Faithful Fridays ~ Prayer Needed

Hi everyone!  How can it be Friday already?  Today's post will be a short one as we have a lot of running around to do and things to check on for my PawPaw (more about this below).

I started Faithful Fridays so that Christians could have one designated day (although, of course, we shouldn't have to keep it to one day) a week to share something from their Faith--a prayer request, answered prayer, Bible verse, song, poem, or just something God's laid on your heart.  Just grab the button above (which unfortunately doesn't link to my blog automatically, you'll have to put the link), make your post, then leave a comment letting me know you participated!  I'm trying to figure out how to get a link-up on here.  Until then, I will have the links to other blogs that participate in Faithful Fridays here on my posts.

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My mama participates on her blog, Country Girl at Home...

Ms. Patty participates on her blog, Blessings Beyond...

Ms. Retha participates on her blog, Retha's Rambles...

and Rachel participates on her blog, Stand Out Don't Fit In.

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PawPaw (my daddy's dad) was diagnosed with a cancer called Multiple Myeloma a few years back.  He is sort of at the end of the road now--extremely weak, unable to eat or drink much, and not weighing much over 100 pounds.  My parents had him admitted to the hospital on Wednesday.  He's in kidney failure.  Right now my daddy and his sister are just trying to decide what they want to do for him right now, so we would appreciate it if you would pray for wisdom and peace of mind on that.  We could really use prayer right now!  Prayer for us and for PawPaw.

Thank you, everyone!
God bless you and have a great day!
Joy :D

The Many (Many) Faces of Luke...

It's like my mama has said before.  Around here, there's never a dull moment.  Luke has a full time job of entertaining us and making us laugh! 

He is always suprising us with his English.  He's been here for a little over a year now.  The other day, after leaving the bank, Luke plainly told us, "that's 'dickinus!" (That's ridiculous!)  He can spot buildings he recognizes from a mile off!  He pointed to a building the other day that had the emblem of where my dad works and said, "That's daddy's claim!"  He also commented, when he saw me on top of a dirt mound, "You da churchkeeper!"  He must think our pastor is the churchkeeper! 

And, he has VERY many facial expressions.  I'll leave it at that.



This is his "I'm not cooperating" face...otherwise known as "ornery."  :)



But then, it usually changes to something like this...so adorable!  Imagine this face saying, "Puh-neeeeeeese!"



"Look at my muscles!"



Awww...



I think he saw this on a movie advertisement...not quite sure what to put here!



I think this is a 50 on the cuteness scale!

Needless to say...WE LOVE LUKE!

More updates!

Life has suddenly gotten busier :)

But I think we're finally finding our new normal. The first few weeks were very very hard on me and mom, and Luke too. Sometimes he would cry solid for an hour or so when it was time for bed or a nap, and Luke was clinging to mom a lot, and she couldn't get anything done, and when I tried to help, Luke would scream and hit at me, so I felt left out. But now, he's gotten much better, and he's sleeping good; he's very happy and playful; and he's coming out of his shell around strangers! Yesterday he went over to Grandmama and Pop's house and stayed over there by himself for about 30 minutes, then I came over and we made brownies while mom and dad took a walk. He's learning SO much more English, and understands even more than he can speak. The other day, he was laying in bed with mom and she said, "Do you want to go wake up jie jie?" he shook his head. "Do you want to go nuya(potty)?" he shook his head. "Do you want to go eat?" he shook his head. "Do you want to lay right here in bed?" and he nodded. How cute is that?? He knows how to turn his light in his bedroom off and on and communicates with us pretty well. I taught him the hand motions and words to Phillipians 4:13 from our VBS, so maybe we can get that on video for you all!




I watched this video of Ms. Traci and Mr. Herman's Emilia, over and over again, so I had to try this. Luke can say "Pine" and "Apple" just fine, but when he puts them together, it's just mush! I hope we can get that on video too, it's hilarious!

Luke is fearless when it comes to the water. He will jump in by himself, be dragged, thrown, or pushed in and come up giggling and and coughing up water because he ALWAYS leaves his mouth open! It can be a bad thing, because he will bail off in the water sometimes, but then again, he's not afraid to get in and have fun, so one of us doesn't have to stay out and hold him while the other swim. He usually wears either his ring float and his arm floaties(which are very cheap), or he just wears his arm floaties and we hold onto him. He can swim from one person to another most of the time, so maybe next Summer we can get him into swimming lessons. It'll be a breeze for him!



If any of you follow Ms. Melissa's blog, you might remember this video. And if you do, then you remember how CUTE this one part is when she does her hands in a circle, then holds them up and looks at them, like one of those greek statues, lol! Luke does that in his own way, and usually it ends up looking like he's slapping someone, then putting up his hands as if saying, "What did I do?" lol. But it's still cute!!



There are SO many things I need to put on videos of, so keep checking back and checking mom's blog!

Love and blessings,
Joy

New Pictures!

What more can I say? This boy is ADORABLE!!