Moving Day for Beans

Small Crisis Explained: Micah's beans (see three posts down) have given him much joy. Every morning he asks me if he can go out and watch the beans grow. I didn't have the heart to tell him that they probably wouldn't do so hot on the pavement. Anyway, this morning Matt has been cleaning the back yard, raking leaves from our avacado tree, pruning the palms and pulling off brown fronds, and cleaning off the pavement. He started to sweep up a particularly dirty area fairly close to our house. I heard a "No!" and then a little boy bursting into tears. Matt saying, "Oh, buddy, I'm so sorry I didn't know." I opened the door and there was my little man with tears the size of crocodiles saying, "Mommy, my beans!" Matt looked at me and said under his breath, "Help, Small Crisis!" I gave him a quick smile and said, "Oh honey, It's ok! We need to plant them in the dirt anyway. To which Matt quickly grabbed a shovel and a new garden and one happy boy were soon planted! Crisis Averted!

Look What I Found...

Matt informs me that he did this very thing with his little brother....

It's a pretty great way to start a morning!

Little Head in a Big Cape

Micah actually requested a hair cut this time.

I think it's cause he gets suckers from the barber when it is all over.

I can not believe how he looks like a little boy now.

All traces of baby are gone....

Micah's beans

New Adventures for Lydia

Well, there are some new things coming up in my life. The main one being a new business. My friend April and I have decided to start a photography business. We purchased a camera and I had fun trying it out a couple of days last week. That is the surface information... The underlying information is this....I am terrified of starting this. I am afraid I will fail, I'm afraid I will succeed. I'm afraid we'll never grow, I'm afraid we'll grow too much. I'm afraid I'll be awful, I'm afraid I'll be amazing... what is the deal Lydia? you may be asking. I have done much soul searching and I am realizing that I just need to fight through the fear! Fear is natural and God tells me that I can do all things if He is the one giving me strength. This means I am fighting natural Lydia. Please continue to pray for me as I muddle through all of this mess and come out the other side a photographer ??? :) Here are some examples of what the new camera can do...without much editing. Love to you all and more information is soon to come on our business and our new website.

Shovel Ball

Micah invented a new game. It is called shovel ball. Naturally you use a shovel, you put the little ball on the shovel and you try to toss the ball into the bucket using your shovel. Do you understand why it is called "shovel ball"? pretty funny! So this is what Micah and I played yesterday afternoon.

Random Silliness

We stopped on Sunday to get St. Patrick's Day supplies for Matt's classroom. Micah liked the hats and so Matt obliged. If his eyes look funny to you it is because he was pretty sick. We all are in fact. But here's to wearing green on the 17th!

what i like about me

Children's Sympony

This morning Micah, Beatrix and I went to a special sympony that Palm Beach Atlantic University put on free for children. A friend told me about it a couple of weeks ago and it sounded like something that Micah would really enjoy. He has been talking alot lately about wanting to learn to play the drums and the guitar. I thought it would be the perfect way to show him alittle more about music. Afterwards he informed me that he now wants to learn first the guitar, second the drums and third, pointing to his three fingers, the trumpet.

They had a full orchestra. The conductor went around to the 4 sections of the orchestra and talked about each of them, the percussion, the strings, the woodwinds and the brass. The groups demonstrated their various sounding instruments too. Then they played several songs all together and the kids that take lessons at the college did a demonstration as well. In the middle of one of the songs, Micah yelled out "Look Mommy there's God!"
And as you can see there He is. Ha haa! That caused some laughter from me.

Bea is in the sling as usual and slept through most of it. Except the kettle drum demonstration. She jumped during that.
Micah wanted to bring his noculars so he could "see the music." It was a really fun morning!

Toasting Marshmellows

Thursday night I made steak and told Micah that if he ate his meat and fruit we could roast marshmellows. "Like camping?" He asked.

It was alot of fun, but he didn't like them all soft and gooey. That's ok, I told him, Mommy loves marshmellows.

Hockey Night in South Florida

Micah - "Jesus will be so proud of me that I scored a goal!"

Four Months

My baby is four months old, already! I really can't believe how time speeds up when you add another kid. She is smiling all of the time now, especially at Micah. She laughs and coos and squawks! very verbal little lady. Beatrix can roll over from her tummy to her back and she can keep her head up for a long time when she is on her belly too. Unfortunately sleeping at night has dwindled. She was going for pretty long stretches but is back to three or four hours at a time again. I think I may need to introduce solid foods with her faster then I did with Micah. He couldn't care less about food when he was little...he is still like that. Micah is a great big brother and hasn't exhibited any signs of jealousy which is such a blessing. Bee bee we love you and happy 4 months!

A visit with Iowans!

Sunday was a wonderful day! My Grandparents, two aunts and uncles and two cousins went on a cruise and happened to deport in Ft. Lauderdale which is only an hour south of us. We planned to get together all day Sunday since their plane going home didn't leave until Monday. It was wonderful to spend the day with them and watch Micah interact with his cousins.

Grandma Jacobson with Beatrix.

Aunt Carrie with Beatrix. (side note-- Micah kept calling Carrie Grandma for the first hour or so we were all together. He thought she looked like my mom.)
Uncle Mark, Aunt Becky and their daughter Meredith watching Beatrix.

Olivia and Micah had so much fun in the pool. He borrowed this baby floater from someone that was staying at the hotel. Pretty funny to see him in something so small.

We all went for a late lunch to a seafood resturant right by their hotel. The meal lasted almost 3 hours cause we were having so much fun visiting.

Micah and Olivia outside of the resturant.

(oh, my posture is horrible in this picture, but everyone else looks so good!!!)

Micah cried and cried when it was time to go and honestly I felt like crying right along with him. It was so nice to be with family. To watch them interact with Micah and Beatrix and laugh and play with them was something that will not be soon forgotten.