A City Life For Me

This is a milestone in and of itself – I am posting on the twinsies’ actual “birthday”!  Today the twins are six months old!  Yesterday they were wearing their “Little Brother” and “Little Sister” shirts so I set them on the bed for a couple of pictures! Is it okay if I hold his toes, Mommy? Nehemiah was looking at Elaine – she wanted to help make them smile! THis is the we-are-both-teething-and-chewing-on-our-lips pose.  Both kiddos are really teething – hard!  Nehemiah can easily drench several bibs a day.  They are cranky, and not napping much at all.  This makes Mommy cranky, too. Nehemiah is crawling.  Sometimes it’s a real crawl, but much of the times it’s a combination of army crawl, determination, and a giant lunge forward to get what he wants.  He is all over the floor, getting into bags, and annoying his sister.  He wakes up singing in the mornings and is still a generally happy baby.  See his crawl ...

Tea Parties: It didn’t take long to discover that Nolan does tea parties about like the beast in “Beauty & the Beast.”  Gotta work on table manner! The Stoic… …found her smile! Big Sister Storytime

As I mentioned, we traveled last week to Alabama to interview with Baptist World Mission as church planters to the Bronx.  I wanted to share a little bit about that process. The Baptist World Mission Board of Trustees We actually had to submit our information by August 15th.  Ben and I completed separate applications, including some doctrinal questions, our testimony, our call to the mission field, and six references.  Ben had to complete a more in-depth doctrinal statement.  We both had to have medical exams and submit some other information.  The in person interview was just the last step in the process of getting approved by the board. The conference started Monday morning with a doctrinal review.  There were four applying missionaries that had to be reviewed – two couples (one of them was us!) and two individual ladies.  We appeared before 3 board members and answered doctrinal questions to be sure that we are in agreement with BWM....

Elaine had a good time entertaining the babies while I vacuumed…she was trying to read a book to them, but they are just a little too grabby right now!

Last week we embarked on what will surely be the first of many – a long road trip!  Our destination was Huntsville, Alabama for the annual meeting of Baptist World Mission.  We had applied to the mission board to be church planters to the Bronx in New York City.  After a two month application process, this trip was the final step in our appointment with BWM – a doctrinal review and in-person interview with the Board Members.  This post will be primarily about our trip, and perhaps I will share more about BWM in a later post. This journey of over 900 miles one way was supposed to be about 14 hours.  Add in a pre-schooler (who really did pretty well), a two year old (who did not quite attain to “pretty well” – actually, it was really rough), and infant twins, and you have the story of our journey. We started off mid-morning on Friday, October 11th.  We had been contacted by our hostess in Alabama that we could use her washer if we wanted to pack light....

Last Monday the twins turned five months old.  Oy!  Time is sure flying by fast!  While we were in Colorado with my parents we had a little photo shoot.  The weather was perfect and everything was still green and beautiful.  I took outdoor pictures, but Nehemiah was rather distracted with the grass! I love this picture – my twins spilling out of a basket.  So many times it is overwhelming to have four little kids, but when I stop to think about it, my heart is overflowing just like this basket! Had to include this one – to prove that there are some times when Nehemiah isn’t smiling.  They are quite rare, though! As far as milestones go, we have had a lot this month!  Libs and Nehemiah are both constantly in motion.  They roll over both ways and are never happy to stay where I put them.  Liberty is scooting backwards now, and Nehemiah does a pretty good army crawl – always in pursuit of a toy or object.  Both ...

One thing I was really hoping to do with the kiddos in Denver was let them ride a horse.  Mom has a friend with a horse, but it wasn’t really broken in yet so not too good for the kids.  I called several stables and found one with a half-way reasonable price for a pony ride.  No – I’m not going to tell you how much we {Grandma} paid for three circles around the stables!  But the kids loved it, so I guess that makes it worth every penny!?!? This wrangler wasn’t the friendliest, but my little “Lone Ranger” had a good time riding “Duby” – short for Double Stuffed Oreo!  She was a little disappointed that he wasn’t white like Silver. LOVE this picture! I had to walk next to the horse and hold on to the kids.  My arms were so tired after 6 laps!  Nolan’s wrangler was much nicer.  When she saw my twins, she told us that she was adopted from Korea with her twin sister.  Twins are everywhere… …even in the stables!  I actu...