(cute outfits courtesy of Grandma Sue)It's been awhile since I've posted anything. Wow, how is that for stating the obvious. Gotta get back in blog posting mode. What do my friends and family want updates about? Over the past few months we've gotten settled into our home, have made friends and met neighbors, and have gotten to see our families quite a bit. That about wraps it up, but here are a few more details.
Jim:: Jim is just wrapping up his 1st quarter here at NPS. He has finals in another week or two. He has his own office in the math department so he has a place to hang out and get homework done in between classes. This is very cool, because I think the math guys are the only ones that get their own offices. Everyone else has to go to the library or something. Jim just went to West Point over labor day for a kind of "New Instructor in the Math Dept." sort of orientation. He attended briefings about the math department and being an instructor, but the main brief that I was concerned about was the Housing Brief! Looks like new housing is being built for us as we speak. Hopefully it will be finished by the time the Childresses get there so that they can save some spots for us and the Golbys. Jim said we might need a third kid to qualify for the new housing though. I think we should get some clarification on that.
Joni: I've been making friends and doing mom things. I've met some great neighbors up the street. Sonya has three kids and one of them is a girl Sammie's age. We like to go up there after afternoon naps to ride bikes in their driveway. Through Sonya I've met some other nice ladies that have a playgroup. I am now an official member of the playgroup because I took my turn hosting today. I started MOPs at our church here and have gone to one meeting so far. It is really nice to just attend and not be on the steering team. I'm sure I'll get more involved later, but for now, it's great to be a regular attendee. The other day I took my girls to a local park after running errands and I ran into two ladies from my new playgroup and my table leader from MOPs. Whoa! I felt so important being the lady at the park who knew people instead of the lady at the park who, well, didn't know people. You know what I mean.
The Samster: Sammie had her third birthday on August 27th! My baby is 3! She had been talking about a turtle cake for about a month, so that's what she got. My version of a turtle cake anyway.
I thought it turned out pretty cute. 
We gave her some Thomas tracks and trains and a Diego trike and she loves them both. Sam is definitely our tomboy. She also got a stuffed Nemo from my parents and it's her favorite animal right now. We can't go anywhere without it. She even stuffs it into her Diego trike and rides him around. Sometimes this causes a panic, though, when it comes to bedtime and Nemo cannot be found. Then there is a mad dash through the almost decluttered garage to rescue Nemo from the trike. Another interesting thing about Nemo is that he has his own fishfood. This comes in the form of a cute, little Disneyland snowglobe from Grandpa Bob. For some reason she calls her snowglobe "fishfood". The fishfood usually tags along with us so that Nemo can have a snack when he gets tired of playing at the park or something.
Here she is opening up Nemo at breakfast time.
Sammie with her Diego bike
The Reesie-Piece: Reese is a very sweet baby. Lots of curls on top and bright blue eyes. She started crawling at 7 months and is already standing on her own at 8 months. I feel that walking will be in her near future. Aack! Reese loves to play and explore but she does it in slow motion, at least compared to Sammie who was like a baby on speed.
The Starling Family as a Whole: We are very blessed to live so close to our families again. We've already had numerous visits from both sets of parents, my aunt Peggy and Grandma Cherry and cousins Jonell and David, my brother Lucas and his daughters, Norah and Avery, and my sister, Erin. We have really enjoyed getting to see everyone. We have gotten to visit with Jim's high school buddy, Joe Webb, and his family, and his other friend, Lydia and her family. Lydia and her husband, Travis, are missionaries in Kenya, so it was great to see them and visit with them about their work. Also, there is a Starling family get-together in a few weekends and we are actually around to make it! We are excited to visit with Jim's family there.
Auntie Erin and the girls
5 comments:
Yay for an update! Yay for your beautiful girls. Yay for life being good. :) I miss you Joni.
Sounds like you've been enjoying northern CA. Sammie is so funny about her toys, just like Olivia. We haven't gotten to the stage where a certain toy must run errands with us just yet, but at bed time she must have (in the following order l-r) Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, (the pillow), Cookie Monster in the corner then her stuffed Doggie. So if her animals aren't in the correct order, she puts them that way.
Oh, and baby Justin in due next Friday but I'm hoping he'll come early. Been thinking about you guys, that's for the update!
Thanks for the update, Jonas! The girls are growing so fast--Sammie looks like such a little woman! I'm glad to see you guys are doing well and are finally so close to family.
Fun times! The girls are so, so cute. Thanks for new photos. Yeah, you need to send me the scoop on this housing thing at WP. Hard to believe we'll be up there in about 9 months!
I love the cake...it is sooo cute! Really looking forward to November!
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