before children, one is allowed to be totally selfish - and not just in a bad way. you can (to a certain extent) wake up when you want, eat when you want, go and do what you please. welcome to the world of selflessness when you have a baby. it is no longer about you my friend, but instead you are learning new things every day and just when you think you have figured out this tiny little creature, they change everything up on you again.
so adelaide and i have a pretty good thing going here in new jersey. our day-to-day schedule is of much consistency but still has room for variety. i have learned not to live according to a schedule, but instead to let the schedule work to my advantage.
adelaide is blooming. most of her time is spent on her stomach, not her back. it's very difficult to keep her on her back once she figured out how to get to her stomach by herself. she loves to sleep in the corner of her crib on her stomach. she has pictures of family on the wall that she looks at when she wakes up from her nap or when she awakens in the morning, and this keeps her satisfied for quite some time. i have FINALLY cleaned her room (mostly) and am very proud of her neat space. (our room, on the other hand, is still chaos. still waiting on someone to come and clean after me?) she loves to smile, talk and more recently, give good, hearty, belly-laughs. she is a whopping 14 pounds. adelaide was born with a lot of hair but now that has mostly fallen out. she has new hair coming in that is quite a bit lighter than her baby hair. her cheeks are to-die-for and i probably kiss them a hundred times a day. no one could convince me that there is a thing wrong with this child, our blessing from the Lord.
a big weekend coming up for us here. my brother andy and sister-in-law kerry are coming here to visit saturday morning from their home in DC, about 4 hours away. they will stay overnight and on sunday my mom is flying in from Oklahoma to spend a week with us. tomorrow is her 50th birthday, what a milestone! i am so proud of the amazing woman she is. this will also be the first saturday both ben and i have been here since april 25.
in other news, it appears as though our home in franklin is no longer going to be vacant, as some tenants will be moving in july 1! thank you Jesus! what a blessing. we will have a property manager handle the details which is another load off of us. in the midst of the madness ben and i have drawn closer to each other and to God. we still have not found "the church" but our spiritual community here is developing as well. thank you Jesus for new life!
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