Tuesday night at about 11:00PM I hear Lily on the monitor sounding like she's gagging. I go rush in and you probably guessed it... she's throwing up. And it's full fledge throwing up and all chunky. GROSS!! She ended up throwing up probably 4 or 5 more times that night until about 3AM. I guess she finally got it all of her system and then was able to settle down. Matt laid on the couch with her for a large portion of that time since every time we put her back down in the crib it was like she threw up again. It was a long yucky night. Thankfully it was short lived and she's been doing fine ever since!
Yesterday we took the youth group to Busch Gardens. We had a blast despite getting drenched in the afternoon shower. I was SOO incredibly tired this morning though. I have decided I'm no young spring chicken anymore. I only rode one roller coaster too - can't handle the crazy ones now.
Since we were going to be gone all day and get back late that night, I decided to let Lily spend the night over at Grandma and Grandpa's. I was the nervous one. She did GREAT though like I thought she would. When I went to pick her up this morning she didn't want to leave - go figure! It was really weird getting home last night and her not being in her room sleeping. I'm glad I got the first one over with though cause in the future I won't be so nervous/hesitant about it.
Friday, August 14
Monday, August 10
singing adorable lily
Lily is just the cutest little girl EVER!
She has really started to pick up on singing songs. I bought this veggietales sunday school songs cd to have in the car for Lily. And she LOVES it. Well today we have it on the car and we hear her singing in the back seat "noah noah." It's to the song "who built the ark? noah noah who built the ark? brother noah built the ark." It is ADORABLE!!! Then the song "this little light of mine" came on and she would sing the "let it shine" part. It also reminded how impressionable little kids are and how much they can take in. I'm so glad I bought that cd. Even those simple litle sunday school songs are telling her about Jesus at an early age.
In the nursey at church on sunday, I caught her singing "rock a bye baby." She was on this rocking horse and she would sing the words "rock bye baby treetop." Oh my gosh - I can't even describe how incredibly cute it is and how proud she makes me. She's so smart and her sweet little sing song voice just melts my heart.
Lily is also really picking up on forming sentences too. She says "I want some more of ____." Whatever she wants at the moment.
When we say the blessing for our food now, she says blessing and then bows her head and closes her eyes!
Everyday she just amazes me at how many new things she is learning these days!
She has really started to pick up on singing songs. I bought this veggietales sunday school songs cd to have in the car for Lily. And she LOVES it. Well today we have it on the car and we hear her singing in the back seat "noah noah." It's to the song "who built the ark? noah noah who built the ark? brother noah built the ark." It is ADORABLE!!! Then the song "this little light of mine" came on and she would sing the "let it shine" part. It also reminded how impressionable little kids are and how much they can take in. I'm so glad I bought that cd. Even those simple litle sunday school songs are telling her about Jesus at an early age.
In the nursey at church on sunday, I caught her singing "rock a bye baby." She was on this rocking horse and she would sing the words "rock bye baby treetop." Oh my gosh - I can't even describe how incredibly cute it is and how proud she makes me. She's so smart and her sweet little sing song voice just melts my heart.
Lily is also really picking up on forming sentences too. She says "I want some more of ____." Whatever she wants at the moment.
When we say the blessing for our food now, she says blessing and then bows her head and closes her eyes!
Everyday she just amazes me at how many new things she is learning these days!
Saturday, August 8
ice cream, sara
Lily LOVES ice cream. Have I said that? She is always asking for some it seems like. Either that or fries!
And she has a new favorite youth group girl friend I think. Today she was loving having Sara James around! In the car she kept asking if Sara was coming with us. And she says Sara in such a cute little sweet voice.
Today we went to the mall this morning while Matt worked on videos for Senior Night. I got Lily these light up flip flops she loves at JCP since they were on clearance for like $4. Then we came home for lunch/nap. This afternoon we went with some of the youth group kids over to the pool and had dinner there. Lily loved eating dinner outside and ate 2 turkey dogs! Man she loved those things!
And she has a new favorite youth group girl friend I think. Today she was loving having Sara James around! In the car she kept asking if Sara was coming with us. And she says Sara in such a cute little sweet voice.
Today we went to the mall this morning while Matt worked on videos for Senior Night. I got Lily these light up flip flops she loves at JCP since they were on clearance for like $4. Then we came home for lunch/nap. This afternoon we went with some of the youth group kids over to the pool and had dinner there. Lily loved eating dinner outside and ate 2 turkey dogs! Man she loved those things!
Tuesday, August 4
vbs, worship, aquarium, beach, sophia
I'm glad I take pictures because that's usually how I remember to blog about things going on! The end of July brought VBS. On the last day, Friday, the church had a big cookout/presentation for all the vbs kids, their families, and the church. There was such a HUGE turnout and it was so great to see such life going on in the church. Lily had a blast. She didn't want to jump on any of the big jump houses they had but liked to watch and then LOVED dancing to all the music they performed.
Matt has been talking about the 5 different "purposes" in youth group: worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry, and evangelism. A week ago, he did worship. We pulled out a great out of the box worship night. We had set up several different stations of ways we can worship God. These included a prayer room, worship wall, praise box, and the cross. We set up the small room off the youth room as the prayer room. We blacked out everything with paper and then wrote questions all over the room to get the kids thinking about things they could pray about, talk to God about. The worship wall was a place where they could use paint markers to write down qualities/attributes of God that really struck home for them. We'll continue to use this wall in the future and as more people write it will just get to be an incredible thing! The praise box will also continue to exist in the room. It's a trunk where anytime something great has happened in your life, you can write it down and drop it in the box. Then once each month Matt will read some outloud during worship. And finally, we had the cross. At this station the kids could write down things that they needed to confess/sin, put it in an envelope for privacy, and then tack it to the cross. All in all it was a GREAT night!
This past week Lily and I went to the Virginia Aquarium with Lyz and Brooklyn. The girls had a great time and Lily LOVED getting to see all the animals.
Yesterday Lily and I went with Nana and Aaron to the beach. Unlike last time, Lily loved it! We set up camp down closer to the water where the sand was flatter/cooler and she was fine walking around on that. She got brave too around the water and loved me swinging her when the waves came ashore. It was a great morning!
In other exciting news, Mary gave birth to beautiful Sophia Claire on Saturday. She weighed 6 pounds 11 ounces and is a cutie!! I'm excited that now when we have playdates with Mary and Abby that I get to hold a cute little baby girl.
Matt has been talking about the 5 different "purposes" in youth group: worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry, and evangelism. A week ago, he did worship. We pulled out a great out of the box worship night. We had set up several different stations of ways we can worship God. These included a prayer room, worship wall, praise box, and the cross. We set up the small room off the youth room as the prayer room. We blacked out everything with paper and then wrote questions all over the room to get the kids thinking about things they could pray about, talk to God about. The worship wall was a place where they could use paint markers to write down qualities/attributes of God that really struck home for them. We'll continue to use this wall in the future and as more people write it will just get to be an incredible thing! The praise box will also continue to exist in the room. It's a trunk where anytime something great has happened in your life, you can write it down and drop it in the box. Then once each month Matt will read some outloud during worship. And finally, we had the cross. At this station the kids could write down things that they needed to confess/sin, put it in an envelope for privacy, and then tack it to the cross. All in all it was a GREAT night!
This past week Lily and I went to the Virginia Aquarium with Lyz and Brooklyn. The girls had a great time and Lily LOVED getting to see all the animals.
Yesterday Lily and I went with Nana and Aaron to the beach. Unlike last time, Lily loved it! We set up camp down closer to the water where the sand was flatter/cooler and she was fine walking around on that. She got brave too around the water and loved me swinging her when the waves came ashore. It was a great morning!
In other exciting news, Mary gave birth to beautiful Sophia Claire on Saturday. She weighed 6 pounds 11 ounces and is a cutie!! I'm excited that now when we have playdates with Mary and Abby that I get to hold a cute little baby girl.
Wednesday, July 29
busy toddler and worship change
As you can tell by my length of time between blog posts, the life of a wife/parent to a toddler/youth pastor's wife/friend, etc. keeps me much busier these days. I'm so thankful for all of the blessings that God has given me - wonderful husband, beautiful little girl, family nearby, a good job for Matt, good friends for all 3 of us, a church that is striving to meet the needs of its congregation.
Lily keeps me busy as mom these days. She loves to help with everything - cooking, cleaning, doing laundry. Last night she helped me pound out biscuits for my sister's barbecup recipe. She loved doing that! Her vocabulary just continues to amaze me. She picks up words that I wouldn't even think we emphasize or say that much. It's so nice for her to be able to communicate more with me now and tell me what she wants/needs. Whenever she wants me to pick her up/hold her/pay attention to her she says "see me." And she has great manners - please, thank you, you're welcome, bless you. She's also discovered her "private" area and was asking me last week what that was. I was trying to figure out what word for her to use and all I could come up with was "crotch." So she says crotch now. Anybody else want to chime in on what they tell their little girls their private area is called?
And in other exciting news... our church is going to be revamping the 8:30 service. I'm VERY VERY excited and I think that God is really in this. It's a huge next step for our church. I'm going to be playing keyboard for the service along with the normal youth worship band (jon, nate, david, and matt). Plus Ashley (Jon's girlfriend) will be singing as well. Yay!!
Lily keeps me busy as mom these days. She loves to help with everything - cooking, cleaning, doing laundry. Last night she helped me pound out biscuits for my sister's barbecup recipe. She loved doing that! Her vocabulary just continues to amaze me. She picks up words that I wouldn't even think we emphasize or say that much. It's so nice for her to be able to communicate more with me now and tell me what she wants/needs. Whenever she wants me to pick her up/hold her/pay attention to her she says "see me." And she has great manners - please, thank you, you're welcome, bless you. She's also discovered her "private" area and was asking me last week what that was. I was trying to figure out what word for her to use and all I could come up with was "crotch." So she says crotch now. Anybody else want to chime in on what they tell their little girls their private area is called?
And in other exciting news... our church is going to be revamping the 8:30 service. I'm VERY VERY excited and I think that God is really in this. It's a huge next step for our church. I'm going to be playing keyboard for the service along with the normal youth worship band (jon, nate, david, and matt). Plus Ashley (Jon's girlfriend) will be singing as well. Yay!!
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