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Monday, January 30, 2012

Three teeth in...

Six days...
As stated in my last post, Andrew lost a tooth last Tuesday. One that we didn't even know was loose!!! On Saturday he lost another. At least we knew that this one was loose! But the big surprise came Sunday, the next morning. He was eating his banana bread and calmly announced "I lost a tooth!" Now, we knew this one was loose also, but hadn't expected him to loose it quite so soon (and while eating something so soft!!!!)!
All the teeth were right in a row... He has one of the biggest holes you've ever seen!!!
But Tori beat him!
Three teeth in...
Two days!
No, really! She lost three teeth, just in about eighteen hours (one Sunday night, then she went to the dentist to get a couple loose teeth that were cracking taken out on Monday!), just as we were so shocked at how quickly Andrew's were going!

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Heard in the kitchen this afternoon...

"ANDREW!!! Go put your tooth away!!!!"

Haha :), the things that are heard in this house...
Andrew lost a tooth last night while I was brushing his teeth... a tooth that we didn't even know was loose! He could have picked one of the three we knew were loose ;)!
He has been carrying it around with him since he lost it :).

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

I'm back :)...

I think it is about time for a real post, right? I know, it's been a while... I've just found other things to occupy me :)!
The past few weeks we have been getting settled back into our school schedule after taking a two week break, since Daddy got some vacation time during the first two weeks of January! We were so glad that he was able to spend that time at home!
Now, we are back into our normal schedule. Added to all the school, cleaning, meals, and family time that are a part of our day, we all are working on some special goals, also. Mommy is working on reading the Bible through in 40 days (which means about three hours worth of Bible reading a day), while Tori and I just finished month two in our goal of reading the Bible through in three months (about an hour of reading a day), and Bethi is getting ready to start trying to read the Bible through in a year (about three chapters a day, I believe).
Emmi is working on memorizing the chorus to "To God be the Glory", while Andrew and Abbi are trying to "learn how to play" the recorder, violin, and ukulele (read; like making the noise that those instruments give :)!). (Although I have a (very) small knowledge of the recorder and violin, I am not good at any of these instruments, and only slightly better at the piano. Someday, sometime, maybe I'll get brave and set out to learn how to play something well, haha!)
And now, I have taken on a new project. I am recreating a baby doll blanket that Mommy had as a little girl, in hopes that it will be useable for our baby, due in eleven weeks. 46 inches long, 39 inches wide, and 13 color changes, without counting the boarder, done in fanfare stitch. My hope is to be done before March. It may happen... it may not... but I'm going to try!
So, that is what we have been up to! (And, in case anybody has been wondering, yes, we had a wonderful Christmas... and I fully planned on posting about it... but time got away with me, and I had no pictures to share (I found out my camera card was full at 12 o'clock on Christmas Eve...) so, let it suffice to say that we had a wonderful day, and it was very enjoyable to have a day spent together while rejoicing in our Savior's birth!)

Sunday, January 22, 2012

A Wonderful Savior is Jesus My Lord

A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord,
A wonderful Savior to me;
He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock,
Where rivers of pleasure I see.

He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock
That shadows a dry, thirsty land;
He hideth my life in the depths of His love,
And covers me there with His hand,
And covers me there with His hand.

A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord,
He taketh my burden away;
He holdeth me up, and I shall not be moved,
He giveth me strength as my day.

With numberless blessings each moment He crowns,
And, filled with His fulness divine,
I sing in my rapture, “O glory to God
For such a Redeemer as mine!”

When clothed in His brightness transported I rise,
To meet Him in clouds of the sky,
His perfect salvation, His wonderful love,
I’ll shout with the millions on high.
Fanny Jane Crosby
(1820–1915)

Thursday, January 19, 2012

To God be the Glory

To God be the glory—great things He hath done!
So loved He the world that He gave us His Son,
Who yielded His life an atonement for sin,
And opened the life-gate that all may go in.

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
Let the earth hear His voice!
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
Let the people rejoice!
O come to the Father through Jesus the Son,
And give Him the glory—great things He hath done!

O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood!
To ev’ry believer the promise of God;
The vilest offender who truly believes,
That moment from Jesus a pardon receives.

Great things He hath taught us, great things He hath done,
And great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son;
But purer, and higher, and greater will be
Our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see.
Fanny Jane Crosby
(1820–1915)

Our hymn of the week! This one is Emmi's favorite (at least, favorite one that isn't a Christmas song ;).). It is soooo precious to hear her little voice singing this song :)!!!