Roly Poly Giggly Joey

Hello, friends! We are alive and well and so thankful for the many people who have asked us to hurry up and post again on this dear blog. You are troopers, really, to continue to hope that I will keep this up. And for you, I will most certainly continue to try!

Joey turned four months old on April 21. He rolls over from tummy to back with ease! The routine goes like this: we place him on his tummy, he does a big heave-ho, lands on his back, we holler with joy, pick him up and throw him high into the air, hug and kiss him a hundred times telling him he's the most wonderful little boy in the whole world...and he stares at us blankly with drool hanging down to his toes wondering what all the fuss is about! It's great fun :-) At his four month wellness checkup, Joey weighed a full 15 pounds. It doesn't sound like much compared to how big he looks and how heavy he feels! We think we've got a future linebacker on our hands!

Joey sleeps in his own crib in his own room now. I think the separation was a lot harder for me than it was for him. He loves having all that space to stretch out and scoot around. We hardly ever find him in the same spot we placed him on. He sleeps many, many wonderful hours every day (partly because the painful teething process can be kind of exhausting), which makes for a rested and happy mama :-)

These last few weeks, our apartment has been filled with the delicious sounds of Joey giggling and we're just tickled by it. We are so thankful for our little guy! He's made our family happier than we ever could have imagined.

Chris graduates from The Master's Seminary this coming Sunday, May 11. If you'd like to come, please let me know and I'll give you all the details. We'd love to see you there. So, his last final exam is this Thursday and, for the first time in our married life, he'll be out of school! The job search continues, meanwhile, and we appreciate your continued prayers. We'll update on that as soon as we believe we know where God would have us.

And now for the pictures. FYI, Joey is a smiley, happy baby, but you'd never guess that from the photographs. By the time the flash has gone off five times to avoid red-eye, he always has the deer-in-the-headlights look you'll see below :-)

Proud parents, distracted baby

Look, Ma, all by myself in the big boy bed!

I hear that receding hair lines are all the rage.

My grandma brought me this t-shirt all the way from Hollywood, FL!

I think I can crawl...I think I can! I think I can!

Mom, can I please chew on that? It looks really good!