The Very Hungry Caterpillar


And my Very Happy Baby


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We traveled to Sydney for the wedding of Josh and Bihn Turner. It was a sunrise wedding which was beautiful



Be Nygun gave us this beautiful dress at one of our baby showers. I am so glad the timing worked out for her to wear it to a wedding.




My little lady:

On the road to all fours

"But its so hard...."


"Ooohhhh - toys!"


Learning from momma and dad

Ella grows more and more aware of food...and where it goes. Often when we eat, we see this:



Getting big and long:


The journey of self discovery:

...When we have a child, we take a leap off a cliff into magical air. We never stand on solid ground again. The updrafts and downdrafts in this air are like none other. We soar, we glide, then we hit turbulence and hold on tight until the storm breaks and a cool morning breeze lifts us onward. We learn fear that we've never known, joy that we've never felt, and uncertainty that knows no bounds. In that air we know the best in life, even if we collide at times with the worst.

When you love a child, you transcend the worst that life has to offer. You stare it in the eye and say, "Loving this child is better than anything bad you can throw at me."

For a moment you borrow God's tools and do God's work....


-- from Happy Child Happy Adult (pages 100-101) (no...I never took a class in Turabian)







Amazed day by day.

I often check on Ella while she is sleeping. There isn't a time that I check on her that I don't thank God for her. Something so sweet about a sleeping baby.