P.S. Our blog title picture will soon include all of us! Updated family coming soon...
Friday, May 29, 2009
SO HOT
Here are just a few shots of my little guy in just his diaper, as it is too hot to clothe him!
P.S. Our blog title picture will soon include all of us! Updated family coming soon...
P.S. Our blog title picture will soon include all of us! Updated family coming soon...
A family outing
As I write this post, it is so hot and sunny outside. Sophie and Daddy are in the backyard filling up her pool and Aaron is beside me in his diaper...just his diaper! We just got back from visiting animals. I like visiting animals because that means when we are done, we go home and they stay! Here are a few shots from our family outing to Lone Pine Farm! Here's to summer and anticipating the soon arriving fresh corn and fruit.
Riding "Casey" the tractor. "Sophie, what does a tractor say?... 'Vroom Vroom.'"
Aaron's first tire swing ride! Sophie climbing up the slide...yes, she's "one of those kids"
Checking out the donkey. Sophie of course had to do that inside the barrier ropes! Oops.
Visiting and talking to the goats.
Aaron was really interested in his first time to see goats!
Stopping to play with water
Riding "Casey" the tractor. "Sophie, what does a tractor say?... 'Vroom Vroom.'"
Aaron's first tire swing ride! Sophie climbing up the slide...yes, she's "one of those kids"
Checking out the donkey. Sophie of course had to do that inside the barrier ropes! Oops.
Visiting and talking to the goats.
Aaron was really interested in his first time to see goats!
Stopping to play with water
Thursday, May 28, 2009
A glimpse of a mother's heart
As I'm up a few minutes before the kids, I might actually accomplish this blog without my little helper. Sophie is very good at typing and pushing keys at the same time...causing screens I have never seen to appear!
Mothers that have gone before me, tried to give adequate warning. Nothing says knowledge like experience, which I'm now earning. I use the term earning, because it truly feels like every moment of success right now has been fought for. I think it has been fought for in the heavenly realms where our battle is not against flesh and blood but against the rulers and authorities in the spiritual realms (Ephesians 6). My children's souls are being fought for right now. I've been praying for Sophie and Aaron to have spirits that are sensitive to spiritual matters. I want them to become children that are aware of their worth in the Heavenly Father's heart and who walk in a manner worthy of the gospel (Colossians 1). I don't want them to be children who are of this world. Children who cling to their selfish desires and entertain rebellion. Can you tell that I have a two year old who says "no" a lot right now!
In order to get to the success I crave, I must not only pray and use every moment as a teaching time, I must also prepare/work on my own heart. Selfish desires and rebellion do not disappear when one becomes an adult, they just become more distinguished and socially accepted. The inner battle's root is still the same as when the person was a child.
Our family is transitioning right now...which is the polite term for a little chaos, a little frustration, a little crying, and a whole lot of praying for God's grace! We love our kids and are so thankful for our busy Sophie and our new Aaron (who is still being figured out). It will become easier and more natural to have two children and Sophie will transition out of this stage...maybe as brother enters! Meanwhile, we will rely on God's promise that His great mercies are new every morning and His faithfulness will never change or be minimized.
Here is to not just surviving today but thriving, because as I "earn" my successes, I'm not doing it with my own strength...the Lord who created the earth in one week by speaking into being is holding my family and is in control of our day. We have confidence in the ONE who wins the battles!
Mothers that have gone before me, tried to give adequate warning. Nothing says knowledge like experience, which I'm now earning. I use the term earning, because it truly feels like every moment of success right now has been fought for. I think it has been fought for in the heavenly realms where our battle is not against flesh and blood but against the rulers and authorities in the spiritual realms (Ephesians 6). My children's souls are being fought for right now. I've been praying for Sophie and Aaron to have spirits that are sensitive to spiritual matters. I want them to become children that are aware of their worth in the Heavenly Father's heart and who walk in a manner worthy of the gospel (Colossians 1). I don't want them to be children who are of this world. Children who cling to their selfish desires and entertain rebellion. Can you tell that I have a two year old who says "no" a lot right now!
In order to get to the success I crave, I must not only pray and use every moment as a teaching time, I must also prepare/work on my own heart. Selfish desires and rebellion do not disappear when one becomes an adult, they just become more distinguished and socially accepted. The inner battle's root is still the same as when the person was a child.
Our family is transitioning right now...which is the polite term for a little chaos, a little frustration, a little crying, and a whole lot of praying for God's grace! We love our kids and are so thankful for our busy Sophie and our new Aaron (who is still being figured out). It will become easier and more natural to have two children and Sophie will transition out of this stage...maybe as brother enters! Meanwhile, we will rely on God's promise that His great mercies are new every morning and His faithfulness will never change or be minimized.
Here is to not just surviving today but thriving, because as I "earn" my successes, I'm not doing it with my own strength...the Lord who created the earth in one week by speaking into being is holding my family and is in control of our day. We have confidence in the ONE who wins the battles!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
SUMMER
Our family is SO excited that we've had such sunny, summer-like weather! I like being outside quit a bit, but anyone who knows my husband and daughter know that for them...it's survival! Sophie would be very content to live outside. Today, she was in her swing for a half hour and almost fell asleep in it! I would have taken a picture, but I hadn't done her hair...so the lion mane (her hair) and my mother's pride won out...no pictures! We've been doing quit a bit in the back yard to make it more user friendly for our family and more aesthetically pleasing for my decorating nature.
Here is Sophie's solution to her slide getting small and a little boring!
Like Daddy...Like Daughter
Sophie's cherry tree and Aaron's pear tree...the perks to Daddy being a gardener
The play structure that is in progress
My current joy...an outdoor rug and eating/sitting area with white lights
Coming soon...our house will be green!
Here is Sophie's solution to her slide getting small and a little boring!
Like Daddy...Like Daughter
Sophie's cherry tree and Aaron's pear tree...the perks to Daddy being a gardener
The play structure that is in progress
My current joy...an outdoor rug and eating/sitting area with white lights
Coming soon...our house will be green!
Little...or BIG...updates!
Aaron is doing so well...despite his sister's love, that at times, seems like it may end his little life. He's adjusting to life superbly and growing like a weed. We had family pictures done last week. I was so thankful to get those taken care of, because each day seems to bring me a bigger boy. At his 2 week appointment, he weighed 9 pounds and 2 ounces. The pediatrician said that was one of the biggest weight gains he had seen! Yeah for our big boy.
I love watching his expressions and how he moves around...so much more enjoyable watching those feet kick around when they are not inside of me!
Here's an updated shot of our little guy. This is a regular position to find him in.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
He's really here!
Our sweet little boy is here! Aaron Joshua Kintigh joined our family on Wednesday, May 6th, at 3:01 pm. He weighed 8lbs and was 22in long. We are resting at home and enjoying the time to re-establish life. My mom is here, practically doing everything, and it is such a wonderful gift. I think we'll all have withdraws when she has to go home!
Sophie is adjusting well. She only really gets frustrated when we won't let her carry Aaron around the house! She loves her baby and seems to be getting used to the idea of him staying!
I am excited to begin this new season of life on this Mother's day. I feel very blessed with a loving family/support system, a wonderful and helpful husband who is an excellent daddy, and two healthy and sweet kids. God is so faithful and even as I recover I'm amazed at how we've seen His hand guiding us and protecting us. None of the complications I experienced with Sophie's birth reoccurred; we even got to go home the same day from the hospital! God is a faithful God who listens to even the smallest of prayers to the largest of concerns. We're a blessed family!
Sophie is adjusting well. She only really gets frustrated when we won't let her carry Aaron around the house! She loves her baby and seems to be getting used to the idea of him staying!
I am excited to begin this new season of life on this Mother's day. I feel very blessed with a loving family/support system, a wonderful and helpful husband who is an excellent daddy, and two healthy and sweet kids. God is so faithful and even as I recover I'm amazed at how we've seen His hand guiding us and protecting us. None of the complications I experienced with Sophie's birth reoccurred; we even got to go home the same day from the hospital! God is a faithful God who listens to even the smallest of prayers to the largest of concerns. We're a blessed family!
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