So it has been two months since I last wrote on here... Crazy! I've decided I'm really bad at keeping up with this, although I know once I get to Denver I'm sure I'll keep up with things much better than before considering all our family will want to hear all my rambling thoughts of life and family! :)
But, since I have a bit of time right now I figured I would try to update a bit about life and especially the updates on our kiddos!
Daniel will be 3 in just a month and 5 days which is crazy! He is such a joy of a son to have! He runs into our room in the mornings with a big smile on his face and usually runs to us right away saying how much he loves us again and again! I love his hugs and kisses and sweet words and how excited he gets when he talks to us all about what he loves doing. Tonight in the car on the way home from our friends' home (Drew and Andrea's) he shared all about how much he loves to share with his sister and how he loves sharing his teddies and balloons and how much he loves watching his TV shows - Dora and Go Go Diego - and how much he loves us! (Then he said lots more but I can't remember it all right now... he has hit that very talkative stage! Lol.) He really has been SO sweet, though! The other day he dropped one of Lydia's plastic Minnie Mouse plates on the ground and it cracked and broke and right away he said she could have his Toy Story one and he made sure I put her food for lunch in that one! So sweet of him! He's been doing that over and over! And he loves giving her big hugs and saying "I love you SO much, sister!" Awww... :) He definitely has his interesting, throwing fits times. He is very much on the fussy side right now and is very emotional at times, but I'm loving seeing his personality show more and more! I can't believe he's almost 3! Considering it's only a month away I know that I need to start figuring out some type of birthday party for him. We weren't sure last year if we'd be here still by this birthday so I'm excited that we'll be able to celebrate it with all his friends and our family before moving to Denver! And, I'm excited because he can actually help me with ideas of what type of theme and all now that he can carry on conversations more than last year! It'll be so much fun! He's been full of hilarious sayings lately... We've called his a silly goose pretty much since birth but in the last month of so he starting saying that he wasn't a silly goose... he was a funny goose! So now everything is funny and not silly! ;) His favorite things to do lately are still watching any TV show or movie (he seriously asks about it almost all day some days unless we sidetrack him with something else - it's ridiculous so it's quite the power struggle on some days considering we do NOT let him watch TV all day no matter what!) and he LOVES doing any type of educational or artistic activity! The other day I cut out 11 different shapes from different construction papers with him helping me with ideas! He loved watching me cut them out and then he helped me number them from 2 to 12... actually writing the numbers which was crazy! (HOW is he getting to be such a big boy so fast?!?!) Then we did an activity where he rolled two dice and I helped him count the dots to figure out what number he rolled. (He loves counting but definitely needs the help keeping track of the dots!) Then he'd run over to the number on the shape and tell me what the shape is called. The funniest is a parallelogram - he says that SO great! ;) And the octagon! I figured I'd throw some random shapes in since there's only so many of the more "simple" shapes!
Lydia is our 18 month busy girl who is so cute, adorable, funny, and such a light in our lives! She is getting so big and her hair is so long, but it's been fun seeing it finally grow out enough that it is filling in and looking so beautiful! I'm trying to let her bangs grow out that I have cut 3 or 4 times already, but most of the time she won't keep any pony-tails or barrettes in so she walks around with her bangs going almost to her nose! Lol. She's so funny looking around through her hair! :) Silly girl! She has been talking up a storm lately which has been so much fun seeing! Some of the words/phrases she has been saying are "No", "Ouch", "Daniel", "You okay?", "Outside", "Bear", "Milky", "Water", "Water bottle", "Sorry", "Princess" and lots of others! It is absolutely adorable whenever one of us gets hurt or says "ouch" (which I am now realizing I say a lot every day!) because she will dash over to the freezer, try to open it (usually Daniel has to run over to help her), grabs her Princess ice pack, and then she'll run back to the "hurt" person, give a big hug and say "You okay?" in just the cutest little voice! Awww, love this girl! She has been VERY attached to her teddy bear and NEVER goes anywhere without it lately which has been a little hard at times. Like, it really needs a bath! ;) And in the past few days she started swinging all by herself in the big swings! Daniel said she is now a big girl just because of that! Lol. :) She loves babies which is so cute... Our friends, David and Jessica, just had their first little girl, Lillie, and Lydia loves seeing her and points out her nose and eyes and tries to give her big hugs while waving hi to her over and over! It's so cute! :)
So I feel like I could go on and on with updates about the kids but I'll stop there. We have been really busy lately with ministry appointments and are preparing to go on a few different support trips in the next month or so and although it's a little crazy thinking of taking the kids on the road trips and to stay in new places for them, I'm getting really excited to have this time together as a family! We are right around 45% committed support which is so awesome! I'm so excited to see God bring the rest of the support in and praying that we'll be able to move over to Denver this summer! So many changes coming up in our life, but I'm so thankful that I have an awesome husband and two wonderful children and an AMAZING God to serve in ministry together!
Hopefully I'll write more soon!
