Growing kids

They grow up so fast, faster every day. My little girl is six months old now. She's started holding herself up on hands and knees, ready to start crawling soon. And my squeakums is approaching three years. he's quite a climber. We encourage him to be active and climb most places, that others parents wouldn't! Like on the back on the couch for instance. I hope that by letting him be a little boy as much as possible, he won't go do risky things behind our backs. Or take naked time for instance. He's allowed to be naked at home as much as he wants. We have never had a problem with him stripping down out in public...until a week or two ago. He wanted to take his clothes off during a YWAM meeting. But daddy said no, and he obeyed. However, he then wet his pants within the hour. Being naked makes it easy for him to take himself to the potty. So we should have clued in to that 'signal' and taken him to the loo at that time.

We are really close to closing on our home purchase. It's hard to wait to hear back from underwriting...the final hurdle. But God has totally had this thing in his hands the whole time. We believe He is blessing us with this home. And so I keep waiting, trying to overcome my own thoughts. We've chosen colors for most every room, it's currently all the same off white blahhhh. Then there's a lot of little details we want to fix. But it's a great house, at an amazing price. God was holding it out for us in the right timing.

Moose in my Compost

Today I took a broom out onto the ice, to clean up the mess left by a moose yesterday. Since it’s been thawing out in Homer, I think the smell of the YWAM compost bed escaped. It’s a lasagna bed which means we layered fresh kitchen scraps (nitrogen) with dead leaves or shredded paper (carbon) in the fall. By next planting season it SHOULD be a lovely raised bed full of compost…except for the disrupting moose. She ate through one burlap cover and dug into the layers below.

Today Squeakums looked out his bedroom window and saw two female moose (mom and yearling?). Probably one of which ate the compost bed yesterday. We watched out the windows as they nibbled and peed in our yard, then crossed the street to the neighbors place.

Christmas happenings

Here's a collection of December pictures of the kids and what we've been doing.

There's cutting down our Christmas tree. All four of us did that together.

Rosie Riding piggyback on Squeakums. I still don't have a final screenname for her. I like Rose in it, perhaps RosieCheeks or Rosebud (Grammy's suggestion).

Making Squeakums gingerbread house with his neighbor friends. They enjoyed that very much. Now there's just a few graham cracker walls still standing. Most all the candy has been torn off and eaten, stale or not.

We've lost our camera sadly this week. So no Christmas pictures will be taken unless we find the camera tonight.

I do have pictures from last Sunday's Christmas play though. He was a shephard. Almost didn't get up on the stage, he was too shy during rehearsal that morning. And had missed the last two rehearsals on Sunday mornings. But when it cmae time, he was in a good mood and did great. He swayed to the songs while the other kids stood still and sang. (He wasn't singing however). And he was left looking at baby Jesus after the other shephard had exited the stage - they forgot him. As the youngest kid up there, the older ones were looking out for him and making sure he faced forward, etc. It was cute and he seemed to enjoy it.

Merry Christmas everyone. Thank you God for the gift of Jesus to us.

Harvest Carnival

Squeakums was so excited to go fishing for the first time at the harvest carnival. And he caught something (a toy, a candy, and a paper pad), he still talks about it. In his little mind he actually went fishing.

But every day a few times he'll tell us he went on an airplane. Not sure why that thought it constantly on his mind. Maybe he dreams about it. Maybe God is trying to tell us something.

His simple costume was a football player, football is one of his favorite everythings.

More grandparent visitors for baby girl

Had more family visitors last month. Here's some of those activites...swimming with Uncle B, both kids hearing about Petee landing on pouter's lips from Aunt Rackle. Grandparents sleeping with baby girl. And our family hike on the Homestead trail on a recent SUnday afternoon.

Squeakums new toddler bed was an exciting transition for him. He was ready to take his nap an hour early that first day. And he loves to have most if not all his stuffed animals around him when he sleeps. And don't forget all his blankets and a few books, maybe even a box of legos as well.