God's Promise

God promised to never flood the earth again.

We have been having a lot of rain these last few weeks. This rainbow showed up after one of the many rains, and just reminded me that he is everpresent. He is always watching over us and will always take care of us. No matter how much rain we continue to get, and no matter if we don't get any when we think we need it He will provide for us and protect our occupation.

HOT

Abraham is a little like his mom...When we are hot we get a little whiney and crabby! The only difference is I will sleep.

Happenings

This is Abraham's first time in his high chair...It really wasn't that long ago, but he is growing so fast, neither that shirt nor those socks fit him anymore!

Sam and I were eating supper and Abraham kept trying to eat everything we were so I gave him a cucumber to knaw on, and he sure did. Below is the before and after.

Sam loves that Abraham is getting big enough to play with tractors, Sam is just a little protective of the tractors :)

And finally Abraham is a rolling machine! He started out on the edge of the blanket, I was in the kitchen getting supper ready and just talking to him, and so he started rolling to me. That little round about was fun to watch. He was looking at me and I told him to come over to me, and so he spun himself around and started that way! (And as you can see, we still don't have baseboards back up!)

In other news, Abraham started rice cereal this morning, a tooth cut through the other day, and he will be 6 months on Saturday!

There is no sweeter sound

There is nothing better than making Abraham laugh. He wouldn't take his eyes off the camera, the first time we had it on him he wouldn't even look at it, and now he just keeps his eyes on it. Not a whole lot else going on. Planting is coming along very well. Rainy days are bittersweet; they are a breath of fresh air, but at the same time it would be nice to get done. We have only had a few days completely rained out, and lets hope we keep making head way, and get timely rains!

Tis the Season...

Oh how I love to see dandelions!

It is so nice when the weather finially changes from cold to warm. I usually dread the change because it usually takes awhile for it to actually get warm, and then we have to go through the process of keeping a small fire going so it doesn't get too hot, but its too cold to not have a fire. Also the process of drying clothes takes FOREVER, the basement is cold so I can only do about 3 loads every other day. I hang everything I wash up to dry since the dryer is not very efficient and I have to run it twice for every load...and that just takes too much electricity and therefore money. However, this week it warmed up very quickly. It is so nice to dry clothes on the line, and get outside with Abraham. Abraham finially fell asleep on a walk yesturday. He usually stays awake because he has so much to look at, but yesturday he was tired enough that he finially fell asleep. He is just so adorable, I can't get enough of him! I love being able to stay home with him everyday and watching him grow up...all this thanks to my wonderful husband for working so hard to provide for us. We are living our dreams of farming to make a living being a stay at home mom.

The big down fall is the stupid asian beetles! There are tons on every window of our house at any point in the day. This picture doesn't even begin to show how many there are. I keep the vacuum cleaner out so I can suck them up, I just feel like my house is so dirty coming into a room and seeing all the beetles crawling around on the window, on the floor, and the ceiling. But enough of that, there are more pluses to this time of year, that is about my only negative!

I did something!

Last Saturday I had laundry and dishes caught up so I was dinkin around on the computer while Abraham was sleeping. I started getting bored with that so I thought what can I do?!?!? I thought of something!! Sam and I have talked about taking the carpet in the living room up since we moved in and I knew that it wasn't going to get done if I didn't start it right then, because as you know spring is coming quickly and that means we are busy busy busy. So I just started in on it, taking baseboards off, got that done and Abe was still asleep, so then started ripping the carpet up, and taking the tack strips up. Abraham ended up sleeping for almost 3 hours, and I got a lot done in that time, and I wanted to keep going after he was up and Sam wasn't home yet. Anyway, Sam came home and was less than impressed with my timing of taking the carpet up, but is VERY happy I did it and with the results. We knew there were beautiful hardwood floors underneath and this is the way it looks now.

So there are some consequences for not planning ahead, and this is what they are. I can live with it for awhile, but soon we will have to head to lowes and get some trim for the door jams, and I will have to paint so we can put the baseboards back up.

Since everbody looks here for pictures of Abraham, and since today is his 4 month Birthday here is a pic. He really likes this walker. It makes him look like he is standing in the picture, but he isn't, his toes barely touch the floor. He is such a cutie pie! This pic was taken a couple weeks ago, since we still have carpet there!

3 months!

3 months has gone so fast, and yet it seems like Abraham has been part of our lives forever. I feel like we are very well adjusted to the changes he has brought, and getting into a pretty good groove with him. He has pretty much made his schedule and we stick to it pretty well. He usually wakes up around 6 am, some mornings its 5 but usually not any later, we don't really have a good nap schedule because when we go places it always messes them up. However, he does usually take a nap in the morning and in the afternoon. Then around 6:30pm he starts to get fussy so we start his bedtime routine of changing clothes and diaper, eating. He is usually pretty much asleep by the time he is done eating, but I go ahead and sing him Jesus loves me and say a prayer and then put him in his crib. He has been sleeping all night for probly about 2 or 3 weeks, and this past week he has been in his crib, which is upstairs, all night. It was a little hard the first couple nights putting him upstairs for the night, since he had been right in our bedroom, but its ok and he is used to it, and I am getting there! He got his shots wednesday and he was such a trooper, He cried a little but once we put him in his "man cave" aka carseat he was better.

Sitting up like a big boy Lifting his weights

Sam and Dad have been busy in the shop, they have insulated, put up metal, and put in a loft. They got the planter in last weekend, and are getting it ready for planting. Spring is coming fast, and there is still plenty to get done before it arrives, but as always we are very excited! No pictures of the shop yet, Sam has those on his phone, and Mom has some also but I don't have any!