It has been a few months since I've blogged last, and I'm sure no one will be remotely interested in reading this posting, but since I'm really not writing it JUST for you, whoever you are, but am writing primarily for my children, I'll get over it. :)
This fall has seen a few changes for our family. I started teaching a Speech class at a wonderful homeschooling co-op in Buffalo called FEET. It meets twice a month on Monday mornings. I am blessed to be able to bring the boys along. They go to the nursery while I teach. Peter has fallen in love with his "teacher" - Kim A. He will periodically look up at me and ask, "Kim?" I am so, so glad he enjoys going. That said, he does cry as soon as we pull into the parking lot, though. He cries as I unbuckle he and David and cries as we walk into the church and he cries as we walk up the stairs and runs, crying, of course, past the nursery to the outside door on the opposite end of the hallway. Kim assures me that he stops crying as soon as I leave and I believe her. When I come to pick them up, he hardly gives me a second thought!
I have also started back in BSF this fall. Yay!!! For three years right after college, I was in a wonderful BSF Bible Study group in Edina. When I moved to Rochester, I was unable to go as they did not offer an evening class I could attend. So, now that I'm a stay at home mom (and LOVING IT, by the way!), and now that BSF has started an infants and toddlers program, I decided to try it again. David was able to get into the nursery right away, but it took a couple months for an opening to come available for Peter. He does, of course, do the whole crying thing there, too, but I think he likes Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Ronning as much as he likes Kim. He periodically asks about his "teachers".
What a blessing it has been to be back in BSF again! We are attending the ladies' class in Coon Rapids and I am studying the book of Isaiah this year. Wow! That's just one of the several Old Testament books that I've read parts of (especially chapter 53) several times, but have never read nor attempted to comprehend the whole book. Did I say wow?
And the last change for our family started this summer when my handsome and wonderful husband decided to become a realtor. He took the classes (I was a single mom for a couple months), passed the tests and now is working for the Edina Realty office in Monticello in addition to still working at Green Valley Greenhouse. He LOVES it! I never realized until I was a married woman how important it is for a man to love what he does.
And now for my children:
Peter
- Turned 2 on December 15th. Yikes!
- Still loves just about any and all fruit.
- Still dislikes just about any and all vegetables. Will eat green beans and corn.
- Is leery about new or different looking foods.
- Was a ring bearer in Ben and Brittany's wedding on September 3rd!
- Talks up a storm! He is still mostly saying one word sentences, but is starting to combine two words together more and more...
- Will repeat himself over and over again until someone acknowledges him and repeats back to him, correctly, what he said.
- Is very healthily between the 50-75th percentiles for height, weight and head circumference.
- Still is "Momom"'s boy.
- Just started referring to me as "Mommy" this past weekend. I sort-of liked "Momom". :)
- Loves all planes, trains and automobiles!
- Received Mr. Potato Head for his birthday and was instantly in love.
- Also received a wooden train set from Grandpa and Grandma Willing for Christmas. Also instant love.
- Finally figured out how to climb onto the couch. He must have just grown that last needed inch or two to be able to do it!
- Loves to help me unload the dishwasher.
- Loves to make his brother laugh.
- Loves "Little Critter" books and just about any other book he can find.
- Loves to read the Bible and thinks any adultish looking book is the Bible. Even the phone book!
- Loves to listen to "The BIBLE", "Holy, holy, holy", "Trust and Obey", and "Jingle Bell Rock". That last one really fits in well with the first three, doesn't it?
- Had his first bout of the throwing up stomach flu early in December. It lasted almost a whole week. I was glad when it was gone!
- Still loves Lucy and going to the lake!
David
- Was 6 months old on Christmas Day.
- First tooth was through on November 28th and his second tooth came through almost a month later on December 23rd.
- Loves his big brother and dad!
- Smiles almost non-stop.
- After wailing every time he was put down or strapped into his carseat (makes for miserable car rides!) for the first 3 months of his life, he has finally realized how fun it can be to not wail. Fwew.
- Has WAY more hair than Peter had at 6 months old!
- Has fewer pounds than Peter had at 6 months old. We're working on that...
- Rolls from front to back and vice-versa. Constantly.
- Loves to stand. We're pretty sure he might actually walk before his first birthday!
- Sucks his thumb - just like mommy (used to)! All efforts to encourage a pacifier failed. :)
- Also LOVES Lucy.
- Still likes to wake mommy up multiple times each night. Guess he just can't get enough of me!
- Is starting to crawl. Yikes!
- Puts everything into his mouth.
Merry Christmas
&
Happy New Year!
Love,
Luke, Michelle, Peter, David & Lucy
**Pictures to come...
