmother passed away in. Eva Rose sensed an opportunity to pray a prank. In her words from an email we got this is what she did: "I played a joke on Shep. He has to sleep in great grandmothers old bed room so I wrote on a napkin in some made up handwriting that said "I've been looking for you. -Great Grandmother." Creepy, huh."

Shep: But.....how could Leonardo da Vinci's parents have him and not be married?
Me: Well, sometimes, especially back then, men who were married would still have lots of girlfriends. So his mom was one of those girlfriends.
Shep: You mean he was a play-ah.
 

I am really really hoping that 2 weeks from today I will be in Ethiopia with our new Valentine. Another paperwork messup has been resolved and hopefully the Embassy will email us next week.

Maggie just asked me, "Are we going to always celebrate the day we get her? We can call it Bethie Day!!" And then she decided all the dances she would do and the games she would come up with for Bethie Day. :-)

Ike tells me all the time that he wants to marry me. And this, my friends, is why he gets away with murder.

Eva rose said there are two angels in the bible, Michael & Harold. 
We said Harold? 
She said 'yes, hark the Harold angel sings.'

MAGS 

 

Bless her heart, Maggie can't spell worth a lick. But she spells just like she talks - which is ADORABLE. 

'I just played computer then Eva took my place then I had nothing (nufeg) to do then I had a plan to make Eva get off the computer it failed :( I was sad'

Shep just said "I think Santa would want us to leave him a beer instead of milk." This might qualify as a parenting fail.

A couple of weeks ago, we took our nine year old son to Ethiopia. There he toured an orphanage that reminded me of Auschwitz. He met a boy whose mother died on his 6th birthday, at which point he lived on the streets until he came to into the orphanage. He saw children wearing literally rags, with empty bellies, who had no idea where their next meal would come from.

We did this to try and give him some perspective on his life, and all his blessings.

We did this so that if, for instance, he were playing a video game on a Kindle that cost more than most Ethiopians earn in a year, and he spent a lot of time building a house in Minecraft, and it somehow disappeared, he would not burst into tears and say, "It's not fair! I hate my life!"

Two words:

MISSION FAIL.

Walker's morning words of affirmation: "You're an extremely good looking woman. You have lots of other really, really negative qualities. But know this, you're very good looking."

 Eva Rose reading her Kindle, which I thought I had censored: "Mom, I just looked up cannibal on the dictionary on my Kindle. Ew! What does 'sexual organs' mean?" Holy crap, what are you reading? Bugs. It's a book about bugs.

"I've gone a whole week without any wine. I've been at your house an hour and I'm ready to pour a glass." GG 

A while ago, we set up wish lists on Amazon for the kids to put their birthday and Christmas wishes. Shep's has 4 items on it. Eva Rose's has 10. Maggie's has 743.

Me: shut the door! If you lived 5000 years ago and there were lions out there you'd so be dead by now.
Shep: yea! I'd get to go to heaven!
#misapplicationoflifelessons

We're at the Austin Nature Center for a Halloween bash. Ike is dressed as a dragon. He forgot to wear underwear. And he just informed me there's a hole by his peepee. Could be an interesting night.

Someone told me tonight he was going to marry me when he grew up. Dr. Freud, meet Ike Dollahon.

 Note that the Tooth Fairy (aka Shep) wrote tonight:

Dear Eva,

I do exist, except the Tooth Fairy Queen won’t let me give you proof because remember about that boy who went to Fairy Land? And made a lot of mischief? That’s the reason. Sorry, I can’t show you any proof. But please believe in me. 

Sincerely,

The Tooth Fairy

Tonight during prayers I asked Shep to say what he was thankful about. He said, "Thank you God for making me so awesome." I think we have a little more discipleship to do...

Ike got in trouble for something. After I fussed at him, he asked, "Mom, do you still love me?"

"Yes, I always love you," I answered. Then, I thought to ask, "Do you still love me?"

"Nope."

Shep: 'Mom, I'm growing up. I'm learning new words like democracy, mechanism, confidence, privacy...'

Eva Rose: 'I've been using all those words for months now.'

Ike just filled his water blaster gun with toilet water. And I don't mean perfume.

Ike just filled his water blaster gun with toilet water. And I don't mean perfume.

Email from Mimi

Things Ike said when we were in Mexico:

That "a man is going to put new things in my house."

You are going to live "for 10 weeks" in Austin. Glad it's only a temporary stay! I had no idea!

He has three grandmothers, "Gigi, Great-grandmother and Mimi."

Great-grandmother is "in Heaven with Jesus."

I teased him about his boiled eggs that they were dinosaur eggs, dog eggs, etc. He frowned and told me that "No! Birds have eggs! NOT ANIMALS!"

He has been funny and enjoys a laugh when I tease him and has been a very sweet kid.

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Raining again - but Steph. had told me that Meyer Branch Library was having story time at 1:30 and that there was going to be a juggler! So Dad and I took Ike and met her  and  the juggler looked a bit like Dick Van Dyke (about aged 50+) and used to work in Vegas and at first I thought....Oooooooooooooooooooo....he wore a jester's hat and shirt and made a lot of crazy faces right off the bat. Kind of you know...creepy.

 

But he got better and better as time went on and actually rode on a unicycle and THEN actually balanced it ON HIS CHIN while juggling three of those longish juggling things! He did a magic trick with scarves and had all these little kids hootin' and hollarin'! Ike was amazed! Hattie, Ike and Mary Ellen all got to do something and virtually all of the kids old enough at least tossed him a cloth ball to juggle or something. Ike tossed him a scarf back. It was really quite a show!

 

Later I took Ike to the mall and he was not at all interested in the play area. Too many kids, too big and noisy and all of that. So we had lunch and watched the ice skaters (Memorial City Mall) and on the way home he said such a funny thing.

 

"Bicycles don't have ONE wheel! They have TWO wheels!"  He had been mulling that over for hours.

 

He said that his Mom and Dad and siblings could all ice skate. "But not Gigi or Mimi. They would fall down."

 

He has appreciated his daily gifts and actually I just remembered to give him the Wednesday one. I will do that in a while.

 

"I wish we were rich."

 

"I wish birds didn't poop. They poop on cars and on windows! Eeeewweeee.......!"

 

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Maggie learned that her sister (who had traveled to Mexico on a different plane than her) was able to watch movies on personalized mini-monitors on the seat back in front of her seat.

Maggie was AMAZED at this and wanted learn more.

Maggie (eyes wide in amazement): What sort of movies did you watch? Were they wrestling movies? Jesus movies?

Yep, those would be the first two movie genres that would pop in my heads too. "Wrestling" movies and "Jesus" movies.

Shep: What does forwegian mean?
Me: Norwegian means from Norway.
Shep: No, not Norwegian. Forwegian. F-o-r-e-i-g-n.

Walker Dollahon

May 23, 2012 · 

So Missy Hooks Dollahon goes to a plastic surgeon's office for a post-op check-up from her recent abdominal surgery and Ike find something to play with...look very, very closely...

Eva Rose: So...how does the baby come out of the mommy?
Me: It comes out of the mommy's vagina.
Eva Rose: What's that?
Me: A hole down there.
Eva Rose: A hole down where?
Me: Down here.
Eva Rose: (startled) OOhhh. How big is the va...gina?
Shep (walking in): It's bigger than Texas.
Me: What??
Shep: Yeah. It's bigger than Texas. China is WAY bigger than Texas.

Walker: Maggie, are you beautiful?
Maggie: YES!
Walker: how do you know you're beautiful?
Maggie: Because I have long hair, and green eyes, and I don't fart too much.

(but in Maggie speak: Becuz I have wong hai, and gween eyes, an I don faught too much.)

Maggie: Mom, how did God get so powerful?
Me: I don't know Maggie.
Maggie: Well can you google it?
Me: No, Google doesn't know either!
Maggie: What about Siri? Ask Siri.

Walker Dollahon

April 14, 2012 near Klein · 

 

Allowed on Timeline

Mags with My Widdle Ponys. Ike with cars. Hard-wired.

Walker Dollahon

April 5, 2012 · 

Ike had his birthday yesterday and the family went out and celebrated. Can you tell which of my children was super jealous all day?????

At Natural Bridge Caverns:

The littles got a little scared.
Ike said 'are there lions and bears in here?' and on one dark place 'I want my bear.'

Tree --> nut

4:23pm

Shepherd: Mom, I'm a child prodigy.




10:18pm

Walker: Wow, I am such a savant.

love note

Shep had a spelling test and his teacher said to spell his full name - DOH. He totally butchered his middle name Emmanuel. Which led to the revelation that Eva Rose had no idea how to spell her proper name, Evangeline. And don't even ask if Maggie can spell Magdalene!!

Eva Rose: Who made the first stickers?
Shep: It was some Pilgrims. They took a picture and put this tree sap on the back of it.

Item	Shep’s estimate	Eva Rose’s estimate
New bicycle	$86	$30
New car	$559	$75
New house	$2,122	$1,000
Daddy’s salary	$1 million	$1,000
Teachers’ salaries	$1,000,036	$300
Bethie’s adoption	$1,000,573	$3,100
Dinner at a restaurant for 6	$42	$25
A new Barbie	$7	$6
Gallon of milk	$1.79	$4

Ruth Reitmeier <ruth_oh@alumni.rice.edu>	11/16/11
to me

All the kids have been very inquisitive lately about the nature of salvation and how God saves us.  I've been trying to explain that it's all God, nothing on our part.  That God does everything because we can do nothing.  That because Christ has done everything, we don't have to do anything.  This morning God gave me a great illustration to use that involved an incident with Ike.  I had a conversation over breakfast with Reece that went like this:

Me: Remember when Ike was here and fell into the pool on accident?

R: Oh yeah!  Hahahahaha.  Mrs. Dollahon totally freaked out and dived in to save him.

Me: Did she wait for Ike to cry out "Come help me!  Save me! I can't swim"?

R: No she just jumped in with her clothes on.

Me: Did she say to Ike: Swim to the edge and I'll pull you out?

R: No she threw off her glasses and dived in.  She dived head first!  She could've cracked her head on the bottom of the pool.

Me: So she didn't say "Hey Ike, grab onto this pole and I'll pull you to safety?"

R: Noooooo! She didn't say anything.  She just jumped in.

Me: That's right.  She jumped in to save Ike even before he realized he was drowning.  What did Jesus do for you?

R: He dived right in to save me before I even called for help.

 

Maggie: mommy, is Jesus a Longhorn?
Me: yes dear.
Maggie: so Satan is an Aggie?
Me: oh yes dear.

 

Eva Rose, 33 months old

I just found this picture that she drew on June 11, 2007.

She dictated a story to me to go along with it:

He's a bad boy. His name is Bad.
He's gonna hurt the bad boys.
He's bad cause he don't obey God.

Ike just yelled at Shep to give him something, and he answered, "Not with that attitude." Hm, wonder where he learned that.

QUIZ: One of the Dollahon children just decided that it made perfect sense to pee AND poop - like, a lot of poop - in a box in the garage. Which one?

Eva Rose doing the catechism with Maggie:
ER: 23. What covenant did God make with Adam?
Maggie: ummmmmm
ER: It's something that you do NOT like to do.


Answer: The covenant of works.

Mags:

Sometimes, when I drink water, I imagine all the germs in my tummy goin surfin in the water, and they're swimmin in the water, and the momma germs are puttin suntan lotion on the baby germs....

Rainbows are spicy, cause stripes are spicy.

I had no idea that being a mother would involve me saying things like "We do NOT wipe our poop on the carpet!!"

Picking up Ike from prek. 
Did you have a good day?
 'Yes.' 
what'd you do?
 'Get in twouble.'

Ike: GG bought the beach house dis truck
Me: GG bought you that truck when we were at the beach house?
Ike: Yes.
Me: GG loves you so much,
Ike: Yes.
Me: You love GG?
Ike: Yes. She take me to school. Safely.