4 more days...

and I will no longer be wearing glasses!! I'm so excited... I got hooked up with an eye surgeon when I was in Ohio who does free Lasik surgeries for pastors but the waiting list was 18 months long. I had totally forgot about it until I received a call in June ready to schedule my surgery for september - and here we are! So we'll be driving down to Dayton, OH on wednesday and coming back friday night. here's to waking up with clear eyesight!

Some updates from this summer - Cindy took the boys camping with her mom & aunt judy - they seemed to really have a good time with lots of hanging out at the beach!



















We've also been able to spend lots of time with family - Isaac & Jonah always love seeing their grandpas & grandmas! The boys spent a week with both grandparents while Cindy & I went to Nicaragua. When we got home it seemed that Isaac had learned to talk in complete sentences all the time!! he now mimics almost any sentence you speak around him... He's such a little boy these days!




I can't believe how much Isaac LOVES to be outside... he would play out in the backyard all day if you let him. The neighbor, Keagan, comes over all the time too to see if Isaac can play.



Isaac had one bummer of an experience this summer - he had to get his nose cauterized. it was pretty quick and relatively without incident. Isaac had to get put under anesthesia and it's always hard to come out of that. we went early in the morning and were home around 10am. So Isaac spent the rest of the morning watching cartoons on the couch while feeling crappy





Jonah had a great couple of doctor's appointments last week too. He's 25% in his measurements (except his head circumference which is always really big) and he's developing just like he should. he had a hearing test and the doctor was REALLY impressed with Jonah's hearing! so he's scoring great on all of his milestones! He's even taken up to 2 steps on his own!

Other than that, we've had a great summer. We spent lots of time at home with the family. We've also gone to the park a lot and even swimming a few times. and Isaac ALWAYS wants to come out to the garage and help his dad fix things. He loves using screwdrivers and hammers! He even helped do some landscaping in the backyard.

summer update - long overdue!

well, this update is long overdue.... we've been keeping pretty busy as a family - as usual. But we've been loving the summertime... our first one NOT in a hospital for a few years. so here's what's going on with us

Scott:
I took a week of vacation right after our school-year programming was finished just to hang around the house and be with the family. I also redid our master bathroom as well. that's 3 bathrooms we remodeled since moving in last october! Everytime I wish I was smart enough to take before and after shots. but I'm not.

I'm loving the summer, it's a great change of pace and I'm getting lots of time to pray and plan about the future of Student Ministries at Fair Haven as well as getting lots of time to just be relational with people there without programs taking up my time.

We also did our part for the environment and our bank account and bought a scooter. I've had it for 5 or 6 weeks now and I drive it everyday everywhere I go. last month I paid $20 in gas to use it. it's also really fun to ride!




cindy has been busy as well. she stays home with the boys everyday and also has been cutting hair in her salon in the basement. So if you need a haircut, give her a call! She also decided to plant a garden this summer in our backyard.

this last week she went to Chicago with her friend, Emily while I stayed home with the boys





We are both planning on going to Nicaragua this summer with a few students from Fair Haven on a mission trip too.


As for the boys... everyday is a new adventure!

Isaac turned 2 on May 31. Two. wow. He's 2. crazy. in memory of his time in the NICU Isaac put on his newborn hat and held on to his preemie diaper to show the difference







We had his grandpa & grandma schoonveld over for dinner and presents and then the other grandparents the next day. Isaac got a great toy box to put in his room and hold his ever-growing arsenal of toys. he also got some outside toys









Not only do we love our new house - but Isaac loves it too! Everyday he whines to go outside and play in his sandbox or play with the neighbor kid, keegan









but more importantly, the all encompassing "WAGON!" is the most important aspect of his life... he LOVES the wagon... every time he goes outside he wants to go for a ride. Jonah loves it too. They love taking the wagon to the park to play on the slide

From Summer 2008

isaac is starting to talk in short sentences now... and he'll tell us stories that he remembers. We went to Isaac's 2-year doc appointment and the doctor looked "for birdies" in his ear and up his nose. 3 days later he started talking about "ladies!" for the ladies at the doc office. and then "birdies!" "Ears!" "Find it!" cindy says "Yes, the ladies looked in your ears for birdies." and then, "Birdies! Find it! Nose!" cindy says "Yes, the ladies looked for birdies in your nose" and then "Ladies! Tootle! Tickle!" .... yes, the ladies checked your tootle and it tickled!"

at his latest developmental appointment he rated 24-29 months at all of his abilities... so he's well caught up at this point developmentally. he does have to go to the hospital this monday for a small procedure on his nose b/c of all his random nosebleeds. Hopefully that will go well




Jonah turned 1 three weeks before isaac's birthday and then almost immediately started to pull himself up on everything! he's crawling all over the place and standing up on anything he can find! He continues to grow and develop at a great rate and he's doing all the things he should. These days he wants to be just like his brother.







these shots are from a random day of watching cartoons










We also spent some family time together at the Jamestown memorial day parade and had a cookout at Aunt Betty's afterwards














And last night we went to see Uncle Steve's truck at the Truck Show in Muskegon

wow... it's been a long time!

sorry for the delay in posting... yikes! might as well start with a great picture



things have been really busy around here enjoying the outdoors! We are so excited to finally be able to have a summer where we have a home to call our own and NOT be in the hospital... it's been 4 years since that's been true!

so we've been doing some stuff around the house... we installed a firepit in our back yard and cleaned the yard all up in the back. We also cleaned out and organized our garage and installed some railings on the deck - that we use ALL THE TIME and Isaac & Jonah LOVE to play on.

we also picked up an old-school, rusty swing set for free on the side of the road. $50 worth of new swings and paint and Isaac loves it! and I replaced the door frame to our garage door.









inside we've been organizing our tubs and tubs and tubs of baby clothes to find some shorts and short sleeve shirts for the boys and cleaned out the junk in the basement... including our old washing machine. We finally got our new TV hung on the wall so I've been rocking out on ROCK BAND when I can.

We're contemplating the best way to redecorate the boys rooms... since we've never really done anything with them in our transient state. We're not sure what we want... but I think we may just wait until they get into the "big boy bed" stage to go all out and we may just paint for now. We really missed out on the "decorating the nursery" phase, which is sad for us... but we should be able to do it well for the next stage.

isaac can't stand NOT being outside as much as he can... often Cindy's dad will stop by after work to play with Isaac outside ("side! side! side" or "Walk! Walk! Walk!")

I think he's actually in the middle of saying "Shoes on!"




he gets sad when we don't let him go outside



Recently we went with Cindy's parents to go see the butterflies at fredrick meijer gardens, which was really fun. And cindy took the boys to the zoo with some friends.




We all went to see Grandpa's Rock show at rogers plaza and Grandpa got isaac is very own rock (around his neck)



Cindy took the boys to "Storytime" at the local library last week...Isaac made a pirate hat for the craft... it has the skull of a teddy bear on it.. is that okay?



we had some fun at Claire's birthday




Cindy and I also got some cheap stuff at garage sales this week, which was fun... Isaac loves playing with is $2 plastic kitchen and $ .25 plastic table!

We've also been spending some time walking down the street to the nearby park where Isaac gets to go on the playground equipment and go down the slide.



Jonah's been really active... rolling around everywhere he can and finally scooting a bit forward... on his way to crawling!








so life is pretty good around here... sad that it's cold today but really looking forward to this coming summer!!!









Like i said... we've been busy! So here's another crazy picture to end on... all of our pictures are at our picasaweb site... check the link in the side that says "pictures"