What do these three things have in common you say? Well, nothing really except that they are all part of the common household activities for the Dombach's these days. September has FLOWN by and here we are staring at the October calendar with awe. Here are a few of the highlights from the last month, in a blur, just like the month went!
- Elias turned 6 months old! At his check up he weighed almost 17 lbs, which is in the 40%, and was almost 29 inches long, which is off the charts for height. No wonder he's wearing 12 month size clothes!
- One day I wore my tall boots to work which prompted Isaiah
wanting to wear his cowboy boots. Well, you can't wear just your cowboy boots and hence we have the stick-em-up cowboy dress up day. It also happened to be library day, so the cowboy showed up for story time all decked out-hat included. - Speaking of library days... the local library has a great preschool story/song time that we usually go to. Isaiah loves to sit and listen to new books as well as do the interactive songs. Elias loves the songs too! I've incorporated it into our weekly preschool schedule.
- Speaking of preschool...it's pretty expensive around here, so we are doing our best to learn our ABC's and 123's at home. Isaiah is a fast learner and we have a couple of books that we are working through. It's been a lot of fun to see him so eager to learn and to have that one on one time with him-we usually try to do it while Elias is napping. Of course the whole world is our classroom, so we practice our letters by reading the Cheerios box, learn colors by playing "I spy with my little eye" while driving and work on writing when we make pictures to send to Joelle and Steven in Vietnam!
- Speaking of Cheerios...
Elias is a good eater and Cheerios are one of his very favorite things right now. He is still working on his hand to mouth coordination and when he gets fed up with trying to get the Cheerios actually in his mouth from his hand, he reverts to the good old mouth-to-highchair tray method. Sometimes this is very hilarious for the rest of us as the Cheerios end up stuck to his nose rather than in his mouth. He had no clue why we were laughing!
- Speaking of laughing...we do a lot of it lately. Especially when Isaiah and Elias interact. As mentioned above, Elias makes us all laugh as he learns new things and is just his normal, goofy self. Isaiah is the best one to make Elias laugh and it's clear that Elias adores his big brother! Here is Isaiah trying to teach Elias how to crawl.
- Speaking of teaching...Seth just started teaching a class at our church on Sunday mornings called From God to Us that goes into detail about how we got our modern day Bible. He loves to teach and has taught this material before when we were at Timberline Lodge. The feedback from the people in the class (ranging in age from 20-60) was great and they stayed around after the class for an extra 1/2 hour to ask questions.
- Speaking of class...that's what we call our Wednesday night activities for Isaiah and myself. Isaiah goes to Adventure Club at a local church, learning verses, singing songs, playing group games and of course having a good snack! While he is there, I have a book club with a couple friends at the local coffee shop. It's a great time to talk about what we are learning and share in the journey of mothering young kids. What a precious time for me and one of the main times during the week where I get an hour to have great adult interaction that greatly encourages my soul. Elias gets to have daddy's attention all to himself and so far that has gone well too!
- And last but not least speaking of encouragement...I got to spend a weekend with three of my dearest friends from college. We are spread out over many miles now, but these are the kind of friendships that can pick up right where we left off. I feel very privileged to have such good friends that have stuck around over the years. Friends who can laugh together, talk about nothing and everything together. Friends who can agree on the basics of life and yet disagree about how that plays out in the day to day. Thanks Kim, Annie and Kristin for being those people in my life. I love you all!
That's all for now! I'm sure that October will bring many more adventures, joys (pumpkin carving), and tears (my two siblings that are left in the US are both leaving for foreign countries this month). Press on toward the goal of a life lived well for Jesus!
