baby 'k' comes to play!

she had such fun with Landry's fancy Pooh airplane


this is how we hold the baby


this is how we eat the baby

Inspirational Resource

So my favorite inspirational blogger is Ann V. at Holy Experience... I was very inspired last holiday season reading her devotionals about the Jesse Tree. I've always loved counting the days until Christmas and have been looking for an advent type devotional for our family to do together. As you will see if you read below, this Jesse Tree advent devotional is a refreshing option if you are looking for new ways to look at the all-so-familiar but always amazing Christmas story. I am excited to find it in a "book" form. You can either purchase it by itself or for the forgetful-last-minute type planner (like me) or for people who actually follow a "to-do" list there is the 12 week Holiday Planner for Christian Families which also includes the complete Jesse Tree Advent.

Hey this is exactly what I need and usually don't start looking for planning help until mid-November when it's way too late anyhow. So I thought I'd give others like me an early tip so maybe this year things will be different!

A Jesse Tree Invitation

Every family has one: a family tree with its arching branches of grandfathers and grandmothers, its sheltering leaves of aunts and uncles.

To make a Jesse Tree is to trace the family line and heritage of the family of God, of human beings from the beginning of time to the coming of God Himself, wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.

We will hang the symbols of our story on our corporate Family Tree, the Jesse Tree. We will open God's Word and read God's story - our story - as He wrote it on the pages of people's lives. And Jesus will come to us, and we will come to Jesus.

It is Advent. Come.






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peek-a-boo

the laundry hamper-closet is one of our favortie hiding places... and one of mommy & daddy's favorite blessings when we were remodeling our house, God provided this free cabinet for us!

 
 
  

girls & boys

little ballerina


daddy's helper
 

Big girl panties & Big boy words

Some things you just can't imagine your kids ever learning until it actually happens...

Bella is now in big girl panties all day every day! Hooray! Hooray! Oh my, what an adventure it has been. I am so so so glad to be on the other side of it :) We had many days when we both wanted to give up and somes days we did! She is such a big girl now and seems so much more grown up to be wearing panties all day.

Twice now, she has let me know that she has decided she wants the baby inside my tummy to be a girl. And she likes to talk about what we will name her/him. So far, her most consistent choice is Adeline. Other times, I am not sure how to repeat the names she comes up with.

Landry has now decided to repeat things we say to him, when he is in the right mood of course (as every toddler knows). Wednesday evening during bathtime, he was waiting for his sister to get in the tub with him... so I said, "Landry, say Bella" and in the middle of a huge grin he said, "Baylla" So cute! We repeated this exchange about 3 times and every time I couldn't believe how well he was saying his ll's. Last night we read a book about babies and as he pointed to one them, I said "baby" and he repeated it almost perfectly.

One of his favorite things still to do when he sees a sweet picutre in a book of an animal or baby, he will lean towards the page and put his cheek on it, as if to hug it. He is always our charming little fellow, so affectionate.