7 Scattered Things of Celebration, Love, Heartache & Craziness
1. Happy 7th Birthday, Louis!
2. Carving Pumpkins
For Louis' Birthday Party - we carved pumpkins! So fun!!
Louis carved a ghost, Gregory a top hat &mustache guy, Pete carved IronMan & Theresa carved Mary & Jesus
3. Trick - or - Treating
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| "Two-face" (Batman's enemy) |
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| Batman! |
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| "Buzz Lightyear" |
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| Darth Vader (Peter) & Darth Mal (Louis) |
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| with friends! |
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| "Ninja Mamas" |
4. Loving Karate!
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| Gregory & Louis participated in their first karate test! |
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| And they both progressed a stripe! |
Congratulations, boys!
5. Blessings of boys ... it may look like just rolled up garbage,
but it's really a map of Mysterious Island!
6. Update on Damian
So, we did get the test results back and Damian does have the same genetic mutation as Louis, & the same disease NOMID. But he'ssocute - even with spots :-)
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| Mom, another picture? sheesh! |
Thank you - everyone - for your support and prayers. We are not sure what the future holds - and that just forces us to rely even more on our dear heavenly Father ... your prayers are so precious - thank you for every one of them! They are helping us so much!
7. Birthday Boy Treasures - Oh Louis!
Louis was reading the chapter of his religion book to me - the chapter when Adam and Eve disobeyed God (and remember that made them lose the ability to go to heaven - and no, I'm not going to get into the difference between condemned to hell and not into heaven yet, but Louis didn't see a difference ;-) love this kid...)
"And they were not able to go to heaven"
Louis: "oh no! That's terrible! That's so sad!"
Me: "keep reading"
Louis goes on and on about how awful not going to heaven is and all the fire in hell, with me saying "keep reading" every 20 seconds or so... Aprx 7 minutes(! - no joke.) later he reads again
Louis reading: "then God promised a savior-I know who that is! Oh I get it! Jesus had to come save us because Adam & Eve lost Gods grace and Jesus wins it back for us!"
Me: "yes!" Close enough ;-) so sweet to see him make the connection of the entire spread of salvation history on his own!
The 2nd best part about Louis' lesson today was when he began reading about Eve and the snake
"oh she better not listen to it!" He says between words & after the snake speaks
and Eve ate the fruit he said "Nooooo! Oh mom, she should have said what you did! She should have said, 'no way Satan, not me! I am a daughter of the living God!' And all that other stuff you said"
Me: "yeah, that would have been better huh?"
Louis: "definitely. If snakes ever talk to me that's what I'll say, but I'll say 'son' not 'daughter.'"
To which I tried to explain how Satan can tempt us in many ways & your snake could be a whisper in your heart to be naughty when you should be good.
Louis' response? "Mom, you can't have a snake in your body. We had one in the house that one time but it didn't talk to me."
:-/
Lol!
& that's all I got!
a punch to your shoulder,
the Martins
PS - look for an update on the NEW foyer that Pete built soon! It's done and SOOOOOOO Beautiful!!! He gave me a front door! Love my man!
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