Blessings

Thank you Lord for the blessing of life and love!
Every day is a new adventure with Jake. His annunciation and pronunciation is getting better and better every day. He explores and sees new things every day. He is loving relationships and new people! I got a hold of his nanny in China and sent her new pics of Jake. She was so excited and was grateful to see how he was doing. She said that it is so hard to see the kids leave but so exciting as well and there is always that missing piece. So I plan to send her updated pics every now and again to fill her with a joyful boys smile!
This pic was from last night during bath time and solomon decided he wanted Jake's rubber ducky that squeaked. So Jake was taking the ducky back and forth in the bath and we were sure that solomon was going to jump in after him!

You want mommy to kiss it

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So Jake and I have this ritual that I think every mom has which is every time he hits his head, his arm leg, hand whatever and is hurt...I will say, "ahhh do you want mommy to kiss it". And of course he now tries to hurt himself so that mommy will kiss it. Well now it has become a great application of when he hurts others, of course not ever on purpose but in his excitement.. whatever. So if he hits me I'll say," that hurt mommy" and he'll take my head in his hand bow my head down and kiss it. Before he didn't care where the hurt was, he would always kiss me on the head. Now he is getting more specific. Today I stepped on one of his blocks at the right angle and wow did it hurt. So I yelled out and immediately Jake came running over ploppped himself on the floor and kissed my foot! Now who can't love that!

Locked up in my own personal thoughts....
Love doesn't....Love never.....
I am thankful for the love of the Father.
I am thankful for the grace of God
I pray for Mercy...I pray for reconciliation....
I pray for the day when all sorrows will be wiped away.
When there will be no more tears, no more relationship pain...

Thank you Lord for these circumstances that draw me closer to YOU

Love always leaves a significant mark

"When all you can see is your pain, perhaps then you lose sight of me" (The Shack)

Family Days...weddings...relationships...

We had 2 family weddings the past 2 weekends...Jake is going to expect dinner and dancing every Saturday now I think! It has been great to show him off to everyone.
Which is what I feel like we do...."watch this, watch that"!
It has been great to see how loved he is already in our family. I think secretly this was one of the things I was really nervous about... would our families accept him as part of our family.. and every really has. In fact they have said as well that he just fits in with our families, fun loving, loves to laugh and DANCE!
One of the weddings, I think the photographer took more pics of Jake than the bride and groom :)

It has also really been great to have so much of the family around this week, to love on Jake! He Show allhas really taken to my aunt and he has seen his cousins often! I would love for him to grow up often with his family... this was a big reason for us even moving back to Ohio and so I hope and pray that we can continue our family time.

And truly what I'm learning in all of this... is that my relationship with my husband and now with my son is that this is ALL what Father wants and desires from me. To tell him about everything...even though he already knows... I love Abba for this.. I love that he wants to be in relationship with me and that He risked so much and I'm so sad that I don't risk enough for Him.

I'm reading "the shack" right now and it is truly revoluntionizing my thoughts on all my relationships... not only my relationship with Him.
So I know that I'm just rambling... my mind is all boggled up lately and at best I'm flopping around like a fish out of water :)