happy birthday, chelleybutton!!!

good thing i know babies are screaming messes of poop and urp

cuz i've seen lots of cute costumes online this year. and while i know it's the in thing to put your baby in a pumpkin, and i never like in things, this kid is awfully darn cute.

Travel Journal - London

Trying to find things in my journal that I didn't mention on Facebook, special for you girls. Not too much in London that I didn't mention there - other than, you know.
Started by just wandering around - Drury Lane, Tottenham Court Road, Covent Garden.
Day Two was the British Museum which was hugely insane. I barely saw any of it at all. You need at least a full day there, probably longer, but on the plus side, it's free so I could head back again. From there I went to the British Library. It was a little disappointing because they only have one full-time exhibit room and the temporary exhibit was on propaganda (currently it's on children's book illustrations - how rude). However, at the same time it wasn't at all disappointing because of what's in that room. I saw the original 'Beowulf' and got choked up. It made me think of why I was on this trip, all the Tolkienness and the history and all that. Then there was a Gutenberg Bible and the Tyndale Bible, both of which stop you in your tracks, knowing what they mean. And then there was the Codex Sinaiticus. There I had to fight to hold the tears back. Seeing the oldest (4th century), most complete Bible in existence...I don't even know how to describe it. I just stared at it in wonder at the way it's survived, at the way GOD never changes, at GOD's faithfulness, at GOD's continuous desire to have us know him....so many things.
Day Three - Sutton Hoo. No lecture lunch, but I enjoyed it anyway. I'm thinking either I'm turning into some sappy woman, suffering from an overactive imagination, or turning into some supersensory sixth sense person, because it was yet another place where I could feel history. Sounds so dorky to say. But I felt it.
Day Four - British Museum again because I didn't find the Sutton Hoo stuff the first time. I found it and ended up spending an hour just in the one room where those things were. Then it was time for the WB Studio Tour. It was great except that we didn't have enough time and the gift shop was not that wonderful. I'm feeling the need to go back.
Day Five - You girls already know all about that one. :)

And that was London.

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Little Alex (5) tonight:-I think I have to sleep with my little sister tonight I thought she said before that she was a little scared of the storm!

it's my last night in wales

:'(