An Awwww moment

A couple of days ago I was playing with Mikey in the living room. I was putting some toy on my head and then putting it on his head. Anyway, Jackson came and started to play the silly game with us. After a couple of minutes Jackson said, "Mom, I think you're going to be a good mommy for Mikey." I thought it was pretty funny and cute. I think I said something snide to ruin the moment like, "Well, I might as well be. I'm the only mommy he's got." He's really a pretty sweet kid...most of the time.

First Love

It seems that Jackson has developed a little crush on one of the girls in his class. In fact, it might be more than a crush because he has decided he wants to marry this girl. Her name is Emma. Phillip met the bride-to-be on Monday when he ate lunch with Jackson. He said she talks a lot. Jackson has made his "feelings" known to Emma and I don't think she's very flattered. He drew a picture today of two stick figures holding hands and wrote "Jackson" above one and "Emma" above the other. Jackson and I were talking about this stuff on the way home from school and he asked me how old a boy has to be before he leaves his mommy. I told him 20. I really hope he's not totally harassing this little girl. I told him he needs to give her some space.

Lazy

We talked about being a disciple tonight in small group. Not just being a "Christian" but a true disciple of Jesus. About living a life that is reflective of who God actually wants us to be and living out a life that is representative of that. (That's kind of redundant....anyway.)

I feel the tug almost every day to break open the Bible or read something that will teach me something about the Bible or church or Christianity or whatever. But I've been finding myself far too lazy lately to read or write anything significant. I am pretty busy most of the day, but there are frequent windows of opportunity that I blow off. I need to stop doing that. It's like I read stuff in spurts. I'll read a lot really quickly for a couple of weeks or so and then I won't read anything for a month or more. I'm kind of in a funk about what to read. I want to become more acquainted and familiar with the stories of the New Testament. But my mind begins to wander when I sit down and try to actually read parts of the Bible. Maybe I need to read The Message translation or something. I read the book of Acts a couple of months or so ago and that was cool. I started Matthew and I just got bored. And I know there's more to being a disciple than reading the Bible. But that's something that I know I need to be doing more of and I just can't seem to find the desire to do it. Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions to get me out of this lazy funk? Are there any good books out there that might intrigue me?

I'm looking for serious suggestions here. Don't fill my comments full of useless crap.

Park pictures

First Steps

Mikey took two steps yesterday. It wasn't very graceful, but he did it. And Phillip, Jackson, and I all saw it. The kid will be walking for real very soon. That's all the time I have to write right now.

We finally have a termination date

I just found out that Mikey's parental termination hearing is scheduled for December 11th. Even though mom relinquished, the state still has to have a termination hearing for mom and "unknown father." I'm glad they finally set a date, but I was hoping it would be sooner than this. So after that date, we have to wait 90 days to adopt. That puts us adopting in March. So we went from everyone telling us it would be November to them telling us end of January or early February to March. Needless to say, I'll believe it when I see it. I don't mean to sound negative about the whole thing. It is good that we have a real date in mind. Things with Mikey have gone about as good as you can hope for with a newborn baby. It's just been a slow process.

Mikey's boo boo

Mikey got a pretty good little "owie" today. He's gotten little bumps and bruises before but this is the worst so far. He lost his balance and hit his eyebrow on the corner of the coffee table. It bled a lot! It was pretty scary because I couldn't really tell where the blood was coming from at first. A nurse at the pediatrician's office took a look at it. She said it could possibly use a stitch or two, but she didn't really think it was necessary. She just told me to cut strips from the sticky part of a band aid and put it over the cut to keep it together. Poor little guy. When it happened he screamed for about 20 seconds and then he was ready to keep playing. This kid is crazy so I know it's just a matter of time before something like this or worse happens again. Jackson made it to almost 5 before he had to get stitches. And Mikey almost had to get them at 9 months. Anyway, hopefully it heals up and he doesn't have a noticeable scar.