more fun with Thea's hair

Thea has such fun curls on the top! It's just irresistable to comb them in some funny way after a bath!

Thea's "curl-hawk"

Family photo - June 2012

A family photo – June 2012

Thad is 2 years and Thea is 5 months

3 months - Thea

Last month, when Thea turned 3 months old, our friend volunteered to take some photos of her for us. So here is our Theadora “Gift of God” at 3 months old:

And here's Thea with me and Thad...

New Yard

Exploring the yard at our new house and making a new friend…

whoa! that's a BIG leaf

we have three orange trees!

this is a coffee plant

Lisa and Thea by one of our Poinsettia plants

Thad makes a new friend

a new discovery

One of our friends here has a trampoline. Thad and I have been going to play at their house every so often and now Thad has new love—the trampoline! He can’t actually jump yet unless he has a little help, but enjoys the bouncy sensation when he runs around on it.

(These photos were all taken by my great photographer friend!)

He also enjoys having a friend to play with…and tickle him!

two years ago...

Doesn’t sound like very long – 2 years – but it was 2 years ago this week that Jamie & I got married. A lot has happened since then, and we sure are thankful to God for blessing us with each other and we are enjoying life together!

winter...well, sort of

So, being in the southern hemisphere, we are currently in the midst of our cooler months. Being close to the equator, we don’t get snow and sub-zero temperatures, but I sure have been feeling cold lately! I guess when you have only a few degrees of temperature change, your body feels each number.

I was laughing on Sunday, because I was so cold I put on my knitted hat to help keep me warm, and the temperature was just in the low 60s.

Here are Thad and I in our cozy hats knitted for us by my friend Melany!

Thad is starting to be a bit more mobile in his bed at night, crawling out from under the covers, and rolling about. Since Jamie & I have about 6 blankets on our bed, I worry that he will get cold in the night if he climbs out from under his blankets—so we found a solution. We pulled out the polar fleece “suit” and have been putting him in that, along with his pajamas at night. We figure that’s got to be worth a few blankets (and so we’ve lessened the number of blankets we put on top of him)! He is so cute all bundled up in his “blue suit” – that’s got to be one of the best parts of being cold, seeing babies all bundled up.

All bundled up