Little one keeps me on my toes. So much so, that my poor blog has suffered in my absence. The minute Karsen sees me sit down at my desk, she runs over and jumps into my lap and begins typing. She wins everytime. Hopefully, I will be able to post more once school begins. I miss writing!
It has been a busy, hot summer. Hard to believe we have lived in West Virginia for over a year!
We lost power for a week following the June 29 storm. Luckily, we were in North Carolina at the time but my husband and son, Jonathan had to come back to a darkened house & city.
Our upstairs air unit went out and that was stressful getting it replaced and then this week a man clearing the empty lots in our neighborhood ran under the internet lines and so we were without internet for 3 days....so its been busy.
Little one continues to grow and amaze me each day with her personality and growing vocabulary. She has a good sense of humor and loves to play. It is so much fun just watching her figure out things.
This month some of her big milestones were:
*tinkled in the potty
*says "No"
* Speaking short sentences like "I do it", or "Come here", and "I eat it", my favorite is "Hi, Mom" when she wakes up in the morning!
*Dressing her is becoming a challenge. She wants to pick out the outfit and then wants to dress herself. The outfit she always goes for is her poufy Easter dress from Aunt Barb. She gets so mad when I won't let her wear it to Wal Mart.
*She enjoys the water sprayground near our house and even went to Emeralde Pointe and braved the smaller water slides.
*She really enjoys going places. I love taking her home to North Carolina and letting her spend time with my mom, grandmother and sister. It is always hard to leave. And it hurts she doesn't know them the way my other kids do.
Everyday I look at her and I realize how God sent her to us specifically for healing.
He knew we would need someone very special to help us to move on after losing PawPaw and Papa Bud. She was such a shock and happy surprise.
I cannot imagine how hard life would have been facing that first year of Papa's death or enduring PawPaws brave fight with cancer that would kill him just 8 weeks before her birth without knowing that inside of me was growing a new life full of promise and wonder....she saved me.
A sad update, baby Patrick lost his battle with cancer 11 days ago. Please keep his family in your prayers. He was only 2 months older than Karsen.
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