Bonne Fete Papa!

Xavier learned a poem for Father's Day that he wanted to share with all of the dads he knows. Happy Father's Day!

The poem roughly translated...
Poetry for Father's Day:
My heart tells me
It must be a holiday
but what holiday?
Mother's Day? no!
Festival of the kings? Festival of a king!
but which one?
King of my heart:
my dad is to me!
Happy Father's Day, Dad!

He reads us his card and wants to make sure everyone knows it's deux mille neuf

Moving Day!

For the past several weeks, Xavier has been afraid to sleep in his bed. We're not sure what happened or what's been going on, but he's terrified. Which leads him to sleep in Ezekiel's bed, which sends Ezekiel to our bed. Needless to say, with all the hot potato beds going on, no one has been sleeping. Xavier told us that he's afraid of being high. We have a hard time believing him because he loves being up high during the day. But, apparently at night there's strange shadows. So, we finally gave in and moved his bed down (with the help of a friend). I'll post pictures of the final room as we get it put back together, but the boys had a contest this morning to see who could get the biggest pile of books out of their room.

The piles fell into each other and we called a tie. Both boys got a biscuit for their help.

And yes, it looks like we've got a lot of books. And I admit that we do. But, if anyone wants to send us anything, children's books in English are a wonderful thing! The boys are used to Champaign's million dollar new libary expansion and our collection doesn't hold a pile of beans to what we left.

Kids Say the Funniest Things!

So, Xavier's Sunday School is having a contest to memorize scriptures. If you memorize your age, you receive a prize. If you memorize one more than your age, you get a t-shirt. We received a booklet about a month ago with the scriptures that they're studying in class to help them memorize. Tonight, Xavier has successfully learned 5 scriptures and was telling them to Grandma and Grandpa on Skype. Ezekiel has been memorizing them with Xavier and I'm hoping Xavier's teacher will give him a prize as well. One of the scripture's they were to memorize was Mark 8:35 "Whoever gives up his life for me and for the Good News will have true life forever."

Xavier's version: "Whoever gives up his life will have true life forever." We have to help him remember who he's giving his life up for, but he's about got it.

Ezekiel's version: "Whoever gives up his life."
I ask, "What do you get, Ezekiel?"
His response: "A T-shirt!"

Grandma, Grandpa and I couldn't stop laughing and Ezekiel thought he had just done the greatest thing in the world. Sadly, Daddy was brushing Xavier's teeth so it's not on video, but now it's recorded. Ezekiel does know two other verses, so he's well on his way to his t-shirt. :-)

Experiment...

So, I'm curious as to if anyone actually reads my blog. I know my parents do when I remind them that I've updated it, but I've been kinda out of it since we came back from England. The reason I've been so out of it? Well, besides stress over VBS, I've been suffering terribly from morning sickness. It's slowly moving from 24 hour nausea to morning and night and I'm hoping now that I've hit almost 12 weeks I'm going to get a reprieve soon. This probably isn't the best way to tell everyone, so I'm sorry. It took me almost three months to tell my parents because of the time zone difference and the fact that I now go to bed with the boys (about lunch time in Illinois). I'll eventually post it on facebook, but right now I'd like to know who reads the blog. If it's just my parents, then at least I'll know and I've kept a nice journal of our time overseas.

Sono at 5 weeks - 112 heart beats/min, due date of 29 December

Sono at 9 weeks - 180 heart beats/min, due date of 21 December

My doctor (who speaks English - yeah!) does a sono at every visit and I will have a full ultrasound at 12, 22, and 32 weeks. Right now everything looks healthy and only one baby. I have no idea why the due date jumped up over a week, but I'm not complaining. I am not a pleasent pregnant person. We will know more after June 22nd.

Xavier is very excited and has told everyone that looks at him that mommy has a baby in her tummy. He's asked if we can name him Isaac and keeps telling me that God wants us to have a girl because mommy's all alone. There are too many boys in the family and we need some gwourls (as he pronouces it).