Good Times!

Today has been a good day, not overly eventful, but good. Went and had lunch with Jenn(Ezell) and her momma and my momma at Lil' Rosies! Good times!

Then I sent the boys outside for dinner on the trampoline! Isaac and I joined them and he had a great time laughing with what little up and down motion he got from his brothers jumping. Our backyard was filled with all three of my boys laughing and giggling! I love it! Good Times!

P.S. I would have pictures but I needed both hands to hold my sweet baby:)

New Routine!

I stumbled on a new routine that I am really enjoying! Isaac decided to start waking up at 4am for a feeding and I am okay with this because I usually get up a 5 anyway. So I wake up with little bug he eats and we rock and I get some good snuggle time that I dont get much of with the third child. It is totally quiet and he goes right back to sleep and it is a perfect time to pray for him and my other boys. Rock, snuggle, pray..... Does not get much better than that!.

At 5 I make some coffee and then start my quiet time. This is the first time my quiet time is actually quiet, moms you understand this! I am reading through Acts right now and really loving being able to read a chapter without being interrupted. I did not realize how much I missed having a quiet quiet time with the Lord! I am losing an hour of sleep but I find I am in a much better mood after some quiet time with the Lord and then I go work out at 6. I come home ready to go and get so much more accomplished. I kept using the excuse that I could not beat my kids up because that get up so early, so my "quiet" time was a little unconventional to say the least. I asked God to show me how I could better serve Him, and so God fixed this "quiet" time problem for me by making little bug start getting up earlier. God takes care of me!

Playdate!

We had a play date with the Eckleys today and Emily wrote a post about it, so I thought I would just post a link to her website!:)
We had so much fun!
http://eckley.blogspot.com/

Jesus has super powers!

I was talking with Eli earlier and he said...

E-"mommy, I am going to tell you a story.
K- "okay, what is the story about?"
E- "Jesus!"

So he went through the whole story about Jesus being born in the "barn" and that the angels told the shepherds where he was.

K- "what else did Jesus do?"
E- "mommy! Jesus has superpowers!"
K-"Superpowers?"
E- "yes he made the waves stop waving and mommy Jesus walked on water!"
K- "really!?" " what other superpowers?"
E- "Pray! He prays! Hey mommy I have that superpower too!"

My heart melted, he is listening!

E- "mommy,(face sad now) Jesus died on the cross!"
K- "why?"
E- "because people are bad."

Yes! he is getting it!

E- " but mommy its okay, Jesus is alive!" "They put him in the temple(he meant tomb) but he moved the stone and came out!"" So its okay!"

I just loved this conversation with my little boy, please join me in praying for his future salvation.

Monday

Today was a typical Monday at our house. I had to catch up on some housework that I had let slide over the weekend, all the kids were grumpy from having a busy Sunday and Then I add trying to study for a test that I have to take tomorrow. Sigh...
I struggle with feeling like I am not doing good enough. Does that make sense? If I am cleaning the house than I feel like I am ignoring my kids and same thing with school. Confession, I love being with my kids but, I usually am thinking about what I need to get done that day. I feel bad saying that because I know there are mothers who would love to stay at home with their kids and are not able to. I know in my head that these years are precious, but on some days I just cant seem to cherish them the way I think I should.
My sweet husband often tells me not to put pressure on myself that every mother feels the same way at times. I just want what is best for my kids and that is mother who knows the Lord and lives the example of Jesus Christ. We as parents only have a few years to impact our kids for Jesus and as mother a huge part of their conversion is our responsibility. That is a huge pressure as the primary caregiver! I am working on trusting the Lord, and pray that my sweet children would grow to love Him in spite of what they see in me on Mondays like today. Sorry for getting on my soapbox, my heart just felt heavy after a long day. :)

Boys!

This is common attire at my house
Eli loves his baby brother! He always wants pictures with him!
They were snuggling after nap time yesterday.
Proof they really love each other!
We had to take daddy to work today b/c we left his car there and I told Micah to go get some clothes on and this is what he came up with. Good thing we never got out of the car!

Isaac's first taste of baby food

Not to sure about the apples

Ultimately he loved it and ate the whole jar


The doc suggested that we give Isaac some baby food + nursing, because he is so big and just demands more calories than most. I felt that this was a good idea since in recent weeks Isaac has gone back to wanting to nurse about every 2 hours. He also quit sleeping through the night. He was waking up twice, which may not seem like a lot but it is considering he has been sleeping all night for a +2 months. After giving him baby food + nursing he slept all night and then did not get up till 9:45am. Now of course I did not sleep that late! But it has been really nice to let Zach be able help feed him and helps Isaac to get use to other people. Now rest assured I am still his main source of nutrition and will be for a long time, just like the Doc recommends:)