90 days of life

Wow! These 3 months have flown by!! Our little guy is growing too quickly and we're loving every second of it!  I love how my friend Lena described having a baby - every stage is the best stage!  They are growing so much and developing so quickly and each new stage is the best!

Our sweet boy is now 3 months old!  Weighing in at 15 lbs 4 oz, here's our happy fella!

Excited to be sitting on papa's shoulders and quite proud of the fact that he just spit up in dad's hair!

In his 3rd month, Kincaid has grown so much!! It's been a blast to watch him discover more and more of life each day!  We went on Caid's second camping trip, and stayed two nights in the tent! He did awesome once again and he loved being outdoors so much!  

He's also been learning new tricks like....

how to grab his toes...

you can also see that he's moved away from thumb sucking and is now more of a fist chewer!

how to laugh (or shriek!)....

his smiles and laughter are the best parts of our days!!!

and is getting great at grabbing and holding onto objects (today he learned how to pull the banana though I wasn't able to motivate him to recreate the moment!)

A few days ago, I caught him rolled over onto this side while grabbing his feet!  Another first that I got super excited about!! Rolling over is in our near future I think!

Basically, Kincaid is our little rockstar and we are crazy about him!!!!  It is so fun to experience these precious moments with him, but he is growing too quickly!!  Every day, when I see Kincaid smile, I see him sitting in his papa's lap, watch him taking in the world through those beautiful deep blue eyes, I am overwhelmed with love for him!  It reminds me that the love I feel for him and Jon is nothing in comparison to the Lord's love for us!  So blessed!!

Rain, rain go away!

"But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, 'You are my God.'" - Psalm 31:14 

These last months, this has been at the forefront of my mind...trust.  Trust  specifically in God.  Trusting Him to safely deliver our baby; trusting Him to help Jon and I transition into parenthood; trusting Him to help us to balance work, family, life.  Trust.  

While we had our moments, trusting Him with those areas was relatively easy.  What has been much, MUCH harder for me is to TRUST our GOD with areas that I have less control over.  To trust that the thousands of dollars we are pouring into our house in GR for repairs is for a purpose.  To trust that He will lead us in the right direction for His purpose for our lives when deciding whether we should sell or keep our house.  To trust that, as our savings dwindles, He will continue to provide for our financial needs (but I have wants too, Lord!!) in the midst of this trial. 

The thing to know about me is that I get stressed easily over finances!  I'm a planner and enjoy doing our family finances. I'm also not a big spender!  You know how some people get stressed and spend, spend, spend to comfort themselves??? That's NOT me!  When I get stressed, I want to save, save, SAVE :) So, knowing that, I have an awesome praise!! Our God is so GOOD!! He's SO GOOD because even in the midst of all we have going on right now, I'm calm!  I'm NOT freaking out about where we're at, and I'm just doing my best to continue to hand each new incident to Him (like when we got yet another text from our tenant saying there was a leak in the kitchen two days ago!!)!  

Lately, with our house in GR, an appropriate saying would be "when it rains it pours."  Seriously!  BUT having been fortunate enough to be running from a rainstorm a couple of weekends ago, we saw several beautiful, FULL Rainbows (literally the entire rainbows, beginning to end), and I'm reminded that beautiful things come from rainy days!  So, we're along for the ride and looking for the beautiful things each day has to hold!  

Our little linguist

Caid has been jabbering up a storm as of late!  It's amazing to watch him because it really does look like he's trying to talk when he's doing it.  He's also been sleeping through the night quite often as of late.  Tiff and I are obviously thrilled with that although I still feel really really tired.  I'm thinking Tiff does as well seeing that we didn't wake up until 6:55 this morning.  He's also been laughing a bit.  It hasn't happened often, but when it does, I'm pretty sure that it's the cutest thing I have ever seen.
In other news, Tiff may have inadvertently started a family war by dressing Caid in this outfit:

I have to say that she's a better sport than I.  If someone gave him an MSU outfit, I don't think I could allow him to wear it.