Just sayin'

Trying to gear up for winter and being indoors with Blake all day. I need to start buying new toys for him to play with to help with those long days stayin in the house. A thought crossed my mind to try and maybe research on line ideas of things to do with a 1 1/2 year old boy to keep them entertained. So any thoughts on things I can do with him this winter that would be age appropriate. PS- He doesn't sit still more than 5min.....

Simple thought

Just thinking today that sometimes spending time with your husband has to be intentional.... and when it is...it's so worth it!

two years ago tomorrow

Two years ago tomorrow will be the anniversary of when I told my class that I was pregnant and when I had a dream I was going to have a boy...via c-section. Crazy how it did come true. I love reading my old blog posts about pregnancy and looking back at Blake when he was a baby. Ahhhhhh he is so big now!

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I hate hoping for something and then getting excited to suddenly have myself disappointed...is there anyway to protect yourself from something like that?

Simply Blessed

I am blessed:

* I have a loving husband
* I have a husband who is an active participant in Blake's life
* I have a handsome son
* I have a beuatiful home
* I have a husband who has a good job
* I have a supportive extended family who loves the Lord
* I have a wonderful home church
* I have friends that are non judgemental and encouraging
* I have a car and my husband has a car
* I have money to get groceries every week, to use on fun acitivities, and to buy clothes with
* I have a gym I can workout at
* I have more than I could ask for and feel overwhelmed that God choose me to be blessed!

Simon Says

Oh Blakers...he does everything I tell him to do! I love it! When he is chewing I will say, "Open your mouth!" and he opens his mouth....he is understanding so much! He loves our new house. He enjoys all the open space and just exploring right now. The other day I was in the car with my mom and she sat in the back with Blake as I was driving. I put worship music on and we were singing and worshiping and Blake decided to mimic my mom and lifted his hands to worship. Now he has done lots of things to melt my heart, but that really just made me truly melt. His little chubby hands in the air worshiping was priceless.

We have had a ton going on lately. Lots of need for God's ever present hands needing to be reached out to my family and friends right now. Waiting on God to show his blessings and faithfulness in action!

15 months

Blake just had his 15 month appointment he is the following:
In 50% weight and 30-40% height.

He is doing well with walking and learning new words...the doctor said he should be saying at least 6 words, and we are on track or even a bit above that.

He has begun to know how to throw tantrums and also has selective responding. Here is the deal: Blake can respond and do commands like : throw away garbage, shut the door, give someone something, but when we tell him don't touch, he touches something. The doctor said that he is being selective in what he is responding to. That he knows what no means, but continues to do it anyways. That means that Jason and I need to be more consistent in how we talk to Blake...when he is doing something he isn't suppose to do it, we leave it at just saying no and redirecting him. The doc told us not to have lengthy conversations with him when disciplining him because he sees he is getting attention and he will love it. If we just say no, it's not a ton of attention and conversation with him and soon he will catch on to what we are trying to teach him. We'll see....we'll try this and hopefully he will stop touching the TV!