Sleeping Babies

Our household has been a little under the weather this week and David, like the rest of us, had a rough few days there. He kept falling asleep wherever he was sitting or laying down. Around noon when I was reading to him and Mac he fell asleep on my right shoulder, Mac fell asleep on my left shoulder and Ruthie fell asleep on my chest. I thought perhaps I wouldn't move and ruin the moment so I joined the club and took a 20 minute nap on the couch with my three sleeping babies. It was sweet, but unfortunately there was no one there to take the picture.

A Child's Prayer

Mac said his first prayer all by himself this morning.He's been praying for a while now but mostly just repeats what we tell him to say. He loves to volunteer to pray at meals and family prayer time and I love to hear him.


"Heavenly Father
Thank you for the food (sounds more like Dank you)
Thank you for Daddy to get a job (he means, please help daddy to get a job)
Please bless daddy go to work ( safely)
Please bless daddy sleep in the big bed
In the name of Jesus Christ Amen" (I had to prompt him a little with this)


He must have been thinking of daddy a lot because Zach was already at work by the time we got up this morning. He leaves at 7:00am
Kenny 2/1/12, 2 years 3 months

Favorite Part of My Day

We often ask our children, "What was your favorite part of the day?"  Sometimes we get very cute answers like, "When Daddy came home." Sometimes they are more predictable like, "Watching Tom and Jerry". Well this was my favorite part of the day yesterday:

              Walking down the block with Gabe. I asked to hold his hand because I don't know how long he's going to let me do that. Hopefully for many more years to come, but you never know. He happily obliged. We were coming back from a neighbor's house and I told him to stop growing. I said one minute you were a baby and I blinked and now you are up to the middle of my arm. That made him giggle because of course it didn't happen in a blink. I told him I was going to start putting books on his head to stop him from growing which made him giggle too. He told me, "Mom, that would just make me flat" and then it was my turn to giggle.