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Blogging??

I have been neglectful of the blog.  Things are busy and life can be draining.  Mitch has been working 50 hr weeks for the past 3-4 weeks, I'm losing track.  We are almost weaned and hormones are spazing.  Thankfully the Lord provides strength for all He sets before us.  It's amazing how in wearisome times, whether they be sprititually, mentally, physcially, or all of the above as they have been lately that fellowship with Christ has been most sweet and His word very precious, as well as the kindred spirits that encourage us in truth.  This also makes me randomly thankful for a church and preaching that is continually encouraging, biblical and outside of the box of the churchy presuppositions so many of us grew up in, and it's almost like the sermon is in keeping with what is going on in our lives and what we are working through learning from the Lord.  Anyhow, encouraging.
Also, my little man turned 5 April 8th and I WILL post pics soon!  He was so excited and his favorite gift I belive was his bumble bee pillow pet ( yes yes I know). Daddy, searched high and low for the bumble bee.  Christian continues to be a sweet little boy that just loves to chat and have attention and he has gotten more rough and wrestling with Isabelle, which I find annoying. :)  He loves to learn how and why things work, like things in the body.  He adores his daddy.  He has been spelling words on the fridge.  He'll show me me words like, rug and box, those little 3 letter words. 
I have finished Holiness By Grace this week.  One of my favorite books, EVER.  I may have to give that book it's own post.  Just check out quotes from it from my past posts, they should be labeled.

If our teaching of grace causes us to make light of sin, or to slight the requirements of the Savior, then we have really not understood either the monstrosity of our sin or the greatness of the heart that forgives it.
Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God. His purposes become our own.....True grace produces joy and promotes godliness.  ~Holiness By Grace Bryan Chapel

"On all hands we hear cries for unity in this and unity in that; but in our mind the main need of this age is not compromise but conscientiousness, 'First pure, then peaceable.' It is easy to cry 'A confederacy,' but that union that is not based on the truth of God is rather a conspiracy than a communion. Charity by all means: but honesty also. Love of course, but love to God as well as love to men, and love of truth as well as love of union. It is exceedingly difficult in these times to preserve one's fidelity before God and one's fraternity among men. Should not the former be preferred to the latter if both cannot be maintained? We think so" ~Spurgeon

"Unity without verity [truth] is no better than conspiracy" Puritan John Trapp

Double Blessings

Unbelievable. from Daniel JD on Vimeo.
As many of you know, my littlest bro and his sweet wife made me an aunt last Friday!!  He said I could share this video that makes me cry everytime.  I can't even hardly talk about those sweet babies without getting choked up.  I wish so BADLY I could be sharing these precious moments with my family and hold those babies.  I had no idea I would love these babies so much and how much it would hurt to not be able to be there right away!!  It's amazing to see my ornery little brother as the doting father and watching Bethany being loving mama to her babies, she said she loves having twins!!  They have a long haul in front of them as they get the hang of caring for babies for the first time and my brother is working as a CNA and will be doing his nursing boards this spring.  No pressure. ;) so if you think of them, a prayer on their behalf would be much appreciated.
Oh baby love.  Need I say more.

Here We Go

Shut the basement door and put away the Legos!  We have a crawler!  Aliza has been almost crawling for a couple weeks and these past few days has gotten the hang of it.  She will be 10 months old this weekend!  She has been clapping her hands and dancing, can't remember if I posted that before.  She has also started self-weaning which is kind sad for mommy.  But you can't make a kid nurse, believe me, she is way too interested in other thing than staring at my chest.  She started getting distracted at 4 months.  I am hoping to spend little or nothing on formula as I have many samples and coupons and stored up milk in the freezer.  She does nurse like a champ at night, IN the night.   YES.  My name is Audrey and I have an almost 10 month old that routinely gets me up once a night to nurse.  There, I said it, I would've called this bad parenting but this kid is so darn easy I have chosen to fight this battle after she turns one, then I can be kept up for a few nights with a screaming baby as we have a battle of wills.  UGH, still praying in anticipation for wisdom on this because I am stumped.  She also is cutting her top four teeth, they are coming in every other instead of in pairs, weird, hope none are missing. :)  AND her stats from her 9 month apt are as follows : height 27 inches=23%,15.9 lbs=4% head 17.2 in= 35%.  So we have dropped on the charts, Isabelle dropped at this age too in weight from 50 to 15% I also read that breastfed babies can drop a little on the charts at this point. The dr wants to make sure she is getting lots of food and snacks and tested her iron which is fine.  Mom and Dad were here this weekend and mom thought her little leggies were fat and cute. 

 I miss my mommy..anyway, she crawls, but won't roll from her back.  It's so odd, so I've been helping her to roll some, ( my own imposed physical therapy lol)she is getting used to the sensation. :)  Tis all for now, I have added pics to shutterfly.

Child-like Interpretation

My responsible, sensitive eldest, very much a first born personality, yet she can be spacey and in her own world, at 18 months old she colored, and I don't mean crayon eating colored but lined up her chubby crayons and colored purposefully.  She will often say " why don't you laugh at ME????"  she has a really funny little brother that garners ( did I use that right?) a lot of laughs so when she says something funny I need to document.  When she was really small instead of saying " I don't like it"  it was " I can't like it" which is funny because it left no room for trying because it wasn't possible to like something when you just can't, there is no choice in this.  So the other night I heard her talking to Christian, " God can do many things at once, like drawing and playing basketball."

Lovins

Little Lovins is 9 months old.  We are a family of nicknames so just because I've never blogged Aliza as Lovins, doesn't mean she isn't called that by me many times as well as a plethora of many other things that her cuteness inspires at that moment.  I supposed I should've waited till she had her apt next week to give you the percent stats but oh well.  She got her first two teeth finally!!  She took her sweet time like big sis and they are crooked pointing in just like Isabelle's too.  And yes we are still nursing and yes she bit me a couple times and has not since. mmm hmm.  She is sporadic with her not bothering me in the night to nurse, sometimes she will go 12 hrs, other 8.  So I pretty much consider it a bonus if I'm not up at 4 or 5 in the morning, thankfully it's for about 10 minutes and I put her back down and go back to sleep myself.  Aliza has started this laugh, like an actual, ha-ha-ha.  It's funny and cute of course.  She is a pro at precision pincher picking up to feed herself.  She started that at 7.5 months.  So in my book advanced in the fine motor skills ;)  In gross motor skilling, which who needs them anyway when they're gross???  She has yet to roll over from back to front, it's weird, yet convenient.  She sits and can bend over her legs in odd positions to get things and can move some, but no go getting crawling.  It's so funny when she is laying on her back, not realizing she could do something about it.  Still my good happy baby.
And those other kids...Christian has been sounding out and spelling words with the magnets on the fridge.  I hadn't even been working with him and he was sounding thing out so I showed home how putting different letters on the start of two other letters make different words,  he got Isabelle's sight words out and sounded out jump with no help, at all.  He does not yet know how e makes vowels say their own name etc or th and ch sounds.  He is becoming more boy spastic, loud, rough.  He has accidentally bonked his head into the baby's a couple times and is just broken hearted when it happens, you can tell he is deeply distraught over his baby sis hurting.  We had a talk one day about how it's not always safe to give the baby something just because she cries for it etc;  love is often not doing what will make someone " happy".  Like eating pennies or going out in the street. :)
Isabelle and I had PTConferences this week and she did a great job on her report card, right where she needs to be academically and above standard in her behavior and work habits.  I was very pleased to say the least, and so thankful for her putting forth her very best efforts!  She is my responsible first born little caretaker.  Christian was hacking up a lung this weekend so I came out in the morning and she had made him a bed on the floor with towels, water bottle, crackers and another bowel just in case he threw up from the coughing which he is notorious for.  That is it for now!!!