Dad's Helper

Jeremy really likes to feed "Gacky" his bottle!

Learning English!

Here's a little video of my sweet boy showing off his mad English skillz.

Portraits of a Six Month Old...

Lessons from a two year old

"A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up peson does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown -up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enought to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon.

It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we." Orthodoxy G.K. Chesterton

My two year old son is full of boundless energy. He simultaneously delights and exhausts me. Yet he also invites me to pay attention to the world in ways that I overlook. He opens the eyes of his blind father, who fails to notice the glimpses of God on display right in front of him.

On a more sober level, my son also invites me to ponder the junk in my heart that I would rather ignore, the anger that flares up so easily when I am annoyed by his stubborn will or his consuming curiousity, the reluctance I have to embrace him when he lashes out at me with the typical intensity of a two year old.

How have the ordinary relationships in your family served as a mirror to your soul or the world, revealing things unnoticed or ignored about yourself or God? What are your pint-sized teachers revealing to you?

How are your children raising you?

We get 'em learnin' early in our family!

I couldn't resist this photo of Brian and Jeremy both staring intently at their laptops. Grandma and Papa sent Jeremy this adorable green laptop for his birthday. It's actually very cool and has some fantastic learning tools on it!

My little techno-nerds! Love them!

Baby's First Food!!!

Being a six month old means Zachy got to start eating baby food!

Here are the pictures to document his first "sweet peas" experience!

The best part of having all that good food in his tummy is that he slept for ten hours last night without waking up for a bottle--woo hoo! I'm hoping tonight will be as much a success...