How beautiful kids are- and how silly!

We just got home from picking up Matt from school- both kids were fully dressed, and I left them in the living room together to work on cooking something for the thanksgiving dinner tonight. Next thing I know I came to check my email and I hear Kyley blowing raspberries on Elijah's stomach and he's all happy... it didn't dawn on me that he just a few minutes earlier had on a sleeper and she wouldn't have been able to do this LOL.... Next thing I know, I hear Kyley exclaim... "MOM I opened his diaper and HE POOPED!" um...... *runs to see what she's done* She undid the dipe and then was running from him going DONT PEE ON ME!!!!! lol So I had to quickly change the diaper and get him clean... *sigh* what a silly girl she is...

Learning and growing... and praying God's word!

Today has been an awesome day, and I'm amazed at the awesome things that God is doing in our lives! I've been longing for some structure to my prayer life to keep me accountable and to help me grow closer to God and to seek His will more. A friend just yesterday asked me if I wanted to start a 7x7 prayer with her. What it is, is 7 prayers a day for 7 days a week over our children.... the link to the blog is here

I sat down last night and made up reminders with the prayers on them and posted them in familiar places to what they were pertaining to. The idea is, that at 7 given points in my children's day, I will pray for them. But I decided to take that a step farther- I decided that I will not only pray these over my children but over my husband and myself as well! I'm completely convinced that God delights when we pray His word and promises over His children and I intend to do so faithfully from this point foward. For my children, for my husband, for my family and friends.

My husband made the comment about how this could get legalistic, and boy could it, but I say, hey a happy reminder that I need to take time out of my busy day whenever I see one of my reminders to pray for my family... Praise the Lord for a reminder!

I can't wait to see what God is going to do through this renewed spirit within me to pray for His will in our lives!

Laundry...

Oh how I loathe laundry- I don't mind washing and drying it... it's the folding and putting away LOL
Anyhow, so the past two or three days that's what I've been doing, just tons and tons of laundry- folding, sorting, putting away, packing up what doesn't fit etc. And everytime I feel like I'm getting somewhere, another load finishes haha and if that isn't the case, Kyley has changed clothes 4 times that day and made a whole other load, or Elijah pooped all over himself or ... you get the picture! Anyhow- I say all that to say... I hate laundry- but thank God for giving it to us so we'd have things to wear!

Happy 7 months to my little man!

This week Elijah is 7 months old!  I'm so amazed at how quickly this time is flying by! He's eating big boy food- not a lot but he loves it when he does eat! He can sit up all by himself- he can say and wave bye bye... I'm so amazed at how smart he is! He is trying to learn to crawl now, he can hold himself up on all 4's but isn't good at going anywhere.  What a big boy he's becoming!!! Anyhow, here are a few pics I took recently to celebrate this milestone :)