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Monday, September 14, 2009

where... oh where...

has Mikalah gone?



Where... oh where...
can she be?


oh

THERE SHE IS!!

love that smile!
her favorite expression is:
WIDE OPEN MOUTH

I'm gonna get you, Momma!
Here I come!
Watch out!


and if I ever need to distract her
while doing something in the kitchen
I just turn the light on in the oven!


I know - it IS pretty cool :D


guess now I know where she gets that...

WIDE OPEN MOUTH look


Life during the day without Kyria has taken on a life of its own... We have fun, the house is even more tornado-like (which I did NOT think was possible!), there are different kinds of questions and different kinds of discussions as Anya discovers some more independence... and MIKALAH STARTS WALKING!!! Did I mention that MIKALAH IS WALKING???? Ok, so now ... life as we have come to know it in the last weeks without Kyria - is going to get ANOTHER facelift!

Kyria is doing wonderfully in school. She loves it! Her prayer request each evening, though, is that her classmates will obey and not talk during nap time - she likes her naps! But after school she enjoys getting to know some of the other teachers, and I think they enjoy her too. *smiles* She is loving her piano lessons and memorized Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star the second day! I will try not to brag TOO much, but I am very proud of the little girl she is! and I pray she continues her path of wanting to do right to make Jesus happy all her life!

MIKALAH IS WALKING!!! Did I mention that already? :D

Well, I will have pictures next week of Kyria being a flower girl... she is pretty excited. If I can, I will post pix of her dress tomorrow. It is coordinating with the bride's dress - and we didn't even know it! :D

Well, God is good... and our family is well... Praise HIM!!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

favorite... snack?

Anya's all time favorite snack is black olives -

she calls them ojoves.


And she always has to have at least


5


so she can do


THIS:


"mom, 'coumpt' with me"


1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5


She loves 'coumpting' almost as much as she loves black olives!

not the normal - everyday - kid snack - but Kyria and Anya both love eating them... and could eat them for every meal...

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

black & white... notes & keys...

and one custom bag for lesson books!







all set
Kyria's piano lessons begin tomorrow! And I made this bag for her to carry her books in. I loved the fun polka-dots - and the blue is a light denim - so fairly durable! :D FUN TIMES! i will take some pix with her and her new bag tomorrow - when she is all ready to GO.


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Little faith in a strong plank will carry me over the stream,  
great faith in a rotten plank will land me in the stream. 
~ ~ Dr. Burton of the Mueller Orphan Home in  Bristol, England. ~ ~

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Courage is not the absence of fear, 
but rather the judgement that something else is more important.