Tidbits

Our house is a sneezy, grumpy place these days. :( Toby came down with a cold on Monday, and Abbie started it on Tuesday. Toby has a cough and runny nose; Abbie has a fever and runny nose. We are specializing in rest times, comfort food, and some movies while we ride this out. :) I think this is the kids' first round of illness since we moved to this island, so I'm not complaining.

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They don't run gas lines to houses here. Instead, we buy our gas in tanks and hook the tanks up to our stoves, water heaters, or whatever. We had a bit of a hassle finding a place that delivered full gas tanks to exchange for our empty ones, but then we learned that the school maintenance guys could do that for us. Yay! :) A week or so ago we hooked up our last remaining full tank and put in a request for new ones to be delivered. I've been kinda nervous about running out of gas for the kitchen stove--not that it would be a disaster, but it would be rather inconvenient. I would just have to move the tank from the water heater to the stove, and we'd have to do with cold showers until we got a new tank. But I really didn't want to do that. So I've been putting off my baking...and getting kinda antsy about it all.

This afternoon--oh, joy!--the guys showed up and traded our empty gas tanks for full ones! So I churned out 2 dozen pumpkin muffins and 3 loaves of bread, then toasted some fresh coconut. Feels good to have fresh bread again. :)

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I discovered 3 new teeth in Abbie's mouth yesterday. Maybe that explains the night waking and runny nose that were plaguing her last week? This little girl doesn't do anything half-heartedly. She got her first 6 teeth in 3 weeks. Wonder how many are going to come in this round? Also, the 2 new teeth on the top are molars, even though she hasn't gotten the upper cuspids in. Is that strange? Seems kinda weird to me.

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Toby is really into singing these days. He especially loves the Veggie Tales theme song and wants to sing it every morning during breakfast, as well as multiple other times during the day. He carries the tunes fairly well, but his pronunciation isn't great. His version of "A-Hunting We Will Go" sounds like "uh-uh da baby go." :) Took me forever to figure out what he was singing. We've been singing "Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow" for our supper prayer most days. Yesterday he joined right in as we sang. This is the first he's really wanted to sing with us; usually he wants to go solo or hear us sing. It was pretty special.

Toby and Abbie hiding in their closet during Hide and Seek