So Squeakums is pretty smart, that’s what everyone says. The lady at the grocery checkout the other day was amazed when he pointed to a poster of a bear playing guitar and said “guitar”. “He has such an advanced vocabulary for his age” she said. At last review, his vocab is expected to be between 10 and 50 words for his age. So this morning I decided to count how many words he can say…I got to 90 without too much effort! So our little “messenger” is a good communicator, as we have prayed for.
Living in our own house is beginning to feel like home. The energy efficient lighting is dim at first, taking 20 or so seconds to warm up. Warming up the house is another issue altogether and I won’t go into that frustration right now. We put the bear rug up on the wall last night, BearHunter doesn’t really want people walking all over it.
He feeds himself well, but likes to put his utensils in his drink and now also likes sloshing his cup around (after watching dad shake up a capped mug). He’ll repeat anything he sees us do. Dad used his leatherman as a hammer briefly, so how Squeakums wants to hammer everything with the leatherman too. He loves vacuums and hammers. Though his yellow blanket has been an attachment object for a long time, he has a new addition: a baby sized rubber football. He sleeps with the ball and takes it everywhere he goes pretty much.
Life revolves around baby so that’s what I primarily write about. I do now attend and sometimes host a ‘moms and tots’ group. Our babies range from 5 weeks in the womb to 3 years old. And one mom is over due one day as I write. I think that’ll be a fun group. I’m really hoping to find a network of women friends that we can all get deep and real together.
BearHunter is super busy and involved in everything right now. The new school has started excellently. BearHunter heads up the weekly community outreach event, trains football receivers twice a week.
All the snow melted in the middle of January. But the last couple of days it has snowed and is so beautiful. I love the fresh white blanket everywhere. Squeakums loves getting out too.
P.S. The island pictures are of some of the kids we got to know while on outreach. The girls dancing are doing ESkimo dancing, which is a community activity available most Satuday nights in Gambell. We just went and watched. Though some of our more bold group members joined in an occasional dance, trying to copy the moves. I just watched!
For our family and friends to see what we are up to in the far north, as missionaries in Alaska.
