Saturday, May 16, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Seis Meses en el Cinco de Mayo
Brighton is six months old today!!! It is hard to believe that six months has passed since our little girl came into this world. She is so sweet and happy and is a joy to be around. She is sitting up very well now, so she is becoming a very good playmate for her big brother. Will is learning to share his toys with her though he's still a little particular about his cars. We tried giving Brighton solid food as a little 6 month birthday present, but she was not happy with the rice on just breastmilk. She will not have her 6 month well-baby check up until after we return from our trip to Virginia. Please pray for safe travels and healthy children as we emabark on our journey. I am scared to fly, but I'm anxious to spend time with family. I will be posting lots of pictures when we return next week, so check back to see our first glimpses of Baby Sophia Schumacher and Baby Callie Spiers!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Celebrating Jon's birthday at Audobon Zoo
On Tuesday, Jon took off from work for his birthday. He started the day by going to the eye doctor and getting his oil changed. Then we headed to the city for a day of fun at the zoo. Both Jon and I thought that this trip was more for Will than any of us, but we both had a great time as you can see by the numerous photos that follow this post (they end with the sign in the Jaguar Jungle). Jon had a great time taking pictures, which is something he would like to do more often. I often had to remind him that Will would like to be able to see the animals too! The zoo was beautiful and very well-kept. I daresay it was cleaner than the French quarter (and smelled better too for that matter). I was completely enthralled (and sometimes scared) of all of the wild animals. I hadn't been to the zoo since I was a teenager, and I don't think I have ever appreciated the animals as much as I did on this trip. Will, of course, had a ball. He was anxious to see the giraffes and kept reminding us that he must see the Alligators ASAP! We stopped for lunch at the Cypress Knee cafe in the middle of the swamp habitat (which, of couse, was extensive and very wild). Will talked the whole time, and he would sometimes give us fun facts about the animals that he learned from his books, watching Diego, or that he just made up. He was quite entertaining. Driving home, I thought about how many different animals we saw and how many different species of each animal there was. I know that God created each animal for scientific reasons and that they are all crucial to maintaining balance and order, but since I'm a right-brainer, I think the animals are our Creator's way of expressing His perfect creativity. Enjoy the picturs that our resident photographer enjoyed taking...and you should know there are many many more, and I chose only a small sampling!
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Parks and Recreation
We have been getting out to various parks and festivals lately. Last weekend we went to the Abita Earth fest where Will helped plant flowers for the new park. The park is absolutely beautiful, and he loved running through the spouts. It has been especially hot, so we've enjoyed finding ways to beat the heat. Please enjoy the pictures--they start with Will's flower-planting.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Southern Living
I have not updated the blog in a little while and for a very good reason--we've been busy doing other things! Our days and weeks are getting fuller now that it's so warm down here. Between the MOMS group that I joined and the MOPS group that we're part of, we have plenty of fun things to fill our weeks. Will got to try hoopster tots with the MOMS group. He was one of the youngest to participate, but as you can see on the video, he was very into it. I decided that he needed a basketball hoop at home, so after trying to find one through Craig's list, I ended up buying a new one at Walmart. He is quite the little basketball star, and he gets very serious about making sure that the ball goes in the hoop. I am continuing with Will's homeschooling, and I am also trying to get involved with a homeschool co-op for next year. It is possible that I could even teach some writing classes there, which would put a little extra cash in our pockets. Brighton continues to grow, and she wants so badly to be on the move with her brother. She gets so excited watching him, and her little legs start kicking so hard that I sometimes think she could just take off running if I were to put her down. She has been enjoying the company of a little lamb that Miss Jan from Jon's office gave to her for Easter. She has become very attached to it, and it's so fun to watch her grab it every morning with both arms and try to cram it in her mouth. Brighton is often "along for the ride" as she spends time in both her jellybean carrier and the Baby Bjorn. One nice day last week, we met some friends at the park, checked out books at the library, and grabbed some groceries (even stopping back at the house for a quick potty break), while never going more than five miles from the house. I am really loving small town living in Covington. The weather is beautiful right now, and although I know that intense heat and humidity are waiting for us in the coming months, I can't help but soak in all the great things that life in the deep south has to offer. These small blessings help to make life so far away from friends and family (including my new sweet baby neice, Callie) a little easier.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Fontainbleu State Park
We had the chance to get out over the weekend...enjoy the pics and be sure to click on older posts to see them all!!!
Monday, March 9, 2009
All the Schus in Schuville...
have been very busy!! Brighton has been busy turning 4 months old. She had a visit to the doctor, which went very well. We switched doctors since I had not been happy with the doctor we chose when we first moved down here. The kids' new doctor is much better, and I am so much happier having found one that I can trust and who trusts me as a parent! Brighton weighs 16.1 lbs and is 26 1/4 inches long now. The doctor said she is about two months ahead in size and development. She can sit up in the tripod position already! She is still a very happy baby, but she is not sleeping through the night yet. She does go to sleep on her own for naptime, but she requires more attention (rocking, nursing, swaying, even Mommy doing lunges) at night.
Will has been busy completing an intense potty training marathon! He is going to the potty now, and has not had an accident of either sort in four days! He is wearing big boy underpants even to bed at night!!!! I created a chart for him in which he could earn a car. He earned one sticker for everytime he went to the potty, and twenty stickers earned Wingo (the car that he wanted). He was more successful than I was anticipating! I think I should've made it thirty or forty stickers! He is wearing underpants when we go out too, and he has not had any accidents. I took him to the potty during church, and he was completely fine to go weewee on the "big church potty."
Speaking of church, I am happy to say that we have found a church that we like and will eventually make our church home. It is Faith Presbyterian Chuch in Covington. It is a smaller congregation, but there are many families in our age group. They have a great program for children (starting at age 3) where they stay in the service until right before the sermon. Then, the pastor invites the children to the front of the church where they listen to a children's sermon and then proceed to children's church where they do follow-up activities. Will is only 2 1/2, so he gets a little Sunday School lesson, and then stays in the nursery, or he can come into church for a short while too. I will be excited when he can participate in the children's sermon because it's really cute to listen to the little ones making comments to the pastor :)Jon was able to go with us this Sunday because he did not go into work, despite the fact that he has much to accomplish in the coming days and weeks. He is very busy preparing the NOLA branch for the Warehouse Management System roll-out. He will be having to work every weekend this month, which means that I will be alone with the kids quite a bit. We are both looking forward to the month of April when we can spend some family time once again! Until then, we appreciate the prayers as we get through the strain of time apart.:)
Will has been busy completing an intense potty training marathon! He is going to the potty now, and has not had an accident of either sort in four days! He is wearing big boy underpants even to bed at night!!!! I created a chart for him in which he could earn a car. He earned one sticker for everytime he went to the potty, and twenty stickers earned Wingo (the car that he wanted). He was more successful than I was anticipating! I think I should've made it thirty or forty stickers! He is wearing underpants when we go out too, and he has not had any accidents. I took him to the potty during church, and he was completely fine to go weewee on the "big church potty."
Speaking of church, I am happy to say that we have found a church that we like and will eventually make our church home. It is Faith Presbyterian Chuch in Covington. It is a smaller congregation, but there are many families in our age group. They have a great program for children (starting at age 3) where they stay in the service until right before the sermon. Then, the pastor invites the children to the front of the church where they listen to a children's sermon and then proceed to children's church where they do follow-up activities. Will is only 2 1/2, so he gets a little Sunday School lesson, and then stays in the nursery, or he can come into church for a short while too. I will be excited when he can participate in the children's sermon because it's really cute to listen to the little ones making comments to the pastor :)Jon was able to go with us this Sunday because he did not go into work, despite the fact that he has much to accomplish in the coming days and weeks. He is very busy preparing the NOLA branch for the Warehouse Management System roll-out. He will be having to work every weekend this month, which means that I will be alone with the kids quite a bit. We are both looking forward to the month of April when we can spend some family time once again! Until then, we appreciate the prayers as we get through the strain of time apart.:)
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