Emmy is ten months old now and doesn't stop moving from the time she wakes up to the time she goes to bed at night it seems! She is pulling up on everything and even trying to balance on her own which she is getting quite successful at! I think some first steps are in her near future, perhaps a little sooner than Mommy may be ready for! I can't believe it has almost been a year since I gave birth to my little miracle!
She has gone from a precious little baby to a speed crawling little munchkin that loves to explore and she is more fun than ever to play with and take places! She is really enjoying making friends in the nursery and playing and watching other kids! It amazes me how well she does play by herself too, she is a thinker and loves to play with one thing and really think about how it works and what she can do with it. The sleeping is getting better, we have good days and not so good days still, but she is such a happy girl either way and I am so thankful for that! She loves people and will smile at everyone that looks her way! She has two teeth on the bottom and her top two front ones just poked through last week too! She's done well with teething, just has a runny nose for a few days before she cuts one and the orajel has come in handy if she gets a little fussy with them. She is so good about going to other people and being separated from Mommy for a while, whether it's the nursery or staying with a grandparent or babysitter, she does really well! She even let Mommy and Daddy get away for a night to Charleston recently! Here are pictures of us playing in the sunshine on the deck! So much fun!
Jon and I have begun a new chapter of our ministry to teens this month as Mother's Day marked our first Sunday to begin our new ministry at Mount Tabor Baptist Church in Brownsburg, IN! We were sad to say goodbye to our teens at Calvary, but God made it clear it was time to move on from there. We stepped out on faith to begin our ministry at Calvary with the goal of getting the youth department started and God worked and grew the group from 10 to 40 in the two years we were there, and all the praise goes to Him! We saw ten teenagers accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior and watched with great joy as their lives were changed by the power of the Holy Spirit working in them! We pray for them continually that they will remain faithful to all they have learned and will continue to grow closer to God. Jon and I are excited for the future and all God has in store as now we will be able to serve Him full time working with the children and teens at Mount Tabor! He has truly given us the desires of our heart and we are overwhelmed with joy to be in the center of His will for our lives!
We will be moving from Crawfordsville to Brownsburg sometime in June this summer so it will be a busy one but an exciting one!
