Not Much to Report

It's been a few days since my last post, so I thought I'd get on and update on recent happenings. I spent some time in the yard Saturday morning pulling weeds and grass from the beds. Clara loved being outside helping. Mostly we just spent the day relaxing. We went up to the hospital on Saturday night to visit Becky and I stayed the night with her at so that Glenn could get some good sleep at home before bringing home baby. It wasn't bad at all. She's an awesome sleeper, so I really just changed a couple of diapers for Becky after her feedings. She woke, ate, and went right back to sleep. I didn't get to sleep until around 3:30, but not because of baby. Instead, I couldn't stop watching Selena on television. Sad, I know. Now I have Selena songs stuck in my head. Make it stop!!!

I left them around 9:00 am, got home and we even made it to church on time. I was pretty impressed with myself. I did take a long nap that afternoon though and we went back up that evening to visit some more.

Monday was pretty boring. Chris did have another interview downtown. And then another one today. Today was the last session of ladies bible class. I've enjoyed this class and I've really enjoyed the 2 hours of free babysitting that it afforded, so I'm going to miss going until it starts back up. This evening, I spent some time trimming our bushes, so our yard is finally starting to look decent. And that's about all the excitement going on here.

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Now for a few Clara updates. She's known most of her shapes for about a month now. She knows circle "sirsel", square "sare", triangle, rectangle, oval, and diamond.

She can remember things that happened the day before finally. We ask her all the time to "tell Daddy what you did today" or "where did we go yesterday?" and she's always just answered "ummm". Last week, we asked her where Leah got an owie the night before and she remembered the body part. That's a huge improvement in her memory. Or at least in recounting her memory.

At church on Sunday, during the communion prayer, she started singing "Jesus Loves Me" very loudly. We quieted her down quickly, so she switched to "Rockabye baby". And then last night, we went to a mexican restaurant we hadn't been to. There was a huge mural of The Last Supper painted on the wall we were facing. Clara pointed up at it and yelled "Jesus!!". I was a little surprised. I don't think she's seen that painting, but I guess the clothing choice of Jesus and the twelve is pretty unmistakable.

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And now for my daily dose of thankfulness. I'm thankful for the ladies who watch the kids during ladies bible class. They are all so sweet and love these little ones in their keep. Every time Clara walks in they greet her with huge smiles and love on her and make her feel so welcome. I'm thankful that God has blessed our family with such loving and encouraging Christian women for our little girl to look up to even at this young age.