I was sending up some prayers today and I was praying for little babies everywhere and I wanted to say "help them through their fight, whatever it may be." Why this is true that God does help babies through their fight (maybe not that way everyone on Earth wants), I said "Your will be done." That's what I prayed for Faith. I asked Him to make her stronge and get through this, but in the end I always said "Lord, your will be done, not mine."
I actually was praying that when I went into the hospital on bed rest. I wanted to stay pregnant with both girls until March, then it became one more week, one more day (I went into the hospital on Jan 13 and had the girls on Jan 22, not long at all). So I would pray that the girls stayed strong and healthy and alive in the womb, but I would also pray the Our Father, stressing the "Thy will be done" part, as only He knows the big picture.

I feel as though I have strayed from Him. It's been an on again, off again situation. Why can't I keep my focus? Too much 'stuff' is the answer. I started reading "Heaven is Real" by Todd Burpo. Todd's son, Colton, just before he turned 4, had a burst appendix and almost died, or I should say he did die and went to Heaven and met Jesus and John the Baptist. I'm about halfway through it and it is a great book, I just get chills from it.


Let me fill everyone in on the one and only Chloe Bear, risk taker galor! If only we had her assessment this week, I'm not sure if her speech would have improved, it's sometimes hard to understand the Ah's from the Oh's and so forth. But, she is walking now like a proud little peacock and she can get up to standing without holding onto something (that was asked in the assessment). She does "high five" and loves to just plop herself down on an awaiting lap. She is also getting another bottom tooth, the left canine I believe. She loves taking baths. Last night after we had gotten home from being up north, I was putting some things away in the bathroom and she was walking around and came in the bathroom. Our bathtub is exposed on 2 sides and the backside is narrower than the side. Well, Chloe pushed the shower curtain aside, and climbed on in. I didn't see her do it, I just heard something and when I turned around there she was sitting and smiling up at me like "ok Mom ready for my bath." It was so cute! She could have hurt herself getting into the tub but she didn't.

Her next daredevil act was stairclimbing! I was clearing dinner, Joel had gone outside, Kylie was eating strawberries. I put Chloe down to walk around and she was in the kitchen and then I thought she was going to go to one of the bedrooms. Next thing I hear is Kylie yelling "Mom, Chloe's going upstairs!" I said "What!" and ran to the dinning room (that's where the stairs to the third floor are, the 3rd floor is the converted attic). She was halfway up those stairs, little stinker! Either she is fast (and she is fast) or Kylie was slow on the go to tell me.

Then she found her baby swing, one that plays music and lights up. She thought that was pretty cool so she climbed on in that, with my help, and swung very happily for a couple of minutes. She is such a ham! I am so grateful to God for her, such a carefree little being.

I'm kind of worried about Chloe's upper teeth, one looks like it might not be coming in right. I realized that it's time we start limiting the pacifier. I think I may take her with me to my next dentist appoinment so the dentist can have a look, but then again, I should either make a separate appoinment for her or have someone with me to corral her and keep her busy, otherwise who knows what she'll get in to. Joel looked at them and he doesn't see anything wrong, but I'm not so sure.


This past weekend we were up north as I said. It was very nice weather except on Sunday it was stormy. That gave me an opportunity to do an art project with Kylie. I'll have to post a picture. We took tin cans and picked out two colors of ribbon and did a weaver around the can. I did most of it since we had to use a hot glue gun to get the ribbon to stay. They are very cute. I did a purple and green ribbon and Kylie did pink and blue. I told her she was Sleeping Beauty because he dress changed from pink to blue and back again. Kylie also got to play in the sand and go in the water as it wasn't too cold for her. This was Lake Charlevoix. Chloe really couldn't be on the beach, she would try and stick everything in her mouth and she'd try to be quick about it too. If I don't have gray hair now, I will soon! Actually I think I did find one the other week.