Texas Song

Here's our first video post! Make sure you have your sound on.

This is a song that Reef "wrote" a few weeks ago and then performed for us a few nights ago. He actually had me write down the words with pictures and hang them on the fridge for future performances.

Prayers

This is the last of 3 posts today, so be sure to scroll down for the others.

We've always prayed at dinner and bedtime with the boys and have started making it a habit to ask them if they would like to say the prayer. Well, Reef has finally started doing it! It's so cute to listen to him and he's so sincere. Every few days he'll a new thing to be thankful for. Tonight it sounded like this:

Dear God, Thank you for this day. Thank you for this food. Thank you for God. Thank you for Jesus. Thank you for my mom and dad. Thank you for my brothers, even Lachlan. Amen.

Sometimes he throws in thank you for my drink or thank you for my friends too.

Jonas is still not sure about the whole thing. Sometimes, if he's not too busy eating already, he'll repeat whatever Reef says, so that's a good start. He did pray on his own a few weeks ago at the learning store. He was playing kitchen and needed pray for his fake pizza before eating it! So funny!

And I'll leave you with a cute pic of Reef and Troy. Reef actually told me to get the camera and take this. A very rare occurence indeed!

Adding on

In the last 2 days, I've thought of 2 new resolutions that I want to add to my list:
1. Be a better listener. In a Bible study I'm doing right now, one of this week's lessons was on listening. I came to the startling revelation, that I'm really not a good listener. Definitely something I'd like to improve on.
2. Read through the Bible in a year. I've jumped on board with Sara Matheny to do it together! I'm starting 10 days late but think I can catch up. I'm excited!

PS. Shame on you if you thought this entry was going to be another pregnancy announcement. We are sooo not ready for that yet!

5 months already?

I can't believe our baby is 5 months old already!
This has been a particularly rough month for little Lachlan, since he was sick for ALL of December! Poor guy's been on 3 rounds of antibiotics for an ear infection that he just couldn't kick and had a bout of RSV! He seems to be all better now, though, so hopefully this month we will have a much happier baby on our hands.
Here's the monthly bear picture: He wasn't really in the mood so now smiles this time.

Here we are sporting the new clothes from Aunt Staci. Love them!

Practicing sitting up. He can do it all by himself for about 30 seconds now!

A rare smile during tummy time. He still hates this most of the time.

Things to remember about this month:

-You continue to be our happiest baby so far.

-You will allow anyone to hold you most of the time, although you did have your first episode of stranger anxiety the other day.

-Your favorite person is Reef. Whenever you see him, you start wiggling and kicking and waving your arms. You even cry if he leaves while you're playing with him!

-December was a very rough time with tummy time, I think because you did not feel good. We're getting back into the swing of things now and you're improving. You even used your arms to push up this week!

-Still no rolling over.

-Your sleep habits at night are really frustrating mommy. You go to sleep around 7:15 but wake up every 2 hours between 10 and 4. Usually you're just talking but it's very loud, so I have to come in to find your paci. I feel like a nomad wandering through the house all night and spend part of every night sleeping in your room. I always get disoriented if I wake up in my own bed in the morning!

-We are working on consolidating your morning nap into 1 long one instead of 2 short catnaps. -You nap with your brothers at 1ish most days, so that's very nice for mommy.

-You found your toes recently and are very fascinated by them. In fact, I think they are part of the reason you don't sleep well. We've even found you with your toes in your mouth!

-No teeth yet. I've been so sure that a tooth would pop through in the last month and even thought I felt one. But I was mistaken. We're seeing white dots, so maybe this month...

-You weigh about 17.5 lbs at 5 months old.

Resolutions

I know I'm 8 days late, but I wanted to take a minute to right down my New Year's Resolutions. As a side note, we had a great New Year's Eve with our old friends, Justin and Jill, and relatively new friends/neighbors, Erin and Chris. We enjoyed an evening of junk food and games and even managed to stay up until midnight! I think this is the first time in our marriage that we've made it till the clock struck 12!
Anyway, on to the resolutions...
1. Pray more deeply. I must admit that lately my prayerlife has been pretty stale and shallow. So, this is my biggest goal this year-a more intimate prayerlife with God.
2. Read more.
3. Going along with # 2, watch less TV. We've been pretty successful so far but we're only 1 week in!
4. Waste less time. Sometimes I have no idea where all my time goes!
5. Slow down and enjoy the little things. I feel like I'm always planning the next event/outing and never have time to enjoy the moment.
6. Take more pictures.
7. Stay organized. I feel very unorganized right now-I need to work on everything having a place, so I can find my stuff!
That's all I can think of right now. Wish me luck!