wheels are turning...

Wow! What a great week! We have been very busy this week, but we also were able to do a lot of things, so it was really nice. Monday we got snowed on all day, but then the miracle happened--RAIN!! I was soooo thankful becuase I knew that I had to get out of the house on Tuesday to babysit--a chore I was not at all up to when there were snowdrifts everywhere. Thankfully, the rain melted away all of the snow and our journey was easy.

As I mentioned previously, I'm in the midst of trying to come up with a new ministry for moms in our church that would also be a great outreach to moms thorughout Copenhagen. I was originally approached with MOPS and was a bit scared off by it. Their program is wonderful, but I thought that it might be too big for a church of our size to tackle. That's when God stepped in. All of a sudden I realized, why should we have to tackle this alone? There are several other English speaking congregations throughout Copenhagen, maybe we can get some of them to latch on to the program and help us with the leadership team, and bring a lot more mothers into the fellowship. I've talked with our pastor, Erik, a little bit about it, and I have to have a "plan" by the first of March. So, keep on praying and keep your wheels turning for ideas--we really need this ministry!!

As you can see in the above picture, we also got a surprise this week without wheels-- a rocking horse! Our neighbors have several grandchildren who have rejected this cute little horsey and decided to give it to Ruby. She is... well, terrified of it! But, I think that once she's bigger she's really going to love it.

Ruby has really enjoyed her afternoons with Carter this week. On Tuesday, Carter went down for a nap before Ruby. Predictably, she started bawling her head off when we left to get Carter in bed upstairs. Unpredictably, it wasn't my absense that bothered her, but Carter's! I came back down and was ready to play and she just went right back over to the gate and kept on wailing away. She wanted her little buddy back! They have been doing a good job playing together. On one side, Ruby is very interested in sharing lately, while Carter is very interested in taking anything that Ruby is playing with! Ruby gets him back though when she chases him around the room (both crawling of course) and then uses him to push up to standing. She doesn't really get it that he's just a baby too and doesn't really want to be used like a piece of furniture!

One note of bad news... Our stroller lost a wheel yesterday! Thankfully I was only a few blocks from home when it happened, but there was a clunk and the front wheel came off. (Apparently I had rammed into one too many icy snowdrifts!) We made it home "wheelbarrow style" and hopefully Jared will be able to jerry-rig it together sometime today.

This last picture is of Ruby's terrible bed head hair this morning. Jared saw this picture and said, "It looks like she's saying, 'Where's my coffee?!?'" I have to agree! Her hair is getting a bit unmanagable lately, so I'm starting to look in earnest for somewhere that specializes on baby's first haircuts. I've read that her hair will thicken up once the first haircut is done and we definitely need to get that hair out of her eyes!

Well, I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. We're looking forward to enjoying this sunny weather while it lasts!