T-Max on Prunes

Our family likes to eat a couple of prunes each after dinner. Yes - all three kiddos like them too! T-Max, for some reason, cannot say "prunes". Peter was having him say, "p...p...p...prunes!", and this is what he said, "p...p...p...CROONS!" So now, after dinner, we just say, "Who wants to eat CROONS!"

Happiest Mom

Had a great mother's day weekend! I am so happy to be a mother to these three little buggers! They bring me so much joy! I don't need gifts, so all I asked Peter for was a day that I didn't have to cook. So he got a quick breakfast ready before church, and after church he made some tasty grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup, and then my mom had invited us over to her place for dinner. So I got my wish! And Peter made me a video/slideshow of me and the kids that brought me to tears within the first couple of seconds.

And as I get deeper into motherhood, I appreciate my mom more and more. My hope is to be even half as generous as she is with her time, love, serving, and giving to others.

More pics from the rest of the day here.

The Prodigal Daughter

Saw this yesterday on the girltalk blog. I'm posting it because I want to be able to see it easily again and again. We read the Bible story of the prodigal son with our kiddos, and watched it afterwards. It makes me tear up every time. The kids wanted to watch it several times in a row. We showed them who Satan was and explained to T-Max that he is a bad guy. He just kept repeating, "Bad guy, bad buy...I hit him!"



The Prodigal Daughter

You held out Your arms, I walked away
Insolent, I spurned Your face
Squandering the gifts You gave to me
Holding close forbidden things
Destitute, a rebel still, a fool in all my pride
The world I once enjoyed is death to me
No joy, no hope, no life

Where now are the friends that I had bought
Gone with every penny lost
What hope could there be for such as I
Sold out to a world of lies
Oh to see Your face again, it seems so distant now
Could it be that You would take me back
A servant in Your house

You held out Your arms, I see them still
You never left, You never will
Running to embrace me, now I know
Your cords of love will always hold
Mercy’s robe, a ring of grace
Such favor undeserved
You sing over me and celebrate
The rebel now Your child

© 2009 Sovereign Grace Worship (ASCAP)

Bugs and Yeast!

As I mentioned before, we are making our way through the 6 days of creation. We have been on Day 6, and just wrapped up our study of insects. I had been saving egg cartons from months ago thinking that I wanted to make a caterpillar with the kids at some point, and this seemed like the perfect time. We also made a spider even though it is not actually an insect. Check out our bugs! This is the closest you'll ever see N handling bugs. She screams, or rather cries at the sight of them!

Finishing the legs on the caterpillar:


N did a great job painting all by herself!


Caterpillar


Spider


Ladybug


Butterfly


And this science experiment was so cool!


For our section on cells, we did an experiment to see how yeast is a living cell. We mixed warm water, yeast, some sugar into a large soda bottle. We put a balloon on top, and when we placed the bottle in some warm water, the balloon began to blow up! It was so cool! Apparently, as the yeast feeds on the sugar, they release carbon dioxide, thus filling up the balloon. Our directions said to use a 2 liter soda bottle, but I wish we had used a smaller bottle because I think the balloon would have filled up more. Maybe we will do it again.

I didn't use this link, but here is the experiment.

9 months

Zay Bear's 9 month checkup stats from last week:

Weight: 22 lbs 1 oz - 75th percentile
Height: 30 in - 95th
Head: 18 1/4 in - 75th

This past month, Zay Bear's been busy standing up everywhere, and starting to cruise around. He's still eating like a champ! Like this morning, I had left the boys with Peter to attend a women's conference at my church, and he told me that for breakfast he had yogurt, cheerios, and 2 whole oranges!

Earlier this month, he got his first hair cut by my mom. I attempted one day, and then gave up very quickly because he was moving around SO much! So my mom cut, while N and I distracted with trucks and lots of puffs.

Zay Bear seems to be the most social of my three. He is always looking for his hyung and noona, and easily gives smiles to people, even strangers. He's also very vocal. Either he's screaming because he wants something (usually food) or because he wants your attention, or he's babbling like he's got something to say. He and N seem to have this special relationship where he likes to repeat what she says. His first official words are "Hi", "Umma" (mother in Korean), and "Abba" (father in Korean). N claims that he also said, "Noona", but I'm not sure about that one!

Before


Almost done!


T-Max loves his little brother. His affections for his little brother are growing every day.




More random pics I've taken on flickr.