big girl.

Somebody thinks they're a big girl and doesn't need her Mama's help anymore...



Fortunately she grows tired of this pretty quickly and lets me help again. Well, help as much as I can with her grabby little hands pulling the bottle back to her over and over!

15 weeks

This past week has been quite the week for you Miss Girl...

You are a ball of personality. You are the sweetest, happiest, little thing I've ever seen. This week you really seem to recognize people. You've always been most comfortable with me, but now when I go to pick you up from the sitter in the afternoon, I get the BIGGEST smile! And I love it! You'd been smiling when I dropped you off, but I prefer you to smile when I pick you up!

You love your Mama and Daddy. We get the biggest open mouth grins any time we come around. You sure make us happy sweet girl..

You never stop "talking". You coo, you squeal, you holler.. anything to get attention. You sit in the backseat and "talk" to the animals on your carseat handle. It's the cutest thing!

I see less and less baby in you every week. I look back at your newborn pictures and can hardly remember you being that small and helpless. You're getting so big!!

revival

We've had revival all this week at church which we somehow made it to every single day. Not that it was easy. It stormed every day, we're both working, and we've had visitors as well.

But we made it.

And I'm so glad we did.

Honestly, for the first time in a very long time, possibly ever, I am completely content. I have an amazing husband, an incredible daughter, a home, a job that is laid back enough that I still see my family a lot, my brother's home.. I can't think of one thing that I am not happy with.

I think that's when Satan hits me the hardest.

You see, when I'm going through a tough time, I pray daily. Sometimes multiple times a day. I beg God for help, advice, assistance with a need, whatever. I talk to Him a lot. I worship Him hard core in church. I listen intently to sermons to find a message for me.

When things are good?

I totally backburner Him.

I don't mean to, I just get caught up in how good things are and since I don't need anything, I don't pray to ask for things.

But this week I got a swift reminder that my job as a Christian is to always work on my relationship with God. Our preacher asked us how we can say we have a close, personal relationship with Him, when we don't spend time with Him. Very true. I've never managed to stay close friends with people that I didn't make the effort to talk to and hang out with.

It's also my job as a Christian to pray for others. Just because right now I'm not personally going through a trial (believe me it's coming..), I need to remember that others are. I have some friends going through very tough times right now. A friend that is separated from her husband and has two young kids, a friend that is struggling big time financially, and a friend who just lost her beloved son. It is my job to lift them up to the Lord daily, no constantly, in prayer.

I struggle a lot with my prayer life. I have the attention span of a flea and nine times out of ten I lose focus about eighty times while in prayer. I think of things that need to be cleaned, or work stuff, or what Baby Girl needs. That's not cool. I really need to work on having my prayer time be my quiet time with just Him. I need to focus.

Because while things are great right now, my trial is coming. It always does. I need to be constantly praising Him for the good things He is working in my life.

14 weeks.

Oh my sweet girl you are growing so fast.

This week you decided that the best place for your tongue was hanging outside of your mouth.

Where it stays, about 99% of the day.

You now chew on our fingers. It feels great let me tell ya..

You are so verbal now. I love that you sit in the backseat and talk to the little animals on your mirror. It cracks me up!

And obviously you no longer sit still as evidenced by these photos!

still here...

Cash wanted to pop in and say hey. He seems to think that the Imperfect dogs are pretty neglected on this here blog lately.

So true.

Sorry pups.

But they're still here just hanging around.

Or flying high as it seems the case may be..