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By Moose Admin on 1/15/2009 6:09 PM

As of late, all the kids have been sick.  I have spent many nights in bed with one of the children, and have spent many hours holding Jubilee.  She likes to be held and cuddle when she is sick.  I love it when she puts her head on my shoulder as I carry her around.  As you will see in the pictures below, we got to spend some good cuddle time together.

 

 

Well there it is .  Jubilee and me.  She sure is a cute thing.

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

By Moose Admin on 1/1/2009 10:58 AM

The other day I was walking into the living room and I saw my daughters playing.  It was Elizabeth and Hosanna, who we have dubbed the "Mei Mei's" which means little sister in Chinese.  We are not sure whether that is Cantonese or Mandarin, but we are sure of the meaning.

It was fun watching them play when they didn't know they were being watched.  If you listen carefully you will hear them both say some funny things, and you will see toward the end of the video that one of the figures out she is being recorded.

I know I have been doing a whole lot of videos on the blog lately, but I have been enjoying recording them and posting them.  I hope you all enjoy them too.

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

By Moose Admin on 12/30/2008 6:12 PM

Things are getting back to normal here in the Northwest.  The rain came back and melted most the snow.  The roads are better to drive on with the exception of the street in our neighborhood, but even that is getting better.  We were so excited when it snowed, and we loved playing in it, but it does seem more natural to be back to the old rain of winter.  There is something almost therapeutic about the rain.

Now that the snow is about gone all we will have is pictures.  Praise God I have a LOT.  I looked through our snow pictures and below are my favorites.

  

  

I hope you like those, and just so you know, I have a lot more which you can view all of our December pictures here.

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

By Moose Admin on 12/29/2008 6:24 AM

My last post was about the boys and how well they are doing with their tin whistles, and I didn't include Elisha.  Elisha didn't feel comfortable about playing her tin whistle, but she did want me to video her playing her flute.  She has been playing the flute for less than a year and she has improved a lot.  I remember when she started the flute, I was worried that she would give up because she was having such a hard time with it.  She struggled through and is now doing much better.

So here is a video of Elisha Michele Silva playing her flute.

I hope you enjoyed it as much as I have enjoyed listening to her get better and better and better.

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

By Moose Admin on 12/28/2008 7:12 AM

This year I spent time deciding what instrument I wanted to play.  After a lot of research I decided on the tin whistle.  The day I brought my tin whistle home, the kids were very interested of my choice.  They all wanted to play my tin whistle.  After seeing that they liked it so much I decided I would get them all tin whistles for Christmas.  I ordered them some Clarke Sweetones tin whistles and put them in their stockings. 

On Christmas morning the children were very happy to get their tin whistles.  They started playing great music the same day they got them.  I was sort of jealous because in one day they could play better than I could and I have been practicing for a month.  Below I have some videos of the boys playing their tin whistles.  I hope you enjoy their music.

 

By Moose Admin on 12/26/2008 11:07 PM

Today we had about 2 hours of snow fun.  Isaiah, Elisha, Elizabeth, and I drove to the middle school close to where we live and we went sledding.  We also played in the snow a bit.  Below is a cute video of Elizabeth.

You can also see the rest of our snow day videos on our SmugMug Page.

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

By Moose Admin on 12/22/2008 7:24 PM

It has been a very interesting week.  We have had lots of snow, as I have mentioned in my other posts, and we have had a lot of great times outside playing in the snow.  That has been one of the blessings this week.  I have some others too.

I would like to thank the Lord for the blessing of my little Hosanna.  We have had a good day today.  It all started this morning when she called me into her bedroom at 3am to tell me she was not feeling good.  Now it isn't a blessing for her to be sick, but it was great to let her jump into the bed with me and cuddle all morning.  The next nice thing was after lunch I was tired after shoveling lots of snow, and Hosanna and I cuddled for about 30 minutes on the couch.  The last but not least, tonight Hosanna came to me to tell me she was sorry for taking a potato chip without asking.  The reason this is such a blessing is that she is starting to be repentant for things she does wrong.  I had scolded her when she took the chip without asking and told her not to do it again, and then just left it at that.  About 45 minutes later she came to me and said she was sorry.  I hugged her for a LONG time after that.  I love her very much.

The last blessing I want to mention was that we found out camera.  Last Saturday I thought I had left it in the church, but nobody had seen it.  We had some very good pictures of our trip to Grandma and Grandpa Wiebe's house and we were very worried those would be lost.  With Grandma, Grandpa and Great Grandma getting older we didn't know whether or not these might be our last pictures of one of them.  Well anyway, I found the camera in the house and praise God we didn't loose it.

So those are the blessing we received today.  God is good!

~MykkMoose (Dad)(Mike)

By Moose Admin on 12/21/2008 6:57 PM

Okay this is just a short post with some pictures.  I posted several of them on my Facebook page, but I wanted to make sure I put them up here.  We took pictures at Winco of the "olders" and pictures of Jubilee at the house.  I hope you enjoy them.  The quality isn't the best because I took them with my cell phone.

  

  

By Moose Admin on 12/21/2008 1:44 AM

Today we went to Winco and while we were there I took some pictures of Jubilee in the shopping cart.  The shots were pretty good so I decided to put one on my cell phones background. 

As I was changing this on my phone Gabriel asks, "Why don't I get to ..." and then he stops.  He was going to ask, why he didn't get to be on the cell phone, but then remembered that the last image I used was of him.  Gabe's picture has been the home screen background for the last 6 months, if not longer.  It is funny though, what things are important to the kids.  As dad, I have to remember those things.

Here is the picture of Jubilee that I am using.

~mykkmoose (dad)(mike)

By Moose Admin on 12/20/2008 11:42 PM

I have to start out by saying that here in western Washington state we don't get much snow during the winter.  When it does snow, usually it snows in the morning, rains around noon, and the by the afternoon the snow we got in the morning is all gone. 

Well this week has been different.  It has snowed many days and the temperatures have been so low that it hasn't melted.  The kids have LOVED it.  They have been able to play in it everyday this week.  (Well except for today.  We went out shopping)  Below are some pictures of the snow.