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!
Monday, January 30, 2012
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 :).
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!)
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.
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)
(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.
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)
(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 :)!!!
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Happy New Year's Eve!!!
We have come to the end of 2011! May you and your Family have another blessed year in this new year, 2012, abiding in the presence of our Lord and Savior!!!
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:
old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
~2 Corinthians 5:17 ~
Friday, December 30, 2011
Over the past few days...
We've had a couple funny things said in our house...
For the past six months, we have been having a problem understanding Abbi when she asks for a second helping of turkey at lunch. "May I have more toakey?" She'll ask. We inform her we don't have any cookies in the house. We would eventually figure it out, but it was really hard to tell what she wanted.
Well, she asked again, yesterday, for "more toakey". Mommy answered, "We don't have any cookies, sweetheart." Abbi looked at Mommy and answered "No, not tookie, toakey!!!" Haha! You really can't tell a difference when she says it!!! But, she knows what she wants... and it is not cookies!
Also, I was holding Emmi today, and she grabbed my necklace- "Look! A breakless!" She squealed. Then she asked "This your keys?"
And one more word misunderstanding: I invited Tori and Bethi to help me embroider some pillow cases yesterday. Since we only had two pillows, we took turns reading and sewing (although the pillows are apparently going to take longer than I had at first anticipated, it was a lot of fun!). When it came Bethi's turn to read, she stumbled across the phrase "the aroma of fresh bread"... She said "the army of fresh bread"...
I think that the fact that we can make and eat 12 loaves of bread in three days has kind of messed her up ;)!
For the past six months, we have been having a problem understanding Abbi when she asks for a second helping of turkey at lunch. "May I have more toakey?" She'll ask. We inform her we don't have any cookies in the house. We would eventually figure it out, but it was really hard to tell what she wanted.
Well, she asked again, yesterday, for "more toakey". Mommy answered, "We don't have any cookies, sweetheart." Abbi looked at Mommy and answered "No, not tookie, toakey!!!" Haha! You really can't tell a difference when she says it!!! But, she knows what she wants... and it is not cookies!
Also, I was holding Emmi today, and she grabbed my necklace- "Look! A breakless!" She squealed. Then she asked "This your keys?"
And one more word misunderstanding: I invited Tori and Bethi to help me embroider some pillow cases yesterday. Since we only had two pillows, we took turns reading and sewing (although the pillows are apparently going to take longer than I had at first anticipated, it was a lot of fun!). When it came Bethi's turn to read, she stumbled across the phrase "the aroma of fresh bread"... She said "the army of fresh bread"...
I think that the fact that we can make and eat 12 loaves of bread in three days has kind of messed her up ;)!
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Christmas Candies
We started our Christmas baking about a week before Christmas. We did all the candies in two days, although not back- to- back.
The first day, Tori and all the little ones got in the kitchen with me to make chocolate dipped pretzels, white and chocolate. It is tradition for us children to do this part- it has been since Christmas 2006! We have a few more children helping since then (in 2006 there were three of us who were old enough to dip the pretzels. Now we have six!!!). So it goes a bit quicker now :)! It took two hours to do those two batches...
On the second day of candy making, Daddy was home and helped. We made caramels, triple treats, peanut butter balls, and chocolate covered potato chips.
Then, about 1:30, Daddy and us older four children went to clean the church and take candy plates to a few families. We had a lot of fun, visiting a bit with the people we brought plates to, and seeing one older man, our neighbor in our old house, who we hadn't seen for several months. We were also happy that we caught everybody we were planning on taking the plates to :)!
The first day, Tori and all the little ones got in the kitchen with me to make chocolate dipped pretzels, white and chocolate. It is tradition for us children to do this part- it has been since Christmas 2006! We have a few more children helping since then (in 2006 there were three of us who were old enough to dip the pretzels. Now we have six!!!). So it goes a bit quicker now :)! It took two hours to do those two batches...
Starting the white pretzels!
My Grandma would call this "The Little Dippers", haha :)!
Sweet :)!
Enjoying a snack afterward.
Ohhh...
Half of the finished product (and Abbi asking for more!)!
On the second day of candy making, Daddy was home and helped. We made caramels, triple treats, peanut butter balls, and chocolate covered potato chips.
Then, about 1:30, Daddy and us older four children went to clean the church and take candy plates to a few families. We had a lot of fun, visiting a bit with the people we brought plates to, and seeing one older man, our neighbor in our old house, who we hadn't seen for several months. We were also happy that we caught everybody we were planning on taking the plates to :)!
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Just too cute...
I mentioned the fact that we had learned to sign "Away in a Manger". Well, Emmi enjoys joining us :)!
She'll be playing, eating, anything... Then, she says, out of the blue, "Jesus... Jesus... Jesus... The sky!!!". As she says "Jesus", she holds her little hands under her chin (half of the sign for the "morning is nigh" part). As she says "the sky", she throws her hands in the air (you sweep your arms in the air to sign "sky".). It is really cute :)!
Also, today we went to clean the church. Daddy came to help us, but he had to get back to work after we were done. The rest of us were going to do some shopping before we went home. Abbi called from the back "Can we eat at a frefont? I mean- a fryfont?" She meant restaurant! I think she must have wanted fries ;)!
And, a wonderful update on Miss Rhonda: She got to come home right before Christmas!!!
She'll be playing, eating, anything... Then, she says, out of the blue, "Jesus... Jesus... Jesus... The sky!!!". As she says "Jesus", she holds her little hands under her chin (half of the sign for the "morning is nigh" part). As she says "the sky", she throws her hands in the air (you sweep your arms in the air to sign "sky".). It is really cute :)!
Also, today we went to clean the church. Daddy came to help us, but he had to get back to work after we were done. The rest of us were going to do some shopping before we went home. Abbi called from the back "Can we eat at a frefont? I mean- a fryfont?" She meant restaurant! I think she must have wanted fries ;)!
And, a wonderful update on Miss Rhonda: She got to come home right before Christmas!!!
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