The girls are growing!

Lucy I think has 12 teeth - craziness.  Is now on straight homo milk.  Our favourite word of hers is NOOOO - said with a really, really round mouth, cheeks sucked it.  We say "Let's go upstairs and change your diaper"  She yells NOOO and then runs towards the stairs.

Memories of Sadie as a baby...

• when Koala brothers would come on, she would flap her arms and run in a circle.
  
• Poking her finger in Megan's (a girl I babysat) eye while yelling Eye, eye, eye (the only word she knew) - good thing, I came running and separated their highchairs.
  
• always running around in circles.
  
• Loved to play chase - even when she barely knew how to crawl.  If anyone came up to her she would start running away - no matter their intention.
  
• When she was around two she decided her name should be Lucy - from the song "Put your shoes on Lucy" and when ever anyone would ask her what her name was she would say "I lucy" - couldn't convince her otherwise.
  

A New Year

Wow... 2009 has begun.  Scary how fast time flies.

This year.... I want to love God more, love my husband more, love my kids more, love myself more and others too!  A lofty goal indeed.  Need to remember that the Holy Spirit is what I need... I cannot do on my own.  So easy to forget.  

Jesse leaves for Bangladesh in a couple weeks - little scared at that prospect. Him so far away, me on my own with two little ones.  I know it's the right thing the right time, so I am confident things will be okay, it's just going to be a loooong two weeks!  I can do all things through the Christ who gives me strength!

The girls...

beautiful.

Sadie can drive me nuts with her incessant talking, but I need to remember to encourage her.  To ask questions, to listen carefully to what she has to say.  I don't want her ever to feel that she has nothing worthwhile to offer.  I need to be careful of how I speak to her about her talking.  She just got home today from being with Grandma & Grandpa in Niagara Falls - had a great time at Seussical etc...  She is so grown up.  I kept looking at her today hardly believing she's going to be 5 in a couple weeks.  Makes me teary eyed to think of all the wasted opportunities.  God's grace.

Lucy is a little monkey - climbing on everything!  I think its funny how both Jesse and I are surprised when Lucy just goes to sleep when we put her in her crib.  That's how its supposed to work.  Funny.

We went to visit Sue & Eric (Max & Molly are their dogs) in the circle yesterday.  Had a great time - Sadie danced for Eric for 1/2 an hour - a captive audience.  She really broke out of her shyness.  There is such a grace about her.  Lucy just ran laps around their living room, feeding the dogs cheerios as she went.  need to keep up this relationship - I think it really blesses Sue especially.

Anyhow - good night, batteries are about to die :)