Fishing in the Ba'e

Jamie has enjoyed fishing as long as he’s been old enough to hold a pole (at least as far as I’ve been able to determine from the stories he’s told me). A couple weekends ago, armed with a “new” fishing pole that he had gotten from our neighbors, Jamie went fishing in the little river that runs past our Center.

I think that it was mostly just a fun venture for him to get out of the house and have some time to himself, but he did manage to catch something!

This little 6-inch guy even has some “fangs” like a catfish.

(We didn’t eat him, but gave him away to one of our PNG friends.)

the big ONE

Well, I keep thinking I need to be getting back to this blog and Thad’s 1^st birthday seems a pretty good occasion. Here's the big ONE-year-old!

You can’t tell from his smile that he now has 4 teeth—two on top and two on bottom. He enjoyed utilizing those teeth to try chocolate cake for the first time!

We invited our neighbors over for supper and cake to help us celebrate!

Deer hunting in WI

Jamie comes from a hunting family, and Wisconsin nicely times their hunting season to be the week before Thanksgiving. So, we headed from Washington back to Wisconsin for Thanksgiving and deer hunting.

Thad gets his own hunters orange vest and hat

Thad and Jamie with the doe Jamie got on opening day Jamie with the buck he also got on day two And what do you do with the deer? Cut it up for eating! The two deer gave over 100lbs of meat (that's JUST the meat-no bones or anything else)!

Visit to the gulf

Our trip south took us through Mississippi ~ so we decided to stretch our legs and dip our toes in the gulf.

Thad's toes first experience the beach!

brrr! this is pretty cold in spite of the sunshine we love the beach!

Tennessee in the fall

Here are a few pictures from our trip through Tennessee, near Elizabethton where Jamie did his flight training. Sure is pretty in the fall!

Thad on his first big hike - doesn't really have the shoes for it!

Thad - sittin' on a ledge

fall road - the leaves were falling as we drove through

a cute covered bridge

Language learning

Sometimes I think that Thad can speak German...he tells me "nein" which I think is "no" in German. Ahhh, and so it begins. But then I do really think that he is learning English pretty well. Last week he said "howareyou" to Auntie Julie (we both heard it! you can ask her:). And sometimes I think I can distinguish a "momma" in his chatter--especially when he's laying in bed not wanting to go to sleep.

Fall in Wisconsin

It was a beautiful fall day here in Wisconsin! Thad and I sat on the front porch of Jamie's parents' house and watched the corn field across the road being harvested. Being a city girl, I keep making comments to Jamie like, "that looks just like a picture"--having grown up around here, he just thinks these sights are normal :)

We're planning to leave on our big trip south and west next week, so we have to enjoy all the pretty sights while we can. Though we are excited that we'll be traveling in the fall, and we'll be able to enjoy all the fall colors as we drive along!