Practical Update

Presley is 1 year old on May 21st. She crawls and pulls herself up. She is not "into everything" but she does like to explore...carefully. She makes caluculated decisions in what she does get into so thankfully I am not chasing her around the house!

She says dog or wowo, dada, mama and tries to imitate what you do and say. She still loves the bath, loves to eat. She eats tons of baby food, but she loves peas, carrots, grapes, pineapple, cherrios...the list goes on. I am still nursing, partly becuase she has problems digesting cow's milk and it's good for her too. It is slowly getting better, but we just discovered that the tiny bit of yogurt we had been giving her was flaring up her exzema. So for now I continue to nurse three times a day. I weaned her down from 5 about a month ago. I can't tell you how special it is to all three of us at the end of our long day, after dinner and bath Presley and I settle in the recliner and we make up for all the hours we missed each other all day long.

Presley has always been a great night sleeper (a cat napper all day!). She goes down at 8 and gets up at 7am!

Presley loves to discover. I put a basket of toys on the floor or a basket, bag of anything and she loves to pull out each item, look at it for a moment throw it to the side and dig for more.

Terry is the most amazing father and husband. With me working as well as Terry the division of labor in our home is a lot for both of us. Sometimes we look at what the other is NOT doing. But we are quickly learning to trust that both of us are doing our best and we try to help the other as much as possible. Team work...

Devotional or spending time (even if it just 5 minutes) with the Lord is NOT an option. I repeat NOT an option. If I miss it, I turn into the angry, resentful, easily irritated, worrier and most unpleasent person to be around. This is who I am without Christ. With it...just forgiven.

Well, all of you who peak in on this blog from time to time, know I love you and our family so appreciates your presence in our life!

God is good to all, and he has blessed us!

Wow...it has been so long since I last blogged. I still check all the blogs I read pretty much daily. I just don't have time to write mine! God has been growing us and blessing us. Our family is in a groove and we are even finding time to garden on the weekends! We are still SUPER busy but God gets us up each morning with new energy and excitement for the day, and puts us to bed at night. Some quick things about how Presley is doing... :) She is 12 months in about a month!!!! What?? If you would have told me at 1 month that we WOULD survive and we would grow to LOVE the new chaos in our life I would have looked at you as if you were cruel to give false hope. But it is so true! What an absolute joy Presley is! Terry and I just like most parents could watch her for hours just asking each other...is there anyon out thre who loves their baby like we do! My parents assure us there are others out there...Presley is about 22 pounds 30 inches. She just started crawling a bit. She is a really happy baby who loves people. She loves, I mean just loves other kids. She says baby (she loves those too) and dog and Mama and Dada somewhere in there and of course her favorite...boogy-boog-ya. How precious are these times. BTW...check out Terry's blog....