Our growin' girl

Yeah for some smiles. She always smiles right after her feeding as if to say, "Thanks for doing that mom."

She looks a little like she just woke up suddenly

Mommy with her big girl

It's hard to believe that Camille is almost 6 weeks old now. She's really staring to smile and watch what is going on around her. It's funny because the pediatrician advised cutting down on the amount of stimulus she gets in the later hours because she gets colicky and I thought, "Hmmmm, now what could that stimulus be? Perhaps her brother and sister who like to touch her and yell constantly around her. " I don't think anyone could sleep around the amount of noise and laughing those two little people make. ;) Anyhow, these are some pictures of how big Camille is getting. She's now well over 9 lbs and her hair always sticks constantly up in the back. Too fun!

A Growing Family!

So we are now officially a family of 5 with the addition of baby Camille. She is quite the little eater and loves to cuddle and sleep all day. Ezra and Olivia think she is very cute and like to give her kisses. The adjustment to having a new sister has been hardest for Olivia as she doesn't understand why this baby keeps getting all the attention. Now that we are into the 2nd week as a family of 5, we are all learning to adjust to a new 'normal'

Ezra likes his new baby sister a lot.

Ezra and Olivia's first time meeting Camille. They were pretty excited but I think Camille was a little overwhelmed.

Camille's first moments after birth. She started out sleeping and just hasn't stopped. Heidi was praying for a cuddle bug and we think she got one. Camille was born at 7 # 3 oz and after only 4 days she'd jumped up to 7#5.5 oz. Currently she's going 4 hours between feeds so Heidi is thankful for that. Life is just beginning to get back to this new normal and we're excited to see how Camille's personality shows itself.

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A few things God taught me today

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A surprise Birthday Party!

Yeah! Mom was really surprised for her 60th Birthday. Dad arranged for us all to meet at Anthony's for a Sunday Brunch.
Julie and I comparing our belly's

A girls pic

Thanks Dan and Sue and Gary and Izzi for coming all the way to Spokane for the surprise. We all had a lot of fun!

The World's Children

This photoblog shows pictures of just a few of the world's impoverished children. CLICK HERE.

(HT: Challies.com)

How 'Where's Waldo' can help me understand the Bible

My 3 year old son loves books & more specifically, ‘Where’s Waldo?’. He loves observing, searching, & looking for Waldo as if he was Sherlock Holmes in search of the missing clue to solve a mystery. There are countless people, doing countless things, with countless things occurring on each page. Ezra tells me, ‘Daddy, look. That man is throwing a baseball [not just a ball], she is holding a green purse [not just a purse], the boy is crying because he got hit [not just crying]. He observes with intense detail.

As a book lover myself, I am overjoyed in Ezra’s love for books. Yet, after reading “Agassiz and the Fish” I realized that my son observes Where’s Waldo? with greater inquiry, depth, and intensity than I often do when I open the very Word of God in search of His illumination, understanding, and God-given insight for the good of my soul.


At 3 years old, Ezra is learning how to observe pictures & words and eventually sentences, which are within in paragraphs with are in complete letters which fit into the whole of Scripture. I am grateful and exhorted with this privilege to help him learn to observe, read, and understand the Bible in the God-wrought hope that he would, by the grace of God, comprehend and have illumination of the ‘sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus’ (2 Tim. 3:15).

What a privilege to have the Scriptures, and may I chew upon, dig into and study the Scriptures as my 3 year old son does with Where’s Waldo?!

Fall photos & Costumes

Heidi took the kids to a fall festival party tonight. They gave the kids some cupcakes and lots of candy. Here is a pic of Olivia sharing her cupcake with Ezra once they got back home. Oh yea, she ate all of the frosting off and then wanted to share the cupcake with Ezra.

We picked up lots of leaves today. I put Ezra and Olivia in the garbage cans to help smash 'em down. They had lots of fun...Ezra thought he was Oscar the Grouch. (The house we recently moved into is in the background).

Ezra the Pumpkin and Olivia the Clown. They loved dressing up and having some fun together.

Smashing leaves down for daddy

Oh my the kids were so excited when they figured out if they worked together they could give mommy a ride in their wagon!!! Mommy was pretty excited about it also!

Need I say anything about this.

She absolutely loves her bath time

Ear to ear smiles!!!