Busy Being Blessed

before i conceived jeremiah, i wrote a song called “jeremiah” for my first-born son.
i sang it when i was pregnant with him.
i sang it when he was tiny.
i sang it until he started saying “no, mama” which believe me, broke my heart.
the past few weeks i’ve been asking him if he wants to hear his song. sometimes he says yes, sometimes he says no.
last night he asked me to sing “mi-mi’s song”. he actually ASKED me to sing it! and he said, “again, mama, again!”

i don’t know if it has to do with me working on josiah’s song, trying to get it right, and he always wants to get what josiah gets. but it sure warms my heart and makes me smile!
jeremiah has trouble saying ‘r’ words sometimes. they come out with different consonants, but the biggest one he uses to replace is ‘h’. so ‘rocking chair’ comes out ‘hocking chair’.

tonight, i told him i was going to nurse josiah. every time i tell him that, he wants extra attention.

he replied, ‘but mama, i hold you in hocking chair’.

i have been attempting to get him to correct this thing, so i said, ‘you mean the rrrrrrrrocking chair?’

he nodded, ‘yes, hocking chair’.

i continued to say rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and added more and more rrrrr sounds and he kept saying ‘hocking chair’.

the last time, he stopped, looked at me and said, ‘i hold you on couch mama?’

jeremiah turned 28 months yesterday. i really don’t know how i feel about it. it’s kind of surreal.

josiah has been growling a lot. it is soooo cute!!

usually, if i ask josiah if he wants to nurse, and sign a wiggly y (my sign for nursing), he will laugh and bounce up and down. i always assume this means ‘yes’. sometimes he just wants to play with the hardware. *rolls eyes*

did i mention josiah walked to me the other day, the first time walking without falling?

josiah had spaghetti today. he ate it up! he loves canned peas, canned carrots, and banana chunks. but ONLY if he is feeding himself. he is extremely independent and wants to do it himself. while jeremiah is still letting me dress him, i have a feeling josiah will be a little over one before he starts saying “i do it, mama!” he even wants to feed himself applesauce. yeah, that scene is always pretty.

about melissa snow, the mom with a brain tumor. my heart is so very heavy. pleasea please pray.

this is from her dh.

Ladies,
I’m sorry that I haven’t updated. The last few days have been too much. After sleeping on the hospital hide-a-bed for 6 nights , I came home for rest. I know why they call it a hide-a-bed, they hid the bed
Anyway, they sent us home from the hospital today and said there was nothing else they could do about the seizures. Basically they think we have about 6-8 months, maybe a year. This is the hardest thing I have ever had to share with anyone. They expect the seizures and periods of incoherence to get longer and worse, with no treatment other than one seizure med to keep things from going completely nuts, and valium to sedate her when it is tooo bad. I know that you have been praying with me for healing. now I ask you to also pray for mercy. If it is God’s will to take my sweet wife home, I pray that He will n ot allow her to suffer too much. I don’t want my kids last memory of Mama to be her not knowing them and out of control b/c of the seizures.
Melissa is resting tonite and glad to be home. Although she is nrvous about coming off of all these meds. Pray with us for good days with few bad moments as possible.
Curtis

to all my friends who are moms or moms at heart….

josiah turns 9 mos old tomorrow, and he wanted to make sure he proved his papa right! he took four and a half steps this afternoon!!!!!!!! jerry said he’d be walking by 9 mos!!!! since the first time, at about 530 or so? he did it 2 more times before bedtime (730). i am just so shocked!!!

and earlier this afternoon, he WAVED! he is waving for real, in response to someone waving at him!!!!!!! i just can’t believe how big he is!!! it’s time to start baby signs with him!

he is just SO much fun and SO incredibly adorable and precious. i love him SOOOOO much!!! he is one of those babies that just melts your heart. (i’m sure i’ll say that about every one of my children tho! LOL). his smile is so huge and so joyful and he is so quick to smile. he’s a busy guy, always on the run, but loves being held and being snuggled as well.

since jeremiah and i have still been struggling over naptimes, i have been trying different wind-down things with him. our favorite is listing and touching everything that’s sleepy on him. from his hair down to his toes we mention and touch the sleepy things. i make an extra big deal about his poor eyes being so VERY sleepy. doing a down stroke over the eyes really helps kids get drowsy for some reason (and it does him, but he still won’t sleep! GRR!). anyway, since doing this we have been saying elbows get sleepy, and elbows aren’t a normal conversation piece, like hands and feet are, ya know? so he’s been trying to say elbows – he says behbows. LOL. it’s so cute! and he called his knees his big behbows. LOLOLOL. i told him no those were his knees through stifled laughter – it was so cute!

jeremiah has been working on counting – he can count to 10 nearly perfectly. he has trouble now and then, but he is pretty consistent. he can get all the way to 14 sometimes. i STILL need to write down all the numbers and letters he can recognize. it’s a lot though! he is great at almost all animals – he knows them all – and he can do or recognize most of the sounds as well.

i am just so blessed with my amazing sons i can’t even believe it sometimes. i’m so thankful to the Lord for blessing me with them. sometimes when i get stressed i forget to stop and look at them and listen to them and remember what miracles they are. they are priceless, irreplacable miracles! they are the blessings i’ve always prayed for and dreamed of, and i’m ashamed of myself for putting anything fleeting before them. i pray that the Lord, and they as well, will forgive me for the times i do that.

well that’s it for now – i hope everyone is doing great! miss you all!!! ((((hugs!!))))

GIRLS!!!

i have several friends who have given birth to baby girls recently. my online friends jen and cheryl (inspired home) had baby girls (jaylen and nicole). my online friends melissa and katrina both had baby girls on the same day (hannah and gracia). my college buds krista and julie had baby girls on the same day (kaitlyn and sofia) and my other good friend from college, amy, had jenna on monday. early this am, my friend amanda had morghyn! (and let’s not forget my sister in law is due in june with a baby girl! i think the only person i know due with a boy is jenn! ETA: i was wrong – kara is having a boy too!)
a BIG congratulations to all the mamas, and welcome to the world to all the precious, beautiful baby girls!!!

jeremiah has not missed out on the fun. every baby girl picture he sees, he exclaims “cute baby sister!!” this morning he declared that he wanted a baby sister, and i told him he’d need to talk to papa about that. so he followed me into the bedroom where jerry was sleeping and started yelling that he wanted a baby sister. LOL. thankfully jerry sleeps through everything and it didn’t phase him. heehee! today when we visited amanda and morghyn in the hospital, he claimed her as his own baby sister. i tried to explain she was his friend austin’s baby sister, but he didn’t believe me. i wonder what would happen if we gave him another baby brother?

seriously, all the girls make me wonder…will there be anymore? i mean, doesn’t it seem to go in phases, lots of boys and lots of girls at the same time? LOL. i love my boys and would love to have more boys. BUT i can’t think of any more boys’ names. i know, that’s pitiful, but if you know me, you know how important names are to us! i have girls names picked out that i just LOVE and can’t imagine giving a precious baby boy a name that’s just “eh”, ya know?

so you can tell by my rambling i’m thinking about another baby. it’s hard not to, considering josiah is almost the same age as jeremiah was when i conceived josiah (that sounds odd). i seriously want to wait until he’s one. jerry seems to want to wait longer. please pray for us about it!

enough rambling. gotta go!!!!!!! God bless!!!

one of my online friends is missing a member of her church! they have a website up for him already – if you see him please contact the number on the website!!!!

http://www.wemissken.com/

what is it missing? is it horrible?

it almost seems like deja vu…but josiah took two steps today! he has been standing alone longer and longer, and has taken one step more times than i can count now. but today he took one step with his left foot, and another with his right! gramma and papa and jeremiah were all there when it happened too.

i just can’t believe how fast my little man is growing up. he will be 9 months on the 12th.

anyway we are still struggling financially, but hoping to make it through! i’m looking into mystery shopping and putting an ad in a newsletter for our business. i am not ready to give up on that business yet.

God bless you all and thanks for your prayers and support.