It's a Boat!

Merry, Merry Christmas. The house has been decked out and it looks beautiful! We had a wonderful third Christmas with Drew. He danced at the Christmas Eve service at church -- and had some stylin' moves! Me-wrose and Papa spent the night with us, and we woke up early to open presents. Drew got a great wagon from Me-wrose and Papa, which he decided to rest in to watch "the Movie Cars" (as he calls it) mid-way through opening presents. He was blessed with many fun things like legos and an Elmo doll that sings the ABC's. His last present to open was a sled from Santa. Tim was showing it to him and he said, "Do you know what this is, Drew?" Drew's response was adorable: "Don't know." And then as he is looking at it more he exclaimed, "A boat!!" It was so cute! He thought his sled was a boat! I thought it was prety cleaver of him to think of that. We are going to be lucky enough to use his sled when we go down to Indy to celebrate Christmas with the Liby family next weekend (although, we were honored to host Micah, Brandi, Zac, Gabe and Grandma Liby on Christmas day). Right now, Drew is content with asking his Daddy to drive him around the house in his wagon!



We had a a yummy meal of ham, sweet potatoe casserole, green bean casserole (or just plain green beans for those of us that are gluten free), baked beans and rolls -- it was delicious!! It was just a fun day all around, and it was great to be surrounded by family to celebrate the birth of Jesus. One of my favorite things to think of is that Jesus himself said: "I have come that they may have life, and life to the fullest". His entire purpose in coming was to give us life. It is my prayer for you as this year comes to an end, that you find power and life in Jesus.


Wishing you life,

Katie (& Tim)

Jeep and Sleep

This is just too funny! The other night, I put Drew to bed around 8:00, or so. At around 8:30, as Tim and I were decorating our Christmas tree, I heard him making noises -- kind-of fussy, kind-of not. I went up to check on him, and he was sitting in his crib playing with his "wellow jeep" (translated -- yellow jeep) and his new prayer puppy that he got from church. I softly told him to lay down. While I was tucking him in, I explained that if we needed to come back up because he was not going to sleep, that we would have to take his jeep away. Around 9:00 p.m., we started hearing him fuss again. This time, Tim went up to check on him. When he got to Drew's room, Drew was sitting up in his crib, holding out the jeep to Tim. Tim said to him, "Drew Bug, where you playing?" Drew responded, "Uh-huh. Here Daddy," and he gave Tim the jeep. Tim put it on the nightstand, tucked Drew in again and we didn't hear a peep from him for the rest of the night!

He is just too precious and funny ... and smart!