The Crumptons

Suddenly we are moving TODAY

May 25th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The house only has a few details left to be finished today. Since pickups trucks are available today, we are moving all the big things today. That means we will probably move everything today. I fully expected to be here another week, but here we go! I am rather overwhelmed by all the last minute goodbyes and things I wanted to give people sort of errands I have to do today. Of course we will be coming back here, but I’m not sure how often I will be visiting since I’ll have a newborn very soon!

This is the same way we moved here, sudden, in a flurry and with guests!

Our friends the Biers are here and are being a wonderful help getting everything ready!

Once we move over there, we won’t have any phone or internet set up for some time. So, unless I find an internet cafe near by, we will be out of touch with the outside world for a little while, and this may include the day the baby comes.

Gotta run now, and continue packing. Just wanted to let everyone know that this is it! (Now if only I could say that about labor starting too).

Oh and now I feel all sentimental about leaving La Perla, even despite the daily processions we’ve been having.

Ball on Fire!*

May 16th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

*Alistair’s exclamation at seeing his birthday ball candle lit

Alistair is two! He is so excited about “birthdays” and birthday cakes and birthday hats, and birthday balloons etc. Since he was so excited about birthday cakes (the idea came from books and movies I guess), I wanted to make him a big decorated layer cake. My cakes (yes, that’s plural, three to be exact) turned out terrible- I’m blaming it on the altitude. I managed to fill over the sunken cupcake holes with blue frosting and sprinkles, so Alistair was thrilled anyway with his personal cake. I think I was the only one with fallen expectations of a “real” birthday cake.

Birthday Breakfast!

A little nervous about the ball on fire (oh and looking back at these, I’m wondering why I only put one candle on, he did turn 2 after all)

Trying to figure out how to blow

Eating the icing! (like his father, he doesn’t like cake)

Alistair speaks in sentences now, and he even made a verb past tense the other day (Me: what happened? Alistair: Me falled). He is also catching on to the use of plural “s”.  I find all this development very interesting and so I feel I must share it. Though perhaps I should just limit it to the linguistic “nerd club” (Eh Lydia?).

He counts everything, though rarely correctly (one, two, three, nine ten!).

He loves lollipops.

He loves playing with Flash.

He continues with his Mexican food diet. He hates bread and pasta (the only bread he will touch is Mexican sweet bread). He would be happy if he just ate rice with chicken and tortillas. I don’t cook like a Mexican, so he really eats up when we eat dinner at someone’s house. It is really amazing how he scarfs down their food. I end up having to make him special Mexican dishes. He won’t even eat pizza anymore. And still has an aversion to beef. So the food area is a difficult one, because I can’t keep making him special rice dishes. And yes, he doesn’t seem to mind eating chips covered in hot chili powder.

He is potty trained except for nights.

He still takes an afternoon nap, usually for about 2 hours.

His Spanish vocabulary consists of “adios,” “gracias,” and “nena.”

His prayers are so cute! He folds his hands and shuts his eyes real tight, and lists off things we are having for dinner, then expands into things he likes, then ends with a big AMEN!

I’m so thankful God gave him to us!

A Little News Post

May 14th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I was going to put up Alistair’s birthday photos, but Adam just left and I realized he took the camera with him. So I’ll have to put them up later.

We went to the doctor yesterday for Alistair and I. Alistair is covered from head to toe in a red rash (no fever). We think it is from the banana he ate a the other day. He has broken out in a diaper rash before when he ate a banana, but I was hoping he had outgrown the allergy by now. He saw me eating one, and begged and begged for some. I’m hoping that is what is causing the rash and not something else. We have some medicine now that should help clear it up.

The doctor said the baby has dropped, which I already suspected from the severe backaches I’ve been getting and the amount of pressure. She gave us the list of things we have to bring with us for the delivery. The patient has to bring their own soaps to clean the baby with, diapers, wipes, towels, gauze, and the list goes on.

My hernia has not grown any, so the doctor says there is no reason to rush with surgery. This was a relief. She is also ready to accomodate me if I’d like to try a different position to give birth in. Another huge relief.

The house is slowly getting finished. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll be in it by the time this baby comes!

I must now work on sewing curtain hems. Then, I will be finally done with working with that sheer fabric.

Pictures to come soon, I promise.