Addie and Charlie

This is some "art" that Addie did at a recent play group play-date. Basically the next Michelangelo.

And this is Charlie! I watch Charlie on Wednesday mornings while his mom teaches piano lessons at school. In return, she watches Addie on Thursday mornings while I teach music class. Works out pretty slick.

I think I see Addie trying to hold hands here.... or maybe just grabbing for whatever is in his hand.

Addie: "Boys... ugh."

Update on our lives: Joel has about one month of school left. Anxiously looking forward to that and praising the good Lord! He'll be an official graduate on Dec. 20th, then. His work has been doing ok - they are encouraging workers to use all of their paid-leave before Christmas. They do this to make their numbers look good to investors. It sounds nice, but if you wanted to take some time off right after Christmas, it's not so good. We're thankful he has a job, though.

I'm currently fighting a cold. No flu, though. Also thanking God for that, as there have been bouts of the H1N1 flu going around school and among some staff members here. I subbed a few times in the last week - once for a teacher who was leaving for a wedding, and then again for half a day for a teacher whose daughter had the flu. Hope I don't pick up on anything!

Cold weather here - rainy and even snowing on some days. Quite a change from last month where it felt more like summer than September. We're hoping for a "warmer" and sunnier day next week so we can take Addie to the pumpkin patch and get some pictures. :)

Also got some good news this week that we'll have visitors around Christmas time! Joel's brother and family (Randy, Kat, and boys - traveling back from Peru) will be here before Christmas for a few days, and my parents will be here during Christmas time for a few days as well. We're excited about spending that time with them. Woohoo! Love you guys!

Edited to add some exciting (at least for me) news: Also, yesterday, since normally I have music class in the morning, but I have off because of teacher's conference, we headed to Schmitt Music to check out some digital pianos. We didn't get anything - yet. We're saving up for it with money I get from weddings, funerals, etc. It's a Kawai C22- a Japanese product. And yes, I'd like to have a real piano someday, but in our townhome we need something that won't be too loud, seeing that the place we'll be putting it will be against a wall. And besides, we can plug headphones into it while Addie or any other baby sleeps.