Day: February 8, 2009

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Our New Child

I’m not talking about Caris.  But I’m talking about our Compassion International child.  Yvonne and I have been sponsoring a child since before we got married.  We decided to sponsor one at the National Youth Worker’s Convention the year we got married.  Our first sponsored child was named Elizabeth, chosen by me because of her name.

Elizabeth was from Peru.  I think at the time we sponsored her she was only 3 years old.  But we wrote to her.  We sent her pictures.  For I believe 2 years we had sponsored her.  Then Compassion sent us a letter telling us that she was no longer part of the program.  I believe her family started to make enough money and didn’t need to assistance anymore.  Something like that.  Which means we lost our child.

After losing Elizabeth, we were once again at the NYWC choosing another child.  Another little girl from Peru named Mariangela.  She was a cutie pie just like Elizabeth was.  We’ve been writing her and sending her pictures for the past year and a half.  We got exciting with every new letter we received from her with the new pictures.  And then again it happens.  Compassion calls and tells us she’s not part of the program anymore cause she moved out of the area.

So we were out looking for another sponsored child.  We found an 8 year old girl from Peru named Susan.  We’re looking forward to writing to her.  And also looking forward to see her actually write back.  Our previous sponsored children all had teachers write on their behalf.  It’ll be fun to actually write to the person.

For those of you who don’t know what Compassion is, please check them out.  It’s been such a blessing since sponsoring a child.

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I HATE Tile Floors

I HATE tile floors.  Let me repeat that.  I HATE tile floors.

All of our lower floor is tile.  I hated the tile floors to begin with.  They make your feet cold.  They make the house cold.  You can’t sit on tile like you can on carpet.  It just doesn’t give you that warm fuzzy house feeling.  I hate tile floors.

So Caleb likes to climb.  He likes to climb like a monkey.  (ooh ooh)  One thing he likes to climb are the chairs in our dining area which happens to be over tile floor.  So as he is climbing this one time, he overshoots the chair and lands head first onto the tile floor.  He cries of course.  He is a tough monkey, and he can get over a lot of bumps and bruises, but this one was bad.  He had a bad indention in his skull.  Yes, an indention.  He survived though and was just left with a bruise on his forehead.  But that fall was bad, and could have cracked his skull.  With carpet he probably would have hurt himself as well.  Maybe a little carpet burn.  But when he falls, that tile has no give.  All that fall goes straight to his noggin. I HATE tile floors.

Here’s some pictures of the bruise taken today.  It’s hard to see in these pictures, but it was much worse when it happened.

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Baby Name

Side note:  Caris is farting up a storm right now.

We had decided early on what the name of our girl was going to be.  It was just a matter of deciding if was going to be Caris Elisabeth or Elisabeth Caris.  Now if she had been a boy, that’s a whole different matter.  We had trouble coming up with Caleb’s name.  Now we’d have to come up with another name?

Well I was still pushing for Obadiah (Obi-Wong).  But Yvonne would have none of that.  I think Obi would have love that name.  We eventually settled with Nathan as the first name.  For the middle name, we were going to go with Ezra, I think.  Unless that name meant something like Caleb Joshua.  A very bold meaning in Caleb’s name and so far he’s lived up to it.  We wanted to avoid naming our child a name with a meaning that’s active like Caleb’s.  Nathan Ezra would have been it.

But God has given us our girl.  We may never have a need to use Nathan Ezra unless we decide to have another again.  If that’s the case, then we’ll have to come up with a girl’s name.  I’ve already got her first name picked out.  Hopefully Yvonne won’t veto this one as well.

http://failblog.org/2009/02/06/baby-name-fail/