Jett

My oh so preciously sweet Jett.  He will be 7 months tomorrow!!!  Oh that sweet boy, what is he up to??
-he has 2 teeth!
-he still takes 1-2 naps during the day, the mid afternoon nap is typically 2-4 hours
-he is happy all of the time!!!!
-he babbles bububububububu
-he isn't eating table scraps yet...still gags :)
-he sits up great
-he loves pretty much everyone.  He doesn't have the separation stuff like my other two had...YIPPEEE!!  :)
-he looooves music and "if you're happy and you now it"
-he thinks balloons are so.so.funny
-he loves Sancho
-he loves his paci
-he does fine in his car seat
-50% of the time I can lay him in his crib awake with his paci and he will fall asleep....though, I still LOVE to rock him.
I seriously love this child.  He has captured my heart the way the other two did, and I'm just loving it!!!!

His Mercies ARE new every morning....

I'm just sitting here with a heavy heart...heavy with a lot of emotion, and some conflicting.  I have a heart of gratitude, an anxious heart, I'm even feeling a little bit of homesickness.  Gratitude is what I want to focus on though.  You see my God's mercies are new every morning.  I get a fresh start every.single.morning.  Yesterday I went to bed with a heavy heart, but in a sad defeated way.  I felt like a failure as a mother.  I was snappy with the boys, and in general not a super fun person to be around.  I went to bed feeling like I had severed my sweet relationship with my boys and they would never ask me to play with them again and be distant.  I was nostalgic as well, reading through old blogs of when Parker was 2.5 and all of my stories of blissful playing and loving each other.  So, you can only imagine after a day that I griped and barked all day, I felt like a reeeeeeeeeal winner as a mom.  As I went to bed that night, I gave myself the infamous "I will do better tomorrow" talk.  I will NOT do this, and I will NOT do that....I....I.....I.....I.....and then that soft quiet voice whispered in my ear...YOU cannot do any of what you want to achieve....it is HE that is within you.  I remembered that when I set out to make myself this perfect mom and this perfect wife and friend and perfect etc etc etc, I end up failing.  So I laid my mind before The Lord.  "Father, you must fix my mistakes as a mother".  I must say, HIS mercies truly are new every morning.  My precious Parker came into my room this morning, and snuggled with me in bed, and then we had the most joy filled FUN day of just playing.  Jumping on the trampoline, LAUGHING, and doing whatever they wanted.  Then, I had to go run a few errands and Beckham wanted to go with me...just me and my boo...and why did he want to go with me "because I love momma".  Ahhhh, melt my heart.  Everyday is a new day....even if I am a big mess up, I know that my Heavenly Father will cover my weaknesses in my children's hearts.     Father, thankyou for today.  Thankyou that I got to love and play and cherish my children...and thankyou that the days that I fail, I can have the confidence that your mercies will be new in the morning.