>We had a wonderful weekend at the Jersey shore for Labor Day. Though we only saw the beach and didn’t swim, it was still a wonderful time. Mat’s grandparents own a tiny shore house about 10 min. from Cape May. So we hung out at the house, took some much-needed naps, cooked a live lobster! and had fajitas all weekend. =) It was great.

We are starting to get excited about moving! It wasn’t really official until yesterday, that we will be moving November 4th! We are buying my parents’ house and they will be moving a couple miles down the road!

Basically the only stitch of packing that I’ve done is organize Jack’s clothes. He is now in 9-12 month clothes… kinda’ skipped the 6 month clothes… and he’s only 4 and half months! What a chunk! =) He is still so smiley and fun!

Tonight is our first youth group meeting since the beginning of the summer! I still have a few things to do before then, but wanted to post a little note.

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>Here are Nadine & Elijah making Jack laugh.

> Here is a picture I took on my phone of the kids! Everyone loves to cuddle! We had a great day today, learning about the letter “D”. We pasted pictures of Daddy to our paper! Looking forward to a weekend at the shore with Mat’s family…

>Today we had our third day of school! We worked on the letter “C”. So, we cut out carrots and cows out of magazines and drew pictures for people. It was fun! I guess I’m not a very good artist, because Elijah asked me to draw a lion. So I did. He looked at it and said, “Do another mouse.” I said, “A mouse! That’s a lion!” Then Nadine piped up and said, “That looks like a pig!” So, my lion turned out to be half mouse, half pig. =) I am NOT an artist. Sherry, help!

Yesterday we cut out a picture of Bambi since we were learning “B”. Elijah said, “I want to ride on Bambi’s back!” Then Nadine said, “Bambi’s don’t live here.”
Later, she was pretending to be the teacher and said, “Elijah, what does owl start with?”
He would answer, “Whoo! Whoo!”
“That’s right!”

So, we have rather animated times between 7 and 11AM.

The Lord has been strengthening Matthew through this week. His prednisone dose is starting to lower each day, so at times he is feeling the effects of that. We are really looking forward to a time of relaxing this weekend down at the shore with his family.

>Here is Nadine singing Jesus Loves Me…

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>Some more Nadine quotables from another day:

“I have Jesus in my heart… just like Alanna! Alanna’s in Africa. I’m going to go to Africa… but after Heaven.”

“Jesus loves us when we sing and dance and bounce and swing and chase bunnies, and…”

“When do we have to die on a cross?” -Nadine
“We don’t have to die on the cross, because Jesus did it for us!” -Mommy
“Yes. Remember? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved! If we don’t believe, we will be lost.”- Nadine

>Some funny quotes today from Nadine:
“Elijah, if you don’t obey me, I’m going to stick you in my purse!”

Then she was trying to remember what the words were to “the wheels on the bus.” So she sang, “The holy bus goes ’round and ’round…” “The holy horn goes beep, beep, beep…” =)

After Matthew came home from work he asked her, “So, were you running around outside?” She said, “No. I was running straight, in a LINE. Not AROUND.” She is so literal! =)