Status Report

Isaac turned one a couple of weeks ago.  Here are a list of his accomplishments

He can say:
"Num Num" (food)
Mommy and Mama
Daddy and  Dada
Za (Zak)
Uh Oh
No No
A Da (all done)


His favorite thing to do is race up the stairs any time we have forgotten to put up the gate.  He is very very quick.  Everytime he gets up the stairs he has a choice of three doors to go through.  Without fail he chooses the door to the kids room and goes straight for the toy cabinet.  It is so cute!

He also loves to empty boxes and sit in them. He REALLY loves to sit in the dishwasher but that's a "No no".  I don't think he believes us on that one since we always smile and giggle when he gets in there.

He loves swimming too.  As soon as we get to the pool he crawls right over to the edge, turns around and starts climbing onto the first step.

He has progressed from being the perfect baby into being the perfect 1 year old.  He has 12 teeth (4 of them molars) and never drooled!  He hates drool.  If I am feeding him and he feels food on his chin he wipes it off with his hand.

His only bad habit is that of sneaking into the bathroom and splashing in the toilet.  It makes me want to barf when I think about it.  We do our best to keep that door shut.

I just love the picture on the Left.  It really shows what goes on in our house.  Isaac is the center of attention and we all just love him to pieces.  (Also he just started giving hugs, I just can't stand it.  He is too cute!)

On Psalm 73

My Cup Overflows

My faith, like the ocean,
    tiptoes up and down the beach
Your love, like the sand,
remains always within reach.

My eye sees your empty hand
   its scars are full of grace.
My arm extends, its reach too short
  and misses your embrace.

Futilely I wander on begging for a penny
 when you've give wealth untold
 I think I haven't any.

The brightest sunlight on my face
  eclipsed by Your immeasurable grace
   - like a waterfall that cuts through a drought -
Lord, you have blessed me to the brim
and blessed me with without.

-jm

 Whom have I in heaven but you?
       And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
  My flesh and my heart may fail,
       but God is the strength of my heart
       and my portion forever.
 Psalm 73:25-26

1 Thessalonians 4:1-8

I read this tonight and it really seemed to fit in with my last post

^{I Thessalonians 4:1-8
1}Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. ²For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
 ³It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; ⁴that each of you should learn to control his own body^[a] in a way that is holy and honorable, ⁵not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; ⁶and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you. ⁷For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. ⁸Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.