What a beautiful sunset.

After two days of rain, this is what God gave us to look at tonight...absolutely amazing!

HALLELUJAH!

IT'S RAINING!!!
Check out how much water is in Gabriel's play table!



Our fountain runneth over.


Here in North Carolina we have been in an exceptional drought all summer. We have had serious water restrictions and have been praying for rain. Yesterday we got about 2 inches and today its been pouring buckets and they were expecting to get 2 more inches before the rain storm is over. This has definitely been a God-send! Praise the Lord!

Another accomplishment!

I still can't believe that Gabriel, our first born, is well on his way to becoming a 4 year old. Although his next birthday is still 6 months away, the things that he is doing now constantly remind me that he is growing up so fast.

What, you say, is the accomplishment that I am speaking of? Gabriel can now give himself a bath! Of course, I am there directing every scrub of the Tow Mater poof and making sure that he is adequately removing the day's grime from his hair, fingernails and such...but, that's still a big accomplishment for a 3 1/2 year old! Since I am able to bathe both kiddos at the same time now, it really helps that while I am cleaning little brother, big brother can kind of take care of himself. He takes so much pride in these little things that he can do for himself. I love to facilitate and sometimes just observe these little victories of my big boy.

Graduated!

Michael has now graduated to the sitting up bathtub! He and brother Gabriel are loving all these things they can do together.

Just thought I would also capture the amazing blue-ness of the little one's eyes. Gabriel also has some very amazing eyes, really dark and a rich brown. I have to admit that I think we have some very handsome little men!

Michael, 6 months

So, we had Michael's 6 month well-baby check the other day. He is now in the 15th percentile in weight and the 70th percentile height! I couldn't believe it...but I knew that after he grew out of his 3-6 month jammies in about 3 weeks, something was going on :)The doctor was a bit concerned about his motor skills. He is borderline on his gross motor skills because he was not really rolling over and couldn't lift his chest off the ground by straightening his arms. He is just a bit better on his fine motor skills, but I think that's just because I keep really small things away from him and don't know whether he would try to pick something like that up. I think he is just more interested in figuring things out by looking, listening and feeling things...not so much on trying to get up and move around. He has always done things a few weeks later than his peers anyway, and just today he did much more rolling around and trying to work for things. So, I have a feeling everything is just fine.


My sweet little baby is growing up :)