During the past few weeks, there has been road construction on various roads surrounding our neighborhood and last week, the construction got to our street! Ironically, the construction vehicles showed up just after Kent had talked to a neighbor about when the city might ever repair our street. How nice that the City of Altamonte Springs heard Kent's conversation and decided to address his concern right away!! Erik was very pleased to see all the big construction vehicles and one night they actually parked all their vehicles right in front of our house. We had to take the unique opportunity and took some pictures!!
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| Construction vehicles in front of our house |
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| Erik learning how to drive! |
Erik is actually turning into quite a driving fanatic. He loves to steer any vehicle that we will allow him to get behind the wheel, as evidenced by the picture above. In the past few weeks, we've also occasionally let Erik sit in the driver's seat of Kent's Lincoln. We are going to have to start hiding the keys soon, I think!!
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| When are you going to let me have the keys? |
This week marked the first week that Amy & Karis brought their baby girl, Addison, to church. We had to mark the occasion with pictures, of course. Poor Addison is going to grow up completely surrounded by boys (seven to one)! The photo session proved beyond any doubt that it is
completely impossible to get 7 boys to look in the same direction at the same time with happy, normal smiling faces!!
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| First, a picture of all the boys. Count 'em - seven!! |
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| With Addison & Amy added |
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| The whole big group of us! |
We learned some sad news this week. One of Erik's little friends from daycare, Dylan, has just been diagnosed with cancer; Dylan is just 15 months old. After being sick for a few weeks, he was hospitalized and had some tests run. A tumor was discovered but it is too big to be surgically removed, so Dylan will have to undergo chemotherapy through a port to shrink it down to an operable size. All other scans and tests that Dylan has undergone have come back clean, which is great news. I simply cannot imagine how Dylan's parents are handling this; trying to stay positive and trying to keep Dylan calm and happy. Please pray for this family.
One last picture from the last few weeks:
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| Erik napping at daycare on his little nap mat |
Seven to One - it is just crazy! Addison will grow up thinking that SHE is a boy! :) Was Erik and Kent allowed to be on that machine, or is Daddy teaching Erik how to get away with something when no-one is looking?! :) Love your post - good job!
ReplyDelete7 boys to 1 girl is not the best ratio; I think it's time you guys got some more girls into the mix, hint hint! lol glad to finally start catching up with the ongoings of the Johnson's. Oh, and my heart just goes out to the family of the little boy diagnosed, so sad! I am humbled every time I realize how fortunate we all are. Agree with Z's post ~ great job!
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