Practice For A Newborn

Being only 15 weeks pregnant, I was really hoping that we would not have too much of a remembrance of those sleepy nights of newborn hood until we got much closer to the arrival of the baby. But these last few days we have gotten a little bit of a reminder - and I can tell you that I am not looking forward to the part of not getting much sleep. Gabriella has been stopped up with sinuses and has been struggling to sleep. Clay and I have been going to sleep too late at like midnight and Gabriella has been waking up having trouble breathing and crying hysterically for mommy at 1 or 2 for the past few nights. I have tried rocking her and singing to her, but she is not going to sleep. If we put down in the bed, she starts crying again. So because I am so tired I have been putting her back in bed with us. Where she plays for the next hour or two. As Clay said this morning, Gabriella is the poster child of why kids should not sleep in the bed with their parents. She starts talking, and talking, and talking (which honestly I can't blame her too much - I do the same thing if I get woken up in the middle of the night - just ask Clay) and wallering, and rolling, and kicking, and jumping, and giving sweet kisses, and on, and on. She tells me all the colors she sees - over and over again. She even said, 'grarrr - I a monster.' So, though she is quiet funny - it was quiet frustrating and tiring.

BUT .....

Praise God - I started that post a few days ago - and did not finish because I was too tired, and since then she has started sleeping through the night again and feels better. So, we are getting more sleep.

Now if Clay and I could only learn to go to bed at a reasonable time again. Maybe we can forget about all the waking up in the middle of the night(well except to go pee) for a few more months.

Baby Got Book!

This is just too hilarious.

Baby Got Back

-Clay

Update on Baby

We went to the doctor on Thursday for an ob check up. We took the girls with us and they were able to hear the baby's heart beat. The heartbeat sounded good and everything is going well. When we got home, Micah told me that she liked my baby. As I was telling Clay about her saying that she said, 'I like your baby's heart sound.'

TEST YOURSELF

This was an awesome article. I encourage you to read it.

TEST YOURSELF . . . PLEASE

REVIVAL

Let's start praying and seeking the Lord for true revival to come to the church.

I encourage you to listen to the study of revival that is on REVIVE OUR HEARTS. God has been using this series in my life to bring conviction, encouragement, and strong longing to sit with the Lord.

Waiting at the Door

Our precious girls waiting at the door to leave for CBS

pirates of the grocery store

we were walking through appletree the other day when we walked by a man in his 60's wearing an eye patch and a fat unlit cigar hanging out of his mouth. it looked exactly like the eye patches that come with pirate Halloween costumes. micah was sitting in the basket and i was pushing her along. a few feet after passing him micah goes "is somebody tryin' to be a pirate?" trying very hard to contain my laughter i kept walking hoping that the man hadn't heard the comment. i then proceeded to explain to micah that the man's eye didn't work and he wore the eye patch to cover his bad eye. we spent a few minutes in that aisle and by the time we got to the end the man had made his way back around and crossed our path again. micah looks at him, points, and says "look, there's another one." before i could do anything the man retorts with a hearty "ARRGGGHHHH!" no longer able to contain myself i bust out laughing, red faced. it was quite clear at this point that he had heard her the first time and he seemed to enjoy playing along. as he strolled away i then told micah about how it was not nice to point and say such things. thankfully we did not end up next to him in the checkout line.

--clay