Pride in a child

I think I am learning so much about the Father's love for us by being a parent to Reister. As you saw in the "Heads Up" post, he has been able to hold himself up while laying on his stomach. He also is starting to grasp some of his toys (I'm not sure if that's on purpose or not yet). As I watch him make these developmental advances, I'm so proud and excited for him. Often I'm trying to help him along . . . I thought about how the Father's joy in us might be similar. But He's always the one to do it through us, though. I know from His word (Zeph 3:17) that He takes great delight in us. It makes me want to be more obedient and to seize every opportunity to glorify Him, knowing that the pride and the joy He takes in us must be even greater than the joy I feel as I see Reister grow and develop. He is worthy! I'm thankful for this opportunity to grow in my understanding of Him as I learn how to parent.

my buddy

When I was pregnant I met another pregnant woman here in our city. Her boy was born about a month before Reister. A couple weeks ago I invited her and her son over and we caught some pics of them. Know that I had to "latch" Reister's hand onto his friends, he still doesn't grab things on his own.

Heads Up

After looking at Jonathan & Kelley's blog where they had their daughter Kiran propped up on a towel I tried it with Reister and it worked! He was able to hold his head up much better than before. Way to go Reister!!

All bundled up

So it's cold here . . . and the locals like to bundle their kids up till they look like overstuffed sausages. Well, we normally just put Reister in as many layers as we're wearing, but about a week ago we were going to be out and thought he might get a little cold so we bundled him up in several layers including some clothes local friends had given him (the green overalls & the top).

Frying a turkey . . .

So we had the best turkey we've ever eaten this year! Our friend bought a big pot and burner as well as a ton of peanut oil and fried a 19 pound turkey up for 10 of us. Oh yeah, first he injected it with a ton of garlic and butter marinade (from the states) so it was really yummy!

Starting our Blog!

So many of our friends have blogs and lately I have really enjoyed going to them and checking out their postings and pictures. So I figured other people might enjoy going to our blog - if we had one. Until now we haven't but I think I'm going to start posting. I need to catch up posting pictures of Reister since he was born . . . that might take a while, but for now here's one of him and Micah on Thanksgiving as well as one of all of our food! Also this is a recent pic of Reister after his bath - isn't he cute?!