Happy Saturday

Aedyn had a rough time sleeping yesterday and this morning he has a new tooth. He's happy today and we played outside in the sunshine. As I was feeding him pumpkin soup for lunch, 3 little deer ate lunch about 10 feet from the dinning room window. I've been looking out for them the last few days. I love living here.
But I really miss lad nar from YumThai in Forest Park.
And our corner grocery store, Ed's Way.
And dear friends. who really know me. who would just stop by. and stay for a meal. or stay to sing and pray.

missing you

Aedyn, Hondorus and Evangelism

Aedyn's first tooth is finally out. He teethed for months, it seemed. Eric got him out of the crib after a nap on Sunday and Aedyn was STANDING up in the crib. Time to lower the mattress as our boy is a climber and will be flinging himself onto the hardwood floor if we don't.
2 days old & 7 months old


5 days more to prepare for our Hondorus trip. I'm a light packer as I've traveled a lot and I usually pack just before a big trip in about an hour. But Aedyn has Stuff. Diapers and covers (we're cloth diaper-ers), a food mill (to puree his food), sheet for the pack-n-play (thankfully we can borrow the p-n-p there) a few toys, disposable diapers and store-bought food for the travel days, etc. Eric doesn't pack much, thankfully. AND we are packing similar items in each bag as the 4-airplane trip almost invites lost luggage.

Eric is really excited to work in the clinic in Roatan and I'm excited to get to spend so much time with my husband and the glorious beach. I love my job! Being a home-mommy is the best!

Someone asked me about our opportunity to evangelize there. I love that question. I believe that the topic "Evangelism" is a lovely, perhaps lengthy, conversation on what it means to have confidence in Jesus and how we can co-operate with God's new creation plan. In short, we will live in Roatan the same transparent, authentic lives we (strive t0) live here. Eric and I both love spiritual conversations and are comfortable talking with newly-made friends. Our goal is to live in such a way that we Invite questions; we pray specifically for these. The biggest question starters right now: why we cloth diaper and why we don't own a tv! Both get to the heart of our motivation, to live out the examples (that is, prophetically) of how we enjoy and participate in God's kingdom (which is HERE, by the way). ((To be clear, cloth diapering is a way we can help stewerd creation by creating over 1 ton less waste--we don't think using cloth is a mandate from God and that everyone who doesn't is wrong. TV: we don't have one because we would have it on way too much! We like to spend time as a family and Eric's work schedule makes our family time limited; so for us, not watching tv all the time puts value on our marriage which reflects many aspects of God's character.))

Congratulations on making it to the end of this post! Here's your reward.

Grandparents visit

My, how the weeks go by. After Hannah left we had a few days to get ready for my (heidi's) parents. They drove aallll the way from the western edge of Nebraska. We had a fun time and their grandson was, of course, the main excitement. We did have an afternoon touring around town, a trip to a hand-blown glass factory, and Gino's gellato (yum!). We had pictures taken at Sears (thanks, m&d) and ate southern BBQ, Dad painted the porch, mom canned apples, and we watched the baby grow.

He's scooting everywhere, now.

Moderation

Needed to add comment moderator functions for awhile, but I'm not used to it. so there are some comments to a couple of earlier posts you may have missed since I didn't realize I had to approve them first! here and here and here are those posts

Hannah's here!

We're having fun. This morning there were 3 deer in the neighbors' back yard; I'm so glad she called to tell us.

Hannah and I made apple tarts for the neighbors as a start on our bushel of apples. I made a little cake on Saturday for another neighbor's birthday--butter cake with cream cheese and apricot filling.


Eric got home from work early so we grilled big burgers (yes, beef) and veggies. Tonight Hannah and I went out for gelato (mmmm, orange/chocolate, tiramisu/raspberry) while Eric vegged to NBC online shows.


The star of the show, our baby beloved, is scooting forward now. He loves playing with Tia Hannita, too. Thanks, Kims, for the Herd outfit and his new blocks! We love the pictures of Elliot.

Vacation

Vacation just ended. Eric was home for 5 days and we did some resting. This was vacation for me, too, because I got to spend time with Eric and he would get up with Aedyn at 6:30 so I could sleep a few more hours. Eric was also the main carrot feeder for the boy (he eats lots of things but carrots with apples are his fav.) Eric did some work in the garden, we drove to an orchard for a bushel of apples, hosted a cook-out for several neighbors, and had fun doing errands together.

A picture of how we weathered a storm last week. Aedyn didn't sleep through the thunder so he joined us on the front porch for the lightning show.

missing you