The Mom and Baby Party

December is brushing up on some Greek

Here she is in a rare picture with a hair tie in her hair (shocking, I know)

This is taken after the party. December is so tired she can't keep her eyes open, and her mouth is in a bit of a pout because she's whining quietly.

Yesterday December and I had a party! We invited some seminary wives and their babies over to play with us. We met a mom and baby we haven't met before -- Naomi and her 13-month old son Noah. They moved here in July from England, and Naomi has a great accent. We also had over the girls from the apartment complex, so there were five ladies and four babies. The babies treated each other relatively well, although December had a minor meltdown when Noah tried to push around the stroller that she was loading up with her "treasures." We had alot of fun!

The Bike Trailer

Our new bike trailer!

We were afraid December wouldn't like going into the trailer, so we put her dolls in with her to show her how much fun the dolls were having -- but we didn't need to; she loved it!

On Thursday, as December and I were lazily walking home from the grocery store, we saw our car zoom up right to us. Brad turned into a random person's driveway and told us he had just found a bike trailer! We have been looking for one for December, one that she can ride in while we tow her on our bikes. The ones we have been looking at are kind of expensive, with the cheapest one at Wal-mart being $77. BUT, Brad said that on his way home from the seminary, he rode past a garage sale that had one! Brad picked December and I and our groceries up, and we went to go look at it...and we bought it! We only paid $35 for it, too, yay! I was happy it was still at the garage sale, because bike trailers get sold pretty fast. Brad attached it to his bike and drove December around on it in the parking lot. As you can see, she had a blast! I was hoping that we could bike around a nearby lake today, but December is not cooperating...and I think she won't like riding around so much anymore, because we just got her a helmet (and you know how much she hates having things on her hair). Oh well! She'll just have to learn to like wearing her helmet, I guess!

A Sentimental Post

Here is December during bath time. (She likes to drink bath water)

She's being silly here

Here she is looking at herself in the shiny mirror-like thing in the tub (she really likes mirrors, as you know!)

Here is a sparkly clean little girl!

Sometimes, during the middle of a mundane, normal day, you get little moments that are so sweet -- you get little blessings. I love December all of the time, but sometimes she does things that are so precious that it feels like my heart is filling up very full, to the point of bursting. It's similar to the feeling you get when you are falling in love...only it's different, because it's your child, your baby, the one who is a part of you and holds your heart in their tiny little hands. I guess that must be what my Mom meant when she always told me, "You'll never know just how much I love you until you have your own little child one day."

We had finished dinner last night when we were about to close in prayer. We told December, "It's time to pray now...fold your hands." She looked up at Brad, then clasped her small hands together and pressed them against her forehead. She bowed her head and slid her eyelids tighly shut. She kept them that way for most of the prayer, and after Brad said, "Amen," she said sweetly, "Eeee-uhh...Nnnn-uh!" Those baby words may not mean much to most people, but those are the ones that caused my heart to get so full. She was saying, "Jesus...Amen." In 3 John, the apostle writes, "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth" (1:4). I can't describe how wonderful it was to hear her say those words. Both Brad and I were just so happy. It's those special times when you realize just how much you love your child...and I've discovered that what Mom told me was very right.




"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
~ Elizabeth Stone

December's Favorite Friend

December loves the little girl she sees shining back at her in the mirror. This little friend likes the same things December likes: she laughs when December laughs, she holds her dolly the same way December likes to hold hers, and the little girl even does cool dance moves right when December is in a dancing mood.

December enjoys spending time on the bed, smiling and giggling with this little girl. It's pretty cute. December finds herself hilarious in a mirror.

December is holding her doll the same way we hold December. She is a good mini-Mommy (until she decides to pick up the doll and hurl it off the edge of the bed)

It's tickle time!

Brad just left for school to go and study for a while. After December wakes up from her nap and eats some lunch, she and I are going to walk to the nearby grocery store and pick up some toothpaste. After that we're going to walk to Home Depot and return a tv antenna. We walked to church last night, too -- although that was pretty grueling because there were a few big hills. And, as Brad pointed out, choosing flip-flops as my walking footwear wasn't exactly the greatest idea (which is quite true, though I protested that gym shoes didn't really match my skirt), so I took my flip-flops off and found it was alot easier to walk barefoot! It's nice to be able to walk everywhere here! Lots of stores are so close...that's a good thing, though, because our car is in the shop for some brake issues. We need Klynt the Master Mechanic to come help us! He's done so much work on his vehicles that I think he must know everything there is to know by now. Oh -- I'm hearing December waking up, so that means that's the end of this post!