*Nathan is home! He came home Friday, and it's been wonderful having him around again. He told my mom he wanted to "sleep in and eat Mom's cooking", as well as play board games. I think we've met all his goals! So far games of skip-bo, Scrabble, Pandemic, and Monopoly have been played. The McC's came over this afternoon to play street hockey too.
Nathan is doing really well in all areas at school. It's nice to see that he is where he is supposed to be! He's also going to a good church that a friend recommended. He had 2 really great roommates for the first few months--their room was one of only 2 in their company that didn't have to have a sign saying no one could enter except for official corps business or academic reasons, since all 3 of them had good GPAs at mid-terms. Now he's with a new roommate, so hopefully that will go well too. It's good to see him so settled in and thriving down there!
Last week we were trying to figure out how we were going to get him home when a friend of ours in our Friday night Bible study asked if he could fly down there and pick Nathan up. We were so happy the weather held and everything worked out! Nathan got to fly home in this cute little plane, avoiding all the traffic on I-81. It's only a 1 and a half hour by airplane!
*We have orthodontia! Grace got her expander in on Monday. She is having a hard time learning how to eat with it in, and it is definitely hurting her, but the results will be worth it. You can see the 2 teeth that are so much higher in her mouth--just like Luke and Jonathan had. She has gotten a lot more self-conscious about her smile lately, so I'm glad she has options to open up the traffic wreck that is her mouth! There are other teeth backed up in the gums that have no place to go. It's always neat to see teeth shift around, and others come in, once the expander has widened the jaw. A miracle of modern orthodontics!
*Verity is learning tons of new things! Most importantly, she finally learned how to turn herself around and slide down the stairs on her tummy. She actually started doing this the beginning of November, but it's still such a nice relief not to worry about her if she goes upstairs! She's super fast both at climbing stairs, and at sliding back down them. Instead of going down on step at a time, she now knows she can lift her feet up and just slide down. Much faster! She is also super-fast at scrambling up onto a chair and then onto the table, where she wreaks havoc like Godzilla. If you turn your back for one second, she's up there!
Her other important new skill is finally(!!) being able to drink out of a regular hard-spout sippy cup. Yay! We can now use all the sippy cups we've accumulated over the years! I'm trying to have her drink more milk and less bottle, so this helps. She is still her happy, smiley self, so I'm so thankful for that!
*We have a new dresser on the main floor! This is minor, but wow! The drawers slide in and out! It's so nice-looking! Our old dresser was anciently old--Bob picked it up off the side of the road when he was stationed in Alabama before we even met, which was in 1991. It had a cushy life in the room with the crib until Elizabeth L started putting Theodore's clothes in a (nice) dresser on their main floor several years ago. It was so convenient! Why had I never thought of that before?! So we moved the old dresser into our family room and put Micah's clothes, and then Drew's clothes too, in it (and eventually the fish tank on it). It was really nice, except that drawer tracts were all broken, so it was a constant struggle to get the drawers in and out. But then a few weeks ago Bob and I made a trip to that wonderful store, Ikea, and voila! A lovely new dresser that will hopefully last at least as many years as our old one! Did I mention the drawers slide in and out so smoothly?! I could stand there all day and slide them!
I am of course thankful for many more things, such as my wonderful family, my supportive friends, and most of all salvation through Christ, but these are some of the other lesser-known things I'm thankful for!
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