A City Life For Me

We were in Manomet, MA last week for a deputation meeting.  We took the opportunity to stop by Plymouth Rock and the Mayflower replica on our way out of town.  Elaine is studying Early American History this year.  I had been here in 1998 as a Sophomore in high school.  Our youth group attended a Teen Holiness in Rhode Island, and since we flew into Boston we did some sightseeing.  Though I knew Plymouth Rock was nothing spectacular, I tried to play it up as exciting for the kids.  They were a little chilly in the wind without their jackets (yes – a nice old man reprimanded us for not wearing coats), and very unimpressed with what Plymouth Rock turned out to be! I thought it was a lovely, albeit cloudy, day at the Cape! At the Mayflower, and uber disappointed that we did not purchase tickets to climb aboard! Plymouth Rock As we drove up the hill to turn around, Ben noticed the Monument to the Fore Fathers through the trees.  We never even knew this...

As I’ve been looking at Henry these last couple of weeks I keep having flash backs to when Elaine was this age.  So many times I look at him and I see baby Elaine!  But then some people say he looks like Nolan or Nehemiah.  So here are some fun comparison pictures… Newborn Pics of the Kiddos:                  Elaine                                                           Nolan                      Liberty                  ...

Henry turned two months old a couple of weeks ago.  Here are some recent pictures of him.  Definitely have the fifth child syndrome going on…not as many pictures or journaling as I tried to do for the other kids!  Most of the time he is so quiet, happy, and easy going that I can almost forget he is there! Henry started smiling around seven weeks old.  His smile came on slower and more hesitant than Nehemiah’s, but now I get quite a lot of them every morning!  We have even had a few coos recently. He can sit up supported and hold his head up now.  He likes to face out and see what is going on around him.  When he watches you, it is with giant blue eyes and usually an open mouth with tongue sticking out!  He is happiest in the mornings, but doesn’t really have a cranky hour.  Henry is a great little traveller now – very content in his car seat and sleeps most of the time.  We have rarely had to make extra stops (beyond the normal po...

A few weeks ago we bought Nolan a bag of plastic army soldiers.  The set came with two tanks.  Since then, Nolan has had tons of questions about “real” tanks – what do they look like, do they really shoot, how big are they, etc.  Then we saw a billboard for a tank exhibition, but we were passing through the town a week early.  When we arrived in Huntsville, AL a couple of days before our scheduled conference, I decided to check and see if there was anything in town that would have a tank.  I stumbled upon the Veteran’s Memorial Museum.  They had about 20 tanks outside and 10 inside.  And the admission was affordable! So, on November 4th, we headed over to the museum.  They have memoribilia from every conflict and war since the American Revolution.  Not only was I interested, but my kids were interested in each display! There were guns, uniforms, a train box car, tanks, jeeps, and models of various battles.  There were even a couple of h...