God is an amazing healer

Andrew got his 8 stitches out this morning. Our friend Dave took them out at the house. THANK YOU DAVE! Andrew did well, but of course still scary for a 2 year old, so there were crocodile tears involved. It looks like it's healing well. We're going to continue putting neosporin on it until it heals completely. It's funny, looking at it now all healed up, Andrew really did hit it right along the line of his eyebrow. Thank you for everyone's prayers.

Emma

Emma's Preschool CHRISTmas Party

Emma taking marshmallows off her friend's plate.
Caught on camera.

Emma was reminded all she had to do was ask for more and that we don't take things from others without asking.

Hi Daddy! Love you Daddy!

Emma taking pictures of Mommy

Look at those gorgeous God-given curls!

Mommy and Emma. I love you Emma.
Mommy & Emma have fun with the camera.

Andrew is 2 years old!!!

Andrew started his birthday with breakfast and balloons.

Video at Breakfast

Party at Preschool


Video of Andrew blowing out candle at Preschool Party

Who does this remind you of? Like Father, like son.

Dinner at CiCi's. Andrew loves him some pizza.


Time to open gifts. Some gifts he opened were a motorcycle from Mrs. Stella from preschool and a helicopter from Oma & Opa. We had to remind Daddy it was Andrew's birthday (and that he could play with the helicopter after Andrew went to bed).

CAKE!
First attempt at blowing out the candle.

Harder, but no air was coming out of his mouth.
Emma as the sister helped him out.
She came over beside him and blew out the candle with him.

Video of family singing Andrew "Happy Birthday" at home

A little taste. Yummmm.

Dig in!

Emma joined in.

Our Little AWANA Cubbie

We are so proud of Emma. She's been doing so well memorizing her Bible verses at AWANA. She has so much fun during music and game time. Mommy helps lead game time for all three AWANA age groups. We think she looks too cute in her little vest.

Emma finger painting with color wonder! We love color wonder!

Our Little Bruiser

View pictures at your own risk...

Sunday 12/14/08 we went to church as normal. The room Andrew is in for church is the same room he goes to for preschool, so he is very familiar with it. Remind you he does hit his head alot. Remind you he is a boy. And remind you, he has some of the Adams blood in him we think. I guess all these times he's hit his head we've just been lucky all that happened was a bruise, scratch, or goose egg. Not this time.

Andrew was playing and tripped over a mat which made him hit the stairs attached to the changing table with his right eyebrow. Brad and I were in our Sunday School class at the time. We are thankful that it didn't bleed like a typical head injury bleeds because by the time we got to him it really wasn't bleeding at all.

Andrew was a trooper and did such a good job considering. We of course left church and rushed him to the ER. I showed Brad the room we were in when he burnt his hand last year. Thankfully we're not on a first name basis there yet. At times he was still smiling, wanting to sing to music, and such. Emma did so well with the whole thing. She kept consoling him saying, "shhhh, it's Ok" while stoking his arm or face. She doesn't like him crying and was so sweet taking care of him.

Our friend "Mr. Mark", our children director's husband, came to see us in the ER. He's a police officer and was working near the hospital. He came and gave the kids a sticker. So thoughtful.

Well, 8 stitches later Andrew is all back together again.
After some Hardee's and a good nap to sleep off the Versed medicine they gave him he acts like nothing ever happened. Kids are amazing.

We have to clean it and re-bandage it twice a day and then go back in 5 days to get the stitches taken out.

Everyone has been so thoughtful and considerate. Thank you for all your concerns, prayers, hugs, and phone calls.

12/10/08
Emma did a good job helping Mommy with the laundry today.
She thought it was fun putting Daddy's "shorts" on.




12/6/08
The kids really got into decorating the CHRISTmas tree this year. It made it so much more fun and it got done a whole lot faster. We could barely keep up with how fast the kids would hang an ornament and go back to get another one. This year all fragile and ornaments needing a hook are at the top of the tree and all the rest in their reach are fair game. Gator our cat is also very excited about it being CHRISTmas time again. He was up in the tree even before we could get the whole tree put together.

Our kids got excited about the video camcorder. We video taped us hanging ornaments on the tree. We thought these pictures of them with the camera were cute.

Snow Time

First Snowfall of the Season

Pictures Taken 11/21/08

It's cooollllddd. (Why is Daddy in shorts?)
He has a pretty good internal heater.

Thanksgiving Time

Pre -Thanksgiving Preparation!!!

The kids are "helping" Mommy with the apple pie.
My helpers thought there should be more sugar and brown sugar in the apple pie this year.

The Kreuters flew in the Wed before Thanksgiving.
Then we drove to Raleigh to pick up Paul on our way to Suffolk, VA for our large family gathering at the Wrights. I love the family being together!








Emma watching Macy's Parade