well we’re in the new place now.  it’s grrrreat!  i love it.  it so perfectly fits our family and the addition(s) we hope to make to it someday, Lord willing.  the only thing is that we’re still not closed.  it’s been nerve-wracking, stressful, frustrating…  but God has been teaching me to wait for His time, to grow in patience, and to trust in His faithfulness to provide for us.  He always has, He always will.

we’re still trying to get internet set up in the new place.  that’s been stressful too, since my job requires me to be online to correspond with data collectors by email and i’ve fallen three weeks behind in my work.  i’m now at the library, hoping to get some of it done, only to find out that i can’t download the files on this computer.  so, i’m xanga-ing. 

lately, things have been getting crazier and crazier!  first, phil gets sick, then our trip to california, then mikey catching phil’s cold, then our big move the day after we got back, then mikey gets a viral infection that results in a week-long bout of diarrhea which resulted in nasty diaper rash (youch! poor baby), then i throw my back out and have to lie helplessly by knowing that i’m supposed to be caring for mikey and getting the old apartment cleared out and cleaned up, then phil catches another cold!  this one’s been really bad, it’s the sickest i’ve ever seen him.  he’s even had to miss three days of his anesthesia rotation so far, and this one was the one he was supposed to really shine in to have a chance to get into this residency. 

when it rains, it pours, huh?  it’ll be interesting to see what God does with all this, to say the least!

thankfully though, mikey’s back to his usual cheerful self.  the latest on him- he is now the proud owner of two teeth which he happily uses to chomp down on such things as crackers, cheerios, and my fingers.  he’ll soon look like this: .  he waves ‘hello’- but he keeps a deadly serious look on his face like he’s concentrating really hard to do it, so it’s not exactly a welcoming greeting.  hee hee.  he also gives kisses!  when i say, ‘mikey, give momma a kiss.’  he’ll lean in with his drooly mouth wide open and plant one right on me.  gross, but oh so cute!  he loves eating ‘grown-up’ food and refuses plain purees unless i throw in some rice that he can chew.  still trying to get him to use sign language for ‘more’ and ‘all done’.

whelp, i better get going.  hopefully soon i’ll get to update from my own home!