Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? By Dr. Seuss

This is one of our favorite books to read with Gabe. If you don't have it you should get it, or at least try to get it from the library and read it once. Our favorite part:

"When I was quite young and quite small for my size, I met an old man in the Desert of Drize. And he sang me a song I'll never forget. At least, well, I haven't forgotten it yet. He sat in a terribly prickly place. But he sang with a sunny sweet smile on his face: When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you! Think they work you too hard...? Think of poor Ali Sard! He has to mow grass in his uncle's back yard and it's quick-growing grass and it grows as he mows it. The faster he mows it, the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving that mower around in that hay is the piffulous pay of two Dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay! SO... He has to paint flagpoles on Sundays in Grooz. How lucky you are you don't live in his shoes!"

Funny Things That Gabe Says:

Last night we were sitting at the dinner table with the T.V. off, so we could talk as a family with no interruptions. I love to talk with Gabe because he always says something to make me laugh. I was in motion to take a bite of food off of my spoon, when a little bit of it fell on the table. I looked up to see if Michael and Gabe had noticed, and Gabe just calmly looked at me and said, "It's O.K. momma, the table can clean itself." Than a little bit later he was drinking his water, looked over at Michael, and said his "water holder" wasn't full yet...you mean your bladder? "Yes, my bladder."