Does Army Crawling Count as Crawling? We Think so!

Micah did it! He made it across the living room all by himself! He is now what we call crawling a.k.a. army-crawling! He just started this a little over a week ago and has been moving all over the place. He is quite fast and even tries to follow us when we leave the room.

Story: The other day we left the living room to go to the kitchen and left Micah playing in the living room and then all of a sudden we heard him getting closer. To our surprise, he had crawled out of the living room and into the hallway and was on his way to find us. It was hilarious to watch his little determined face as he was working very hard to get to us.

We were excited to catch him on video and love that we can share all of these wonderful milestones with you. Let us know how proud you are of Micah!

It's Better to GIVE then Receive...

As mentioned in our newsletter, we are in the middle of Ramadan and its a tradition to make food and then give to your neighbors. In return, the neighbor makes something and sends the plate back full of new food. Well, we have only lived in our new home for a few weeks and already our neighbors are sharing this tradition with us.

Here's our story: 2 days ago (Saturday), our doorbell rang and Randall answered it and to his surprise there were 3 little kids standing outside our door with a plate covered with foil. Randall seemed excited to try a new Arabic dish and to Liz's surprise, it was a food she had been served at a recent wedding (a mushy chicken and dumplings kindof dish that the people eat with their hands). Needless to say, Liz wasn't too excited but Randall dove right in (after putting Toni's seasoning on it) and tried it. Moving on, Liz decided to make an American dish: Chocolate Brownies to send back on the neighbor's plate.

Tonight (Monday) around 6:30 (which is when they break fast), Liz and Morgan took the plate of brownies to the neighbors and talked with the Mother, explaining what the brownies were. Not 10 minutes later after returning home did our doorbell ring. Once again Randall opened it to the same 3 kids who were standing there with a plate of food. This time a new mushy dish with an interesting smell. HaHa We thought! They must have liked the brownies! Then 5 minutes later the doorbell rang again and the same 3 kids stood there with a second plate of rice mix and Arabic salad (which we like). I guess they really liked the brownies! The question is: what should Liz make next to send back???

Rice Mix & Arabic Salad (night #2)

Mushy mystery (night #2)....Night #1 food was not photographed but it was even more "interesting" then this stuff...

Sometimes it really is better to give then to receive....(haha!)

Bubble Bath

We thought you might enjoy a little video with fun "kiddy" music! We don't have a bathtub in our new home but have made the best with what we've found in the stores so that the kids can still take their baths as "normal" as before.

Morgan & Micah are at a fun stage now because they entertain one another... the truth... Micah watches Morgan and laughs and laughs at her and she carries on... entertaining him. Either way, they are learning to become good playmates! Enjoy our cuties!

On the Go...

We have been very busy lately with moving into a different home (home #2) and traveling. In all this busy time, we have also lost internet connection (and have to borrow our friend's in their home) and hopefully will have our internet back soon (inshallah!) Here are a few updated pictures of our weekend trip where we visited our good friends.

This is Lucy, Micah's (girl) friend (only 2 weeks apart). And Yes they are in the bath together (first time). It was so funny watching them check each other out and it looks here as if Lucy has the giggles and Micah is puzzled...

Here we were out to eat and Morgan's new thing is having tea parties and we thought this setting was very appropriate.

We were able to go swimming and the kids had a great time! It was funny because it was a covered pool so we didn't have to worry about getting sunburned yet, it was still just as hot because we were outside. Fun times!

Believe it or not, this was first thing in the morning and Micah & Lucy were very happy!

Morgan was having a great time trying on local hats (that actually the men and boys wear)

We will try and post pics of our new home soon. Our family is doing well and once again, adjusting to a new home! As usual, we are on the go...