Provision

Wow! I barely mention not having many clothes and God provides in full!

I took the little man to Once Upon A Child on Saturday to get a bigger winter coat. When I got there I couldn't believe I couldn't find a parking spot. I had to stalk some people coming out of the store. We head inside and sure enough, on the door was a sign that said, 'fill a bag for $10'. I apparently came on the right/wrong day :O)

Winter Coats were on clearance for $5 so we got him a winter coat and a snow outfit. Then we filled one bag of clothes for him which surprisingly meant 4 long sleeve shirts, 1 sweater, 2 pjs, and 1 pair of jeans!!!

As if God hadn't provided enough extra clothes for him to wear, his auntie and uncle came for a visit on Sunday (not long after I mentioned he didn't have any nice church clothes). What should they bring him for an early Christmas present but an oh so cute church outfit and another every day outfit!! What sweeties!

Isn't it amazing how God provides! Emmett is now one stylish well-stocked little man :O)

~Olive

Ever So Long Now...

I do believe this is the longest I've ever gone without posting anything. It's bad.... I mean really bad. But here I am, 11 at night and when I should be going to bed because my little guy has been getting up at 5 in the morning, (however FINALLY he sleeps through the night at 9 months!!!!!) I've decided to quick type an update. If something doesn't make sense, just chalk it up to my tiredness.


We're finally settled. YEAH! We're still looking for a house of sorts but for now we are so thankful for our apt. I will have to take pictures and post later. It's not big which I'm rather thankful for... less to clean :) It has wonderful features such as walk-in closets, separate laundry room, and washer and dryer provided. (oh yeah! and my own crafting corner Popeye provided for me!!! What a dear!!!) We are more than satisfied! It was fun to decorate and didn't take long because it is smaller than our old house but it turned out great!


We've had a busy December so far. I love getting presents for people. That is most definitely my showing of affection love language. Add that together with my love for a FABULOUS bargain and its been a fun Christmas shopping experience so far.
Along with that, I've decided to try once a month cooking. Funny enough, the day I took all our casseroles (well all but 3 egg casseroles and 4 poppy seed breads) to our freezer in our garage I also LOST our garage opener!! What does this mean? It means I have 5 containers of soup, 10 casseroles, 3 things of party mix, and two pans of fruit cups in our freezer that I can't get to!!! I'm laughing just thinking about it. It really is quite funny even now! I'm not worried. It will either show up or I'll have to call the front desk and buy another opener. Until then... we're going to be eating A LOT of egg casserole and poppy seed bread!

Popeye is crazy busy. I mean CRAZY busy! He's been working 12 hour shifts almost consistently for awhile now. He was sick last weekend so he got what you might call a 'break' but he's back at it again. We don't get to see him much as he's either sleeping or gone so we're REALLY looking forward to the holidays and a few vacation days here and there to see him a little more!


So now what most everyone waits for... Emmett. He's soooooooooo busy. And a whole different busy of his own!! He's learning MANY new things.


For example: Despite an army crawl he has down pat, he's decided that actual crawling is much faster. I happen to agree with this. It's hard to keep him out of stuff when he's so much faster at getting to it!!

He high-fives now! His newest trick :O) Which is a little more like a teamwork clap but he is so very proud of himself!

Standing at Bath time. There is no need to sit in the bathtub when one can stand and drip the very wet rag onto mommy's rug! He still LOVES his bath time though!! I can hardly keep him out of it when there's no water in it. He has graduated to taking some showers too!



He has finally discovered gravity. I dreaded this stage a bit. He doesn't do to bad at this point but every now and then its an obvious throw down.


Cars. Great Grandpa and Grandma gave him some Hot Wheel cars for Easter last year. I pulled them out as a new toy recently and boy he goes to town. I love how his little engine goes.... he's all boy and we didn't even teach him that :O)

We've officially moved up from 12 month clothes to 18 month. We cleaned out his closet today actually. I can't believe how much 12 month stuff we had and it looks so bare now! He's by no means without clothes but I do wish the weather was warmer for a few garage sales. I honestly didn't think we'd be considering this size until next summer :O) Our little man!!!!

And finally... Christmas lights. We don't have much room so I hung a few Christmas lights in our living room and we have a little tree with picture frame ornaments on it. Emmett loves the lights. I think its funny to watch him try to get to the tree. We put the two couches together as a blockade around our tree and he tries to go over and through the bottom hole to get to the lights but to no avail! Next year he will have mastered this skill but for now the tree is pushed far back against the corner.... out of little hand's reach.

Have a Blessed Holiday Season!!!

~Olive