Oh the Bliss!

I'm preparing my heart for celebrating the birth of my savior this week and the closer I get to the day the more I realize what the message for me is this season: Come again, Jesus! I love reading the Christmas story from the Word; seeing prophesies fulfilled and getting to usher in this baby King, remembering what a magnificent gift God the Father gave to us. I love singing christmas carols that focus my mind on the wonder and the power of his birth. I've been paying particular attention the words of the songs I've sung my entire life, and this week I started singing them with less remembrance and more anticipation, urgent anticipation. O come, O come, Emmanuel And ransom captive Israel... ~ Joy to the World , the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare him room, ... He rules the world with truth and grace , And makes the nations prove The glories of His righteousness, And wonders of His love... ~ Said the king to the people everywhere, listen to ...

Addison has roughly nine "babies" that she takes care of on a daily basis. Nine. And she takes care of them all day long, it's pretty amazing, she puts me to shame really. She feeds, dresses, walks, naps, reads to, sings to and loves on these babies from morning till night. She LOVES her babies. The other day she came out of her room and let me know that she was off to college and I needed to babysit for her. Later she spotted me not doing my "job" and said, "Mom, babies don't babysit themselves". Right. Got it. My favorite thing about her babies are their names, she named them months ago and the names stuck. You can ask her any of their names and they're the same name for the same baby every time... it's pretty awesome. It helps that three of them are Hannah and two are Bella. Then there's Minnie (fitting, since it's a Minnie Mouse), Baby Lucy (which has been her constant favorite for over two years), Addison (as in - Addison Jr.)...

Today Mia turned 10 months, yaaaaaay! This new month is welcomed because she basically spent the last month looking like this (and worse). Looking like that when you're a tiny one means you get lots of visits to doctors and specialists. Didn't phase her though, she was still super cute. Here she is at her Week Three visit, looking better, but the picture doesn't really show how bad it still was. Though the four different doctors in the six different visits could never quite nail down exactly what was causing Mia's breakouts, we are pretty sure this "extreme eczema" and "nappy psoriasis", as they're referring to it as of our last visit, will be a condition she'll deal with off and on throughout her childhood and perhaps into adulthood, unless the Lord choses to heal her. I wasn't a big fan of the four different creams they gave for her face and nether-regions. Each one was made up of lot's of little ingredients that I couldn't pro...

David mentioned in a sweet comment on the last post how grown-up Addison is looking, and beautiful, and model-ish. (I'm paraphrasing). So I thought I'd post a few more pics of Model Addie. She could never pose for the likes of Gap or Gymboree, but she is absolutely sullen and stunning enough for Valentino. (FYI, I had to text Wendy for the name of a high end fashion designer.)

My awesome Aunt Sarah (lovely name, no?) lives in Mississippi and reads my blog. i can't write these days, because my brains have turned to spaghetti, but I love my aunt, and I know she loves seeing wha'sup in my silly little life, so this post is for YOU Auntie Say-Say! I love you!