November Update

So these are starting to turn into monthly updates. I had wanted to write more often than that, but things seem to be going 100 miles an hour lately. Anyway, here are a few things that have happened since the last time I wrote...

Isaiah:
*He started crawling with his belly off the ground.

*He now has two teeth with a third trying to break the surface.

*He sits up completely on his own.

*He is on meds now for GERD, which has changed my life. I no longer need to follow him around with a rag and carpet cleaner.

*He is pulling himself up into a standing position.

*His favorite food right now is Cheerios since he can feed them to himself.

*He has started dancing to music and his favorite song is "Oh, Happiness" by the David Crowder band. Here is a video of him dancing.



JoAnn:
*She loves school (aka Sunday school).

*She literally eats pancakes every morning.

*She melts my heart when she randomly looks at me and says "Mommy I love you."

*She claims Isaiah is her best friend.

*She is becoming quite the cook. She actually does help often and is getting better and better at it.

*She went trick or treating for the first time with Marley. Here they are getting ready to start.



Daniel:
*He has started coaching Covenant Christian High School varsity basketball as an assistant for one of the guys he worked with while we were in Nashville.

Misc.:
*A few weeks ago we had donkeys running loose through the back yard. (I think the neighbor is starting a full out farm next door. He now has 1 horse, 2 donkeys, a handful of chickens and a milking cow.)

*Daniel's parents have been in Florida for about 5 weeks now, but will be back for Thanksgiving through Christmas.

*I had my nieces and nephews over for a night, which convinced me that I would love a house full of kids and convinced Daniel that two is enough. Avery stole my heart by wanting to build "forts" which was one of my favorite things to do as a kid. Here they are in one we built in the kitchen.




*Last Saturday we had a really fun Filipino themed night with some friends to celebrate the Manny Pacquiao fight, which he dominated (or so I heard from Daniel since I was sleeping through it).

*I turned 28 this week. It was one of my favorite birthday celebrations I've had in a while. Heather watched the kids while Daniel and I got a Starbucks (a huge highlight for me since I haven't been able to eat anything with milk in it while nursing Isaiah), had lunch, went shopping for my favorite pair of sweatpants ever (thanks Daniel), relaxed in the hot tub for a while, and I took a long warm shower without one or more of the kids screaming in the background. It was wonderful.

*Other birthdays I've missed on here...Kristen (who was actually before my last post, sorry), Marley and Sally were also this month. Happy birthday to all.