How Seth is Growing to be a Big Boy!

Seth LOVES drinking from a straw, and unfortunatly people that usually have a drink with a straw it's pop:) and I obveously do not like that! So I asked Daniel my borther to go out and buy Seth a cup with a Straw, and here it is, he seems to really like it, and it works for him. I think he feels really acomplished actually!

He also goes up the stairs, he doesnt know how to get down the stairs yet, and we are a little nervous of him going up so far with the possibilty of him falling. But he thinks it's a game, us going after him and him climbing the stairs as fast as he came while he giggles away, and looks back to see if you're following him:0 It's so cute! You'd have to see it.




Seth is SO BIG he is now graduated to the big boy car seat. I was squeezing him into his infant seat, and now Lana my sister in law traded with me since her and robter will be having their baby in the next 4 weeks! So it's another little celebration for them as well. Seth was very happy to sit forward and see us, and dangle his feet. It's amazing how he has grown, he is now almost 11 mothns old, I guess you're never ready parenting, it just comes and you just go with it :) (Well thats how I feel anyway)




Here's Seth all dressed up for our first gig in Camrose. He looks SOOOO cute in his full suite, (besides the jacket:) He LOVES music like any baby does, but actually has good rythem, and also LOVES to hear his daddy rap!

Anyway, Second baby is grpowing and I can feel it, I have to say I am so thankful for being sick because I know my baby is growing and growing, it's reassuring to me actually. even though in the mean time I am feeling SICK and so tired.. but I am thankful because of it. Kinda funny mixed feelings.
So thats our boy seth growing and growing!

Sleepy Days

Well since finding out I am pregnant again I have a new found sleepy-ness all the time. I feel Like I could sleep all day if I was aloud to... Seth is also sleeping alot more these days, he's having 3 naps a day now, plus sleep 10 hours a night! He must be growing I figure. No new teeth as of yet, just has four teeth.



Iam running the day home still, I have a 3 year old boy, and a 5 months old baby coming next month, and also have a 2 year old little girl who comes one week a month. So it's busy but not too bad, the only thing is being so tired lately.

Anyway, our band "Another Way" is playing in Edmonton on Friday this week, then Calgary on the 30th, and also in Wetaskiwin on December 12 with a few other Artists. It's great, getting our music out there and we're also getting some more experiance... it's fun, for both vinj and I. We will strat working on our Album as soon as we understand the recording program we have... cant wait for that.

Thats all for now

baby #2!

Music competion October 23rd!

Another Way

Another Way, is the name of our band....
We are in the Cross Canada Talent Search this weekend. Vinj and I will be Performing on Thursday Oct 23rd at First Assembly Church in Calgary at 12:00pm (noon).
We are entered into the performance and the song writing competions!
So we will see what happens!
Hope to see some of you there!

4th picture Folder 4th picture

This is a picture out of the fourth picture folder, and the fourth picture from that.
Seth at about 4 months old.

Hey mom this if for you!
Untill others start reading:)

Africa Funnies!!!!!

Ok for all of you who dont know this is only some of africa, please note this fact before you look at the photos! :)
But- some Africans have to do with very little and this is what they come up with! They are true Jackie Chans, very resourceful!(that or Jackie Chan is a true African!)




African pick up!


wow. Just wow.


Villagers iPod


Ambulance




And I think this is the best. A Hot water system jimmy rigged to the MAX!

The Jesus Way...

As of late I have been inspired to blog again. Hoping vinj will write some of his thoughts too. So to you mom mostly here ya go:) lets see if we can get people interested again! Because the elections are coming up in Canada I have been looking into all the parties and who I want to support. In the past it has been Conservative... since learning more about God's heart and intentions, what His Kingdom on Earth means, I have found I dont agree with the Conservatives on a few fronts. One being THE WAR, thats going on right now, since the conservatives dont have any plans to retreat and do more peace keeping, I dont plan on supporting them. Then, there are NDP, Green,and so on... I guess I am at a loss, which I think many poeple have come to (since alot of canadians dont even vote) who do you vote for... I wisd I could vote for
"The Jesus way" If we followed just this one commandment, "Love your enemies" our world would be turned upside down. Which, I guess, is why many poeple call the Kingdom of God an upside down kingdom... totaly contrairy to human nature, and self gain. Shane Claibourn said in his book "The irresistable Revolution"
WE HAVE LOST OUR IMAGINATION! If all we can do is kill eachother, constantly trying to be one top of the other. We have lost our imaginations. We are capable of so much more... "Another world is possible!" Vinj and I have been eading "Jesus For president", below is a description of the book.. please read on. and if you can get the book, or borrow it from us when we're finished.
Watch the viodeo attached, shane talks about the new book, and whats it's all about. It's a very challenging book, full of scripture!
I believe a new world is possible, even if it is just for a small group of people, I know living the Jesus way works... and I am on that journey now.

Life

Update on Kathryn's life.....



Well, right now it's me and seth most of the time, and when vinj gets time off we are SOOO excited and love every minute spent with him. Right after giving birth to Seth I couldnt imagine doing that agin for AWHILE! haha! But am already excited for when we have another baby. It's just so amazing being a mom to an individual, to someone so precious. I have basically recovered fully from the birth, and am now trying to get some sleep! Everyday I try to get a few things done in and the house, go for a walk and the rest is nappies, rocking seth, feeding, playing, singing and when we ca sleeping!:)



Vinjelu



Vinj is working at a transition home for teens, it's the last stage of social services wih young people. He works in the home and also has two young guys he is working with that have already moved out of the home, he is helping them ajust to indipendant living. He's great with the kids of course, they all have some kind of trust in him, and he has alot of possitive prospective for all of them. It's a little bit hard not to be involved in what vinj is doing because we have been working like that since before we were even dating. So it's an ajustment, because everything vinj does is confidential, and the kids names and stories and stuff. So we are learning to ajust. He works shift work, but it's good because he can trade a shift if he needs to or pick up an extra one if we need the extra money. So basically its working for us, and we are thankful for the job. Vinj LOVES being home with Seth, when he's home he's a bit of a hog with Seth, but I really appreciate the break! We still go down to calgary once a month, it's a long drive but we love to see our friends. Thats it for now i guess...

look below for new pitures of Seth

Seths pictures and updates

Two months old with his tedyy from Uncle MIke and Aunty Victoria


Two month old, he's so precious!


Two month old, and look at those eyes!!!!


This is a picture of seth that we love, he is one month old in this picture.


Here is seth the other day at 2 months old, about to cry, and giving me his beautiful bottom lip:)


This was the other day too, vinj and I were playing with seth, and he was laughing and smiling. It was an awesome moment.

Seth has been doing really well, after having a cold only 2 weeks into his life, he's been a trooper. He started only waking up once in the night to be fed beggining of february... but thathas changed only in the past two nights, he has been waking up every two hours again... and I thought I was going to be lucky:) He may just be having a growth spurt. He is a happy baby, smiles and "talks" alot. He loves to be held, right now it can be anyone holding him and he is happy, although eventually he does want his mom (and I am happy about that:) During the day he still eats about every 2 hours. I am njot sure how much he weighs right now, we will be finding that out on friday. Thats all for now.

Seth 7 weeks old

Seth is 7 weeks in these photos. We visit my brother and his wife lana about once a week, so seth gets to see his cousins once a week, you can see how much he grows everyweek!!! We have LOTS more photos on face book, you can search us under "vinjelu muyaba".

Seth Vinjelu Muyaba

Seth was born at 11:26am on Januray 10th 2008.
He is three weeks old today on January 31st.
We will post more pictures later, but wanted to get a few on right away.

kath and vinj

Baby news... or no news:)

Baby is still not here.

If the baby is not born by thirsday, I already have an induction appointment. We will be going in to the hospital Thursday at 8am in wetaskiwin to be induced.

We are poraying the baby wil come naturally before that.

Will try and keep you all updated.

Kath and Vinj and Baby

And we are due!!!!!!

Today is our Due date. I have been having contractions since december 29th... now am 1cm dialated... and so on. So hoping the baby wi9ll come soon. At the latest the babay will be bron by January 9th. So either way we are having a baby very soon!
Here are some pictures

38 weeks and counting!!!!

Baby should be coming soon, due january 2nd! Will kepp ya'lll updated.

Good News!

Hey guys.

We got a phone call from vinjelus future boss telling us we got a POSSITIVE LABOUR MARKET OPINION FROM UHUMAN RESOURCE CANADA !!!! So it is leagal for the organisation to hire vinjelu!

We were told we would be waiting for this approval for months more, because they were only processing applications from June! (and our application was sent in october)



So this is a huge praise report, it happened one day and a half after e-mailing all of you. We feel your faith was so strong for us when we felt so discouraged. Thank you!


Now we are applying for the WORK PERMIT to Canadian Immegration. This is suppose to toake 46 days to process. Again we have seen God do amazing things, so we want to believe for the process to be:

-Approved by Immegration, and vinjelu given a work permit
-to take less then or only the 46 days they say it takes.
Thank you for believing with us this far, and please continue to keep us in your prayers over the next month and a half as we wait to hear from immegration.
As soon as we have that work permit vinjelu will be employed full time, and we will be recieving health and dentile benifits, which will help us out alot!

Some of you have asked about sending us money- because you are all either in Africa or England, it's probably best you use MONEY GRAM it is cheaper to send money through them then through Western Union. But we have both here as an option.

We feel very supported and loved by you guys. Thank you.

Vinjelu and Kathryn Muyaba

P.S we will keep you all posted on the work permit process.

Need support and Prayer big time!

Hey guys, you are receiving this because we call you friends and we need prayer and support right now very much.

This is the situation.
We are having a baby! Which is not the problem at all! we are excited to be parents and having this new chapter in our lives (a long chapter we've heard!)
Because Kathryn is 8 months and 3 weeks along now, and has been in bad health since the beginning of the pregnancy, she has not been able to work, and cannot work at the moment.

I vinjelu am not legally allowed to work in Canada on my present visa.
I have applied for permanent residency in Canada, we will hear back about this in April/May 2008. Once we found out we would STILL be waiting many months before being approved for permanent residency, we had to make a new plan.

So I made up my C.V. (resume) and applied for jobs, which is the first step in applying for a work permit in Canada. I had one response (and really believe that was from God) from a organization that works with youth at Risk in the Camrose, Alberta area. They want to hire me and so have applied to HUMAN RESOURCE CANADA. Now we are waiting on HRC approval. This is one of the Major prayer requests, we want to pray for this approval to come out in the next few weeks. If not days!

After this approval comes through I then have to submit my application for a work permit to IMMIGRATION CANADA. That could take from 2-12 weeks to be processed.
Again this is a prayer request, we want to believe for this work permit to be issued by the end of January!

Because of this situation we have no income, we've just got back form Zambia in September. Unfortunately while we were in Zambia we accumulated debt. We are doing the best as we can to make this process go as fast as possible, but recognize that we need God to do something big. Please pray with us and believe with us for break through with HUMAN RESOURCE CANADA, and with IMMIGRATION CANADA.

Thank you for your support,
Vinjelu and Kathryn Muyaba

34 weeks pregnant

33 weeks pregnant (8 months one week)

This was taken a week and a bit ago... so we have grown some since.

Gods provision

We just wanted to share some little mericles that have been happening in our lives.

Becuase vinj is not able to recieve money for his work yet, and I am not and have not been healthy enough to work, we have no income at the moment. Very hard, and interesting...

We have had people give us money five times in the past month and a half- each time is when we ran out of the last amount. Just enough to pay our bills, and even save for our future rent and damage deposit costs in december!

God is good, and he does speak to people, people we don't even know AT ALL have come and said God told them we needed it, and they come and give.

Amazing, God is good, and he does take care of us, so much better then we do!

Our baby is happy and healthy! (update from doctors appointment)

We are just back from the Royal Alex Hospital in edmonton.

I had an ultra sound done for about 45 minutes, they were taking picture and videos of the baby.

The doctor came in after reviewing with the nurses. He said....

"There is no cleft in the lip or palat. There is nothing wrong with your baby."
He told us to forget about it, they showed us the nose, it looks perfect! And the mouth, there is nothing, and we saw such a clear picture of it all. They checked everything else as well just to be sure. We were so tempted to find out what the baby is (boy ro girl) but decided not to in the end. So we will still be surprised.

We are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY, and sort of in shock, it's amazing, and totaly unexpected! Praise God!

We also found out the baby weighs 3.ll pounds already! A big little baby! We are 8 months along now, won't be to long before we can meet our baby face to face, hold him/her in our arms! We can't wait!