Adventures with our Girls: June 2012

Another month, and my how you're growing! This month was full of fun and excitement. See below, haha!

Let's see what are you doing these days. You are no longer content to simply sit and play with your toys. You would much rather pull up on us to stand and do a little dance. You absolutely love to stand and sometimes making you sit doesn't always suit your fancy. We can stand you up at the ottoman and you are oh so happy. You aren't quite cruising down it on your own, but will cross back and forth between it and us or the couch. All those early days of tummy time sure don't make you like it any better now. Perhaps that's why you aren't really crawling yet? At this rate, once you can keep your balance, you will be walking on your own before too much longer. You will love that. And speaking of loving, you really love walking while holding our hands. You want to walk so much like this that it wears us out!

As far as sleeping goes you are, sometimes but not always, stretching out your naps to 2 a day about 1 hour and 20 minutes or so each one. Your length of your first nap often dictates how many you take that day. Bedtime somewhat depends on when you wake up from the last nap but you are normally ready for the routine to begin around 7:30. Most nights you sleep all night until 7-7:30 the next morning without a peep. Thank you child, and Praise the Lord!

As far as activities go... Gram and Grandpa came to visit again and Grandpa taught you to bang balls together. We didn't get any action shots, but you both enjoyed it. Trust us.

It was a super month for celebrating. It was Mother's Day, Daddy's Birthday, and our 6th Anniversary.

On Mother's Day we dedicated you at church. What a sweet time to do it. Granny, Papa, Uncle Matt, and Haydyn came. I wanted to include a little of the responsive reading so we will never forget our commitment. "Do you come today to commit yourselves to be godly parents whose lives will reflect the glorious joy of knowing the Lord God through Jesus Christ, His Son? We do. Do you come to place this child in the strong, loving, secure arms of your eternal Father, entrusting your child both to His care and His service? We do. The prayer of Hannah for her son, Samuel, gives us an illustration of the extent of this dedication: `I prayed for this child, and the Lord granted me what I asked of Him. So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life he will be given over to the Lord.` 1 Samuel 1:27-28. Is this the commitment you are making in the dedication of your child unto the Lord? It is." Daddy helped you make a stepping stone for me as a Mother's Day gift. Apparently, you both had an interesting time making it and I think it's priceless to have your semi-handprint in stone.

Daddy's 28th birthday was a fun day. We went to breakfast at Brigs and then ate cake around lunch. Cousin Josh got married later so you went to stay with Uncle Chris and Aunt Kim. I hear you had fun playing with Isaiah and Lily. Yay for Daddy being another year older!

Our anniversary was a bit of a different one than in years past. We stayed around home and had Boston Market for dinner with you as our centerpiece. Different for us, but wonderful because we have you in our lives now.

This month also brought on your first real bout with sickness. I woke up the Monday morning after our anniversary and you were still snoozing hard. I thought you were just catching up from an off schedule day at church the day before. About 2 hours after you normally wake up you started talking. I went in there to get you and you had a runny nose, alarming but you'd had one before. Then I picked you up and you were so hot. I checked your temperature and it was 102.8 (The highest it got was 103.1, ugh). I felt so sorry for you. You felt awful and, therefore, so did I. It truly is tough watching your baby so sick. I gave you some medicine and took you to the doctor that afternoon. It was a cold so there was nothing to do but ride it out. And ride it out we did. You quit eating your baby food and I became worried, but the doctor's office said that as long as you were nursing good then you should be fine. Wednesday you started nursing less and I got more worried so I planned to take you back in Thursday morning. Finally, your fever broke Thursday morning so I waited to see if you nursed better that day. You didn't so I took you in Friday morning. From Monday to Friday you went from 15 lbs. 3 oz to 14 lbs 7 oz... lost 5% of your body weight. The doctor said that if you were not nursing and/or eating better by Tuesday to bring you back in. Finally on Sunday night you ate a few spoonfuls of bananas from Daddy while I held you. I almost cried. One week without you eating any food was hard to take. Thankfully you were on the mend and have slowly started eating better, but still not where you were before your sickness. We are still working on that. Praise the Lord for healing.

Okay, now on to happier events.