It’s a Baby!
I know, I know, you were all expecting me to come on here and tell you whether we are having a boy or a girl. Well, we didn’t find out this time.
It’s a Baby!
I know, I know, you were all expecting me to come on here and tell you whether we are having a boy or a girl. Well, we didn’t find out this time. I decided to wait until we could be a little more sure and so I didn’t even ask. They might could have told us what they thought this time but I think in a few weeks we’ll know better. Our new due date is now March 10, 2010.
We went to a Hope Pregnancy Center that gives free pregnancy tests and a free Ultrasound to mothers. I hadn’t decided on a doctor so we went there to confirm the pregnancy and they offered a free Ultrasound as well. After our visit yesterday, they gave us a few gifts. They gave me a couple of pictures of the baby and it’s heart beat. They also gave us a doll baby that is the size the baby will be at exactly 12 weeks. I’ll try to post that picture on Friday, since that will be 12 weeks.
They also gave us a gift package which consisted of a diaper, bottle, pacifier, and samples of shampoo and baby lotion.
When we arrived home we were all sitting together when Hannah asked, “Mom, is the baby wearing a diaper?”
I explained that the baby wasn’t wearing one right now, because he/she is in my tummy still.
Then with a look of wonder she asked me, “Where does it go?”
She is picturing our Jonathan’s dirty diapers.
Joshua, our oldest, said, “That’s a wierd thought.”
I won’t say how I managed to explain that one, since I’m not even sure how I did it.
It’s a lot of fun looking at things from a 4 year old’s perspective. 🙂
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“Mom, my thumb weally, weally, weally hurts!” Hannah announced this afternoon at lunch.
I try to help her to see her mistake so I asked, “Weally?”
She looked at me, realizing what she said wrong and said, “That’s it’s name!”
Table conversations are never boring with our four year old. This morning at breakfast the kids were asking where Daddy was. I explained that he first drove the school bus this morning and that after that he was going to another town.
When Hannah heard the name of the town she said, “Is he going to get the Baby?”
I told her, “Oh no, Sweety, he can’t go get the baby. The baby is still in my Tummy.”
She said, “No! I mean the new BORN baby!”
Hopefully tomorrow when we go to see the ultrasound of the baby she’ll understand better. She doesn’t remember when Jonathan was born. To her Jonathan was always here.
This is definitely a new adventure. The real exciting part for her is that the baby is due in March which is the same month as her birthday. Of course that seems a “long ways away” to a 4 year old.
I guess I had better get some sleep if I’m going to get the kids ready for my appointment tomorrow. It may be too early to tell whether we are having a boy or a girl, but we’re “weally” excited anyway. I’ll try to come back and post more on how everything goes.
(Psalms 8:2) Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
(Matthew 21:15-16) And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased, And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
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We took a break for a couple of days this week to visit my parents. Scott will be starting driving a school bus on Monday. It was good for the kids us to take a break as well. I also am able to post a few videos before we leave high speed internet.
Scott took me out to eat today. We have not had a real date in a long time. Sometimes we’ll fix up some kind of meal and watch a movie or just talk after the kids are in bed. But while at Grandparents we are able to actually go out to eat. We even spent a little extra money and visited a Texas Musicians Museum while we were at it. It was pretty fun and my husband got into a really good theological discussion with the man that runs the museum. He invited the man to visit my Dad’s church as well.
Here are a few videos I took over the summer. This first video is of Scott singing Action Bible Songs with a doll for the kids.
This next video is of Jonathan and Hannah playing the piano together and singing. I’m not sure which Hymn they are playing.
This last one for tonight is of Joshua giving his siblings a ride on a four wheeler.
I guess that will be all the posts I’ll try to post tonight. I may try to post a couple more tomorrow. Hope you enjoy these until then.
LikeScott will be starting bus driving next week. As a end of Summer treat, we took a couple of days off and have been visiting my parents. We’ll be driving home tomorrow and I wanted to post a couple of videos before we leave. These aren’t super recent videos but they are from over this Summer.
This first video is of Scott singing “If your Happy and you know it” to the kids using a Baby Doll for the actions. Both Joshua and Jonathan were really finding it funny.
This next video is of Ruth and Jonathan sliding down a slide. We had visited a zoo that day with another family and the kids enjoyed getting to play at the park.
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It’s been too long since I’ve blogged. I guess I have gotten a little lazy since I’ve been introduced to Facebook. Lately I’ve been putting more short thoughts in facebook and have slacked off on my blogging. But I am going to make up for it today, and try not to forget my blogging world.
Actually I kill two birds with one stone by blogging. Whatever I blog is posted to facebook as well. The best of both worlds. 🙂
Here are some of the pictures I took at Church Camp. This first is my parents with my kids in the cafeteria line. The meals have actually been very good at camp.
Here is Joshua waiting for the preaching to begin during Tabernacle.
Hannah and Ruth were both covered in Bubbles from the slip-n-slide that was rented for our camp. Shampoo was used to help make it slippery. So they were good and clean afterward.
Scott, Joshua, and Ruth sang a special at camp.
Jonathan loved helping clean the dorm. He was constantly armed with broom and dust pan whenever we went inside the dorm.
It was a very good week at camp. There were 26 campers reported saved, 2 announced their call to preach while there, and several rededications.
The good thing about camp is that you get the children out of the world, away from their t.v.’s and you surround them with the gospel throughout the day. Our scheduled included Morning Devotional in the Tabernacle before breakfast, Bible Classes after Breakfast, Children’s Choir after class, Sermon before lunch, Lunch, Free time- where activities were planned each day for the children. The girls had an hour swim time while the boys were doing other activities, then the boys had their swim time while the girls were doing activities. Then after all the fun time ended at 4 p.m. everyone got ready for Dinner and then after Dinner we got ready for the Evening Service, during which was Testimony time, and good preaching brought by one of the Pastor’s present. Then after the service, we had free time. We ended each day with cabin devotions and lights out.
All three of my older kids were wishing they could live at church camp. I explained that they would be rather lonely all by themselves, so they decided that they want everyone to live at church camp. I’m not sure how the other sponsors would feel about a year round church camp. Despite the fun at camp, I was still glad to get back home and back into a routine again.
I’ll be getting the children started back on our homeschooling tomorrow. I gave them a couple of weeks off because of camp and Scott and Joshua’s hiking trip. Then I wanted a few extra days to prepare for starting a new year with the children. So tomorrow will be our official back to homeschool day. I plan to take them to the Library tomorrow and then to the store to pick up some homeschool supplies.
I think that pretty much catches everyone up on what all has been going on our summer. I’ll try to post more pictures later.
1 John 2:15-17 Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (16) For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. (17) And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
All My Ducks in a Row…
While we are on our trip I took this picture of this family of Ducks. I love how the father and mother duck were together with all their little ducks. They have a few more ducklings than I have but we are trying to catch up.
Yes, we are now expecting a 7th member to our ever growing family. Right now the tentative due date is March 14, 2010. We still need to find a doctor or midwife. We are also going to have to keep our eye out for at least a 7 passenger van. Right now we’ve been squeezing into our 6 passenger car. My husband told our oldest son that sits between us, “Right now a van would be a luxury, but in March it will be a necessity.” 🙂 So I know we’ll have a van come March.
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19)
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We went on a trip a couple of weeks ago to Michigan to visit some of my husband’s family there. We had such a good time. I wanted to share some of my favorite pictures.
On our way up there we camped out a couple of nights to break the trip up. There was an associational meeting in Missouri so we had taken an extra night to stop and visit with some of the preachers we knew might be there.
We managed to afford this trip by camping out each night. This picture of the kids in front of the tent was taken in Illinois, right by the Mississippi River. We also found on this trip that Hannah and Jonathan have problems with car sickness, especially if we drive right after eating a good meal. We learned to eat real light while driving.
We arrived at Scott’s Mom’s house and were greeted by “the girls” as my in-law’s dogs are called. Hannah had determined before we arrived at Grandma’s house that she would not be afraid of their dogs anymore. I had to take a picture of her petting one of them. I told her if I didn’t get a picture no one would believe she wasn’t scared. So here is proof. 🙂
On Saturday we celebrated Joshua’s 11th birthday. We had cake and ice cream and then we went to the lake and went fishing. I caught 3 small fish and my mother-in-law caught 1. I was praying someone would catch something, since the last time I took the kids fishing we didn’t catch anything and it was a stocked pond. Joshua was sure I was doing something wrong at the time. I told him it’s a matter of patience, which my four kids seem to lack when it comes to fishing.
Then on Monday we had a cook-out at my in-laws house where most of Scott’s Aunts were able to come to. Here is a picture of Scott with his Mom and 3 of his Aunts.
Of course for Joshua the highlight of this trip is getting to drive the four wheeler. We let him give the girls a ride in the woods but we didn’t plan on him taking Jonathan. I took this picture after we found out that Jonathan had already gone with them through the woods and he was waving at everyone and saying “Bye!!!!” They grow up so fast.
Over all this has been a very good trip. Scott and I both agreed that we were going to need a vacation from vacation, but once we got home the kids didn’t have too much trouble getting back into the routine again.
LikeGetting Rid of the Monsters!
Last night I was going through some of our mail and was looking at some homeschooling advertisements. We normally can’t afford all the interesting homeschool resources that are advertised on the little cards but I like to look at them anyway. I found one card that interested me. It talked about a curriculum that the children teach themselves. They don’t have to be “taught” by a teacher. They are their own teacher. I took that card to my husband. I’m glad I did. He said that it sounded interesting. So he checked out the website. http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/info
On the website it talks about unhealthy distractions. How that kids put in the right environment can’t help but learn. They talked about the distraction of television, computers, video games. I knew these were definitely a distraction from personal experience. We used to watch t.v. all the time. Then one day a few years ago, I decided to get rid of our T.V. I started off by covering it with a blanket and putting decorations on top. Then after a month of not watching t.v., we watched a movie and realized how terrible some things we watched really were. We sold that television in a garage sale.
Then we were given another t.v. We never hooked an antenna to it. We didn’t want the distraction of television in our home. We did watch a few movies on it and had a playstation my husband had obtained about the same time we got the t.v. Surely that won’t be a distraction from learning. We didn’t want our kids to be different from other kids. We could control the temptation and let them play it occasionally.
Then we gave our son his first laptop computer. I was a little afraid of giving it to him. I knew how addicted he could be to games. Sure enough. That was all he thought about. One time I tried to teach them a history lesson. He had been wanting to play a game all day and he knew I would let him after class was over. I was not happy when in the middle of the lesson he went into the kitchen to look at the clock. He had been thinking about the computer game the whole time.This morning my husband was a man with a mission. I didn’t realize how much he had been thinking on it. He was going through all of our computer CD’s and then he informed me that he was going to take all the games off of all the computers, unless they were truly educational. He was going to replace them with Encyclopedias, Bible Software, Dictionaries, and only educational and beneficial resources were going onto it.
I was expecting that to be like pulling teeth for our son. He loves his computer games. I just didn’t know how we were going to do it.
My husband started off by fixing us pancakes for breakfast without any sugar. He gave me a bite and said, “It will take some getting use to.” At the breakfast table we talked about addictions and how sugar can be a big one. I’m a prime example of that. I sometimes feel like I have to have something sweet. We put sugar in everything. However if you don’t have it for a long time, you don’t need it anymore. Sugar becomes too sweet.
We told our children that we wanted to start changing the unhealthy habits in our lifestyle. Not only in the foods we eat, but in the things we put into our minds. We discussed how when you are addicted to t.v. and games, your brain can’t think of anything else to do. You feel like you have to have it. However without those distractions, you can get a whole lot more done and learn a lot more as well. Then my husband told them that he was going to take all the computers in our house and remove all the mindless distractions.
Hannah was sitting in my lap and said, “What is he doing?” I explained to her that he was going to get all the bad games off our computers.
She said, “He’s going to get rid of the monsters? I hate monsters.”
We laughed and told her, “Yes, Daddy is going to take all the bad monsters off our computers.”
I’m real proud of my husband and children. They immediately went to work getting rid of those monsters.
(Philippians 4:8)
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.
Like Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.