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A New Brother!

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Hehehe…I know what you all are thinking!  But remember, Bryant’s only three months old…that would be a record for us.  So, no, I’m not pregnant, and no, our adoption process is still on hold.

Anyway, we are rejoicing in our household because Ace accepted Christ as his Savior.  Mark had the privilege, yet again, of sharing with Ace how to commit his life to Christ.  This time, though, I was able to sit with Mark and Ace as Ace prayed for forgiveness of his sins and asked Christ to be Lord over his life.

Mark is working with Ace (and Ace is reminding him too) to make sure he understands his commitment.  However, we are already seeing fruit from his new life!  The Holy Spirit is working in his heart and he sees and is sorrowful when he sins.  I can not wait to see how God will grow his heart and his life as He strives to bring God glory.

By the way, Ace had been asking question the week after we returned from Kentucky.  Mark was able to sit down with him on Friday, October 22rd and talk to him about some of the things he had been thinking about.  I really believe that God used the Creation Museum to prepare Ace’s heart to hear God’s word (as well as going through catechisms and stories related to the catechisms) and be open to a commitment to Him.

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A Coconut Story

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This was too funny not to share. While at the Creation Museum we were visiting the animals at the petting zoo.  As we got ready to leave, Liam took off towards the camel pen and exclaimed, “Oh look!  Coconuts!”  and he picked. them. up.  I’ll let Liam tell you in his own words what exactly it was…

A Coconut?! from justabunchofcharacters on Vimeo.

And in case you didn’t catch that, it was not a coconut that he picked up, it was a poo.  Camel poo to be precise.  We. were.  rolling!

And yes, I did make him wash his hands before we left!  Maybe that’s where all the stomach bugs came from!

Oh, and I think I failed to clarify that the stomach bug was only biting at night.  No one really got sick during the day which means we partied and spread germs all day and then stayed up all night throwing up (well, Ace and Ceili Rain did).

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Creation Museum

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 Can I just say, “WOW!”  We had a wonderful, amazing time at the Creation Museum!  It was two hours from our friends’ home so we had decided to load up the kids and go.  Unfortunately, one of their kids was sick so they stayed home and we borrowed Laura to go with us (because, as I said earlier, Zoe and Laura were inseperable).  So, we decided to spread the germs (and we did) with all of Christiandom.  And, as Mark put it, we traveled nine hours and were blessed with free tickets…there was no way he was going to let sick kids stop us.  Okay, so they really weren’t the ones who were sick.  It was actually Mark and I that had to keep running to the bathroom (at least we weren’t throwing up).  The museum is very well done and for the first time, our kids weren’t running from place to place…they actually stopped and listened as we explained each exhibit.  I was impressed with that.

 The live fish were fun too!
 And the garden was soooo beautiful.
 They made a perfect backdrop for our beautiful young lady!

 The animals enjoyed us petting them (as long as we had food)…and we got to see a Zonky and a Zorse (that’s a donkey/zebra mix and a horse/zebra mix…an example of changes within the kind not jumping from one species to the other…a chicken-cat for example would never be able occur…as well as an ape-human…different species see?!)

 Josiah, Liam, and Zoe all voted to ride the camel.  Laura wanted to win we got there but Mark held firm that we weren’t trekking all the way back down to pay for another person to ride…so it was just the three!

 Naps on the go!
 Posed picture time…

Bryant’s fav place…
Okay, this was really long so you’ll have to come back tomorrow for the coconut story!
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It was such beautiful weather, that we couldn’t resist taking the kids to another park (we’re still in Kentucky here)…by this time we had throw up occurring on a regular nightly basis Ceili Rain and Ace were the main culprits)…however, they always felt fine during the day. Who knows how many people we infected while we were there!

Josiah has this obsession with all things trains…and dirty!
I’m not sure who was hopping here but I love this picture!
Megan is such a cutie and had lots of smiles despite having a double ear infection!

We all know about Liam right??!!  You must return tomorrow for a story about him at the Creation Museum.  It’s a must read!
These tweens look like they got attitude…but they sure were sweet together!  And inseparable!

The playground was gated and Ceili Rain and James were contained!

Yes, I do believe he knows how cute he is!

They are sitting together and being sweet…unfortunately this is the day Bama lost 🙁 

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Playing at the Playground

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Yes, we’re still here. It seems that having six kids and trying to teach them has slowed me down a bit on my blogging. I’ve declared that we are going to have a boring week and weekend this week so I can catch up on our adventures the past few weeks!

While visiting in Kentucky, we went to a beautiful park with the intention of feeding the ducks. However, we didn’t actually get to feed the ducks, but we did see a house that Abraham Lincoln’s father helped build!

Okay, less talk…more pictures…here they come:

The house that was mentioned above.  It’s being restored due to a fire.  Arson seems to be a theme in that town as a pretty neat kids park we wanted to go to was destroyed due to arson…hmmm.

Who’s cute kids are these???

We found a tree just begging to be climbed…however, the older kids chickened out!  But the younger ones let Mark put them up there.

Zoe spotted a large beetle and Josiah wasn’t too keen on the idea of one being so close to him.

Mark loved climbing too!

Sometimes I do take cool pictures!
Megan and Ceili Rain were so cute but on this rare occasion when I turned around with the camera Ceili Rain refused to pose.

Anywhere we went, you could hear Kristina or me yelling, “James, this way!  Come back James!!!”

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In Which We See the Duggars Live (along with a few thousand of our closest friends)

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Sometimes, we just throw our brains out the window. A couple of weeks ago was one of those times. Kristina, one of my bestest buds, informed me that the Duggars (the family who is on TLC with 19 kids…and counting) were going to be an hour from her home speaking at a local church. The event occurred the day before our scheduled departure date. It took very little convincing for Mark to agree that we would leave a day earlier and do a marathon drive to get there on time.

We planned to leave the house at 7 in the morning, but didn’t actually get out until 8…not too bad for us leaving on a big trip. The drive, thankfully, was pretty uneventful. Multiple stops included to nurse a baby, take potty breaks, and eat. We were about 15 minutes late (not bad for leaving an hour later than planned) so we go to see only a little bit of the kids singing. We didn’t get to hear them play their violins but that was okay.

It was very encouraging to hear a mom of many…who, at one time, like me, had many who were pretty young. And despite, a person behind us who felt it her duty to call out a rude comment (which I was, thankfully, only able to partially hear) concerning the number of children they have (like it’s anybody’s business to begin with), we enjoyed their talk very much. The kids did too.

If they hadn’t been so tired from traveling, we would have stayed to meet them…as it was, our children came before our desires and we headed back to Kristina’s house for a much, much needed rest…but, here’s proof that we actually saw the Duggars:

Not only did we get to see them, we also got to see the crew from TLC, who was just as famous as the Duggars…really…people were getting their autographs too…me, I just snapped a few pictures of them 🙂

At this point, no one was throwing up yet.

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Ant Trap

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 Last week, I came down to our bonus room to the announcement:  I’m building an ant trap.  
 

And build he did.  I was pretty impress with his ingenuity and initiative to invent an ant trap.

We’ve had an ant problem at church and this past Sunday they were coming into the nursery area.  We were getting ready to leave and Liam was taking things off the shelf…building an ant trap!  If they keep up with this inventiveness, they might just be able to support us in our old age!

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A Bit of an Overachiever…

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If this is any indication, Bryant may be a little bit of an overachiever.  We came in from the gym yesterday and I placed Bryant in the swing while I unpacked and got them settled in to finish eating lunch.  He was quite a bit fussy because it was time for him to eat.  Zoe was trying to soothe him and then she ran in the kitchen and announced that he had two white little bumps on the bottom of his gum.  I told her that was impossible.  So, when I got everyone settled, we checked it out together.  Sure enough, Bryant has two teeth that have come through!  I’m not saying there are little teeth buds…these are full fledged teeth!  That explains his grumpiness this past week.

To be sure, I called the doctor’s office to make sure that teeth this early could actually happen and they reassured me that it could.

So, let’s see…teeth at 2 months.  He should be rolling at 3, sitting up at 4 and walking by 5…and saying complete sentences by 6.  Sure…why not???  I’ll expect his first doctoral dissertation on my desk by 3 years.

Either way, we are really impressed with how well he handled teething so early.  Not sleeping well during the day but still only waking up once during the night.

And please note that before Bry, the earliest any of our children have teethed was 4 1/2 months (both Ace and Ceili Rain).  I even searched online to see if there were other babies who got teeth this early.  I saw that it could happen but was very rare.

I can now truly say he’s teething when he’s a bit fussy 🙂

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