ahhhhh-choo

em has a wicked cold. ugh. so much liquid nastiness leaving it's crusty filth on my baby. the quantity of which demands i call her snotface - which reminds me of drop-dead-fred and that makes me giggle a little.

for example:

thankfully, it's finally petering out. though, it has left her with the cutest and most severe sneeze.

unencumbered.

b has been telling emmie that sneezes are merely demons leaving the body, and not to argue with him - it's just science.

snottily yours,
erin

exhibit b

the cow wins. he always does.

bovinelicious

this is mr. cow

he thinks he's better than the other barnyard chew toys - he rattles and has crunchy arms.

i asked for a child that would pick favorites.

done.

mr. cow + biddles emmie = true love


{{ in related news }}
em has begun to roll from her back to her front.

however, there is only one thing she will roll for. guess what it is:: her mother's lovely face - nope. a tall glass of breastmilk - uh-uh. a flashing dancing singing t.v. screen - never. a silly stuffed cow - every time.

{{ this is a picture of her very first roll, for those concerned with such things }}

jealously yours.
erin

"if happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, i think, an american cow."
william lyon phelps

a week late and a dollar short

i have decided what to do for lent.
{thanks to best-friend-holly's mom pat for the suggestion}

time. tiempo. zeit. 时间;时



during the day it is the thing that gets away from me and the thing i most often waste. i miss-spend miss-allocate and miss-calculate the time i get. no more. for the next 35 days i will give up wasted time in order to do things that god loves - read scripture, create things, grow friendships and serve my family (read: clean-up the house). more succinctly, i plan to spend 20 minutes every day in stillness. btw, stillness is the antithesis to motherhood. and, just so you know i've never been good at mediation or stillness or standing in one place for very long. people have told me that i'm good at doing nothing. true. only, more accurately i'm good at doing nothing constructive. or better yet, i'm good at being lazy. sometimes lazy is good. especially when one's best friends and husband are more type-Aish - it's good to be the one that encourages days upon days of doing nothing but watching west wing re-runs. however, in preperation for easter i want to become a better steward of my time, along with creating an empty space through the discipline of stillness. let's see how it goes.

{{ here is one of the ways i plan on spending time }}


{{ first time reading the bible before bed with dad. totally cheesy cartoon board book, i know. totally made me get misty thinking of her future relationship with her dad, these stories, and this jesus }}


erin