Looking Forward

This is one of my favorite pictures of Samuel.

He was born one month ago today.







We are doing well. My Dad has a friend that lost his wife, and the counselor told him, "You've got to put her behind you and move on." Dad's friend, a Believer, said, "Don't you mean, 'put her ahead of me?'" That's how we feel. We love and miss Samuel. He is never far from our thoughts. We can't forget him, and we're not putting him behind us, but rather, ahead of us, remembering God's promise that we will be together for eternity. That's our hope of heaven.

"(14)...I am focusing all my energies on this one thing ... looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us up to heaven... (20) But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior. (21) He will take these weak mortal bodies of ours and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same mighty power that he will use to conquer everything, everywhere." - Phillipians 3:14, 20-21













Lucy...
... is talking non-stop. Sometimes it's not necessarily understandable words, but, we know she's saying something, and she uses great inflection
... loves shoes
... waves and blows kisses to everyone she passes (in the hallway, at restaurants)
... loves to eat what we eat (chicken salad with her fingers, ice cream cones; this is a picture of the first time she got to eat an ice cream cone completely by herself by holding it with her own 2 hands)
... says "Ma-Ma," which makes me really happy
... makes great animal noises. My favorite is her elephant impression. She lifts her hand by her head like a trunk and purses her lips together and blows, "pffffffft"