Our New Nephew

Andy's sister, Beth, had her baby today. This is David and Beth's second child. His name is Michael David and he is adorable. CHUBBY, CHUBBY, CHUBBY. He weighed in at 9lbs 2oz....a whole pound heavier than Drew was when he was born. We went to visit them this evening and meet the newest addition to the family.

We have been keeping Emma, their 15 month old daughter, while they are at the hospital. They dropped her off at 3:30 this morning:-) She is a sweetheart and we are enjoying our time with her while she waits for little brother to come home.

Drew is excited to finally have a boy cousin on the Liles side of the family. He will be a great teacher of all things farm, truck, dirt and car. I think he enjoyed seeing such a tiny baby. He kept saying to me "Mama, SHHHH, Micheal sleeping."

Michael doesn't know it yet, and maybe i'm partial, but he has a pretty COOL uncle named Andy. He is a great man...Godly, smart, and fun. He will have good times with Uncle Andy:-)

Smile!

On Tuesday this week, I took Drew to get his pictures taken at JCPennys. I have been HORRIBLE at getting his pictures taken professionally. And for us that's not such a big problem because we have been blessed with a nice camera. So, I feel like he's being "captured" on film quite often. BUT my mom gave me a talkin' to, saying her pictures of Drew were getting dated....and she was right. I needed to update the Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles.
Drew did great. He was hesitant at first...mainly because our camera woman was CRAZY! She was a HOT MESS...super loud, super perky and very high pitched, I believe she freaked the poor boy out. Too calm his nerves, I asked her if she had a car or truck he could play with. She did one better and found a train, complete with coal cars and a caboose. Drew was all about it and took awesome pics.
I had promised him we could look at the water fountains in the shopping complex we were in once he was done...but only if he behaved, I told him we could go since he was so good and then he told the camera woman where we were going. She told us to wait, opened a drawer and grabbed a handful of PENNIES for Drew to throw in the fountains. I thought that was really nice of her...which she was really nice...just SUPER ENERGETIC!!!
I could tell Drew was getting hungry, so after we was done throwing pennies, we walked across the street to MOES...mmmmmmmm....sooooo good! I loves MOES. It was a good morning. A nice outing for both of us.

A Church

We LOVE our church!!! How blessed we are to be a part of Colonial Baptist Church in Cary, NC. Check it out if you have time.

www.colonial.org
Drew just recently completed two weeks of Bible school at our church. Week one was David and Goliath and the second was Jonah and the Whale. OR in Drew speak "Doughnut d Whale".
This is Drew posing with his Bible school handy work after week one. He was so excited to go each day. It's amazing, the heart of a child. He is so willing to learn...anything. And as parents, it is our responsibility to make sure he is learning all things wonderful and good...to learn how much Jesus loves him. Which leads me to this...Drew can sing Jesus Loves Me. With prompts of course, but he knows it and sings it well. He especially loves the "He is STRONG" part. Colonial has a heart for teaching children in the "way they should go"
Poverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Things that go BUMP in the night.

As Andy and I are sitting out in the living room tonight, we keep hearing these random thuds. We are pretty sure it's Drew, rolling around in his big boy bed either kicking the wall with his feet or ramming he head into the wall. Either way, it was a lot more quiet in there when he was in his crib:-) But he's a growing boy and crib days are long gone!!