A day in the life of....

The world's cutest 5 month old!


I poop, nurse, kiss daddy goodbye then go back to sleep with mommy. We are not morning people around here and I love to stay in bed and snuggle.



After we finally get up I'm ready to exercise my chubby little legs in the bouncer and mommy is ready for a cup of coffee.



Next I do some stretching on my playmat and grab my toys that dangle above me.





Then mommy makes me pose for some pictures so she can send them to daddy and laugh at how ridiculous I look in my enormous cloth diaper and rainbow baby legs.



Mommy puts me in my swing to watch one of my Praise Baby DVDs while she gets ready to take me on a walk. I love to learn songs about Jesus!





My aunt and cousins came over to walk to the park with us! Not much playing happened because we were too sleepy. I love spending time with my family though!

Prayer Request

Please please please pray for baby Stellan. His mom, MckMama, is one of my favorite bloggers. He is in the PICU right now with SVT, he almost lost his life to this heart condition while still in his mother's womb. His heart rate was up to 300 beats per minute during the night and nothing that they are doing seems to help. Pray for his heart rate to slow down, for the doctors and nurses to have guidance in treating him and for his family to be at peace. I can't imagine what they most be going through. I feel as if I know Stellan b/c he's 2 days older then Bishop and I've watched them grow together.

Here's another precious pic from Bishop's somewhat racey photoshoot. Pretty soon naked pictures won't be very appropriate.

Being still...

I think that God has been sending me a message lately to be still. I can't tell you how many times I have come across the verse "Be still, and know that I am God" ~Psalm 46:10 over the past week. I love that verse and when I read it a feel such a peace come over me. I desire that more than anything but it's so hard when I have a 4 month old to take care of, dog to take out, laundry to do, dishes to be washed, bills to be payed, herbalist course to study, books to be read, blogs to write, twittering to do and of course facebooking...you get the point. My "quiet time" and stillness gets pushed to the bottom of the list. But I'm starting to understand that God doesn't just want me to stop what I'm doing and literally be still but to make my mind still as well. I also love Psalm 131:2 "I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me" I've heard it several times but never really understood it, why is a weaned child used as an example and not a nursing child? Then last night I read my new book "Satisfy My Thirsty Soul" by Linda Dillow and she explained it to me. I opened up to chapter 3 and it's titled "My Soul Finds Stillness" and under it is what else but Psalm 46:10, at that moment I thought okay God I can take a hint. Anyways, Linda had asked herself that same question and writes that when a child is weaned they no longer look to our bodies as a means to satisfy their hunger, they are content. That was the point that David was trying to get across when he wrote Psalm 131....he was satisfied and content he wasn't approaching God with requests but he was just wanting to be still in God's presence. That's a beautiful thought isn't it? I think that that is what God is wanting me to experience. I'm constantly asking Him to help heal sick babies, to protect my baby, my family, friends and me. I have a long list of prayer requests and praises that I fill my prayers with all through the day but I think that basically He wants me to just be quiet and content sometimes. It's such a simple thought but so hard to grasp.

Here are some more pictures that our friend Richard took for us! Tomorrow I am fasting from the computer, television, phone and radio so I won't be posting again until later in the week...try to hold back your tears. ;) My bible study leader, Denise, asked us all to fast this Tuesday and to focus on praying for eachother throughout the day. Since I'm breastfeeding I can't fast from food so I chose electronics. I'm kind of looking forward to it. It will be a nice way to clear my head and refocus. I have so much that I need to do for my herbalist course anyways. My next project is to make bread from scratch! After I finish with the nutrition portion I'll start studying about pregnancy, birth and vaccines which you all know I can't get enough research on that topic!

Not Me Monday

This one is for my mom!
My mom did not mistake my 4 month old for his 14 month old cousin and try to feed him a spoonful of lasgana! That would have been a big jump from breastmilk. No pureed carrots or peas inbetween just straight from breatmilk to lasgana!

I did not try to paint my neice's fingernails and spill bright red nailpolish on my parent's carpet and I didn't have a flash back to when I spilled black nailpolish at their house last summer. F.Y.I. windex works great for removing nailpolish from carpet.

Prayer Request

There is a sweet family who needs not only our prayers but also donations. If you are able to I'm sure anything would be appreciated and if you can't then spread the word to someone who might be able to. They have an 8 month old baby who was born 3 months premature, weighing only 1 lb! Their daughter Kayleigh will hopefully be getting out of the hospital soon but they don't know if she will have a house to come home to. The parents are both realtors and the economy has hurt their business drastically not to mention all of the medical expenses they have from trying to save their baby girl's life. Read more of their amazing story here and if you can please donate to help save them from foreclosure. I have a donation button on the left-hand side-bar. More importantly please lift Kayleigh up in your prayers and ask for her health to continue to improve and that she gets a good report from an upcoming MRI and analysis for her eyes(they think she might be blind). Thank you!