Secret note found...

under the baby's bed.

1:00 layla be thier see you at 1:00 in the nite.  Bye.


Jory trying to rendezvous with his partner in crime to play wii.

Awesome

So I couldn't think of a new song, or rather couldn't decide on the new song the kids should learn during devotionals, so I fell back on an old favorite - - you choose the song.  Jory couldn't chose between "Don't Build Your House on the Sandy Land" and "Empty" by Tait. (My son knows a song by Tait.  I could cry, I'm so overcome with emotion.  Are there DC Talk covernbands?)  He went with "Sandy Land." 

When it was Rowan's turn, she said she wanted to sing "Awesome."  I looked at her puzzled.  She obviously wasn't talking about our God is an awesome God.  Then Layla started to sing, "My God is awesome/Keeps me in the valley/Hides me from the rain."  Oh yes, that song.  Gotta love Sirius Radio's Kirk Franklin's Praise Channel.

My God is awesome

He can move mountains
Keep me in the valley

Hide me from the rain
My God is awesome

Heals me when I'm broken
Strength where I've been weakened, 

Forever He will reign
(repeat)

My God is awesome

Awesome

Awesome

Awesome
(repeat)

My God is awesome

Savior of the whole world
Giver of salvation

By His stripes I am healed
My God is awesome

Today I am forgiven
His grace is why I'm living

Praise His holy name

My God is awesome

Awesome

Awesome

Awesome
(repeat)

He's Mighty

He's Mighty

He's Mighty

He's Mighty

Awesome

Awesome

He's Holy

He's Holy

He's Holy

He's Holy
Awesome

Awesome

He's Great

He's Great

He's Great

He's Great

Awesome

Awesome

He's Mighty

He's Mighty

He's Mighty

He's Mighty

Awesome

Awesome

Deliverer

Deliverer

Deliverer

Deliverer 

Awesome

Awesome

He's Holy

He's Holy

He's Holy

He's Holy
Awesome

Awesome

Provider
Provider
Provider
Provider

Awesome

Awesome

Protector

Protector

Protector

Protector
Awesome

Awesome

My God is awesome

He can move mountains
Keep me in the valley

Hide me from the rain
My God is awesome

Heals me when I'm broken
Strength where I've been weakened, 

Forever He will reign

I love music.  And I love that God is putting songs on their hearts to sing, to worship Him.  They are learning verses  at AWANA and when I'm not looking learning songs on their own reminding them of how great He is, how awesome He is, how He can move mountains.  God is good.  All the time He is good.

Exactly one week later...

The second tooth has broken in.  He can now officially bite you.

February 28

His first bottom tooth has broken through.  He keeps growing up on me.

CBN anchor

Things don't go right for us, so we start complaining and thinking, God you're not running the universe right for me today. 

I love that!

One of the disadvantages of having...

a stuffy nose is that you wake up at 3AM to discover TTT in your bed, in all of their horrible sleeping positions.  I say a prayer for my future children, their future spouses.  Yikes!

On the plus side, it only took Liam 40 minutes to go back to sleep.  Go Liam!  Probably could have went to sleep faster, if he had had some elbow room in the bed.

Why is it...

that every time Liam does something to frustrate or annoy me, say like refusing to unclench his fist to get his hand through his shirt's opening, I call him Layla in my mind?

It's bizarre.  It's not like the baby frustrates me more than her twin and her brother.  They all annoy and frustrate me equally.  Maybe it's because she was the youngest in the family for so long.  Things that make you go hmmm...I wonder if it will stay like this always, or just until he starts talking.  But for now next time, I want to change his diaper and he wants to roll over and scoot away, I'm sure in my mind I'll say, "Layla, can you please lay down and let me change your diaper."