CopyCat!

The kitty was laying on the deck so Nina dropped to the ground and copied him. She copies almost everything people do. Yesterday in church she was waving her hands around mimicking our friend's hands movements as he preached.

Bip (crib)

Nina Kate begs to visit brother's crib and play with the "bots, bots," otherwise known as buttons on his mobile. In this pic she is pretending to sleep. The party ended when brother was asleep and Nina kept bumping him and waking him up.

Nina News

• still loves reading. Her favorite books right now are "I'm a Big Sister" and "Baby Talk."
• repeats EVERYTHING. The last word of the sentence tends to be the word of choice.
• makes hard consonant sounds at the end of her words. for example "booK" and "milK" are very clear now.
• latest discoveries are airplanes, butterflies, and knees.
• favorite words this week are "elbow, Elmo, apple, and cup"
• growing more and more obsessed with Elmo. She will spend an hour on the ipad playing the Elmo app if you let her.
• runs in to help her brother when he cries "baby? baby? passy? passy?" she cries.
• loves to run around wearing a bright red hat or kitty cat ears
• She likes to vigorously shake Brother's hand and say "hi, hi"
• climbing more and more. found her standing on top of an ottoman yesterday and stretched across the air with her feet on the couch and her hands on the coffee table

Lamentations 3

22 Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed,

for his compassions never fail.

23 They are new every morning;

great is your faithfulness.

24 I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion;

therefore I will wait for him.”

thanking God for small (but wonderful) mercies such as naps/rest and for large ones such as grace. praying that i will be faithful in waiting for Him.

Mother of Two

Being a mom of two seems to be an ongoing dance of euphoria, disaster, and exhaustion. Thankfully euphoria is the main chorus and disaster only appears for a brief moment during a verse or two, and exhaustion... well I think exhaustion is the consistent rhythm and beat of the song. =)

All in all i LOVE it. And I am SO thankful for every moment. Including the ones where i'm sitting on the wooden floor in the doorway, 3 1/2 weeks after a c-section, holding two crying babies at the same time. But like I said, these moments are brief. And the happy times of watching Nina run about the house, repeating every word she hears, pretending to put a diaper on her bunny, and having me read the "I'm a Big Sister" book for the 50th time while brother eats or sleeps is the norm. And it's a fabulous norm.