Ezra: Eleven Months

I don't even have to say it, do I?

It's June. This little man is 11 months old.

You know what that means.
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This past month has been pretty huge for you. I can hardly believe that Isaac's birthday was only a month ago!


Since then, you've been all sorts of busy.


Your biggest priority seems to be doing exactly what your big brother is doing.


But, mind you, even if you're trying to do what he's doing, you're still acting like you.


Which is extremely sweet 99% of the time.
 

You did some growing this month! And got to move on up to a convertible seat, still rear facing of course.


Back to that emulating your big brother thing.


Daddy's pretty much a sucker for how much of a cuddler you are, but really, we all are.


See, me too.


Within the last couple weeks, you started taking your first steps.


And you love to shake your head back and forth when we say, "No no."


You no longer crawl on your knees, but prefer to bear crawl.


You can now stand without pulling yourself up on anything and it always takes me by surprise. You are just as inquisitive as Isaac and I found you had climbed up on a tote the other night!


Ezra John, we love you so much. Keep that light in your eye shining!

Wait and See

Saturday night, while I laid next to Isaac in the camper as he settled down to go to sleep, we had some pretty sweet conversations. After a few minutes of just tender talk with my oldest, I told him "Isaac, you're amazing." His response? "Mama, I love Jesus. And God."  

Of course I started crying.

For all the times that I've questioned myself and our choices.

For all the times lately that asking Isaac to pray with us has triggered anger.

Oh it was a balm to my heart.

So was this blog post, also sent my way by encouraging reader via email.

This boy? He's a certifiable stinker, but God's not through with him yet.


Or me.

 There is hope for me yetBecause God won't forget, All the plans he's made for me
I have to wait and see, He's not finished with me yet, He's not finished with me yet Brandon Heath :: Wait and See

On repeat . . In my head

The Case of Poor Communication

Cast of Characters:
Preschool A :: Where Isaac will be going this fall.
Preschool B :: Preschool we liked when arranging fall preschool, but is inconveniently located.
Preschool C :: Preschool we did not consider for fall preschool, but is conveniently located.

When it became very clear to my Mom and I that Isaac would need some distraction, some outside influence, just something to help bear his exuberance, I started to frantically search for a summer preschool program. At the rate things were going just over two weeks ago, there was no way my Mom was going to make it to fall.

Unfortunately, Preschool A, where Isaac will be going in the fall does not offer summer school. My first choice was then Preschool B, which Tony and I both liked, but finally determined was too out of the way. I was so happy to pull up their website and find that they did indeed offer summer sessions, before school care and potentially drop in daycare! The preschool director had been very responsive to my emails when I made inquiries for fall preschool, so I felt comfortable with submitting the summer school application and quickly completed it Friday, the 18th.

And when I submit, nothing happened.

There was no confirmation.

No next step.

There was no information posted on the site what to expect next either.

So I waited.

Given that the summer session started in just over a week and that it was clearly labeled an application, which would imply some sort of response, I emailed on Monday. I had no idea if they were full and wanted confirmation before assuming that my child would be attending their preschool in a week.

After no response in 24 hours, again I should say the director had responded very quickly in our past emails, I called on Tuesday. I left a message with someone with the preschool who assured me the director was out for the day, but that she was in the office and agreed that I definitely needed to know an answer!

When I still hadn't heard anything on Thursday, I was beyond annoyed.

So I started looking for another preschool and as luck would have it, found Preschool C, which is very close to us with a summer preschool! I emailed to find out availability, was answered within two hours and had my registration form and check in the mail in 5 minutes.

By the end of the day Friday, there still had been no response from Preschool B.

Imagine my surprise to receive an email from Preschool B detailing the first week information, because according to their records we were signed up!

Peaks and Valleys

This weekend was good. Fun and challenging and just good.

Here's the IG photobomb of our weekend camping with my family and my first wedding of the season [oh, what a wedding!].













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