Lydia's Poppy has been in the hospital, but we know God is going to make him all better quickly and we are so thankful he is alive and really doing well. He has a road of recovery ahead, but we continue to pray and believe that God will accelerate his recovery. We are so thankful for our fantastic parents who give so much of themselves to us, and take care of Lydia while we are working.
We are thankful for good jobs this year, and we know God is preparing a new one for Oliver that will meet all of our needs, and His plans for our lives.
We are thankful for a very healthy little girl, who brings so much joy to us every day. We are thankful for our new nephew/cousin Warner who arrived this year. We are thankful we have so many good friends we can count on, and a great church full of faith-filled people we can have community with. We are so thankful for a great house with a heater and groceries and water and 2 cars with car seats. We are thankful for our health, when so many others are fighting for their own. We are just so tremendously blessed, and asking God to show us how to bless others.
An update on Lydia's hearing test from several weeks ago.. She returned to the ENT doctor and he says her ear infection completely cleared up and he was quite impressed with how great her ears look. And, she passed her second hearing test with flying colors! She is definitely showing new signs of communication and understanding, although still not talking. We'll give her some more time and just continue to encourage her and teach her. We think she's a genius and is just observing until she is confident she can say what she wants to. She'll probably surprise us one day with a full sentence about the gravitational pull on the earth or something.
Look Daddy, I found a bug!
Lately everywhere that Lydia has been, there is a mess! She loves to make messes! She pulls the tupperware out of its drawer several times a day, she pulls the hangers down from her closet, she pulls our clothes off the closet shelves, she pulls toys out of her toy basket and tosses them behind her... And she has so much fun doing it. She does this at her Omi and Grammy's homes too. Recently she pulled all of Grammy's nicely organized coupons and magazines out one by one and had a great time. And Grammy let her. Aw, how sweet.
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Lydia's other favorite activity continues to be reading. We are constantly reading books! She doesn't really care about stories so much right now; she really likes the vocabulary picture books. (of course stories work if we just point to things and tell her what each one is, like tree, sun, cat, etc. But if you try to read the actual story...she's done. It's all about vocabulary right now. Can't complain about that!) She loves, loves, loves for us to tell her what each object is in a book. She's so cute with her books - she'll go find one and pick it up and then back up into our lap. Then, when that book is finished, she'll get up, find another one and then back up again into our lap. This can go on for a long time... She loves books!
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WE all have lot to be thankful for. I am thankful for you!
I LOVE her pj's in the top picture.
The videos are so cute, just looking for the perfect toy, uhh???
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