ABC's

Mackey and Moe were quite engrossed by Matthew's ABC puzzle!

Happiness in a bowl

After living four years without being near a Korean restaurant - happiness is found in a bowl of kimchi pork and bibim bop!!

My favorite part of the zoo, by Matthew

Was this the best part of the zoo?


Or was this the best part of the zoo?


Surely, this must be the best part of the zoo......


Acutally, THIS was the best part of the zoo!!

movie night

Matthew and I had a movie night last night - complete with JiffyPop popcorn and raisinets! It was so much fun to watch Disney's Robin Hood with him for the first time. He loved it!

our engineer

This is all Matthew's doing.

puddle jumpers

I found these great rain boots at Once Upon a Child - Matthew asked to wear them this week and loved being able to walk and jump in the puddle(aka - our falling apart driveway)!

Day 2

By the end of the day ----> a happy Matthew!! And - a so very thankful and happy mommy!

I know now that you can get a non-allergic rash the first time that you take Amoxicillin.

Living life in a fallen world

Spiders do what spiders do. We've been battling spider bites and it is so easy for me to get mad at the spider - then I have to remember that this is what has happened as a result of sin entering into the world. Even though we had a woods outside our balcony and we certainly had spiders inside our apt in Arkansas - not once was Matthew bitten! We've been here seven weeks - and within the past week and a half - he's had six bites - all from the "safety" of his bedroom.

The one that you don't see on his ankle was bad enough to raise his temp to 102.3 on Tuesday. The one on his upper cheek this morning was the last straw. It looks a lot better in the picture than when it did when he first got up. Thankfully we were able to get into a doctor this morning. Matthew is getting started on antibiotics for the first time in his little life and we're doing Benadryl three times a day.

Right now, he's napping on our bed while his bedroom "airs out" from all of the - supposedly - nontoxic bug spray and his bedding is coming out of the dryer.