The Test

I think I aced the test.  

Greek Test 2 Today.

Here are the first four pages of my Greek exam that starts at 11:00 today.  This does not include 200 potential vocab words or the ten Bible verses that I have to be able to number (according to parts of speech for each word), decline each verb (present, active, indicative, third person, plural, etc) and participles, and translate each verse.  So there's a lot to remember.  I'm honestly feeling really good about it.  Nonetheless, please pray for me.  

Here are the verses I have to be ready to dissect.  

The great thing is that Doctor sets us up to succeed.  He could absolutely destroy us.  He's literally one of the world's leading scholars in his field.  Yet he teaches us kindergarten Greek with compassion.  I love this guy.  

My test goes from 11-12:15.  Thanks for praying!

Just for fun, here's my stack of Greek flash cards!

She Snuggles

My two older kids are big huggers and snugglers.  Esther is.  I love getting her up from her nap and she groggily holds on and slowly wakes up.  It totally makes reading Exegetical Fallacies in Greek worth reading.  

Esther

Some of the kids at the bus stop found this flower (okay, let's be honest, they tore it off of some plant in the landscaping) and put it in her ear.  She LOVED it!

I put a hair clip in her hair this afternoon and she thought it was pretty cool, too.   

Oh my goodness, she's taking after her sister.  Hope brought her Princess Batman cap to International Night at Gideon's school tonight.  I put the cape on Esther and off she goes, just like her older sister.  Creepy really! 

Not Gonna Lie...She Dressed Herself!

Lone Elk Park

While Kathee was in Montana I took the kids for an outing.  There is a county park not far from us called Lone Elk Park.  I've wanted to go there for months, but m wife thinks I'm a tool about wildlife and nature and whatnot, so we never went...UNTIL NOW (kinda like I think romantic comedies are kinda nerdy).  So I took the kids to the park.   

One of the reasons I wanted to go now is that it's rut season, and so I knew the elk would be moving.  I was hoping to hear some bugling, but that didn't come to pass.  However, we did see a bunch of elk.  One bull elk was fairly close to us.  

We also so these 4 bison, but they weren't all that close.  

Fall is in full effect in the park, and so it was also very beautiful to just drive through the park.  

I liked it enough to go back again, and I think Kathee would even be up for it.  

Sunday Best

All dressed up and ready for church.  

Esther wouldn't allow me to put her down so she lost the privilege of being in the picture.

When we took a groupie, Esther was just fine.  

Kathee's Trip to Montana

This past Friday I took and dropped off Kathee at the airport to fly to Billings, Montana, to attend her cousin's wedding.  We all wanted to go, but with Gideon and I both having school on Friday it was not possible.  So that gave me the opportunity to have the kids from Friday afternoon through Monday evening.  

I asked Kathee to print out a daily schedule so I knew what needed to happen and when, and I was good to go.  We had a blast together!

So we showed up at the airport to find that Kathee's flight had been delayed for about an hour, so we walked...and walked...and walked.  We entertained the people who were sitting in the baggage claim area.  From Hope prancing around as "Princess Batman" to Esther newly walking to Gideon being the over-protective brother, we had people in stitches.  

One older lady even switched seats and talked my ear off as we waited for Kathee to arrive.  

And it brought a tear to my eye to see Gideon tear off when he saw Kathee walking.  And then Hope took off.  It took Esther awhile to put it together that it was Kathee, and then she just started giggling.  Like I said on Facebook, all is now right in the world.  

We had a good laugh watching the two older ones get Kathee's suitcase out of the airport.  

We also had a good laugh when we got home.  I thought I did a fine job, even telling Kathee that I'd be fine to do it again.  However, my choice to put the wrong pants on my daughter begs the question of whether or not I'm really or not.  Stay tuned for that!  

International Night

Tonight was International Night at Mason Ridge.  Kathee signed us up to do a table for the country of Ethiopia.  She worked her tail off.  We put our minds together to decide what to offer, and then (surprise, surprise) Kathee put it all together.

Kathee roasted some of the coffee beans I had bought when we were in Ethiopia to adopt Gideon.  She uses our hot air popcorn popper and roasts them slowly.  I will admit it did look a bit funny walking down the sidewalk to our apartment and looking up at our window.  The window was wide open and the noise of the hot air popper (sounding like a leaf blower) is working away roasting them. At first I wondered why she was going to shoot popcorn out of the window to the ground below.  It only made sense once I got into the apartment.

She also drove down to Meskerem, our favorite Ethiopian restaurant and bought injera, and three different types of sample food so people could taste some.

Along with that, she printed out some word finds and a couple other handouts.  We took Gideon's flag, the two Ethiopian chairs, and Kathee's coffee pot and off we went.

The Pakistanis next to us LOVED the Ethiopian food.  Holy smokes.  They probably ate half of all the samples we had.  Kathee was great to them and ended up giving them the name and address to Meskerem.  We also received the names and addresses of two Pakistani places here in St Louis.  We are pumped to try them out when we get a chance.

The greatest thing about us hosting the table is the just about no one there knew where Ethiopia even is.  Like not even that it is in Africa.  So we continue to represent Ethiopia wherever we find ourselves.

I also met a guy who I found out was hosting the South Korean table.  He came up to our table and we chatted for 5 or 10 minutes.  He asked if we were new and what brought us to St Louis.  It turns out that the son of his youth pastor is a student at Covenant (I have 3 or 4 classes with him).

He seemed very surprised how much I knew about South Korean (which isn't very much).  When I was telling Gideon that Korea has the most amount of Presbyterians than anywhere in the world, Theo responded, "I'm Presbyterian."  So I asked him if he attended the Korean Presbyterian Church in town and he said that his father was one of the founding elders.  I told him about our friends from Covenant and so forth.  It was a pretty cool connection (his son is a first grader, but in another classroom).  

So on the way home Kathee and I troubleshot some changes if we do this again next year.  It was a fun night.  

They had Irish dancers, Greek dancers, and a Kung Fu thing as well.  It was very cool.