Top 15 family updates

Family Update:

1) Micah is left-handed

2) Tyler is pretty much fully potty-trained

3) Micah is currently potty training

4) My new sewing machine is AMAZING

5) Jason is self-teaching with his school work, and has read a few sight words

6) Micah sings the alphabet, but I can only make out "A, B," and "E, F, G", and "S, T". Everything else just sounds like "eh" and "eee".

7) Tyler has decided to go into the stage where every naughty action is blamed 100% on the current toy being played with. "The quad ruined the fort!", "Larry boy hit him!", "The snake pulled out all the yarn!".......therefore plunging himself into what I now call "The Tyrannical Threes".

8) Jason has won "Diddy Kong Racing", so now he has started re-starting the whole game and whizzing through it by winning every race one-after-the-other. Can anyone say obsessed?

9) Jon just had another cow butchered, so we now have a freezerful of meat that WE can eat, AND can send to market

10) I am now 30 Weeks pregnant with "Baby", and we are 95% decided on a girls name, but just need to work on the boys name.

11) We expect 3 of our goats to kid in the next couple of days

12) 2 chicks just hatched, but we have 25 more chicks on order, and should get them next week

13) Jason is THE most amazingly helpful 4 year old I have ever known. And he NEVER complains when I ask him to do something...even if it is hard or time consuming. He has a fantastic attitude, and I can tell he is proud of himself for "helping mommy"

14) I am staying pretty busy with Baby Snickerdoodles, but its a perfect balance so far and not taking over our lives or house. I have 1-3 orders a week about? Some are customs, but most are just what I have in the shop on Etsy. A set of soakers and 4 sets of cloth baby wipes paid for Jason's birthday gift, woo hoo!

15) All the boys in my life are in love with coffee.

Trainer Pants

These boys are so funny :)

They are all wearing the trainers I just made. One pair ended up WAY too small, hence Micah getting some "teeny trainers", which is good because he is doing fantastic with potty training now!
I made 6 altogether. We found the fabrics at a hospice thrift store, so spent a total of $3 on materials :) I used the basic soaker pattern I use for my wool, only left off the leg cuffs. The inside has 6 layers of soaker material sewn in (part of the $3 cost), and then the material is double-sided.

The print you can't see very well...but its basically robots and space shuttles. They boys LOVE them! Jonathan said they look like Tarzan though, and they should say "AhhhhAHahAHah..." (yes, he demonstrated it).




p.s. they are eating crackers that Timothy brought for them last night

"Moose"

I SO pathetically started this poor moose back at Christmas time, and was "dreaming" about giving it to one of the boys, or just using it as a Christmas decoration. Nope. I FINALLY finished it last week :)
It was worth the wait though, because Micah keeps running around with it, and saying "horsie", and absolutely loves him! Its really sweet :) Tyler tried to make dibs, but in the end gave up to the baby I guess.

Now Tyler has a stuffed Larry-Boy (.25 at the thrift store...)...and I am second guessing that purchase, since now all of Tyler's actions are followed by "it was Larry boy!" and "I am that Hero!"

"This too shall pass", right?

Aunt Grace

Obviously a book reading is "the place to be" in our family, lol! Grace was surrounded by all 6 cousins!!!

Written update

Well I don't have any pictures to bless you with, but a little update now and then is good, right?

The Hawkins girls are still staying with Uncle William about 3 minutes away from us, so its been nice to see them every couple of days :) I am pretty sure that its "public" now that the girls will be staying with them now for the remainder of the time before coming to help me out in my last month of pregnancy...rather than going home, as they were considering doing after Aunt Inez passed away. I know this a HUGE blessing to their family (Uncle Will's family).

I am staying busy now that I have a new sewing machine (yay!). It is a dream, so much quieter than my old singer. I hope to repair the singer sometime, but right now my new Kenmore is doing just fantastic! I am making sure to keep the wool fluff out of it though, so we don't have any stall-ups with the gears. Baby Snickerdoodles is doing pretty well, but not overwhelmingly so, which is a perfect balance I think.

We have been plagued by the flu and colds lately, so I am looking forward to being healthy. I know the whole nation is dealing with these viruses though, so I'm not alone! LOL!

Jonathan is getting busier and busier with farm work, as they prepare to plant hay, and get ready for the batches of goat kids that will be here soon. In my mind I was thinking I would get to spend more time with him if he was a "farmer"....but yeah right! He leaves around 4:15am and usually doesn't get home until 6:30 or 7pm. He'll sometimes come by for a late breakfast or late lunch, but that last about 15 minutes and then he's off again! LOL! I miss time with him, but overall we are so much happier and the kids love it here too.

Jason spends too much time thinking about N64 games, but he also loves going outside, and playing with his brothers. He does a little bit of schoolwork everyday, but its not hard-core yet, just getting down pat letters, numbers, and basic schooling concepts. He is CRAZY about geography, and loves looking through Jon's big atlas and asking questions about the maps.

Tyler is almost done potty training, which is SO nice since the new baby is almost here and I really don't want 3 kids in dipes at once, ugh! His favorite thing lately, is playing out by our front tree, with the set of little yellow construction equipment, in the dirt. He has started talking MUCH more and says the funniest things sometimes, making me realize that Jason is rubbing off on him ;)

Micah is such a good baby, God has blessed me so much with him! He goes down for a nap and nighttime just angelically, and is self-potty training himself! He goes in his potty chair about 5-6 times a day now? My diapering routine has gotten so much easier, but I do have to use more vinegar in the dipe wash, because they sit in the diaper pail longer since we don't have as frequent changes!

Baby is doing fine, but definitely is more active at nighttime. We thought we were gonna find out what baby was, but unfortunately there are some legalities with ultrasound services in our area that make them unable to scan unless I have a regular OB or CNM. I suppose if the Lord wants it to happen it will, but I am not gonna push for the ultrasound, and just try to do other things to bond with Baby and prepare for the birth of a boy AND a girl (hee hee!). We still haven't decided on names, but are much closer with a girl name than a boy name. We'll announce the name choices as soon as they are rock solid ;)

I hope that gets ya'll up to date!