Josias Dedication

Well our little guy is 5 months already, weighing in at 16.5 lbs and getting steadier when you sit him up. We had his baby dedication on SuperBowl Sunday but of course, once we got on that stage the Wormy stole the show. He had to wave at "all his people" out in the audience.

"I command you to love one another." John 15:17

Merry Christmas!!!

8 Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. 10 Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.” 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: 14 “ Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!” ~ Luke 2:8-14

The Many Faces

Here's a rare shot, I caught my little guy in a smile. Actually in the next couple shots you'll notice the "ONLY" shots where I've caught smirks and a giggle but mostly you'll see him wearing the following faces:
Grumpy Face


Sleepy Face

What-Are-You-Looking-At Face

It's-Morning-Already-Ha-Ha! Face

Chill-Baby Face

Oops...Taking-a-Cheap-Shot-from-his-Big-Brother Face ...oounst!

Introducing a first time, coming into excistence Happy-with-Papi Face

The common, wimpery and very concerned If-I-Don't-Get-my-Boob-I'm-Going-to-Loose-It Face

Also a first time look at a Giggly-Smirky Face

"A joyful heart makes a cheerful face." Proverbs 15:13

Welcome Home Baby Applejuice!!!

Josias Arce (A.K.A. Applejuice)

Born Thursday, September 20, 2007 at about 6:30 pm (can't remember exact time).

Weighing in at 8 lbs. 1.5 oz, to be exact.

And at the hospital they measured him at 21 inches but at his first doctor's app he was 19 3/4 '' long. I dunno, go 'head and pick one, bet you he's not either one right now anyway.

The following is a recap of our first two weeks:


Ah HA! We have found the thumb! Yes sir and we like it!

Bright as day and we are out for the count.
Bedtime Bible storytime with Papi and big brother.

Are we sleeping tonight? I don't think so, I sleep during the day and Mami and Papi get no sleep.. :o)

"But let patience have it's perfect work, that you may be perfect, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be give to him." ~ James 1:4,5

Wormy's Birthday

Well it's been a while again and the Wormy is another year older. He's a 3 year old big boy now and he'll let you know too. He has to know why we do anything and everything. Just last Wednesday we were at church and they had a special Rosh Hashana service and I was explaining to him why their blowing a trumpet and dancing and stuff, in celebration of when the trumpets will blow and my Jesus will come down from heaven one day. And he says to me, "But mami, (as in he's trying to break it to me gently) Jesus is here in my heart already." I agreed yes, yes He is but one day, the trumpets will blow and we'll get to see Him. And he say's to me, again in his gentle way, "But mami, Baby Einstein's have trumpets and they blow them already." He means the Little Einstein's he watches on the Disney channel and what could I say but their different trumpet and angels will blow them not the Little Einstein's. What a silly worm I have... my big boy. Here are some birthday pictures, he didn't want it to be his birthday and wanted nothing to do with pictures, hence the booty shot. We got a couple good ones with his friends, but that's about it, I'm sorry to say.


Flag prop and no pictures please - what a stinker!


Buddies


Tablescape

They all had fun at in pool but this is one of my
favorite shots cause it looks like Diego's about to
yank Germancito's pit hairs out and make him yelp
like the dickens, and he's nervous about it too!

"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord." ~ 1 Thessalonians 4:16,17 ~

Bye-bye Hair

Well as you can see, these are some of the last photos of my wormy's hair before I cut it. He has not been as crazy since his hair so I'm sure that it's diminished some of his powers. He's a good big boy now and he likes to remind me he's a big brother too, of course.

Since then we've been to Metro Zoo with our friends and he was so well behaved, it was all in the hair, I'm tellin' you!

Big boys say, "Mami, doe away!" when they go pee.

The Verdict is In...

And it's a boy! Here's the proud big brother sporting his Lion Country Safari shirt before he got it covered with spaghetti sauce. But yes last we left off we were anxiously waiting to find out and I wish my Bood would scan the sonnagram pictures already so you can see the definitive package from the baby in the belly, maybe the next time I can post a view of the biscuit within.

And Brandola did such an awesome job at taking pictures of their day at Lion Country Safari and there were so many and so hard to choose from I just uploaded tham all to my KodakGallery http://www.kodakgallery.com/AlbumMenu.jsp ~ I'm not sure if this link will work or if you have to be logged in first but their all there. Let me know if you can't see them, email me and I'll email an invite to see the pics. I just uploaded a couple albums, we got Memorial Day beach pictures and we were thankful to our veterans for our day off together; there's Julio's VBS pic who I'm sure is thankful to be home and far fromt he clutches of my worm; then there's all the ones from the last few weeks when Tara visited with the Noodle and Hopey (the wormy still asks to go to Hopey's house and he promises not to push her, yeah right! I tell him Hopey's house is too far and he says "no mami, airpane to Hopey's house!" as if it was that simple). He also asks for the "Wuvey" (Jonathan A.K.A Lovey) He says, "Me no boom "wuvey" no!" Meanwhile, we were just looking at the pics in the camera before I downloaded them and everytime he saw the Lovey in a picutre, he'd shuve the camera! Yesterday I struggled in prayer with the Lord Who told me to pull him out of VBS this coming week for the safety of the other babies and his team leader doesn't need to be chasing him out the front door into the street so I went today and unregistered him. I was looking forward to my week off but the Lord is worthy and only He knows why and He's leading us in this parenting business anyway so we're refocusing his energies in a positive manner next week. This morning he hugs me and says "I doe dou, mami" and I said, you do, you really love me? and he said "yes mami, me no boom fwens." Now how did he know my concerns were all about him pushing his friends first thing in the morning? I'm telling you, the wisdom the Lord gives theses babies amazes me.

So that's the scoop for now! Have a Happy Father's Day weekend and check out the new pics at Kodakgallery.com.

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding." ~ Proverbs 9:10 ~