This summer we have been growing a frog. A friend of ours gave us some tadpoles and told us that they eat boiled lettuce or slimy spinach, so we started growing a frog. We followed our instructions, AND they're STILL ALIVE!!!
Daddy decided that the water was pretty yucky and dirty and that our tadpoles needed a clean home with fresh water. Ivy decided that she would sit and watch, I mean, help...
Letty,
At 1 month old, you weigh about 10 pounds. You sleep about 6-7 hours at night and have fallen into a nice little routine of feeding every 3-3 1/2 hours during the day.
You love your big sister Ivy and your big brother Owen already. You three are going to be such great friends and siblings - I can already see it. 
You love this musical giraffe toy and this toy book that makes a paper crunching noise as you hold onto it. 
You are starting to bat at toys and grab hold of a ring or a rattle if we put it into your hand.
You are also holding your head sturdier so those little neck muscles are strengthening.
You have already flown in an airplane! (You did that when you were 6 days old!)
You cry A LOT, and you cry VERY LOUD. (But, I guess you have to if you want to be heard in this house over your two busy and noisy siblings.) The best way to describe your cry is ear-piercing - it is the kind of cry that you cannot hear anything else but your cry. The only thing cute about your cry is you do this little lip quiver thing when you start REALLY crying. 
You do not like to have any bubbles in your belly, which you seem to get a lot of, and when those bubbles come out, they are loud - loud enough that I would think the whole neighborhood could hear them. You do not like laying on your side which seems to be causing some problems when your Mama tries to feed you.
I love to hear your snorting sound you make with your nose as you try to find your Mama.
You also do this cute little shaking thing with your leg that almost reminds me of when you pet a dog in just hte right spot, its leg shakes uncontrollably. :oP
Letty, we feel so blessed that the Lord has entrusted us with you. We feel that our family is now complete having you in it. Our prayer for you as you grow is that you will grow healthy and strong, both physically and in the ways of the Lord.
We love you, Letty! It's so hard to believe that you are 1 month old ALREADY!!??!!
Love,
Daddy and Mommy
and look at where the squirrel was!
Can you guess who didn't like our visitor? 
Daddy's newest little girl...
baby's stuff is all set up...
baby's clothes are washed and put in drawers...
Ivy and Owen's presents from baby are gotten...
child care plans are settled...
mommy is healthy...
daddy and kids are healthy...
daddy's paperwork is pretty much caught up at work...
groceries are bought for the week...
house is as clean as it's going to get (even the shower is clean and the floors are scrubbed)...
dishes are done (for now)...
laundry is caught up...
even the van is vacuumed out...
and the basement is clean and organized...
although our bags aren't packed for the hospital (I'm saving that for when I'm laboring to help take my mind off of the pain and work of labor)...
with only a couple of days away from our due date, we're READY!
BUT, there has been SO MUCH going on with our loved ones that we are totally placing our readiness and anxiousness to meet this new little girl, who absolutely loves to beat her mommy's ribs up, behind the needs of our families and just trust in the Lord's timing. Only the Lord knows what our families need right now, and we are confident that He is holding off the arrival of our little girl until the time is absolutely right for everyone...for my mom, for Nathan's mom, for Nathan's Gram.
I love how God has been speaking to me! He has definitely been telling me that He is in control of all things and to wait on Him and on His timing. Anywhere from Charles Stanley's message this past Sunday morning to Ivy's little devotional book that we read tonight (and all happenings in between) have been reiterating this message to me. Although we are wanting to hold our little girl in our arms so badly, we know that when this blessed event occurs the Lord would have worked out all of the details in the needs for our families.
[By the way, if scrubbing down the shower (only the worst chore ever) or scrubbing the floors on your hands and knees or vacuuming the van out or a road trip to Portland doesn't start something, you know that the baby will come in the Lord's timing!]
"To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven..." ~Ecclesiastes 3:1
