Conversations

Just after we had finished eating at the mall, BA pulled a piece of someone's old (blue) gum from under the table and said, "Hey Dad, someone left their play doh."

EE- 6 Months

At Birth

6 Months

Today our lil' girl turned 6 months old. I can hardly believe that six months has already passed. I must admit with each child the time seems to slip away a little faster. Nonetheless, half a year has already gone by. Some of EE's latest tricks include sitting up, reaching out and grabbing things, and trying to get her sippy cup up to drink out of it. She loves to laugh at her brothers. They almost always bring a smile to her face. She is also waving her arms up and down when she gets excited. Just yesterday she started trying to make a "talking" sound. (EE managed to let one of those go while Ben was preaching...oops! Thankfully, she is a pretty quiet kiddo, so not many people noticed.) We are enjoying everyday with our baby girl. I know the next six months will probably go by faster than the previous six months. I'll be holding on, trying to savor the moments. I'm so thankful God sent EE to us.

Sunday Scroll

"If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does."
James 1:5-8

I must share this miraculous story that I heard about this week. A friend of mine was going in to the doctor's office for a follow up sonogram. The sonogram was supposed to just be a routine check the day before she was going to have a D And C. Two weeks prior Jennifer had an extremely disappointing visit with the doctor. At the previous appointment, the sonogram revealed a cyst and an empty sac- no heart-beating baby. Like most ladies, Jennifer was deeply disappointed and hurt. Many tears were shed. The doctor wanted to go ahead and schedule the D And C, but Jennifer said she just couldn't do it yet, and she would prefer to have one more sonogram before the procedure. At her request, the doctor agreed to wait for two weeks. So, the day before the scheduled procedure, she went in for the "routine" sonogram to confirm she needed to have the D and C. Guess what God did??? There was a growing BABY with a very fast (160 beats per minute) HEARTBEAT on the sonogram machine. Needless to say, Jennifer and her family are ecstatic to be expecting a baby in the beginning of 2011.

What does this story have to do with those verses? I have never seen such faith in God in such circumstances. Jennifer never once believed what she was told or what she saw on the screen. She needed much wisdom, which in this circumstance was to wait, and God preformed a miracle. To make things even better, the night before the procedure, she had a dream. In the dream, she saw that the cyst was still there, but there was a healthy baby there too. Isn't this amazing??? And appropriately, if the baby is a girl, she already has a name- FAITH!

On the day that Jennifer called me to tell me of this wonderful news, I had just read these verses. God spoke to me and showed me that Jennifer had the kind of unwavering faith these verses described. I wrote her name beside these verses to always remind me of the miracle God preformed for her because of her faith.

Where did the time go?

Summertime!

Summertime has definitely arrived! Our boys try to come up with a way to make it to someone's in-ground pool most days. CJ is quite a daring lil' swimmer, and BA is slowly- or I should say cautiously-making his way to swimming on his own. EE doesn't seem to care if she is in the water or out of the water. Her demeanor never really changes very much. She's always just as "calm as a cucumber." (It's funny how their swimming matches their personalities!) I hope you enjoy a few pictures from some of our swimming adventures.

Wordless Wednesday

Sunday Scroll- Men's Edition

"Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers."
1 Peter 3:7