This is a picture of Sophia's first chicken pock, in case you haven't seen one before.
Below are some pictures of Desdi, Kayla, and Jaydon welding. They have made a paint cart, and a cabinet door drying rack for our shop. They also made a step to put on the wheel of your car to see in the engine. (I don't know what you call it.)
I have never had the pox's yet, I was so scared I was going to get them when pregnant. I am exposed to them at the office and try not to be around the children that have them, even tho I just recently got revaccinated due to exposure one night. I hope I don't get them now at this late age, I know it can be very dangerous. I wish someone would find a cure/remedy to those things. Poor Sophia maybe she did not get them/or will get them as bad?
Someone gave me some starter with the recipe. I would think, though, to start starter, it would just be a cup of milk, cup of sugar, cup of flour to set for a bit. I can email you the recipe if you want.
Sophia update:
She has been walking for a few weeks now. She is also good at dancing.
She dances when she hears music, and gets excited when she sees her daddy leading singing. She waves her arms around.
She loves to climb, especially onto the couch.
She loves to get her nails trimmed. Shawn has always clipped our babies' nails. When he gets out the clippers (BTW Shawn uses toenail clippers, not fingernail clippers. --easier to manipulate with big fingers.), she sticks out her finger and puts it as close to the nail clippers as she can. She will sit still the whole time.
She loves to go outside.
A few days ago she started pointing at everything. This is usually accompanied with jabbering.
She started reading by putting a book on her face or head, and "reading" it.
She has also started putting fisher-price people (the really old style) in their cars.
Yesterday she learned about light switches. She can turn them on/off and looks toward the light when it turns on/off. Amazing. They learn SO fast.
How sweet! :-) I was happy to finally see your name in white again. ;-) We are currently on the lookout for a chicken pox party, as none of ours have had it yet...how did it go at your house?
Wow! I can't believe that tiny little girl is walking. I looked at your pics of her on facebook the other day, she's so cute! Glad to see you back on here.
So much fun to hear about Sophia!! I love to hear how much you enjoy her and loved seeing your whole family enjoy her:) She sure is cute!!
Cecilia is walking too! It is so much fun:) It has gone so fast!
My baby called me Ma Ma Ma Ma today (she started this two days ago). I LOVE that sound.
Shawn and the three older kids returned from Minnesota. They went there to pick up some machinery for our cabinet shop. I'm glad they are back.
Meanwhile, I was sick-- recovering from Mastitis. :(
Also, you should know about this modern-day HERO. I was discussing with my children what it means to be a hero. A lesson in their "schoolwork" questioned them who they would choose as a modern-day hero and why. Other than looking at the definition which included, "someone who is known for courageous and noble deeds", I wanted them to come up with an answer on their own. I did have to convince them that the definition didn't say you have to be a martyr or "live way back then" to be a hero. Anyway, after some thought, Kayla suggested Jeb & Sheila. So, Jeb and Sheila, thank you for being a hero to my children, and all of us.
Yes...I had that problem...I did not rest enough. Mine actually lasted several weeks...ugh. Rest!! You'll get better quicker! You must be better by September 28th :)
I have a friend, SmileyBeth, who is thinking of homeschooling who I have directed to the Elijah Company. They helped me out so much 12 years ago when we were in the planning stages.
What a wonderful thing for your kids to say and for you to be able to tell your friends.
I remember having to take it easy while I was nursing. I could feel it coming on. I'd tell Danny, "I've got to get some rest today." He'd rearrange his schedule to help me out. One day in bed and I was a new woman.
I loved your 101 Dalmations comment :) Too funny...we thought that, too!
We have not seen Chloe, but have put out some food for her on the other side of the house in that little side yard with the fence between our home and the neighbor's. This way she will not starve and I will not feel guilty until that Animal Control guy learns how to catch a dog :)
Please email me (email address on my home page) a dedication, thought or scripture that you would like put on the dedication page of the cookbook. We are also encluding camp directors etc. Thanks.
Hello, Shawn's girl. Tell me about my niece and great niece, and 2 great nephews. Is their momma on here? I can see that you are on here about as often as I am on mine blog! Hope all of you and yours are doing great. We just had a meeting w/ Jeff Young. It was a very good gospel meeting. It was good to see him. I think the last time I saw him was about 15+ years ago. Hope the fall Texas days are great. We just had our 3rd annual pumpkin party this past weekend. I think 59 people came and a lot were missing! It was perfect weather and the bonfire was great. Our fall thusfar as been such a blessing and beautiful! Enjoy His Creation and Praise the Creator! Gotta go. Give love to my family when you see them at church or whenever you bump into them next!
Teresa, which congregation do y'all attend there in Huntsville? There's a college student from here that's in Huntsville and needs to know about the church there.
The other day, we were in our Suburban on our way to somewhere, and I reached for the volume knob to turn the noise down, only the radio wasn't on. :) One of the kids said, "Mom you can't just "turn" us down!" :)
Our chicken coop is coming along. Shawn has tendonitis, so he asked a couple of guys from our cabinet shop (that don't mind working on a Saturday) to come and help. My dad came to help, too. Of course the kids were right along beside them. So, we are making progress. :)
Desdi is going to be taking a writing class this year. Check out her reading list...
Sept 15 Epic of Gilgamesh
Sept 22 Book of Job – King James Bible
Oct. 6 Greek and Roman Mythology – Bulfinch’s Age of Fable
Oct. 27 Midnight Summer’s Dream by Shakespeare
Nov 3 Iliad by Homer
Jan 5 The Trojan Women and Hippolytus by Euripides
Jan 12 Odyssey by Homer
Feb 9 Oresteia trilogy (Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, The Furies) by Aeschylus
Feb 16 Oedipus rex (Oedipus King) by Sophocles
Feb 23 Antigone by Sophocles
Mar 2 Aristotle’s Poetics
Mar 23 Aeneid by Virgil
Apr 13 Tragedy of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
Apr 20 Metamorphoses by Ovid
Tonight is supposed to be one of the best meteor showers of the year, an awesome display of God's creation.
eeeeeeeeeekkkkkkk on that list some of those words are HUGE! LOL. yeah i hope to catch a few of the sights in the sky tonight! I would love to be in Montana to see it tho--could you imagine?
I've done that volume thing too!! hehe! Of course I remember you. It's good to hear from you. I don't think I knew you had a baby. How many kiddos does that make, and how old is your oldest to be reading all that? WOW!
^_^ That's funny. Meaning that you fell asleep during Star Wars. Because Hannah fell asleep in the Theater when we saw Star Wars 3. I was just quivering with rage at Anakin.
We would love to have you here and be with you !!! Just let us know:) We will have you for dinner or lunch or whatever you have time for...or you are totally welcome to stay with us even...we would love to have you!!:)
Hi! So nice to see you on here! That's neat to hear about your potty training your baby! Seems like a good idea. It was so good to get to know you better during the last campout. :)
Isn't she cute? Did you know Alicia Hodges and I married brothers and now we have kids the same ages... it's great. AND - her mom, Donna, is moving to her neighborhood next month. Yea!
You know how some people call kids "goofballs"? It means the same thing when they call them a "ham". You know..."you are such a ham!" "What a goofball!" I just don't get where they come from. :) *lol*
:) Thanks, my Meez is actually doing something that I do for once. Instead of standing in a dress that I can only dream about, in a setting of the same origin. ;)
OK, so I was one of those who read "To Train Up A Child" and totally dismissed the potty training part. "You have to be kidding me", "I don't think so", "That's crazy" and advising people to read the book and ignore the potty-training chapter --all those things came out of my mouth. Besides --all 5 of my children were easy to potty train. All of them were trained by 2 1/2. I always said I wanted them to be able to pull up their own pants before I trained them --otherwise it would be parent-training. Boy was I wrong. I have been training Sophia for about 2 months now. It is so cute. She makes a sound now when she has to go, and when I sit her on her little potty, she goes right away. She isn't 100% yet, but I have saved many diapers. She is sooooo cute! and really I can't believe it. She was training her baby when we went to visit a while back. I thought this indeed was a good idea and worth a try. So, now you probably think I am crazy too. Thank you Sally.
Josh probably doesn't want this circulating, but as a parent it is my right to embarrass him (he's embarrassed me a few times :). Anyway, he was potty trained in one week and didn't wet the bed at night and never had an accident after that week. I thought that was pretty cool for a little guy just over 2 years old. Now the world knows. Sounds like Sophia is a star pupil too. By the way, I love her name. Here's hoping for continued success!
We considered doing EC with Ethan (and we did potty him some when he was an infant)...but I never got into it. Besides, our cloth diapers are too cute! ;-)
I guess I just need to find out more about it. It seems to be too much work, like you said...parent training. But perhaps there is more to learn from it, especially if it saves on diapers!
Not only the child needs to be aware, but the parent must really listen and pay closer attention to the child during this time frame. Once a parent knows the childs schedule pretty well, it helps even after they pretty much are trained to know as to what to espect from them during church services. Or just how to teach them to potty before bible study or church services and then afterwards and not during. A parent can control this most of the time, with closer observance of the childs schedule. There are those few exceptions that can't be avoided. It worked with our children and still they are all a bit different to deal with.
I'm glad it's a success for you. I'm an old dog that doesn't learn "new" tricks easily. I still think the parent is trained but there's nothing wrong with that.
^^I think the parent is ALWAYS the one trained at first even with toddler potty training and even, puppy training :)
EC does not need to=perfect catches. 100% days are great and they will happen for you. However, it is good to remember that the focus is on training and conditioning--just like the first few days/weeks with a toddler. You expect them to have misses. Now, I think #2's are the exception. I think we've missed, maybe 2-3 in over nine months...I'd say that almost as good as a trained toddler, but I don't remember! So from 4 months to 13.5 months I've only had to wash 2-3 yukky diapers. This is GREAT!
Do try to stick with the sound. We do our sound periodically, but he usually grabs his books to read on the potty or his swords for a sword fight :). The picture of a baby on the potty sword fighting is just too cute!
You are doing great. Keep it fun. Don't worry about the misses, they'll happen. Just revel in the catches...she'll be aware that the potty is the appropriate place to go and eventually will go there all the time :)
Josh looks in the potty when he is done now and nods his head up and down if it is full. This is really cute to me. We did the clapping thing when he was a small baby, but now we just comment on how smart he is :)
Oh, and they go so often as babies...sometimes 1-2 times an hour with tinkles...so it is normal to get two potties and miss one in a two-three hour period. Most mornings Josh wakes up dry with a very fresh diaper and tinkles immediatly. This is great.
I noted on Wednesday night he tinkled twice during Bible class. I teach, so I keep the potty close to my room and have the kids do a reading when I take him out (or recite memory verses or sing a song). It is not a distraction for them...they are used to me nursing or caring for babies while I teach :)
