Overnight Date Night!

On December 15th, Benny and I were blessed to take an overnight trip to Staunton, VA (about 25 min away).  Our wonderful babysitter Laura stayed with Andrew, and we had a wonderful time together--just the two of us! We did a little shopping in Harrisonburg, ate dinner in Staunton, hung out at a cute little coffee shop and enjoyed our free nights stay at the Stonewall Jackson Inn.  Saturday morning we did a little more shopping in Charlottesville before heading home. 

Harrisonburg Discovery Museum

A few weeks ago Benny and I took Andrew to the Discovery Museum in Harrisonburg.  We had a blast, and will definitely be returning!

The TV Station room.

Playing with the green screen.

Train table!

Driving the Thomas train!

Puppet show by Daddy.

Andrew the farmer.

How we discovered Andrew's love for slides!

Christmas Tree Lighting

The Town of Bridgewater had a Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony tonight.  I've never been to Rockefellar Center, but I'm sure it was exactly the same as their tree lighting ceremony. 

Thanksgiving Pink Eye

We stayed in Bridgewater for Thanksgiving because I had to work Friday-Saturday.  On the Tuesday evening before Thanksgiving, we ventured out to Chick-Fil-A to explore the play place.  Andrew had a blast in the play place, and we enjoyed one of their milk shakes on the drive home. 

Well, Andrew woke up on Wednesday morning with a little green boogie in the corner of his eye, and then after his morning nap Benny notices that his left eye was swollen, and there was a lot of green goo seeping out of it.  Not good.  We called our pediatrician and took the last appointment of the day.  He told us that he had pretty bad pink eye, so not only were we perscribed the eye drops, but also 10 days of oral antibiotics.  After he infected his other eye with the pink eye, he looked pretty pathetic.  Thankfully though, you would have never known from his countenance.  He was just as happy and joyful as he always is!!

Pathetic looking...

But here's how he really was...all smiles!

Helping Daddy

Andrew is super helpful these days.  Any time we open the dishwasher, he's always right there to "help" us load or unload. I have no idea how we ever got this chore done without him!  :)

Laura

The Lord has blessed us with some AMAZING babysitters for Andrew--SUCH an answer to prayer.  One of the girls who watches him a lot is Laura. She's a sophomore at JMU (James Madison University), she is SO sweet, really great with Andrew, and she loves the Lord- she even interviewed to be a counselor at Kanakuk!  We are so thankful for these wonderful young ladies who display Christ to Andrew when we can't be with him!

A Visit from Larry and Leta!

 Benny's Dad (Larry) and Larry's wife, Leta came for a visit the last weekend of October to see Bridgewater play in the first round of the ODAC conference playoffs.  (The Eagles hadn't been in the postseason since 2006!  They must have a really great coach :)
But, while Larry and Leta were driving to Virginia from Indiana, a crazy snow storm came through and the game was postponed until Sunday.  They had to leave to get back to Indiana on Sunday morning, but we still enjoyed some wonderful time with them!
-(Bridgewater did not win the game that had been postponed, but they finished the season 7-11-1...SUCH an amazing improvement for the team who had only won 3 games in the previous two years combined.  I am SO proud of the incredible job Benny did with these guys!)