Long time, no talk...

Well, it's been well over a month since my last blog. Of course, I just chose not to blog even though I wanted to. A quick recap - I am finishing Theological Survey 201 and start 202 next week sometime.

Candi's ankle is somewhat healed. Her ligament is not healed and sometimes looks like it is dangling under her ankle bone. Plus there's overall mild swelling constantly. However, don't cry for her too much; we are running the Sabino Canyon 10k this Saturday at 5pm (come on out and root us on if you're not going to Beginning's instead!). She is getting on swell with school, too.

The kids are doing great. At the beginning of our school year, Nori and Bubba both had their strengths and weaknesses. The strengths were pretty strong and the weaknesses were the fear of the day (when getting to those subjects). Now, the strengths are even stronger and God's grace has given us the wisdom to teach to their styles and see what prevents them from excelling at those, too. Nori is getting math quite well now (even though she says differently) and Christian is really picking up his reading ability (even though he says differently). It's great to see progress; it's amazing to see the change since we started homeschooling!

Wyatt is a smart little bugger. We took proactive steps to teach Nori and Christian the basic stuff (letters, colors, shapes). We don't have much time to do that with Wyatt, but he spends so much time around the others that he's just picking it up. It's funny how much he's learned from toys too. He has learned blue, green, and red from his Cars toys (blue - Mr. The King, green - Chick Hicks, red - Lightning McQueen). Wyatt also loves to get out and "go bye-bye". He loves playing in the dirt and roughing up the dogs. He's getting further into his ability to express lack of appreciation for naps, eating yucky food, and his parents not focusing on him. That boy can scream! Funny thing is we can see right through it and getting him smiling pretty quick, too.

Really cool news - A couple of weeks ago, while on a hiking trip with our friends, the Harts (and their tribe), and the new music leader at Beginnings, Seth, Candi reminded me that Nori and Christian wanted to be baptized. There is a ton of water in the river right now. Nori went for it; Christian didn't want to deal with the cold (all the water is coming from melted snow off of the Catalina Mountains). It was an awesome experience to baptize my own kid! I love seeing them grow in their faith and knowledge of our Lord Jesus; this was just another step. There were a lot of other people there outside of our little group and I'm so, so proud that they both were "not ashamed of the gospel of Christ". Christian really wanted to do it, but he's never been one for cold water. I know he'll get his chance as the temperatures get into the hundreds.

There's a ton other stuff that happened but I don't have time now.