Weekly Happenings: This past week was spent mainly getting back into the swing of things after I got home from my trip to California. We didn’t do too much out of the ordinary. It was nice being back with the family and getting back into the routine of school, work, and so on.
The Weekly Weather: It was rainy one day, but the rest of the week was clear and warm.
What Paul’s Been Up To: Mainly just work, school, and maintaining the house and yards.
What Sarah’s Been Up To: Mainly just trying to get back into my routine.
What Joseph’s Been Up To: He’s enjoying school. He goes to the GT (gifted and talented) teacher a few times a week to do additional enrichment activities, which is good. He also enjoys hanging out at home and doing things to make Abigail laugh. He’s an awesome helper whenever I need him to be.
What Abigail’s Been Up To: She’s popped out another tooth (so that makes five so far) and is an altogether pleasant baby. We’re so blessed!
This Week in Pictures:
I was attempting a candid shot of them both playing, but then Abigail happened to look up and smile at me right as I took the picture. 🙂Playing with the plush spider that a friend got for us many moons ago.One of the reasons I refer to her as “monkey-toes” sometimes.Out for a morning stroll after taking Joseph to school.I love Texas sunrises!Playing with what is probably her favorite toy.The first thing she always does is rip off the flag so she can chew on it.
Weekly Happenings: This past week was a bittersweet one. At the beginning, it was a normal-ish week of school, work, and the like. On Thursday, I flew to California to be with family and attend my dad’s funeral. I got back yesterday. Paul did an awesome job holding down the fort.
The Weekly Weather: We got a lot of rain last week! Joseph kept saying he wished it would stop so he could play outside. Sorry, kiddo. Fall in South Texas usually means rain.
What Paul’s Been Up To: As I mentioned before, he held down the fort while I was gone. He did an awesome job! He also managed to score a Super Nintendo Classic (a mini Super Nintendo with a ton of the classic games loaded onto it) as a surprise for Joseph.
What Sarah’s Been Up To: I soaked up as much family time as possible. My dad’s funeral was on Friday. It was a really wonderful service. It was so good to see everyone I did (family, old friends) even though it was under sadder circumstances.
What Joseph’s Been Up To: Mainly just doing his thing. He really enjoyed getting to do Google Hangouts with me while I was gone. He also enjoyed playing the SNES Classic. It served as a good distraction, I think.
What Abigail’s Been Up To: She also enjoyed the Google Hangouts (even though she looked confused as to exactly where I was since my face was in Paul’s phone) and has been jetting around the house in her walker. I also moved her into 12-18 month (or just 18 month if it’s a single-size option) clothing.
This Week in Pictures:
I sure love these two!She got a hold of Joseph’s sword and was ready to use it. Watch out, world! She wasn’t too happy when I took it away, either. She followed after me, “yelling” at me.Such a happy baby!Google Photos did this “then-and-now” thing and I got this. Almost two months versus nine months.“Cheese!”Another Google Photos comparison shot.Playing with the plush milk carton a great friend of mine found for her.Flying over the mountains that are close to where I grew up.Flying above the clouds.Paul sent me this one on Thursday (I flew out Thursday morning).Joseph playing the SNES Classic.It’s like a mini gaming system, but there aren’t game cartridges. All the games are loaded onto the system itself.Trying to get out of the portable crib to get at all the stuff in Daddy’s office, no doubt.Kick, kick, kick!Enjoying General Conference.My brother was driving me to the airport on Sunday so that I could fly home. My sister was in the back seat and we saw this driving down the street by us. My sister got this shot while we were stopped at a red light. The stuff you see sometimes!
Weekly Happenings: This past week has been a heart-heavy one. On Wednesday (September 20), my sweet daddy passed away. We knew it would be soon, since about a week prior it had been decided that he would no longer be able to continue doing dialysis. It still was a bit of a shock to my system, though. It was a tender moment telling Joseph. We’d been preparing him for the event as much as we could. He was still understandably sad, but we stressed the fact that we would see Grandpa again, and that families can be together forever. That seemed to help him process it a bit better (way better than I anticipated, actually). The rest of the week was spent letting people know, making plans for the funeral, and scheduling flights. We decided that Paul will take the time off to stay with home with Joseph and Abigail while I fly out to California for a few days. I’m so grateful for my knowledge of the Plan of Salvation and eternal families!
The Weekly Weather: It’s been mostly warm, but the last few days have been slightly cooler. We did have one thunderstorm that came through and seemed to clear out a bit of the oppressive humidity, which was nice.
What Paul’s Been Up To: Mainly just work, school, and work around the house. Not too much out of the ordinary, really. He also did all of the hard work researching and setting up my flights to and from California. I’m so grateful for him!
What Sarah’s Been Up To: Typical home/momma stuff for me. I did attend the General Relief Society Broadcast last night. It’s so uplifting hearing leaders of our church speaking to all of the women. It was also nice to see friends I haven’t seen for a while.
What Joseph’s Been Up To: He’s been busy with school. His teacher let me know that she’s going to start sending him to meet with the GT (gifted and talented) teacher to do enrichment activities. Hopefully this will keep him active and engaged so that he won’t get bored when they happen to be doing stuff in class that he already has knowledge about (my experience as a teacher taught me that bored kids sometimes end up making mischief because of that boredom, so I totally understand her motive, haha).
What Abigail’s Been Up To: She officially turned nine months old on Friday. She now weighs 19 pounds, 12 ounces and is 28 inches long. She’s sitting up on her own even better, and is continuing to work on pushing out those top two teeth. She’s rolling like a fiend, but still is showing absolutely no interest in crawling, haha. Oh, and she figured out how to make her walker go forward (and can also execute a pretty good 3-point turn, haha). Life is beginning to get…interesting.
This Week in Pictures:
It’s blurry (she was trying to grab my phone, haha), but you can sort of see her top two teeth coming in.I found this awesome fuzzy flower while on a morning walk I was taking with friends. I expected it to be like a dandelion (the “fuzz” being seeds designed to be spread by wind or wishful children), but it wasn’t. When you touched it, the “fuzz” wasn’t fuzzy and it stayed attached…because it was actually the flower petals. It was the palest pink and each needle-like petal was tipped with an iridescent white dot, so the entire thing looked shiny in the morning sunlight.My $5.00 find: a soft, fluffy unicorn that plays music. She loves it!We also ordered Abigail’s Halloween costume (we already have Joseph’s…he’s going to be Mario from Super Mario Brothers and Paul found a costume for him online). I’m sort of excited about Abigail’s. 🙂I love capturing moments like this! He was reading a book to her. 🙂This is still hard to wrap my head around, haha.Now that she can navigate this thing better…it’s on, haha.
