Pumpkin Patches

We had the chance to visit 2 different Pumpkin Patches this week. Notice the captions that I put on the pictures and how totally opposite our girls are. I couldn't keep Averi from licking, kissing, eating and crawling on the pumpkins & vines but Mia would barely walk in the patch and she said everything was either "gross, yucky, messy, or dirty". It cracked me up! We had so much fun though and Mia had a blast once I got her over all that and told her she could take a bath when we got home. Where did this "girly girl" mentality come from?! Certainly not me!!!

Georgia

We had a great time at the tournament and visiting friends in Georgia this past weekend. Here are a few pictures of the kids. The little boy in the picture is my friend Jenny's little boy. He and Mia are only 3 weeks apart and they had a great time playing together. Jen & I grew up in PNG together.

Our Crazy Lives

So, it's been a while since I posted anything. I'll try to catch ya'll up on our lives over the last few weeks. We went to Memphis for a soccer tournament the weekend before last. When we came back last Sunday, I came down with the CRUD (headache, fever, coughing, sore throat etc.) which is just now finally going away. Jon came down with the same thing over the weekend so he is now feeling awful as well. Thankfully the girls have stayed pretty well. Mia is fine. Averi has a stopped up little tiny nose which is so sad. She also had her 6 month checkup last Monday which meant she got 4 shots...awful! She is really starting to show her personality now. She is definitely the complete opposite of Mia (who was a very cautious and calm baby). She is SO active and has already had 3 falls. Yesterday she climbed out of her carseat in the car and fell onto the seat in between her and Mia's chairs face first! I had just set her down in there for a minute to get her bottle ready before we left. Thankfully she was fine. I'm SO not used to that. So I am learning that she has to be strapped down in anything or she will try to climb out and therefore fall:) Her stats at her checkup were: 15 lbs. 1 oz. (40th perc.) and 27 1/2 in. (95th perc.)

Mia is talking more and more and more every day. The things that come out of her mouth crack me up. I am definitely in full fledged training mode with her and a couple weeks ago she disobeyed me so we had to have a little conversation to which I told her that when she disobeys me it makes me sad and it makes Jesus sad to which she started bawling and with big huge crocodile tears said "Mia no make Jesus sad; Jesus don't cry". She was devastated (That Jesus was sad, not that I was sad):) It was so sweet though! She has such a sensitive spirit. So of course I had to explain to her the whole forgiveness factor that plays in to that:) But she talked about that for days.

Anyways, please be praying for Jon and I to fully recover. We've got 1 more month of soccer which we will be out of town for 4 out of the next 5 weekends. I think that's part of the reason we got sick because we are just worn out. Also, pray for our car situation. Jon's car died a couple weeks ago and he has not had the time to fix it so we are sharing a car right now. We are praying for the money to buy a new one soon but pray that his other one will hold out until then. We are heading to Georgia for a tournament this weekend with both teams (8 soccer games in 2 days-WOW). Should be fun though! I'll attach a couple pics of the last few weeks...

Mia Going to Work with Daddy

Little Munchkin

Soccer Tournament in Memphis

Painting Pumpkins in the Park

Averi Climbing All Over Mia