Wednesday, December 17, 2008
O Christmas Tree - The Big One
This year, we just have our little fake Christmas tree at our place, but we helped put up a nice big real one at my parents' house this past weekend. Matt & my sister did most of the work, cutting, dragging & trimming. They did a great job & it came out just the right shape and size.
Elsie helped too - or so she thought.
Elsie helped too - or so she thought.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
Oh Deer
Deer hunting season ended this past weekend and, unfortunately, Matt did not get his first deer. He was disappointed but I think he's quit beating himself up over it. It was a rough hunting season -- the guys just didn't see hardly any this year. My dad got one deer and another fellow hunter got two. Matt didn't get any and neither did my uncle who hunts with them. Sunday afternoon we put away the hunting gear and washed their, uh, nature-fresh unwashed clothing.
On Sunday night when Matt & I got home, we got a call from my sister. She said, "Tell Matt I got him a deer." My reply was OH NO!! She had hit a deer with their van on the way to Bible study that evening. She was fine but the 8-point buck smashed in the front corner of the van pretty good. My dad ended up going down with his truck, taking the deer home and tagging it. That's not typically the way we like to get deer around here, but unfortunately, it does happen on occasion! (And the sad irony is that we had actually joked about 'if we couldn't get a deer with the gun we could always use the car' - yikes!) This is the 3rd car accident caused by a deer that someone in my family has been in -- and the 2nd with this same van.
Hopefully next year we can return to 'normal' hunting season habits and activities!
On Sunday night when Matt & I got home, we got a call from my sister. She said, "Tell Matt I got him a deer." My reply was OH NO!! She had hit a deer with their van on the way to Bible study that evening. She was fine but the 8-point buck smashed in the front corner of the van pretty good. My dad ended up going down with his truck, taking the deer home and tagging it. That's not typically the way we like to get deer around here, but unfortunately, it does happen on occasion! (And the sad irony is that we had actually joked about 'if we couldn't get a deer with the gun we could always use the car' - yikes!) This is the 3rd car accident caused by a deer that someone in my family has been in -- and the 2nd with this same van.
Hopefully next year we can return to 'normal' hunting season habits and activities!
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Other Words
A few other words in Madison's vocabulary (some new, some not new but weren't used regularly until recently) --
~ Her favorite word - 'cheese' (She's added some other food words lately too, which I can't think of right now)
~ Her other favorite thing - counting to three, which is often still "two, phwee, two, phweee!"
~ 'More' -- which she generally says now instead of signing
~ 'Please'
~ 'Good girl'
~ 'Yucky', 'Ducky', 'Fishy', 'Kitty kitty', 'Doggy' (which comes out 'goggy')
~ 'Oh no' -- which when she says it, she always sounds like she has a clothespin on her nose!
~ 'Teeth' -- to brush her teeth, and 'potty' when she goes to sit on her potty
~ 'Shoe' and 'socky' -- she loves shoes
~ 'Hot' has been one she's used for a while - for the oven, our coffee mugs, etc.
~ And I have to say, it's too sweet having her saying 'I love you' back to us all the time now. She even says it in response to her Build-a-bear which has a little 'I love you' push button in its hand.
Madison has been calling people by their names more often - including the pets. She's also been singing a lot more lately - along with her dancing - and "reading" her books aloud. It's just amazing how well she communicates at this age -- we're really enjoying it. Of course, I have yet to be able to capture much on video -- typical.
~ Her favorite word - 'cheese' (She's added some other food words lately too, which I can't think of right now)
~ Her other favorite thing - counting to three, which is often still "two, phwee, two, phweee!"
~ 'More' -- which she generally says now instead of signing
~ 'Please'
~ 'Good girl'
~ 'Yucky', 'Ducky', 'Fishy', 'Kitty kitty', 'Doggy' (which comes out 'goggy')
~ 'Oh no' -- which when she says it, she always sounds like she has a clothespin on her nose!
~ 'Teeth' -- to brush her teeth, and 'potty' when she goes to sit on her potty
~ 'Shoe' and 'socky' -- she loves shoes
~ 'Hot' has been one she's used for a while - for the oven, our coffee mugs, etc.
~ And I have to say, it's too sweet having her saying 'I love you' back to us all the time now. She even says it in response to her Build-a-bear which has a little 'I love you' push button in its hand.
Madison has been calling people by their names more often - including the pets. She's also been singing a lot more lately - along with her dancing - and "reading" her books aloud. It's just amazing how well she communicates at this age -- we're really enjoying it. Of course, I have yet to be able to capture much on video -- typical.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Thanksgiving & December Update
Happy Thanksgiving! After the fact anyway. We had a great Thanksgiving celebration at my parents' place. Because it was a holiday weekend and hunting season, we ended up being down there for 5 days. (We were glad to get home to our own bed yesterday!) We had quite the weekend of feasting, including making different pies for each day (apple, pecan, turtle pumpkin and peach). Matt saw some action while hunting but unfortunately missed a big buck that charged by his deer stand. Another hunter in the group got 2 doe, so Matt "helped" to gut them. He didn't pass out, so that was encouraging. He also helped butcher the deer my dad got last week. He did OK, but he said that if he didn't like meat so much, he'd probably become a vegetarian after that!
Madison has been talking up a storm, and in the last 2 weeks her vocabulary has taken off like crazy. There were a lot of words she could say but we didn't hear them very often. Lately, she's begun regularly using all the words she knows and picking up new ones. Just over the weekend the latest were 'squirrel', 'goose', 'up-up', and 'I love you' which sounds like "ah-thoo". It's amazing too that not only is she saying words but in the right context. With 'squirrel', I had pointed out a squirrel in the tree that the cat was looking at. Two days later she was standing at the door, looks out and sees a squirrel in the tree and says "squirrel". Wow! She's just getting to be quite the smarty-pants. She's also getting bigger and looking more like a little girl and not a baby. She's into her 18-month clothes now and graduated out of many of the 12-month already. The poor thing has had a cold for about a week and has been crabby as all get out, not napping well (or not napping at all). That's been a challenge for me, but hopefully the cold is near an end.
And then there's the job situation. One month down & still no job. Matt's only been called for a couple of interviews but the jobs were not offered to him. Less than a month to go -- and half of that is basically holiday season so not a lot of time left for business to be conducted. Being December 1st with no prospect in sight is definitely discouraging. We're kind of at a loss as to what to do now -- other than wait, which feels like wasting time & doing nothing. But we feel we've exhausted all of our options - we've literally applied to anything and everything we can think of and find... What else can we do at this point if there are no jobs open & the ones that are open you don't get called on? So we continue to wait and pray and keep our eyes open. We would covet your prayers! We know the Lord will provide for our needs, but man, it sure would be nice to know how & when!!
Madison has been talking up a storm, and in the last 2 weeks her vocabulary has taken off like crazy. There were a lot of words she could say but we didn't hear them very often. Lately, she's begun regularly using all the words she knows and picking up new ones. Just over the weekend the latest were 'squirrel', 'goose', 'up-up', and 'I love you' which sounds like "ah-thoo". It's amazing too that not only is she saying words but in the right context. With 'squirrel', I had pointed out a squirrel in the tree that the cat was looking at. Two days later she was standing at the door, looks out and sees a squirrel in the tree and says "squirrel". Wow! She's just getting to be quite the smarty-pants. She's also getting bigger and looking more like a little girl and not a baby. She's into her 18-month clothes now and graduated out of many of the 12-month already. The poor thing has had a cold for about a week and has been crabby as all get out, not napping well (or not napping at all). That's been a challenge for me, but hopefully the cold is near an end.
And then there's the job situation. One month down & still no job. Matt's only been called for a couple of interviews but the jobs were not offered to him. Less than a month to go -- and half of that is basically holiday season so not a lot of time left for business to be conducted. Being December 1st with no prospect in sight is definitely discouraging. We're kind of at a loss as to what to do now -- other than wait, which feels like wasting time & doing nothing. But we feel we've exhausted all of our options - we've literally applied to anything and everything we can think of and find... What else can we do at this point if there are no jobs open & the ones that are open you don't get called on? So we continue to wait and pray and keep our eyes open. We would covet your prayers! We know the Lord will provide for our needs, but man, it sure would be nice to know how & when!!
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