A New Trick

Kinsley is trying to teach herself a new trick. Ever since we started giving her the pacifier, whenever it somehow comes out, she starts crying for us to come put it back in. This is usually how the first 5-10 minutes of her naps go, until she or I give up. At first, it was because she didn't have control of her arms and she would accidently knock it out of her mouth. But now she has control of her hands and arms. One day we decided to stand back and watch exactly what is happening before leaving the room again, and this is what we saw...

I hope, for both our sakes, she will figure it out soon!

Sweet Baby Girl

Is it just me, or don't you just wanna kiss these cheeks!?!

A High Privilege

"Procreation is the high privilege and responsibility God has given man to bring forth life. The conception of a child is a cooperative act between God and man to co-create and bring eternal beings into existence."

-Ed Sherwood

God is so good to us!

Sunny Days

Well, yesterday Kinsley turned four months! She also rolled over for the first time yesterday, too! It seems like she is getting bigger every day now. For the last month, she has been extending her legs to stand up when you hold her up and she is soo proud! She's also "talking" a lot more now and is a lot of fun! Here are some pictures from the last few weeks...

Going for an afternoon walk

Trying out some rice cereal, but,

"hey mom, how about some of those pretzel m&m's?"

Getting ready for bed

Playing with Louis

Being a big girl

Big Girl!

Kinsley will be 15 weeks on Friday! We are having so much fun with her and can't believe how fast she is growing! Here are a few of her three month pictures that we had done a couple weeks ago; thanks to Angela Clifton Photography!

Feet

In the last month or so, Kinsley has had this fascination with her feet and she will just stare at them all the time. She is just now starting to grab at them and it's so cute! A couple weeks ago we went to Vero for a week and Kinsley got to see the beach for the first time! She put her toes in the sand and kicked her feet in the ocean. We're not sure she really knew what to think about it all but I think she enjoyed it, nonetheless.

But the greatest of these is love

Yesterday, Rob and I celebrated our second wedding anniversary. Two years really does not seem like a long time at all. We decided that in some ways, it has felt like a really long time and in others, not long at all. In the last two years, we got married, Rob got a promotion, I changed jobs, we bought a house, had a baby and I stopped working to stay home with Kinsley. All of this, I think, is what makes it seem so much longer... like how can so many huge things happen in two years? I know we are young (or so I think?) and so much more lies ahead. We are beginning to realize that and are striving to not waste another day that we have been given; yet so many days go by, one after the other.

I am so grateful to be married to such a wonderful man who seeks the Lord and His will for our lives. Our marriage would not be the same if this were not the case. While two years really is not long at all, it has been long enough for us to realize what is important and what God's purpose for marriage really is; not just to 'know' what it is, but to actually experience it. Rob and I are on vacation in Vero this week and were walking on the beach today. Rob started talking about his Grandaddy who past away just over a year ago. He was a wonderful man who loved Jesus with his whole heart and lived daily for Christ. Grandaddy's wife has Alzheimer's and lives in a nursing home. He was so devoted and committed to her that he did not want to be away from her for one day or even half of a day. She would not have even known that he'd been gone. He was committed to her in a way that didn't make much sense to others, but it is the perfect picture of what marriage is supposed to look like, the relationship of Christ and the church. Marriage isn't about someone making you happy or having a 'soul mate' to spend the rest of your life with. God intends marriage to mirror his relationship to the church and his love for them. He laid down his life for them, for us.

I Corinthians 13:13
And these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Thank you, Rob, for two wonderful years; for your commitment to me and for seeking to love me like Christ loved the church! I love you! :)

And because she's so much more fun to look at than we are...

We love her! :)