Shingles and Chickenpox

For those of you who don't yet know, we are sick this week.  Dieneke found out on Monday that she has Shingles, and today our suspicions were confirmed, our children have come down with chickenpox. Luckily there is one person to take care of us all, The Amazing Super-Jared! He is to be pitied above all.  Dieneke has narcotics to take out the pain,  and the kids seem to do fine with some motrin and benadryl, but Jared is playing nurse, mother, and house keeper for us all.  Needless to say, it's been a little difficult to keep up with classes this week, but so far, it seems we're doing fine.  

Thank you all for your prayers.

This weekend

We had a really great start to our weekend. It was very relaxing. We got to spend some time getting to know some neighbors and classmates, and Carolyn loved having our neighbors' mice over for a visit while they were out of town. Sadly our weekend didn't end so well. Today Henry and Dieneke have both been under the weather. Looks like they've caught the flu.

Please Mommy Liquor (Licorice)

A few weeks ago, Carolyn asked her Mommy for some licorice, but missed a crucial but funny syllable.

Henry's First Steps

Well, Henry officially took two steps today, and we caught it on video!

Some good news

This last Friday we took a test to see how well we would naturally do in linguistics, and today we bumped into the teacher who is grading the tests and he informed Jared that he had a perfect test. It's really exciting to know that Jared is naturally gifted in this area, but now this opens up another possibility of how we could be used on the field. Please pray with us that the Lord would guide us in deciding what type of job we should do over seas.

This last week Henry surprised us all and went from refusing all solids, to eating everything in sight. It has been really fun for Carolyn as she loves sharing her food with Henry. You would think this would make things easier on mom. Sadly no, because he has not switched from breastfeeding to solids, rather he has added the solids on to what he was already eating.

Here is a picture of Carolyn sharing her cheerios with Henry: