Dots Boy

I am a "Dots Girl." When I write notes or signs or things like that I like to use dots on the ends of the letters to make it cute and spice it up. I've done this for a long time, it's kind of my "thing" and some claim I went to college, JUST to perfect my dots writing :)

Well when Jonah called me to come see what he had made on the white board this morning, I was tickled to say the least! He said, "Mom, I did dots on my name just like you do!"

I guess he's now a "Dots Boy!"

Prayers Please

Please pray for my friend Tina's little boy Jake, who is 3. He is at Children's Hospital, St. Paul, with influenza B, croup, and has been running a temp of 104 degrees. He is having quite difficulty breathing and they may have to intubate him. His body is fighting hard, but such a toll has already been taken on that lil guy. He is very, very sick.

He is one of Jonah's very good friends, and I take care of him one day a week. Please pray for healing for his body, please pray that there would be no long term damage. Please pray for Tina, Gary and their 3 older boys to be at peace and know that God is in control. Please pray that family and friends would rally around them to help them at this time.

Blessings... New Every Morning

This morning we got up and ready to go to open gym time at ECFE. The kids LOVE this time and so do I! I decided that I was going to stop at my favorite coffee shop (Coffee Connection) on the way and grab a small coffee. When I walked in, Carrie, the owner who is a friend of mine, said, "You have a large Chai Tea waiting for you! Bought and paid for by someone who loves you and I'm not allowed to tell you who." There was a little post-it that she grabbed and it said, "Janine Large Chai PAID" OH MY GOODNESS! What a pure piece of heaven dropped down into my Friday morning lap! WOW. WOW. WOW.

God is so good. In the little things and in the big (and this was BIG today!). I was flabbergasted at His goodness and the goodness of a friend out there who loves me. Someone who knows me well enough to know where I love to get coffee and someone who is treasured by me.

Thank you Lord and Thank you Friend.

No more nuk... no more baby?!

We decided that after she turned 2, Aphia would be weaned from her nuk. She only had it at naptime and bedtime, but she counted on having it then! When we first started prepping her, saying that she was almost done having her nuk, her big eyes would fill with tears and her little bottom lip would quiver... it was more than I could bear.

We decided to cut the tip of it off first (which didn't matter a whole lot, since she had already chewed a couple holes in them, so it didn't have the suction anymore) to which she promptly took it out, handed it back to Jeremiah saying, "Bwoken Nukie Daddy, bwoken Nukie." We eventually trimmed it down this far:

Finally, last Thursday night we took it away completely, telling her that she was a big girl and she wasn't going to have her nuk anymore. She did o.k. the first couple nights, but Jonah was the super hero those nights, talking her off the ledge!! It was very sweet and big brotherish of him- telling her, in an extremely sweet voice "Aphia you're a big girl, you don't need your nuk now. We're so proud of you for not having your nuk anymore!" She's been doing great the past couple nights, still asking to have it, but when we tell her no, she just hugs her dolly and rolls over and closes her eyes.

Does this mean she's really not a baby anymore?! Hmmmm.... what's a mom to do?