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September/October update

Well it has been a while! Things have been crazy busy since Abigail started school. She is doing great. I had our first conference with her teacher, Mrs. Christina, today. She says that Abigail is right up there with her 4 year olds in terms of her knowledge of preschool material. She is also learning a lot from interacting with the other children. She is a model preschool student- follows along with all the cooky songs with a big smile and participates well in all the lessons. Our house is now covered with all of her "projects" and we are growing a lima bean in the window at this very minute. She is just the picture perfect child everywhere I go. She is very well behaved and friendly. Sam is starting to put 2 words together. He regularly says "help me," "please" when he wants something, "thank you" when we do something for him. Whenever we are in public he cocks his head if he has to to make sure he says hi to everyone around us as well as "bye-bye" with a wave as we walk past. All day long it seems, he walks around pointing at things and naming them. He started to cry the other day when he saw that our play tent was bent saying "boken, boken!" and pointing at it with a quivering chin and frown. That had to be about the cutest thing I have ever seen! At the moment I am suspecting that I may pull an almost all-nighter between the two of them. He has a couple of molars coming in at once along with a croupy sounding cough (that's making me play images of an emergency room visit in my mind) and tonight is Abs first night without a binky-eek! It took about an hour to get her to bed and I don't expect her to stay there long. It is very sad-the last bit of baby to go I guess. She just cried and cried. When she sat up for a drink of water, she made the motion to take the bink out of her mouth, took a drink, and made the motion to put it back, minus the binky. It was a little eery. She really is a creature of habit already-mostly my fault. But I really think it has served us well. She has slept really well her whole life thanks to that bink and scheduled naps. I have enjoyed some measure of sanity as well. Sigh.

Erik and I are also doing well. We have started to get more involved with our church (which is awesome!) since we found out we should be here for a while. We had an 8 day Revival a couple weeks ago-that's right. Eight days! That's Church every evening and on Suday mornings as well. It was just great for everyone. The guest speakers were right on though I wasn't able to sit in many sermons because I was doing some of the refreshments. It was a Revival for me still because it was really challenging even just doing the refreshments because I had the kiddos with me. Let's just say it was really a time of "refining in the furnace of affliction" (sort of) for me. Wow does God ever have a lot of work to do with me! Anyhoo..

There was some contention in our household for a while. Though I was convinced since Erik's boss had said for sure we would be here (and that he would be promoted in two months) we should get started on our adoption right away, Erik was not. He had really gotten comfortable with the idea of having a third of our own. While I of course (because of my breeding instinct!) want to also, to me it defies all logic for reasons I have previously posted about. In addition, I am not at all interested in becoming pregnant again and taking the gamble that comes along with pregnancy: will I carry the baby to term, will the labor go well, will the baby be healthy? (Why do this when there are children out there already?) I also feel like we have waited too long now. They will be too far apart, the third will be the baby while Abs and Sam will be off together all the time. I always wanted them close.. Erik also wants to be more financially stable beforehand (his provider instinct!) I am of the opinion that we will never have "enough" money. We are truly butting heads at this point. Thank the Lord that we have the Bible to go to in times like these! It is in these circumstances that I have to defer to my husbands judgement, pray and leave it in God's hands.

My Sis Dayna is now 36 weeks pregnant and due on the 31st of October. Her Doc thinks that she may need to have a c-section but isn't positive. Needless to say this is not the ideal for anyone. The kids and I will be coming to Salt Lake 2 weeks after the baby is born (if I can restrain myself from coming during the birth if it is a scheduled thing) about mid November to do all the grunt work around the house (cooking and cleaning) so Dayna can adjust to her new life. We are so excited. Everyday Abigail talks about baby Lilly's Birthday and how she is coming out of aunt Dayna's belly. She also walks around with different baby dolls and calls them "Baby Lilly" and nurses them and burps them and says things like"Oh my, what a big burp baby Lilly, we need to clean you up!" Well, there's my little angel now.. gotta go!