2 Grand Events!

Baby number 3 is on the way in the Kruger house! Due date of November 8th, 2009.


We shared the news with Jonah and Aphia a couple weeks ago, and it spread like wildfire from there. Jonah is very concerned with what we're going to name the baby, and even more so, that we don't have a name picked out yet. Oh boy, it's going to be a long 9 months- well... 8 if this one goes anything like the other pregnancies- which we're praying against.

If you would be so kind as to add that to your prayers, we'd be much appreciative. I had high blood pressure at the end of both my other pregnancies and would rather not go that route again. This hindered the growth of both of the children, in utero. We're praying that my body will cooperate this time, so that this little one can flourish and thrive while in my tummy. Jonah was born at 35 weeks, Aphia at 36... This baby- we're shooting for longer! We're praying now of ways to head off the high blood pressure before it begins, because at that point, it's very difficult to turn back and bring it down. Please pray that it would stay down, that God would help me to find balance in life, so that stressors would not cause my BP to rise, and so that Jeremiah and I (and doctors) can be on the same page with any plans of action.

In other news!!!

Jonah is thrilled with THIS new item at our house! His new 16 inch Raleigh dirt bike is a treasured and prized possession this spring! Each chance we get, he's out riding. He's discovered the art of the "skid" and coasting as well. His old bike did not have brakes (if you pedaled backwards- you went backwards!), and thus if you were moving, so were the pedals, thus he was constantly pedaling! He can be seen terrorizing the roads of Buffalo with his helmet and shades!

Not Me! Monday

As a mom (and well, just as a person in general) I do things that I thought I'd never do, I said I'd never do, and I never intended to do. Some things are choices and some are just plain, old, bonehead moves! The joy of this blog today is that I get to admit all those things in a funny way by saying that I didn't actually do them! If you want, you can pop on over to this blog: MckMama (the wonderful creator of "Not Me! Monday") and link up to more fun stories!

Onward we go with a handful of stories that I did "NOT" do!

This week, while working on organizing my pictures on my computer, I certainly did NOT press some combination of buttons that would flip my computer screen upside down! I did NOT freak out, yelling to Jeremiah, "Come quick, it's an emergency!" to which he just laughed at me and had no idea what I did or how to fix it. In a monumentous moment, I did NOT figure it out and was NOT very proud of myself, thinking that this would absolutely NOT be a fabulous April Fool's joke! Nope, not me!

In a moment of sheer motivation I did NOT decide that Aphia was completely done with her crib (we took the side off a couple weeks ago, and she's been doing fabulously!). I did NOT proceed to mentally rearrange the room, put up the bunk bed, clean it all out, and had it all done (in my head, mind you) until I realized that we did not yet own another mattress for her to actually sleep on, in her big girl bed, which we do own. Doh. The new mattress is NOT ordered and we will NOT be putting her in her big bed when it does NOT come!

I certainly did NOT say to Aphia after church last week, "Aphia let's take off your pretty dress before lunch, so you don't get it all messy." Only to look over, seeing that her daddy had NOT given her a tootsie roll, in which she was NOT drooling chocolate all over the white front of her pretty dress. I most certainly did NOT give my love the stink eye.

I, of course, NEVER take my eyes off my children and would have NEVER found Aphia pouring water (using Jonah's cup) from the big toilet into the kiddie potty, spilling water on the floor the whole way. This has NOT happened several times and I have NOT had to now lock the bathroom door, causing the older kids to have to ask me to unlock it every time they need to use the bathroom!

So how about you? Post a comment if you want and tell me some of the things you did NOT do this week!

Dots Boy

I am a "Dots Girl." When I write notes or signs or things like that I like to use dots on the ends of the letters to make it cute and spice it up. I've done this for a long time, it's kind of my "thing" and some claim I went to college, JUST to perfect my dots writing :)

Well when Jonah called me to come see what he had made on the white board this morning, I was tickled to say the least! He said, "Mom, I did dots on my name just like you do!"

I guess he's now a "Dots Boy!"

Prayers Please

Please pray for my friend Tina's little boy Jake, who is 3. He is at Children's Hospital, St. Paul, with influenza B, croup, and has been running a temp of 104 degrees. He is having quite difficulty breathing and they may have to intubate him. His body is fighting hard, but such a toll has already been taken on that lil guy. He is very, very sick.

He is one of Jonah's very good friends, and I take care of him one day a week. Please pray for healing for his body, please pray that there would be no long term damage. Please pray for Tina, Gary and their 3 older boys to be at peace and know that God is in control. Please pray that family and friends would rally around them to help them at this time.

Blessings... New Every Morning

This morning we got up and ready to go to open gym time at ECFE. The kids LOVE this time and so do I! I decided that I was going to stop at my favorite coffee shop (Coffee Connection) on the way and grab a small coffee. When I walked in, Carrie, the owner who is a friend of mine, said, "You have a large Chai Tea waiting for you! Bought and paid for by someone who loves you and I'm not allowed to tell you who." There was a little post-it that she grabbed and it said, "Janine Large Chai PAID" OH MY GOODNESS! What a pure piece of heaven dropped down into my Friday morning lap! WOW. WOW. WOW.

God is so good. In the little things and in the big (and this was BIG today!). I was flabbergasted at His goodness and the goodness of a friend out there who loves me. Someone who knows me well enough to know where I love to get coffee and someone who is treasured by me.

Thank you Lord and Thank you Friend.

No more nuk... no more baby?!

We decided that after she turned 2, Aphia would be weaned from her nuk. She only had it at naptime and bedtime, but she counted on having it then! When we first started prepping her, saying that she was almost done having her nuk, her big eyes would fill with tears and her little bottom lip would quiver... it was more than I could bear.

We decided to cut the tip of it off first (which didn't matter a whole lot, since she had already chewed a couple holes in them, so it didn't have the suction anymore) to which she promptly took it out, handed it back to Jeremiah saying, "Bwoken Nukie Daddy, bwoken Nukie." We eventually trimmed it down this far:

Finally, last Thursday night we took it away completely, telling her that she was a big girl and she wasn't going to have her nuk anymore. She did o.k. the first couple nights, but Jonah was the super hero those nights, talking her off the ledge!! It was very sweet and big brotherish of him- telling her, in an extremely sweet voice "Aphia you're a big girl, you don't need your nuk now. We're so proud of you for not having your nuk anymore!" She's been doing great the past couple nights, still asking to have it, but when we tell her no, she just hugs her dolly and rolls over and closes her eyes.

Does this mean she's really not a baby anymore?! Hmmmm.... what's a mom to do?

Shaving at this age?! Nope, just playing

We decided to play with shaving cream yesterday. I put a bunch on some paper plates and the kids pushed around their construction vehicles, cookie cutters, and had a blast. They weren't so sure at first... not wanting to get messy, but I assured them it was ok! And it was... until Aphia decided that it was really ok and started rubbing it all up her arms and then I decided she was done.