2011 brings with it some BIG changes in our home!
One of these BIG changes, as you can see below, is Mommy's growing belly. In four short weeks we will welcome Luke Timothy to our family. It is crunch time around our house as we are trying to get everything in order for the little man's arrival.
While Abigail does not fully grasp what is about to happen in our family, she is embracing some necessary changes in preparation for her little brother. For Christmas, Chad and I surprised Abigail with her "big girl" room. She LOVES it and has done remarkably well in adjusting to her new bed and room. Believe it or not, she has just in the last couple of weeks realized that she can actually get out of her bed. We made it over a month before she escaped her bed and room for the first time, and still, she has only done it a few times since then. That being said, I've declared this adjustment a success and can only hope she will do as well with other changes when the baby gets here. Here are a few pictures of her very girly new room:
Another BIG change beginning in 2011 is that Daddy is returning to school to pursue another degree. Chad has started a doctoral program through Southern Seminary and will be busy studying, reading and writing for the next THREE years.
He just returned from a week in Louisville, Kentucky after completing his first seminar. Abigail and I are so proud of his hard work and are both adjusting to sharing Daddy with his school work.
He just returned from a week in Louisville, Kentucky after completing his first seminar. Abigail and I are so proud of his hard work and are both adjusting to sharing Daddy with his school work. One final, less significant change we've seen in 2011 is our constantly changing (and crazy I might add) Mississippi weather. One week it is snowing/sleeting/icing and the next week it is 60 to 70 degrees. This has been the pattern all year and we can't wait for Spring around here. Before we know it I am sure we'll be hoping for a relief from the HOT temperatures that May through September bring, but for now, those warm days, and their consistency, can't come soon enough. In the meantime, as Abigail demonstrates, yard maintenance is much more enjoyable if you wear a tutu while helping out. That is just a little piece of free advice from Abigail's first-hand experience.
