Peek-a-Boo

The game of Peek-a-boo seems to be the play of choice for our girls the past couple of days. I keep finding Gabrielle squeezed into tiny little spaces - her kitchen oven, any and every basket, bag or box lying around, etc. Today she dumped a couple of her toy bins, took the bins in to her tent and climbed in one. She used the second bin as the lid to her little box. Samantha is amazed every time by this feat.

I finally finished Samantha's blankie yesterday afternoon. She seems to like it. She is in no way "attached" to it and I do not think I want her "attached" to anything. But it would be nice if there was something I could give her that would comfort her, something she could use to comfort and soothe herself. With Gabrielle it was a pacifier. As long as she had her paci she was okay. With Samantha so far the only thing that works is me! And sometimes I can't even get the job done!

After giving Samantha her new blankie, we started playing peek-a-boo with it. I've decided this must be her favorite game at the moment. She laughed and laughed and laughed. And then she started making the silliest faces, squinting her eyes and scrunching up her nose. I then laughed and laughed and laughed. Here are some photos. I still don't think I have quite captured "the face" but still pretty cute. Excuse the dirty face. Her nose stays runny and gross and her face is so dry and chapped I think it must be painful for me to wipe it after meals. I do the best I can throughout the day and just make sure I get it real good at bath time.

Samantha continued her game of peek-a-boo after bath with her towel and even today each time I change her diaper. Every age has its cute moments and fun but for me around 8-9-10 months was my favorite time with Gabrielle and seems to be looking that way with Samantha as well.

Amazing Sydney Grace

A blog has been created updating little Sydney's life, the miracle I posted about previously. She continues to improve all thanks to the grace of God.

http://www.amazingsydneygrace.blogspot.com/

I Need Your Opinions

Every year Live with Regis & Kelly have a Beautiful Baby contest. This year I want to enter my beautiful girls but I can't decide on photos. I could submit one of each of them or one of them together. I need your help. Please leave me a comment and tell me what picture(s) you like the best and think I should enter. The deadline is January 29 so while I have a little time to try to get a new photo, I tried that when Gabrielle was 15 months old and the pressure of trying to get a good picture was a complete failure! So I would rather just use something I already have. Oh, and the photo has to have been taken in the last month. So here are the choices:

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I definitely have more solo pics of Gabrielle to choose from because all of my shots of Samantha seem to be "action" shots lately. I'll see what else I can get over the weekend. If I happen to get anything better then I'll repost and get your opinions again! Also, I'll zoom and crop the photos as needed to get rid of any extra background space.

Miracles Really Do Happen

This is such a touching story and one that shows how little doctors and the rest of us know and how much God can really do!

Little Sydney Grace is a true miracle. Doctors did not expect this little one to live more than a few hours if at all after being born and now over 15 hours later she is doing better than ever. No one knows what is yet to come for this little one but I am so thankful that God has given her family these precious hours with her, hours and moments they were told not to expect to have. God is so great and is capable of doing tremendous things.

I will continue to pray for this family as I have throughout the day and I encourage you to do the same. God is definitely listening!

To read more about her story go here.