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Gabriel's experimenting with finger foods as hair care products. This is meat sauce hair therapy.




He thinks this new venture in fine eating is just exquisite! lol How can you resist that face??




Gabriel crawling around the house, all over the house, into every nook and cranny!



Beautiful Callie! She's such the little model.



Callie's room after a couple hours of work.



Callie's room before.


Things have been crazy around here. Callie is the smartest little girl! Yesterday, we were out to eat at Chili's and she asked the waitress, "Can I have some more milk, please?" (The please came with a little prompting!) The greatest thing was she waited for our waitress specifically, even though other servers were walking around us. She's one smart cookie!

She still tests me some times. While we were out yesterday, I had told her she needed to stay where I could see her. So she kept stepping farther and farther away from me, asking "Can you see me now?" -- I had a flashback to the Verizon commercials . . .

We're in the process of remodeling Callie's room, so she's camping out in the guest room at the moment. She seems to have adjusted well to the temporary move and tells everyone who comes over that Mommy and Daddy made a big mess of her room - ha!

Gabriel is crawling all over the place, pulling up, starting cruising a little bit -mainly back and forth in a corner- and cut his first tooth on Thursday, March 3rd with a second one close behind from the looks of it! I started giving him more finger foods, I think I've really held him back with this compared to Callie. Subconsciously keeping him a baby longer?!? I don't know, but he's rebelling now! He doesn't want that baby food, give him what we're eating or nothing at all! He's definitely found his voice and will let you know all about it. His cutest thing is waving at people. It's absolutely adorable because he'll just start doing it randomly. Especially if someone's standing by our door, getting ready to leave. As soon as they get to the door, he starts waving like "Alright, leave already people! I've got things to get into!"

Yesterday, he started waving at a man I was talking to about my cell phone. I love it when men just melt because my baby is so cute! lol

In more personal news, I feel like I am at a crossroads in my life. I feel like door after door has been closed, and I'm questioning the meaning of these paths being blocked. I know what I want it to mean, but is it for the right reasons? Is it just to be different? Will it be something I can truly handle? If there was ever a time for a big neon sign, now's it! I've been debating with God about these things and I guess all I can do is pray and ask that the better path be made clear. I know there's not really a right or wrong with this, and I know God will never give me more than I can handle, so maybe He's just asking me to trust Him more and throw out my daily planner. I know I overplan, maybe He's just asking for a little more reliance and a little more of my life. I guess I'll find out!

Philip is a great source of comfort through all this. I've been relying on his quiet strength and unswerving support for a number of weeks of stressful trials.

Now that I've fully accepted it, I've come around to actually enjoying our year of no travel, knowing that our little family gets time together to form our own little traditions when Philip has holiday time. It's kind of exciting, another thing I get to "plan"! :)

Well, I guess that's all the latest in our little corner of the world. I hope you all are having a great week! We love and miss all our family and friends that live far away! God bless you and yours the rest of this week.

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Stephen, Kaylin and Oliver said…
I was wondering if you were going to keep us all guessing much longer about these "crossroads" in your life? I'm dying to know!
March 23, 2011 at 7:19 PM
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