Wordless Wednesday: Like Father, Like Daughter?

Tiny? Tot

Tiny tot has become quite the little stinker lately. Her favorite word is "no", and her favorite sentence is "no mommy" or "no no no". She loves to run away, especially when I tell her to come, and she loves to find something bad to do when I am nursing because she knows I won't get up.

How's this little stinker face?

Or this one?

When we were still at my mom and dad's I tried to take a nice picture of my tiny tot to capture what she looked like when her little sister arrived. This was the result...

Would we trade her in? Not a chance. We love her to bits and really, it's all the fun in parenting a little one. We are enjoying every minute of it. And her cute, wonderful moments make up for everything bad. Here is a picture of a super cute moment. Aunty Eee came over to babysit and being the great aunt that she is, played tea party with my little princess....

This is also a tiny sneak peek of part of our living room in the new house. More pics to follow... I promise. :)

I want to share a text with you today that we read at the dinner table yesterday. I made Hunky Husband read it a couple of times, because it really struck me in a certain way. With all the challenges that our family has been going through lately it really made me think in a different way about our situation.

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The text is Hebrews 4:16; "Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help is in our time of need."

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It is talking in the context of Jesus being our great High Priest and that we may go to him in prayer when we are being tempted. I thought it was still fitting and thought that we could apply our situation to "time of need." What hit me was the word 'confidence'. What a comfort to know that if we are confident that God will help us in our time of need, he will certainly give us the mercy and grace to do so. I think it also humbled me in a way, because I don't think that my prayers, especially as of late have been overly confident. Certainly something to strive for!

Introducing Kinsley Susanne Lodder!

After a fairly easy 8 hour labor, our second daughter made an appearance on Nov 27th, 2010 at 2:02 pm at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg. She weighed 7 lbs 10 oz and measured 19.75 inches. We fell in love with her immediately and named her Kinsley Susanne after Grandma V.

Proud daddy of two girls!

She has been a great baby so far. She hardly ever cries and is sleeping really well for her mommy.

Our midwife was away up north for a week so because I was curious to see how much she weighed, hunky husband brought his refrigeration scale home to weigh her. She weighed 9 lbs 7.5 oz at four weeks. She is gaining well :)

Big Sister! She LOVES (her) baby and always wants to kiss her and have her face really close, I guess to feel her breathing.

My five week old baby!

We have been feeling really blessed to have two lovely daughters and so much love in our family! And now that moving and Christmas and New Years are over (so much partying!) I will be trying very hard to keep the blog posts coming :)... with lots of pics! (and tell you all about our move and our new house!)

John 1:16 "From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another."