Life as we know it

Today when we woke up, I was quite excited to take part in A PT session with my Zoie today! We took the past three weeks off, because of sickness, and the four naps a day we were taking, so today, we were ready to hit it hard! We did some sitting, kneeling, standing in our stander, standing with leg braces, and rocking on hands and knees. Lots to squeeze into one hour. To be honest, Zoie hasn't used her stander since we moved. As we put her in it, we noticed her head was about four inches above the head support, her legs didn't need strapped in because she was standing fine without them, and the waist strap was now at hips. All wonderful problems to have! We will just need to work on adjusting it a bit since Zoie has apparently grown a ton over the summer! It was neat to see what a little/big person she looked like in it. It was also pretty neat to undo a few straps and see her still weight bare. I do my best at playing with Zoie, at teaching her, working with her hands, stand...

It occurred to me that having a baby the second time around was going to be different as I was talking to our family pediatrician for one of Zoie's well exams before Ivie was thought of. It would be different because each child has their own plan that God has already designed for them. Some are here to teach us something, some are here to test our patience, some are here to change us, some are here to bring us sleepless nights, while others are here because we need to learn to be giving and what it means to give up our selfishness. I feel like I have been blessed with all of the above, with both of my mini's. When Zoie was going through her baby stage, it was our normal. Whatever she did, or didn't do, well, that's what we got used to. She was able to hold her head up at a month, she was petite and stayed in NB clothes through 3 months, she hated breast feeding starting at 4 months, then hated her bottle, she never learned to sit on her own until recently, she smiled a...