And He Made it to 5

On some days, I honestly didn't think he'd make it to this age. But alas, Lincoln is 5!!

While I paint him as a busy boy that makes it his full-time job to make his mother pull out every single strand of her head, he actually is quite the beautiful-spirited boy. 

I really shouldn't say (too often) how much he can exasperate me, 'cause really, that's not just his problem. My reaction and behaviour is MY doing. MY choice. MY sin. So over the last 5 years, it has been quite the learning curve for me, about me. This son of mine has made me grow for the better in so many ways.

Lincoln Denver Edward. Our son. Our gift from God. What a joy he can be - with his blue eyes that don't miss a thing, a mind that is sometimes too quick for his own good, and a sense of humour that makes you go from wanting to throttle him to laughing with him in all of 7.5 seconds.

Life, to him, is to be explored, questioned and enjoyed to its fullest. He has two very different sides to him - one where he is quite the engaging boy. The other side is his lack of confidence, which will make him shut down and he will not engage. At all. 

His birthday this year was a bit "under-rated" as we had just gotten back from the Dominican the night before and the day of we had my family get together. So we actually didn't celebrate it till the day after his birthday. As long as he got cake at some point, he really couldn't care less when we celebrated :)

We did have a few presents for him on his actual birthday

 His sister reading her card to him :)

 

 

 

Speaking of his cake, he wanted a dinosaur-tractor-truck cake. In fact, he wanted to decorate it himself. Go nuts, my boy!! I am NOT a cake decorator, so I had no problems with him taking over this part....

 

 

Although he enjoyed decorating it, I believe he loved eating it more!!

 

 

 

Some things just haven't changed.....I rarely have a photo without food on this kid's face

 

We pray that God will continue to keep this precious child of ours safe and healthy another year. We feel honoured, humbled yet privileged to be chosen as his parents. As his parents, we continue to pray for wisdom in leading this tender heart toward Jesus, his Saviour. May we do our best with the gift God has given us.

More of December

January. Wow. Usually it's a month filled with temperatures that are so far under 0, it competes with my age, thanks to the windchill. It's also usually a month filled with bright sun-shiney days. Not this January!! I don't remember having so many grey, foggy, dreary and bleak days in a row like we had this past month. I am so thankful I am occupied with teaching and running my house, or else I would have been in a total different state of mind - and not a good one at that!!

But before January, we had December. Yes, we did have a week of sun (oh, that feels so long ago!), and we even got some snow  as well. Going to the Dominican wasn't the only thing we did. We set up the tree, decorated cookies and the  home, opened up some presents with family, enjoyed some snow-eating, puzzling together, checking out some of the fancy light displays in the neighbourhood are a few of the things that kept us busy.

 

 

 Checking to see if snow still tasted the same as last year.....

 Yup, he's in this picture.....somewhere.....can you spot him?!

Don't worry, a shotgun has been ordered.... :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ack!! Look at all that snow!!!! I am honest when I say I sure hope February will bring with some more white stuff. Looks like I am not the only one that hopes for it....

 

 

A rare treat - enjoying the hot tub. Lincoln and Keziah aren't usually in it as the water is set too high. Nathan and I claim it as ours :)

 

 

Leave it to daddy to be the crazy one!!

Cheering Opa on as he plays hockey.

How the kids sometimes spend their mornings, waiting for the rest of the kids to come to school....loving my smartboard!

 

 Keziah continues to love her music class every week, and one day she decided to compose her own music. We are so proud of her!!

And then, just before our trip to Dominican, like 6 days before, I was loving my favourite snack: roasted chickpeas. Do you know that some can be rock hard?! Yeah, while chomping and savouring, I chomped down on a chickpea and heard a crack. My back molar cracked right in half!! In fact, I went to the dentist the next day and it had cracked completely to the roots. It came right out :( That left me with hardly a tooth yet all the roots.

The dentist took the "chip" out......

 ....and sent me to here....for oral surgery! I was put out so they could get the rest of the tooth out and then did a bone graft from my jaw so that it was prepped for when I am healed for an implant.

It was AWFUL!!!!! I would so much rather give birth!! Oh wait....never mind :) But seriously - it was terrible. I couldn't handle the pain killers but that wasn't the worst of it. The worst of it was the smell of my breath and how my mouth "tasted" for almost a week. It was so disgusting. 

Thankfully, it all healed well and the pounds I lost from not eating much at all were quickly gained before the week was out, thanks to the buffets at our resort :)

(and yes, I still eat those blasted chickpeas........just more carefully)

There. December in a chickpea shell  nutshell. It was a fun month! Also a month where my baby turned 5. 5!!!!! How did that happen?! But I am thankful it did!! 

Next time!! Take care!