Visits From Our Friends

Thursday, May 30, 2013

I am achy! Maddie woke up last night at around 4:30 and Phil and I were up with her for an hour before she fell back asleep. She was tired and trying to sleep, but her body just couldn’t relax.  Poor baby.  Then she woke up again at 6:15.  Phil was already getting ready for work, so I got up, nursed her and rocked her for another hour.  She finally fell back asleep. When I put her in her crib, she turned and looked at me, watching me walk out of the room and close the door.  I was sure she was going to start crying any minute thereafter, but she has been asleep for a little over an hour now with not a peep from her mouth.  But, that brings me back to my first comment: I am tired, achy and grumpy.  Well, I was grumpy. I’m better now. :)

Twice this week, I found Maddie sleeping in interesting positions:

Laying on her tummy, just like her mommy!

Curled up and crossing her legs, just like her daddy! 

Maddie and I had such a fun day yesterday! Laura and Caleb came over in the morning and spent a few hours with us before having to head back home for Caleb’s afternoon nap.  Caleb is about 19 months old and so cute! He is chatty and loves his alphabet! He also is a very curious baby and helped to point out all of the things around my house that need to be baby proofed.  I really need to start doing this!

Laura and I had some coffee, checked out the garden and caught up since we haven’t had small group in a couple of weeks.  Laura is working on some Bible memorization and recited some of the sermon on the mount to me.  It was so exciting!

Then, Puja came over a little bit later.  We picked up some sandwiches and headed over to the forest preserve and had a picnic with little Mads.  Then, we took a short walk together.  We reminisced that just about a year ago, Puja and I were sitting at the same park having a picnic and taking a walk, but I was 8 months pregnant.  Maddie was on the inside of my belly, not strapped to the outside with the baby bjorn.  Ha! Oh, how time flies. 

Enjoying the afternoon sun! 

Updates on the kitchen: The sink is all hooked up, thanks to my dad and Phil.  They spent the whole day working on it and now it is running and draining and the disposal is grinding and the dishwasher is washing without so much as a drip.  YAY! 

Working.......

"We did it!" Thanks, guys! 

I sent in the deposit for the backsplash, Phil and I picked out the tile this weekend and we should be getting the walls done in about 2 weeks. In the meantime, here is the before and after pictures with just the granite being done. 

Before! 

After!

Maddie is really developing a lot all of the sudden! Phil and I have been walking around with her holding our hands. She takes a few steps, then runs a couple steps and then walks again.  It’s precious.  I also have been working on getting her to cruise on the furniture.  She will move sideways a little bit, but hasn’t quite figured it out, yet.  She also hasn’t figured out to bend at the waist when she falls.  She will let go of the table and let her whole body fall backward, stiff as a board, like she’s doing a trust fall.  Oh, Maddie.  It’s a good thing I am behind you all the time!

Mads has been chatty, also.  She is babbling a lot now and I love to listen to it.  I’m so excited for her to start saying real words and to start walking around. As more and more time goes by, I am really thinking that she will skip the crawling. 

  

This past weekend was a lot of fun, too.  Andres came over on Saturday. He’s back from Europe for a while and we really enjoyed spending time with him.  We set up the badminton net and volleyed the birdie a little bit, went for a walk and made some enchiladas.  All during this time, Phil dropped and broke his iPhone (no!!!!!!!!!) and we lost his glasses.  We searched high and low and they are nowhere to be found.  So, the rest of the weekend, between barbequing and running errands, we failed in our search for the mysterious, disappearing eyewear and then sucked it up and bought some new ones.  The new ones look really nice, at least. 

Maddie missed Andres so much while he was gone for 5 months!

Well, it still works, at least.

I finished memorizing Isaiah 55! My favorite verse from this passage is:

For you shall go out in joy
 and be led forth in peace;


the mountains and the hills before you
    

shall break forth into singing,
    

and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

            Isaiah 55:12

It has been such a blessing for me to know this scripture . When running my 7 miles for my long run this past Saturday, I turned off my music and recited the book of Titus, Isaiah 55 and Psalm 1 to myself. It got me through a couple of miles and took my mind off of the running, which was nice.  Now, I plan to memorize the sermon on the mount, too! I started this week and have the first 3 verses done.  

Onward!