And this post pretty much catches us up to where we are in the present. I give you a last week.
March 15-21
- This sunset was actually from March 14...oops. Photo by Chris
- Did I mention Kolbe is everywhere? Among other things (continue reading this post) he tried his hand at climbing stairs. Kayla was his spotter. He only got his hands up and standing on the first one (though as you can see from the last photo Kayla was trying to help him reach the second), so we aren't scared yet, but still...
- Kolbe took his first ride in the swing at the playground...like a pro (and his second too!)
- Fun with the neighbors when the sun comes out!
- More of our daffodils bloomed. (Chris plants and cares for them, otherwise they'd probably be dead. I'm not much of a green thumb, though I aspire to be). Also our landlords had the house re-painted. The new color is much better in my opinion. :)
- Megan led our mom's/Blessed is She group in an Ignatian scripture reading exercise. It was wonderful.
- Kolbe is (in the week I'm blogging about) about a week and half away from being 7 months! As predicted he's crawling. Everywhere. The video shows a tad. He's everywhere and interested in everything. Also in putting it all in his mouth. And he can go from crawling to sitting up and back again on his own. Big month for this officially mobile little man.
- prayer journaling has been such a great Lenten practice. Not that I keep up with it and don't miss days ever....
- park play dates because the weather was awesome. The video is a game the girls made up to play on the huge spider web at a nearby park. "Freeze tag".
- St. Patrick's Day!
- We helped form a men's and women's group in January. The guys meet once a month and are beginning a Bible study on the Eucharist (I think!) and the girls meet and are going through The Wild Goose Series (on the Holy Spirit). We switch houses and it's just a neat time with other Catholic guys and gals. We decided to get our families together for a Friday meatless soup dinner and it was so fun.
- We are also part of a Families of Bethany group. We meet as couples once a month and a priest from the parish joins us and we discuss the following Sunday's gospel in depth and discuss marriage and family and faith. We invited those families over on (the day after) St. Patrick's Day for a party. There were coloring sheets, friendships bead bracelets, yummy food, great company, and Irish car bombs!
(group car bomb pics by Danielle{'s phone})
- A friend's birthday party! There was face painting and balloon fun!
- Family of Bethany meeting for March. Kolbe had a blast playing with Fr. Javier (who baptized him)
- Reading outside together
A busy, but very fun, week!
