Growing up!

Nic & Nyle are growing up fast!   When we got here Nic could barely reach the lightswitch in his room and was still in pull-ups.  Now he's a big boy, wearing big boy underwear and doesn't need our help to make his room... which he refers to as a dark, scary cave... light again.  He has also been consistent going pee pee in the potty.  We are still working on #2.  He's had some accidents.  I've done some reading and it talked  about expecting a setback when there has been something traumatic in a child's life such as a "big move."  Well poor Nic has been though a lot.  He has lived in 5 places in the last year.  The other day he said  "after we live in this house, then we'll move to a new house."  He just expects it.  The kid has no stability.  BUT he does have stability in knowing that his parents will be there for him and the Bible is our foundation for everything we do.  Little Nyle..."Baba Nyle" is what we call him now...has developed so much.  He is pulling himself all around the house, making his way from room to room.  He HAS officially crawled, but he really just likes sliding.  Then when he gets where he wants to be (usually the bathroom for some reason, I don't know maybe he wants to be potty trained) he pulls up on everything to stand up.  He really prefers to stand.  He does the yoga move downward dog a lot trying to stand up on his own.  So most the time if he's fussy we'll just prop him up next to the couch and he is fine on his feet.  I think he will walk early.  Nic just breaks my heart though.  He has such an imagination.  He'll pretend MeMe and PaPa are here.  He'll go to the door, let them in and then show them his room.  I'll be playing with him and he'll say "tickle me, Vow" (Vow is my mom)  I'll tickle him and play "boo" like Vow does, and he'll keep calling me Vow.  Sometimes Nic will say that he's going to get on the airplane and fly home.  It's just so sad.  He's even had me pretend that I'm Mylo and he is Otis.  You know it's bad if he misses the cats.  But I am so thankful for Skype and that we can talk to and see our relatives on a pretty regular basis.  I'm also so SO thankful for the generous packages sent to us here.  We've had a couple people from church send us our "want" and "we miss"  items.  They definitely help.  We feel loved and supported...and frankly it just makes us feel better to have tortillas and peanut butter on hand.  Of course my mom and dad (Tim & Donnetta) and in-laws Rick & Cynthia have also sent things for the boys and for us.  But prayer is the most important thing we can ask for.  Just because we are m's doesn't mean we are immune to problems.  Our geography just changed.  In fact, can you imagine spending all day every day with your spouse?  Some might say, "oh how wonderful."  For the most part it is great, especially to have Adam help with the boys, BUT it's good to have time away to re-charge.  It does get stressful here with language learning.  We have private lessons every morning for 2 hours (1 hr. each for now till Nic gets to go to school).  I get worked up about it because I just want to do my best.  Hungarian is very difficult.  The nationals even say it is.   Anyway, we have spent a lot of time reading our Bibles.  When we went to Budapest, Larry & Melinda, a couple serving on our team, gave us each The Daily Walk Bible.  It has been soooo good.  The translation is just so understandable and it takes you through the whole Bible day by day.  I have never read through the Bible.  Right now I am reading through the Old Testament.  It has brought about so many questions that I have.  I am keeping a journal of my thoughts about it.   It definitely makes me that much more thankful that Jesus came to earth.  Adam has been getting involved with playing basketball here and running with our language teacher's boyfriend.  I am still working on getting together with some people.  It's tough to work around nap times.  We all look forward to the warm weather, which should be here in a month or 2.  Our Hungarian friends say that we can go camping sometime when it gets warm.  We tried to explain to them Smores, well first we had to explain marshmallow...but they look forward to it and so do we!   I have had so many thoughts in my head and I really just love typing because I'm so much faster at it than writing in my journal.  Blogging is new to me, so I hope to get up to speed on all this.