thankful for a few moments to blog today...

been a wild month around these parts. adam has been on a busy ward month. and GUESS WHAT (for the 1 or 2 of you who don't already know)?! we are having another baby this fall. he/she (we may not find out this time around) is due on graham's second birthday. we are so thankful for this little blessing, but i must say i have felt sicker than ever this time around. i think it is mostly because my two adorable, messy bugs have been pretty needy lately and it is just hard to eat and rest when you need to. plus, toddlers are such disgusting eaters that it is hard not to be nauseated even when i'm not pregnant. i'm starting to feel a little better though and i am so thankful for that!

in the last month, we have endured two bouts of stomach flu (only marit got the 2nd one thankfully), and two lengthy colds and poor marit ended up with a pretty bad sinus infection this weekend. after four days of high fever, a few doses of antibiotics, a lot of motrin, marit's eye started getting really swollen, then red, then purple/black eye looking. you know your husband is a resident when he says "i'm afraid she might have periorbital cellulitis." i mean, who else has ever even heard of that? so he took her to the ER and they were reassuring, but added another antibiotic and i fear her tiny little tummy is not enjoying all these medicines...she is usually such a healthy girl. i have seriously never seen her so pitiful...falling asleep in the grocery cart, pretty much only saying with significant amount of fuss "i wanna carry you mommy." little graham has been a trooper, but he is at an into-everything-kind of grumpy because i'm getting molars-stage. all that to say, i am SO, SO, SO thankful that marit slept last night without waking up burning up and that they are both napping now so i can record a few things.

in her misery, we watched more veggie tales, sesame street, and my new favorite thing to let her watch are these short little podcasts done by They Might Be Giants. we don't have a tv and we watch things on our computer occasionally through netflix or youtube. i like that these are so so creative, educational, and the music is really well-done (anyone else get really annoyed by bad kids music?). here are a couple of my favorites...




they have a bunch of letters and numbers ones for littler people as well.

may as well share this sermon that we were so encouraged by yesterday about holy ambition. we had to miss church due to sickness and adam working, but what a blessing to still be able to hear solid teaching to feed our souls. we so missed our local body though. piper is taking a sabbatical for a few months and i hope it is so refreshing for him and his sweet family. our little family has been deeply blessed by his ministry, writing, and preaching. watch or listen to this sermon if you have time:



in closing this totally random, lengthy post, i will share pictures of our recent much-needed family day at the zoo. we had so much fun, took few pictures because one of us was holding someone most of the time. actually, that will have to be tomorrow because i can't get the pics to load and someone is crying...