First the exciting news - our dossier has been submitted! If you want to know more about what that means, read My Blog Post about that!Our summer officially ended over 2 weeks ago. We began homeschooling early this year since we know that we will be taking extra time off for our two trips to meet and bring Priscilla home, plus I will need to take a week off to prepare for Jeremy's wedding - just a little over 5 weeks away now!
Speaking of the wedding, I have a lot to do and I need to get going on it - color coordinating clothes for Daryl, myself and all the children Rebekah on down. That is a lot of shopping. I also need to get shower and wedding gifts and workout the last details of catering the rehearsal dinner. On top of all that I need to begin to think about our trip to meet Priscilla, which could happen in very close proximity to the wedding! I just keep reminding myself when I begin to get flustered that everything is still under the control of God's sovereign hand, and that if I look to Him for wisdom and strength I will have all I need to accomplish His will for me each and every day!
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Carese has found that she love fruit. Even if her little teeth aren't quite up the challenge of eating an apple quite yet, she does try for all she's worth! She's also a great subject for Rachel's photography!
In other news, Daniel turned 12 years old this past week, and Rachel will be turning 16 this weekend! How time flies! Esther will also have a birthday this month - she will be turning 5 years old! She is suddenly growing like crazy! She getting bigger and she's learning news words and new things to do! Read my Blog Post about her recent advancements for more on that!
Carese is growing and learning too. She is saying new words, and she is learning sign language very quickly. So far she has signed without prompting "more", "please", "milk", "cookie", "all done" and others. If she's all fussy about something, and you suggest the thing that she needs, like a bottle, she'll stop crying and sign! It's amazing! She loves pointing at things too.
Esther and Carese are quickly becoming buddies. They love to play together and in general, Esther is really good with Carese. We do have to keep an eye on them though, as Carese is a little dare devil and has no fear, and Esther can get a little pushy at times. Esther is about twice the size of Carese, and she knows it. But she loves Carese and the two of them often have little hugging and kissing parties. Sometimes these parties even take place on my lap as they vie for my attention - too much fun!
This week another big event is happening - Jonathan is moving out. Since Jeremy is getting married, Jason is moving out of Jeremy's house. Jonathan is going to share an apartment with Jason and another friend. Jonathan is still driving truck and loving it. We will miss having him at home, but I think this will be good for him. The three younger boys will have such a spacious bedroom! I'll get a photo of that once Jonathan is moved out and we've re-arranged.
Speaking of re-arranging bedrooms, I did that this week for the little girls and I really like the new arrangement. We removed all toys from the bedroom in order to simplify things both in general as well as to prepare for Priscilla's coming home as she might be overwhelmed if the bedroom is too exciting. I was just realizing this week that we will be in the market for another crib in the next few months as Carese will be outgrowing her little crib - I think it' a one year crib, but I really have no idea. She has learned that she can climb out if anything it near the crib, so I had to change that right away!
Looking over this post I realize that I have too many photos of Carese, sorry about that. I will work harder to get photos of all the children and be more fair about that! She's just so stinking cute!
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