4 Months Old!

4 months old!

3 months old

 2 months old

1 month old

2 weeks old

Dear Calvin,

I don't know how we got to 4 months, since it has only been about 3 days since you were 3 months old. But, this is the way of this season! Long days, at times, but very short months...

The past month has been eventful.

- You have been initiated to the wonderful world of head colds (having run through 2 rounds so far).

- I can't say how much you weigh, but you were over 16 lbs when we took you to the doc to see if you had an ear infection (you didn't, hurray!). And that was 3 weeks ago.



- You got a new job. Now you have physical therapy every other week for your neck to resolve some torticollis. Work includes tummy time, stretches, rolling over (assisted), and lots of time in the exersaucer.

- You love the exersaucer! This is a bonus for neck strengthening and also allows for a little more time for Momma to get a few things done when you are awake.

-  Oh my wonder-sleeper... what has happened? Obviously, colds have happened. And alas, we have not recovered the amazing 10-hour stretches of beauty sleep. We are muddling through with unpredictable, haphazard awakenings. Sometimes midnight, sometimes 3am. Sometimes 2am, 4am, and 6am (this morning). Momma is a little foggy, but I love you anyway.

- You have certainly grown generous with your smiles and you can tolerate the stretch of awake time between your morning and afternoon naps pretty well.


This month I have been studying John 4, preparing to teach in the women's Bible study. It is a chapter so full of the mercy of Jesus! Jesus stops for a conversation with someone by a well--a woman who wasn't a good woman. What did Jesus have to say to her? Not a lot of rules for her to follow. Not a plan for fixing her life. Not a snub for being too dirty for the righteous Messiah to be around.

No, He saw the trouble of her life and knew her biggest problem: she had a thirsty heart, one that would only be satisfied by what He could offer, real living water. And when this woman talked with Him, when she realized that He knew her life and nevertheless wanted to bring her to true worship of God, it changed her whole life! She had news so good that she left her bucket right there at the well to go and tell her neighbors about this Man and His good news.

Oh, little son, how we pray that you will come to Jesus like that! We pray that you will know what makes for a happy heart. Not a bunch of money in the bank or lots of friends to play with. Not the approval of people or success in your work. No, a happy heart is one that has been made new by Jesus. A happy heart is one that takes His great exchange, trusting that when He died on the cross He paid for our sin and gave us His record of goodness.

"Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life" (John 4:14).

May your heart overflow with this happy, happy gift,

Momma