Mr. Personality

"Hello world, I'm 18 months!"

House or No House?

This weekend we are making the decision to move into a house in a different neighborhood. The house is a pretty sweet deal for the money, but when you live in a house in Sto Dmngo, you have to think about the following:

guardman (watchiman)

alarm system

generator (planta) maintenance (too many power outages to not have a generator)

grounds keeper (Scott's schedule won't allow time for this)

bars on windows & doors

screens on windows (this isn't a normal thing here, allow with the mosquitos it should be)

cleaning out your water cisterns

and I'm sure there's more that I haven't thought of

Moving to another neighborhood will be hard. We will be 15-30minutes from our old neighborhood where Adeline goes to schoola nd takes dance. Not to mention a good portion of our friends live within 5minutes of us right now! Our current neighborhood is too expensive for 4bdrms and a green yardHere are pics of the house we are thinking about...sorry folks the bright yellow house didn't work out ;)

Flu Vaccine

If you're wanting the other side of the flu vaccine story, here's a page with 18 reasons NOT to get the flu vaccine.

Truthful Thursday

Age brings experince and knowledge of how far sin ripples. Youth tend to have head knowledge of Scripture but not a heart knowledge.
Read John 8:1-12 and see who where the first to leave the crowd(v9).

Thank you Karen for this insight.

Darton's New Groove

Whoa Nelly...It's October!

Where's the cool weather that comes with October? NOT IN THE DR! We booked out tickets to TX for the month of November and look forward to getting to wear long-sleeved shirts.

I had to go and look at the pics on the camera to remember what we did this week. The days are just zipping by. This was the first week that Adeline didn't cry when I dropped her off at school! I have found that the trick is to not expect her to be a "big girl" but rather hold her and make sure she feels secure before we walk out the door. After we dropped A off at school on Monday D had some coloring time. He loves his time without his sister! We got to play with Hartleigh a couple of times this week. The girls are playing dress-up. H's outfit was mine when I was a young ballerina.

Darton spent every morning this week without diapers. He is the CUTEST THING. He tells you "tt" and if he has had an accident he will come and get me and take me to it. he tells you when he's "all done" on the potty and then waves and says "bye bye" when we are flushing. I know TMI...but it is sooo precious to see my almost 1 1/2yr old growing up.

A real boy can wear his sister's panties and ride a horse ;) I seriously must get him some underwear.

Here the kids are welcoming Daddy home from work. It's always a sweet moment when Daddy comes through the door.

We overdid the hosting this weekend, but don't regret it. I told Scott that I wouldn't do it to hime again. He really likes to have one afternoon to get a nap in order to catch up on any lost sleep from the week. Anastasia came over for about 4hours on Friday and then we had 2 couples over for dinner Friday night. We took dinner to a girlfriend who just had her 3rd baby and then went to the Short Story Date Night that I started up in September. We had a couple over for lunch today and are now just relaxing without having to get the house ready for someone else. I'm having mommy's over tomorrow afternoon, but I have Ana to help me get the house ready for them. I love having people over and aspire to have my home to be a home like Judy Cox's. A home where people can put their feet up and enjoy other's company. A home where people are comfortable enough to fix their own glass of tea. :) I'm going to try to get videos uploaded to YouTube tonight of the kids.

Back Online

As Adeline has gotten older there are new activities to discover. The DR doesn't have libraries, but we found a neat book store instead. We went with Anastasia and Hartleigh.

We went to Las Galeras with two other families and had a blast!

The house we rented.

Darton falls asleep on his Daddy pretty easily. It's a trick Scotty learned a few months back.

We didn't have internet for the past week, but we're back now. I really didn't miss all the computer time, and appreciated getting to be away from it. Now I just have to remember to stay away when I do have internet access.