Ti - 13 Months - 14 months

I know I am a little late with this but wanted to be able to keep up with it somewhere.

Ti went for his one year check up when he was about 13 months.  Just a little late.  He was in about the 50 percentile on everything.  He weighed a little over 22lbs. 

At 14 months you are still not walking but you are getting really close.  You sleep through the night most of the time.  You don't have a bottle any longer and will eat about anything.  You love peas and carrots the best.  You know the sign language for more and are constantly using it when ever you want more to eat. You love to throw your food off your tray.  You think it is quite funny.   We are trying to lay you down awake for your naps and at bed time. Sometimes you will go right to sleep other times not so much.  You are saying words like mama, dada, thank you, and cracker.  You are the sweetest thing ever.  You are learning new things all the time.  One of your favorite things right now is to go outside.  You also like to jump on the trampoline.  You are starting to cry when your daddy leaves you in the nursery at church but it only lasts a second.  You still only have four teeth.  You usually greet us each morning with a dirty diaper.  Your brother, Noah, usually gets you out of your bed each morning.   You love to play with both of your brothers and they are usually very patient with you with such things as turning off the TV or Video Game.  You are wearing 18 to 24 month clothing and size 4 diapers. 

We all love you so much and don't know what we ever did for entertainment without you.

Awana Games 2010

We went with our Awana club to the Sparksarama at Immanuel Baptist Church in Rogers.  The kids had a great time.

This was before the bean bag race.  Noah was giving the other boys on how exactly he needed to hold his head so that he could both run fast and keep the bean bag up there.

Noah is serious about any game that he plays.  He wants to win.

They did win this race.

Andrew got to play also even though he is not in Sparks yet.  He met the age requirement and they needed some extra players.

Ti enjoyed cheering for his brothers.

They made posters and cheered for the older team from our church when they weren't competing.

They ranked in third place which I thought was great since this was the first year they had ever competed.  I think the kids had a great time.  I hope my kids get to always be involved in Awana.  They learn so much and there is no other program that I have been involved in that focuses so much on presenting the Gospel and hiding God' word in their heart.  I HEART AWANA even if it is a lot of work.  It is well worth the effort when you see the children come to know Christ.

D-Now Part 3

I saved the most important post till last.  I am sure you are on the edge of your seat thinking what this could be about.

Worship and the Preaching

I was only in on one of the preaching times.  He spoke about being a Christian everyday all the time.  You can't be ashamed.  He did a great job and I think the kids probably got a lot out of it.

Here is the band.  They did an excellent job.  They were a much higher quality than I was expecting at the event.  Scottie had said that they were good and he was right.  I would have liked to gotten a CD but they didn't have any.

The kids loved this one song with the motions "O happy day". 

I guess the one thing that impressed me the most out of the whole weekend is to see teenage boys worshiping God with their hands raised high. 

At what age does the loud music start bothering you instead of it being cool. I think I am getting old..boohoohoo

One good thing about loud music....I loved that I could sing as loud as I wanted and no one could really hear me.

I am glad I got to be apart of this weekend.  Hopefully we will see the fruits of this conference for months and years to come. 

 

D-Now - Part 2

Here is the band hanging out for a while between services.  They were great.

Different women in the church made all the meals.  They put a lot of effort into making great meals.  They were much appreciated by the adults and kids a like. 

I LOVE the above and below pictures.

They played some games Saturday night.  All the kids had a lot of fun.

Wyatt won this game.  It was hilarious.  You put a step counter on your head.  You shake your head up and down for a minute and see who has the highest number on their stepper.  Like I said it was hilarious.

The adults got involved in the toilet paper game.

D-Now - Mission Project

During D-Now all the kids did different mission projects.  One of the projects was painting the old youth room area that we have turned into adult Sunday School classes.  They (about 20 kids) all worked really hard and we got a lot accomplished.

We need to give a BIG thank you to Tim and Kyle  for going over all the walls in the Sunday School Rooms.  The kids tried really hard but they needed a little help from the adults.

Don't they look happy to be painting.

D-Now = Stinky Boys

The boys that stayed in our home were all very well behaved.   They were great about doing their Bible study time. The only problem was when you got to close to the room where they were staying you started gagging because of the smell that was coming out the door.  Seriously I think I actually gagged once walking by to the office.   I guess this is what I have to look forward to when my boys get bigger.

The last night after requiring all shoes to be left  in the garage, a few showers, the window left open, febreeze the smell did get a little better.  Getting some of them to take a shower was like pulling teeth.  I had to threaten to hog tie a couple.  This can be one mean mommy if I have to be.  I was not going to take stinky boys to church with me.   No Way, No How   I was thinking by ninth grade you would want to smell better.  Obviously Not.

When they left on Sunday morning the boys were great about cleaning up the room and pulling all the sheets and blankets off the bed and taking them to the laundry room.  These boys would be welcome to come stay anytime.

D-Now

Every year for the last 4 or 5 years are church has put on a D-Now weekend for the youth.  We have had the priviledge of being a host home for about 4 years now, I think.  We get rid of our own kids for the weekend and take in about ten teenagers at our house.   I will confess I get a little stressed out before everyone gets here.  I want the house to be clean.  I am not for sure why since I am sure the kids don't notice if everything has been dusted and the floors are clean.  I even cleaned out my refrigerator this week.  I was so proud of myself.  Let just say we had to say goodbye to some stuff that had expired in 2008.  Obviously I don't look in the very back of the refrigerator very often. I could have been a little stressed knowing that my kids were going to be gone for two nights also.  I like everyone to be in their own beds at night.  I am weird like that.  Tim sinced my insanity and took off a half a day on Friday to help me get everything I needed to accomplished. 

As I write this we have a few on the trampoline and a few playing football.

 Hurray no fights yet.  I hear that ninth graders can try to punch each others teeth out and then be the best of friends the next day.  We have all boys this year and they are being nice, polite, active boys.   I gave them a few rules when they got here.  Keep food and drinks on the hard wood and don't get ice without washing your hands.  Any body that knows me would know that would be one of my rules lol  I made breakfast this morning of scrambled eggs, chocolate gravy, white gravy, biscquits and sausage.  I wasn't for sure how much to fix since my boys are so young but I guess I fixed enough because we had leftovers.  Last night we got back to the house around 10 and they did a couple of Bible studies and of course ate.  I had made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies (our new favorite), rice crispy treats, and chips & dip.  Of course they enjoyed all this. Obviously food is a big part of a ninth grade boys life.   I can only imagine what my grocery bill will be when my kids are teenagers.  At 1AM this morning I had Tim go check on them and they were in the bedroom with the lights out watching Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory.  lol They got up before us at 7AM.  These kids are going to be so tired by the end of the weekend.  We are fixing to head to the church for mission projects after lunch.