Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

I'm SO sorry that I've neglected my blog lately! I feel like this is the first time I've had a chance to catch my breath in weeks! One of us has been sick for at least a month, I started the Esther Bible study a few weeks ago (which I love, but means I need to choose that over blogging when I have free time), I joined a gym almost 3 weeks ago and have tried to go every day that it's opened, the Mother's Day Out program that I work at takes out 2 days out of my week and all that on top of cleaning, laundry, The Bachelor (Did I really just admit that I've been watching that? Shame on Me!) and every other household chore has really kept me busy! Oh yeah, and now I have TWO mobile children! That's right, y'all! Addy's crawling! Well, she actually slithers more than crawls, but you get my point. It's so cute, but I can already tell that my hands are really going to be full in the coming months. I knew that this whole having 2 kids thing was going to catch up with my sooner or later! lol It's ok, though! I always say "my hands are a good kind of full", full of my beautiful baby girls, but full for sure! That's why God gave me 2 arms, right?

Addy can ride in the car buggy with Emmy now!

We haven't had a lot of "big" things happen recently, but there are some min-events that have taken place...

The biggest one is Addy crawling, of course. Emmy has been so cute with her since she's learned. When we put Addy on the floor to do her thing, Emmy always says "Come on, Addy! You can do it!" As she begins to "slither" she says "She's doin' it! She's doin' it!" I'm so proud of Emmy! I thought that she would get jealous when Addy had milestone's because of the lack of attention on her, but it's been the opposite. She's as happy as Tim and I are!

Emmy cracks us up all the time by the things she says! The other day she said to Hannah "Nah-Nah, how old are you?" Hannah said "18." Emmy, with a very distraught look of her face, gasps and puts both hands in front her face saying "But I don't have enough hands for that!" It was sooo funny! She also has begun to tell us stories of when she was a little girl, because now she's a big girl, of course.

Addy has made it pretty clear that she doesn't like baby food. Every time I put a bite in her mouth she spits it out. We've tried everything- vegetables, fruits, rice cereal, but she's NOT having it! I talked to the doctor about it briefly the other day, and she said that I can try some soft table foods with her. When I got home, I opened up a jar of Emmy's Gerber diced carrots and cut each one in half or in thirds depending on how big the piece was. She ate several bites of them and "gummed" it! How weird is that? I also tried some fresh banana cut up the same way and she did the same thing! She won't eat baby food carrots or bananas, though! We did everything with Emmy by the book so this is driving me nuts! I'm going to keep trying baby food every day until she's a little older, just in case she changes her mind!

Oh yeah, and I mentioned going to the doctor, right? Well, Thursday, we were at Mother's Day Out and I was playing with Addy as she laid on my lap. She was giggling with her mouth wide opened when I noticed a weird rash on her tongue. I freaked out because earlier that day I had given her a Ritz cracker for the first time because she was so fussy while she watched the other kids eat their lunch. I just knew it was all my fault and that I shouldn't have given her that cracker since she was so young. I grabbed my phone and called the doc. They told me to bring her in. To make a long story short, she basically has this thing called geographic tongue. I had noticed a weird looking thing on her tongue a few weeks before, so I was watching it and planning on showing it to the doctor at her check-up this week. Basically, there's nothing really wrong. It just means she has a shape on her tongue that looks like a continent (hence, geographic) and it also causes the taste buds to have a raised appearance (the rash). I almost cried when I admitted to the doctor before she gave me the diagnosis that I had given her a cracker. I knew that I was going to get the world's worst mother award!

OK...one more little story and I'll show you a few pictures....

Emmy has made a new friend. This little girl is 7 and Em wants to be JUST like her. I mean, even to the point of Emmy wanting to wear her hair in a ponytail everyday because that's how this little girl wears hers. Anyway, since this has all went down, I decided to have a little talk with Emmy the other night. For 20 minutes I was trying to explain to a 3 year old that she was beautiful and special just the way God made her. She kept saying "but Mommy, I want to do gymnastics like her and I want a pink jacket like her and I want to go to school like her, etc." (and by the way, she has also said for months that she wants to dye her hair red like Ariel) FINALLY, Emmy got the point and I said, "Now Emmy, how did God make you?" she said "Beautiful!" then I said "Who do you want to be like?" she then said "Hmmmm...I want to be...I want to be like, Emmy!" Y'all, am I crazy? To me this was a very important conversation to have and I know I have MANY, MANY, MANY more of these to come. Lord, please give me wisdom!

Growing like a weed!

Emmy, you are so beautiful and perfect-just the way God made you! Always know that!

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Psalm 139:14