Change. Or not so much!

It's amazing how things can change without changing. Still jobless and broke. But more hopeful than ever. People can think what they want, but we've never been happier! It's not very easy to explain either. There is one thing we can say for sure. Our perspective is growing.

Atec has been begging Pmc to take a hike for - um, our entire marriage. Actually, I'm pretty sure the begging started while we were dating. (No, not that kind of hike! We're still smitten with one another!!) Well, the begging finally ended because Pmc made it happen this week. And it was just as good for us as I'd always hoped. In fact, Pmc even wants to go on hikes more consistently, which will be a little tougher now that winter is arriving.

Sidenote: Cpc is sitting in the hall on a chair (because he will willingly choose to sit on a chair in the hall at bedtime even if he won't lay in bed) snorting. It's hilarious. When he has a stuffy nose, it bugs him SO MUCH (sensory processing!), but he still can't figure out how to blow his nose half the time. I love it, we're dying from holding in our laughter right now! He sounds like a pug!

Lest I digress - our perspective. So this is what we saw from the "Stone Chairs" hike, also referred to as "The Living Room."

I have yet to learn how to make that into one nice beautiful panorama, but is that not GORGEOUS? Minus the smog of course. Pmc brought up how we took a walk back when we were living in my old neighborhood, and the hike was basically straight up the hillside. It seemed so steep and difficult at the time. However, from our perspective at the lookout on our hike, that area appeared relatively flat. It made us think about all the struggles we go through in life, and how if we can get a glimpse of God's perspective, what seems like a steep trial is actually quite small when we have an eternal perspective.

We're glad we took advantage of the last bit of warm weather, as it looks like snow is coming Tuesday. Good thing Grams and Papa's garage got done! Speaking of the garage - Pmc has been gone a lot working on that garage. We're so grateful G&P had a job for him so that we can still provide ourselves some food. But it's definitely been hard at the same time. It's taken a lot of time, time which he needs to be job-hunting. But we're really hoping that the hunting is over - there's a position that we're desperately trying not to get too excited about. We might as well admit our emotions, we REALLY want this job!!! That might be an understatement! Everyone say a prayer for us, and knock on wood now that we mentioned it.

And, that about sums up our lives right now. No, actually we can't sum up our lives without mentioning our two handsome kids.

They had a Halloween party with their Cundick cousins this week. If you want them to come trick-or-treat to your house let us know, they are stinkin' cute in their costumes!

I think I forgot to mention in the last post that Cdc has his two front bottom teeth. His smile and his laugh are so sweet these days. He really has the crawling down now, and he is thrilled with himself. He seems to be struggling a little with reflux again, spitting up more often, and arching his back a lot. But he is still eating tons and growing a lot. He weighs over 15 pounds finally, so we have stopped worrying about that (which I admit, even though I tell myself my kids just hit a skinny phase around 6-9 months, the way doctors respond does make me worry!). Cdc's favorite activity is sticking EVERYTHING in his mouth that is smaller than his fist. It's not really a choking hazard, as he seems to have no interest in swallowing them. This kid will always prefer mints to gum! Cdc also enjoys crawling after mommy and sticking his face in her hands, rather than crawling far enough to get her hands under his armpits so she can pick him up. He still loves to cuddle, although he has also started to enjoy the rough and tumble play daddy has been waiting for! Here he is hanging out with his friend AH.

Cpc just makes my heart melt. He is such a sweetheart, and wants to be good. I've been much more patient with him as I've done a better job at playing "pretend" play with him. I'm learning a lot about what is going through his mind all day, even though he still isn't speaking very clearly. He sure has an imagination. He loves hippopatamus' and tigers. He LOVED it when Momsey and Grandpa Don took him to the zoo this week (we'll get pictures from Momsey soon I hope!). His favorite activity is playing with cars, building roads for them and having them talk to each other, like in the Cars movie. He knows that when he does things he's not supposed to that he needs to say sorry and give hugs and kisses (like mom & dad ask him to do - we're working on helping him to see that's not necessary with his toys, a dog, or a complete stranger - he doesn't care if they're totally weirded out!). We're working on the "don't do it again" part, but that's coming a little more slowly. One of his very favorite activities is laying on top of his brother - which at first Cdc thinks is hilarious, he nearly busts a gut laughing. However, Cpc takes that as an invitation to go three steps further and smash his brother to smithereens. Cdc doesn't like that so much. Not at all actually! We also went to the Pumpkin Patch with the Tec & Jbc family this week. Here's Cdc with his cousin Cac, and he did have fun even if he doesn't look too pleased!

P.S. The first song is totally FOR ME! This is my absolute favorite music group Time for Three playing one of my favorite songs from my Suzuki days. The second song is the real song for the week!