Twirling

Yesterday afternoon, Brad was picking December up, twirling her around, and dropping her on the bed. She thought it was the greatest!! Here they are at the beginning of the twirl...

Spinning...

Almost completed the spin...

Flying high in the air! A great live-action shot.

She's about to be dropped on the bed

Back on safe ground again. She LOVES being tickled!

Got milk?

Last Saturday was a fun day for all of us! I went to the parenting conference (which, by the way, was not by Ted Tripp like I had thought -- it was by his brother Paul Tripp. So confusing!) Paul Tripp did an awesome job, though. There were five separate lessons, with 15-minute breaks in between. The first two lessons were on how to get at the heart of parenting -- how we need to focus on changing our child's heart and not simply changing the outward behavior. Discipline needs to be focused on how we can reveal her heart and show her Christ and her need for Christ. If we just punish her outward behavior, she will learn that she can't do those types of things in our presence. So as long as we're not around to see her, there's not alot stopping her from doing those things. BUT by focusing on her heart, she'll (hopefully) no longer want to do those things anywhere. Then the rest of the lectures were on the various age groups and how to apply these thoughts when your child is at various ages. It was really a wonderful conference!

Brad and December went to the Wild Animal Park with the other husbands and babies. It sounds like they had a great time, too! They went into the Petting Corral and pet various types of African deer. December had so much fun with Daddy that she really wasn't all that excited to see me back again! She was just fine with it being the two of them. I'm glad of that. December loves Brad alot!