It's Show Time!

Mr. Pilot walked about 30 minutes ago.  That means he is in his jet and headed for the boat! 

Prayer for sound mind, quick but steady hands, and awesome pilot skills are desired. 

 Pray for qualification, and that I won't go nuts between now and Sunday or Monday when I get to hear from him.

If you think of us over the next couple of days, especially at night, please remember to pray!

This is not exactly Mr. Pilot's jet, but this is exactly what it's about to look like...

Single Digits, People!

I am down to the single digits for how many weeks of pregnancy I have left.  I think I actually have only 8 weeks left. Where has the time gone?!

Sure, there are days that feel like years and I wonder if I have been pregnant forever, but this pregnancy has truly flown by.  Maybe it is because I seem to have misplaced my brain somewhere along the way...

Yesterday I asked Belle if she could please wash Bucket's hands and face without getting her hands wet.
The day before that I responded with "Yes, Wal-Mart" when Bucket pointed to the Ocean.
Today, I gave my empty bowl to Sis and asked her to please put it in the Chicken.

My children are sure getting a kick out of this pregnant amnesia, they even said they are going to start writing the stuff I say down somewhere so we can remember it forever...

I'll start taking guesses as to when this baby is coming (I am due May 18th, my first was 2 days late, 2nd, 3rd and 5th were 3 weeks early, 4th was 4 weeks early, and 6th was 2 weeks early), and if he is a he or if she is a she.
Leave your guesses in the comments.  :~)

It's Boat Time. Take 4. Action.

Dad left on Thursday for the 2nd time to head to the boat.  He needs to CQ (carrier qualify, or prove he can land safety on the back of a little ship in the big ocean in the dark...) before he can finish flight training.  We said our good-byes and our prayers.  We cried our tears.
And then he came home.

The jet that was supposed to take the guys to Virginia broke.  So very comforting.  But we got another night with daddy (quickly scratch the idea of having cereal for supper) and everyone was happy.

Then Friday morning we said our good-byes and our prayers.  We cried our tears.
And then he came home.
Am I repeating myself here?  Nope, you guessed it. The new jet on the new day broke.  Very, very comforting.  So, we got another night with daddy, yay, and had another nice dinner.

Today, daddy left again.  This time he had to be at the jet at 6am so we said our good-byes, but we were too tired to cry.  The jet actually made it out this time.  I pray the jet doesn't break in the sky.

Have you ever driven a little convertible into the trailer of a moving semi?  At 400 miles per hour?  In the dark?  That is about as close as I can get to imagining what Mr. Pilot is about to do.



Praying for peace.

New Dictionary Words

"Baby Milk Holder" - Bra (Pops, while putting away laundry)

"Be bah" - Ketchup or Ranch (Bucket)

"Bok bok" - Chicken (Bucket)

"Doh Doh" - Cat (Bucket)  We have two types of Doh Doh's, So Jo and Woody.

"Socks" - Any 4 legged animal, that is not a Doh Doh. (Bucket)  Our dog is named Socks, but a deer ran across the street and she said, "Socks!"


BTW, any jet that is flying through the sky has Daddy in it, even if Daddy is sitting next to you. (Bucket)

What We Read in 2011

Here is our reading list from 2011. Its fairly accurate, but I think a lot of the children's school books didn't get entered. We did count "twaddle" this year, but that will be a debatable subject for the upcoming year.

Twaddle: trivial or foolish writing

I'm still happy that my family read over 117 books to accumulate almost 20,000 pages read for the year. I will have you know, that they are very excited that we kept these records because now they are aggressively attempting to boost their reading numbers up, up, up! BTW, you have to FINISH the book to have it counted for the year. This is both a blessing and a curse, especially when so many of us (me) start books and can't quite get them finished by year's end...

The Count:

Family 758 pages

Dad 5,698 pages

Mom 3,650 pages

Belle 6,968 pages

Boy 1,935 pages

Sis 328 pages

Ask us about something we read and we'll be glad to tell you what we thought of it!

Family
07/29/11	Peril and Peace	M & B Winthrow	Church History	222
11/01/11	Withhold Not Correction	Ray Bruce	Parenting	140
	Twice Freed	Patricia St. John	Historical Fiction	190
	God King	Joanne Williamson	Historical Fiction	206
Dad
07/04/11	By This Standard	Greg Bahnsen	Theonomy	254
10/17/11	Knowing God	J.I. Packer	Theology Proper	287
07/01/11	City Chicks	Patricia Foreman	Household	464
07/01/11	Keeping Chickens	Michael Hatcher	Household	125
07/01/11	The Revolution	Ron Paul	Politics	167
07/26/11	The Sovereignty of God	A.W. Pink	Calvinism	261
07/27/11	Spiritual Parenting	C. H. Spurgeon	Parenting	175
08/06/11	Augustine's Confessions: A Biography	Garry Wills	History	148
08/08/11	Biblical Economics in Comics	Vic Lockman	Economics	120
08/14/11	Postmillenialism Made Easy	Kenneth Gentry	Eschatology	153
09/03/11	Every Thought Captive	J. R. Pratt	Apologetics	142
09/19/11	The Gospel According to Rome	James McCarthy	Apologetics	390
09/28/11	Discerning Truth	Jason Lisle	Apologetics	135
09/29/11	A Weed in the Church	Scott Brown	Discipleship	300
10/30/11	Understanding Dispensationalists	Vern Polythress	Theology/Hermeneutics	137
10/04/11	Pulpit Crimes	James White	Hermenutics	156
11/27/11	Holy Scripture: The Ground and Pillar Vol I	David King	Sola Scriptura	301
12/04/11	Disciplines of a Godly Family	K & B Hughes	Discipleship	245
	Aladdin and Other Tales of the Arabian Nights	N. J. Dawood	Fiction	201
12/11/11	The Boxcar Children #1	Gertrude Warner	Children's	154
12/30/11	Unconditional Surrender	Gary North	Dominion	341
12/31/11	The Holy Bible			1042
Mom
	Cut your Grocery Bill in Half	Economides	Domestic	272
	Joy	Brownbeck	Spirituality	112
	Idols of the Heart	Fitzpatrick	Spirituality	240
	Toward the Setting Sun	Mary O'Brien	History	112
	Loving the Little Years	Rachael Jancovich	Parenting	104
	Food is your best medicine	Henry G. Bieler	Healthy Eating	256
	Start Fresh	Florence Tyler	Healthy Eating	160
	Dancing With My Father	Sally Clarkson	Spirituality	224
	A Promise Kept	Robertson McQuillken	Spirituality	96
	Indian Captive	Lois Lenski	History	264
	Alone Yet Not Alone	Tracy Leininger	History	201
	Large Family Logistics	Brenneman	Household	318
	Organize Simplicity	Tsh Oxenreider	Household	249
	The Holy Bible (ESV)			1042
Guys
	Sugar Creek Gang Books 1-19	Paul Hutchens	Children's	2032
	The Kings Daughter	J. E. White	Spirituality	224
	Number the Stars	Lois Lowry	History
	Eragon	Christopher Paolini	Fiction	497
	Elsie's Holiday	Martha Finley	Children's	234
	Elsie's Womanhood	Martha Finley	Children's	343
	Elsie's Girlhood	Martha Finley	Children's	371
	Alone Yet Not Alone	Tracy Leininger	History	201
	Men of Iron	Howard Pile	Historical Fiction	180
	Bible Smuggler	Louis A. Vernon	History	137
	Ink on His Fingers	Louis A. Vernon	History	127
	Aladdin and Other Tales of the Arabian Nights	N. J. Dawood	Fiction	201
	Ten Girls Who Didn't Give In	Irene Howat	History	157
	Dr. Oma	Ethel Herr	Historical Fiction	197
	Medieval Myth's Legends and Songs		Literature	32
	God's Marvels in Washington		Science	304
	Stories of Beowulf	H. E. Marshall	Literature	88
	Son of Charlemagne	Barbara Willard	Literature	208
	Canterbury Tales	Barbara Cohen	Literature	104
	The Second Mrs. Giaconda	E.L. Konigsburg	Literature	160
	The Renaissance	Alison Cole	History	64
	The Story of Europe	H. E. Marshall	History	152
	Explorers Who Got Lost	Diane Sansavere	History	126
	Poetry for Young People	William Shakespeare	Poetry	47
	My Side of the Mountain	Jean George	Fiction	177
	Riki Tiki Tavi		Fiction	42
	The Bible in the Wall	H. J. D.	Children's	58
	Gerrit and His Dog		Children's	83
	The Weed with an Ill Name		Children's	110
	Godly Heros of the Past	Sharon See	Children's	103
	Jill's Red Bag	Amy Lefeuvre	Lamplighter	209
Boy
	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	Literature	238
	The Picture Bible	New Testament	Comic	240
	Secrets of Drune	Tony Abatt		120
	Mummies in the Morn MTH	Mary Pope Osborne	Children's	65
	Pirates Past Noon MTH	Mary Pope Osborne	Children's	67
	Afternoon in Amazon MTH	Mary Pope Osborne	Children's	67
	Day of the Dragon MTH	Mary Pope Osborne	Children's	68
	Twisters on Tuesday MTH	Mary Pope Osborne	Children's	70
	Buffalo Before Break MTH	Mary Pope Osborne	Children's	77
	Dino before Dark MTH	Mary Pope Osborne	Children's	68
	Vacation under Volcano MTH	Mary Pope Osborne	Children's	74
	Teddy's Button	LeFeuvre	Lamplighter	152
	Hour Olympics MTH	Mary Pope Osborne	Children's	70
	Sunset Sabertooth MTH	Mary Pope Osborne	Children's	68
	Thunderstorm in the Church	Louise a Vernon	Literature	132
	I Juan De'Pareja	Elizabeth de Trevino	Literature	180
	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Howard Pile	Literature	179
	Fine Print	Joahn Branch	Literature
	Tale of King Arthur	Felicity Brooks
	The Middle Ages	Mary Quigles
Sis
	Green Eggs & Ham	Dr. Seuss	Children's
	Helping Mother	Landis	Children's	30
	God Gives Us Work	See	Children's	30
	Morning on the Farm	Rudolph	Children's	30
	Anne of Green Gables (abriged)	L. M. Montgomery	Children's	174
	Fancy Nancy: Spectacular Spectacles	Jane O'Connor	Children's	32
	Fancy Nancy: The Show Must Go On	Jane O'Connor	Children's	32

We are getting an 11 passenger van!

We aren't really getting a new van, but the Buffalo (our 8 passenger van) is getting a new seat installed today so we can all fit in one vehicle once baby arrives.  I am so excited, we will have 2 extra seats so we can actually give people rides and visiting grandparents don't have to get a rental car.  Yeah!