A Hope and a Future

The light of Jesus

                              

Setting: the open field across from Bama's "mountain house"

Becca: Look, look! It's the light of Jesus!

Me: Huh? What are you talking about?

Becca: Look! (pointing this time) The light of Jesus! That means He's coming back soon!

Acts 1:10-11                                                                                                                                They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."

I don't think that would be very filling!

Rebecca has become interested lately in where her food comes from; in particular where our meat comes from. She is putting together the fact that our meat comes from animals (and thankfuly this doesn't gross her out....she is just fascinated by it).

This morning the following conversation occurred:

Becca: "Mommy, what kind of food do we get from butterflies?"

Me: (thankfully turned AWAY from her so I could hide my snicker and smile) "Becca, we don't eat butterflies, honey."

Becca: "Oh."

A child's perspective

Our adoption agency requires us to send in a monthly written update on the twins along with pictures each month through the first year (and once a year thereafter until they are 18). The agency then forwards it on to their birthmom and she is able to see and read about how the babies are growing. I think this is an awesome idea and it has really been good for me: "forcing" me in a way to take lots of pictures and think each month about the kids' development instead of forgetting to write things down like I'm sure I would have otherwise. There have been several times when I've been taking pictures and Rebecca wants to be in the picture but I'll tell her that it needs to be just Hannah or just Samuel for their birthmom. The other day I was taking pictures of Isaac trying to get him to smile for a picture (I seem to have a hard time capturing his smiles on camera!) and I found it so cute when Rebecca said "Mommy, why are you taking pictures of Isaac? He doesn't have a birthmom!" Of course my first reaction was "uhhh, I'M his birthmom!!" I guess from her perspective the only time you take pictures of babies is to send them to their birthmom:)

                                        

Cavinets and Fligelators and weights, oh my!

Yesterday Becca was hanging out with Dennis in the bathroom while he was finishing getting ready and the following conversation took place:

B: Daddy, I'm hungry. I think I want a snack.

D: Oh, you're hungry? Ok, well, you can have a little bit of the bar of soap in the shower!

B: Eww.....no, Daddy!

D: Ok, how about some of the sock fuzz on the floor?

B: Gross!

D: Or you could eat one of the q-tips in the trash can like Jessie (the dog) does......

B: No, no, no Daddy......food is ONLY found in cavinets and fligelators!

Becca has so few "baby" words left that we can't bring ourselves to correct her when she uses them:)

              

Just so I get it written down......the baby's weights today at their ear infection follow up appointment:

Hannah: 22lbs even

Samuel: 19lbs 1oz

"I pledge allegiance...."

The other day Becca absolutely floored me when out of nowhere she recited the entire Pledge of Allegiance perfectly! I just stared at her with my jaw on the floor and asked where she had learned it. She replied, "we do it at preschool, Mommy!" I'm sure this is only the beginning of the things that she will learn from others besides me; hopefully it will be more good than bad! Its just so weird to have her popping out with things that I know I didn't teach her. She is growing up too fast:)

That's not how it works, baby

I was informed by Becca the other day that I needed to drink lots of milk so I could make mamma milk for Isaac. She also said that I should not drink juice or water anymore because then he would be drinking juice and water:)

Marks of Love

For those of you waiting anxiously for the 6 month update on the babies (HA!), I am still trying to get to it. I have had a nasty cold this week that has knocked me down but am now feeling MUCH better. I have great hopes to post an update (with pictures!) tomorrow. In the meantime, I give you this:

Becca was talking to me the other night as I dressed after my shower. All of the sudden she got a very concerned look on her face and said "Mommy, you have LOTS of boo boos on your belly!" Once I realized what she was talking about I sighed and said "No, darlin, those are called stretch marks!" Oh, well, its all worth it:)

Things that make you go hmmm.......

Anyone who has read my blog for awhile may remember that Rebecca has come out with some random things in the past that have then come to pass....such as wanting a brother AND a sister (at the time we jsut laughed at her and said yah right!), an saying soon after the babies came home that we needed another baby (and she didn't know at the time that I was already pregnant). So yesterday she very randomly said to me "Mommy, I want to move to a new house and go to a new church." Now I know that could mean nothing but it IS eerie that she is starting to say that now since Dennis' resume is out and we have recently had contact from several churches requesting more information from Dennis. We had a talk about God having a plan for our lives and that He would let us know when it was time to move. Veeery interesting:)

We took the babies today for their 6 month checkup (they will turn 6 months on Monday): Hannah (aka "chunkers") weighed in at a whopping 18lbs 13oz (YIKES!) and 25 in long. This puts her at the 90th percentile for weight and the 20th percentile for height! We talked to the doctor about dropping her formula intake a bit now that she is starting on solids. Samuel weighed in at 16lbs 8oz and 24 3/4 in long. He is in the 25th percentile for weight and the 5th percentile for height. They were given a clean bill of health. I plan to post a six month update next week with pictures.....stay tuned!

I didn't know flags had tails!

Heard from the backseat of our car today:

"Look, Mamma, the flags are wagging!"

You keep thinking that for a looong time, honey!

Something Becca said to me today:

"I don't want any boys sleeping in my bed because they might get BOY hair on it!"