Lots to report today! 
First of all, in an earlier post, I wrote about buying Mary and Nathan their new winter coats at a consignment sale. I finally took some pictures of them tonight- pretty cute stuff! Here they are:
Sickness continued…
I also, finally, went to the doctor today after five weeks of this horrible, wrenching cough. I love, love, love our doctor. Dr. Reade has a Christian practice, which I think is so cool in today’s world. They are very open about it, pray with their patients if you request it- just wonderful. The doctor shook his finger at me for not coming in weeks ago, said I have some sort of rabid infection in my throat and wrote me four prescriptions. Let’s hope I feel better soon.
Nathan’s Big Bed
Sunday night, after Kip and I put the babies to bed, we were putzing around downstairs and heard a loud thunk followed by much wailing and heart wrenching sobs. Of course, we make a mad dash upstairs to find that Nathan has fallen out of his cribby. After a lot of consoling, rocking and loving, we put him back to bed. Yesterday morning (Monday), I was upstairs around 11:00am putting away laundry, waiting for Nathan to wake up from his morning nap. I hear his door rattling! What in the world?? You guessed it, big man has figured out how to climb out of his crib and is trying to get the door open. (This must have been the cause of the previous night’s fall). I put him back in his cribby just to see what he’ll do- promptly climbs out again. So, obviously, it’s time for the big bed. I went out today and purchased a good set of bed rails for his new bed. He’s got Uncle Mikey’s bed from when he was a boy. It’s an antique cannon ball bed and quite high so we really did need some good rails to contain Nathan. After dinner, we took Nathan’s crib down and moved it to the nursery. We moved the dresser around in his room and brought up his tool bench which has been out in the garage since we moved. Boy, was Nathan *thrilled* to have his tool bench back! Here’s some pictures of the big boy and his new big bed and his new room. We don’t have any pictures or things hung up yet because we knew that when he moved to the big bed we would change his furniture around so we’ve been waiting on that. Anyway, the pictures:
A little bit of training:
When Mary was about Nathan’s age we trained her to “put your hands in your lap”. It helps for those times when there are lots of things to grab and touch that should be offlimits. For example, when Jennifer Routh was here visiting with Anna, who was six weeks old at the time. Mary was just all eyes and wanted to watch Jenn change Anna’s diaper. Instead of telling her “no, you can’t touch the baby”, “no, don’t touch the diaper”, “no, don’t touch the powder”, etc. I just told her “Mary, put your hands in your lap”. I like that it is a directive and not a constant list of no’s or what not to do’s. At any rate, it was time to start that training with Nathan. We started tonight after dinner- here are some pictures of Nathan with his “hands in your lap”.
Cookies
Finally, Mary and I made cookies this afternoon. The Great Wild Wildebeest crept around underfeet destroying the cabinet with the measuring cups while Mary and I worked on baking Aunt Greta’s Chocolate Chip Cookies. 
