Month: March 2009

I love it that she chills in her crib for a few minutes after waking in the morning, just gurgling & erratically flailing her chubby arms and legs. When she hears me enter the room, she pauses for a moment… Then as soon as we get a glimpse of each other, she starts back up again, smiling all the way! Sweet, yummy baby.

P.S. That’s Chase’s big boy hand in the photo, not hers!  🙂

It was fun to have my big bro Ryan and his wife Tina here for a quick visit this weekend! Among other things, we went to Sundance on Saturday to walk around and enjoy the scenery. Here are some pics. I realized that I don’t have any of Ryan and Tina actually looking at the camera, but that’s because I took those photos of them with Rachel’s camera, so check out her blog too! We had a good time and the kids were well-behaved. Thanks for visiting, you guys!

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“Family prayer is a powerful and sustaining influence. During the dark days of World War II, a 500-pound bomb fell outside the little home of Brother Patey, a young father in Liverpool, England, but the bomb did not go off. His wife had died, so he was rearing his five children alone. He gathered them together at this very anxious time for family prayer. They ‘all prayed . . . earnestly and when they had finished praying, the children said: “Daddy, we will be all right. We will be all right in our home tonight.”“ ‘And so they went to bed, imagine, with that terrific bomb lying just outside the door half submerged in the ground. If it had gone off it would have destroyed probably forty or fifty houses and killed two or three hundred people. . . . “ ‘The next morning the . . . whole neighborhood was removed for forty-eight hours and the bomb was finally taken away. . . . “ ‘On the way back Brother Patey asked the foreman of the A. R. P. Squad: “Well, what did you find?”“ ‘ “Mr. Patey, we got at the bomb outside of your door and found it ready to explode at any moment. There was nothing wrong with it. We are puzzled why it did not go off” ’ (Andre K. Anastasiou, in Conference Report, Oct. 1946, 26). Miraculous things happen when families pray together.”

James E. Faust, “The Lifeline of Prayer,” Liahona, July 2002, 68

I’d say they look related, wouldn’t you? (I already know that my mom and Amber will agree! They’ve been pointing it out all along!)

The first photo is Chase when he was 4 months old, and the second is Charlotte at 2 1/2 months. I’ve seen mostly differences between Chase and Charlotte as newborns, but these photos show how alike (in appearance) they seem! However, Charlotte’s eyes are lighter, and her hair is definitely darker than Chase’s was (she has a little mullet in the back where her hair is clearly brown)! I think she might be bigger than he was, too…

Okay. Looking at these photos, I just had yet another moment when the thought hit me, “What? I have two children? Where has the time gone? Am I not in high school anymore? guess not.”

I had one of those moments earlier when I was taking Chase to a Sports class at The Little Gym (which was awesome, by the way). I thought, “Do I really have a child who’s old enough for me to be carting around to such activities? guess so.”

I am realizing, now that Chase is turning 3, that the time really does fly by. I mean, it’s great that Chase is at this age when he can do so much all by himself– there are benefits to having a child get older. But right now I am also really cherishing Charlotte in all her baby glory. This time around I’m not anxiously awaiting the next milestone, even though milestones are fun. But I just love babyhood! You may stay a baby as long as you’d like, Little One!