a little update

happy...sleepy...

turning into a great cook like her aunt oogii!

"i wanna make buuz!!"

egch duu 2

posing!

fun!

welcome to the world of this tired mommy! :) life is good, the kids are great--they're so much fun! yvelle is talking away and tells us exactly what she thinks, especially when she wants something "right now"! ;) josiah is a dear, happy boy who has the sweetest smile and a chuckle that puts a smile on everyone else's face.

since javkhaa graduated in may, we had to move out of student housing in early August. we weren't sure where to go or quite how to plan, since we are hoping to move back to Mongolia (soon, whatever that turns out to mean) and we didn't want to be locked into a year or even a 6 month lease, if such a thing could be found. the Lord put it on my heart and into my head to ask an acquaintance at Regent if we could stay with her and her husband. they had another family with 2 kids live with them about a year ago, and so i just thought it might be possible...

and here we are! it has been a great blessing to us in many ways. moving was an adventure... never moved with kids before. we're so grateful for the babysitting help we had that gave us a little extra time to pack, but even with that, it was down to the wire. without the LATE night help of a few angel-friends, we would have been in trouble. (Lord, please bless all the friends who cleaned, sorted, threw away, gave away, and moved stuff for us!!)

we're about 12-15 minutes from Regent now, so that makes our day a little more complicated than before. i was working in the am, coming home, j was going to work for a while, coming home, and then i was going back to work at the end of the day. that's not so convenient from here.

please pray for J to get a good job! there was one UNDP position he applied for in UB which would have been a good fit, but they didn't have a budget for relocation :/ and it is seeming like they went with someone else.

that's all for now, it's pretty early and i'm fighting a cold so i should go back to bed. :) it's a treat to have the quiet space to post something, though!

Welcoming Enkh-Bilguun Josiah!

Y is now often heard saying: my hold him, my hold him! baby CUTE! my here, no cry, my here. baby siah!

hee hee, oogii is very empathetic! ;)

proud daddy and big sister!

April 14, 8:47 am, 7 lbs 10.5 oz, 20.6 inches

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:) After being without internet for most of the week, we're back online. Thankful!

wow!! it's been far too long...

will try to post an update soon (before baby boy comes on the scene)! ;)

oh man...

wow, just saw how long since i've posted an update. can't write much now but it's one of my resolutions to get this back up to date!! (and before baby boy appears on the scene!) ;)

happy new year, happy mongolian/lunar new year, and happy spring (almost!!)!

becoming human...

To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do-- to grit your teeth and clench your fists in order to survive the world at its harshest and worst--is by that very act, to be unable to let something be done for you and in you that is more wonderful still. The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.

... Frederick Buechner (b. 1926), The Sacred Journey, San
Fransisco: Harper & Row, 1982, p. 46

Yvelle has a cousin! :)

Saruul and Ganaa's daughter, Enkh-Khailuun, was born about 2 weeks ago. What a cutie! I'll try and post a picture of her soon.

Yaasan muuhai huuhit ve! ;)

We're all doing well, though there are never enough hours in the day, it seems, to do all we need to do...

But God is good and life is beautiful.

Love to you all!

all better

well, i thought i'd better give an update... after about 4 or 5 days of fever and a couple days of a rash all over her face, arms and torso (poor baby!), yvelle is back to her perky self! :) and we're all happy with her.

today a big box arrived... i think it's the christmas present from my mom that we'll let her open for her birthday and play with a bit, till we pack it up and save it for christmas. (it's a Fisher Price nativity set--yay!)

looking forward to the big birthday in a couple weeks--the 19th. Hard to believe she'll be one! (Hard to believe that Enkhbeleg would be 2 and a half, too!)

It's HOT here in Virginia Beach but I'm oh so glad for the sunshine.

Take care!

4 days and counting

yvelle started having a fever on sunday. :/ poor kid. she's doing fine, but we're still needing to give her Tylenol to keep the fever down. the doctor said it's just a virus and, in time, she'll be all better.

just thought i'd let ya know...

thanks for keeping in touch!
love,
skye

video archive

this is from a while ago, but... that's ok! :)

(another one was too long to post...)

Seriously... ;)

picnic last weekend... :)