New Things

Wow... has it really been a month since I have last written?


You may be asking, "Where is Luci and that little Maria"?

Well, here we aaaarre!

That's Maria's new favorite game, by the way!!... "Where's Maria?" She belly laughs when you say, "There you are!" lol.

BUT anyway. We are here folks, just a little busier than normal. Life in the past few months has been a whirlind. I find myself getting home from work and soaking in some precious time with my little Maria before she goes to bed. Time with her and Ole Man Klare (chris, =) ) is so precious these days. And after I put Maria to bed, it's time to clean the dishes, pick up the house, fold laundry, do some tasks for 1heart 2souls and then off to bed. And somewhere in the mix I try to find time to say hello and goodnight to Chris.

But I am loving this life. I find myself growing madly in love with Maria... I mean MADLY! I can't get enough of her these days. And if I weren't working, I could only imagine how many more minutes of my day I would spend kissing and squeezing her beloved face.


Every day is something new with her. And everytime I discover she is doing something new, I stop to try to savor the moment. I wish I could capture each moment and put it into an album... BUT MY CAMERA IS MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING!! (chris if you are reading this, please find it for me! thank you, honey).

So let me share some of the wonderful things off of the top of my head, Maria is doing. To you they may seem, not so significant but to me they are moments that I have longed to witness.

Maria started army crawling at 6 months... and it was but just 3 weeks later that she discovered she was strong enough to pull herself up on furniture. A few days after pulling herself up on the furniture she became a bold girl and started letting go to see if she could stand on her own. But when she gets scared of standing on her own, she flaps her arms like a duck trying to take flight out of the water! lol. IT IS A SIGHT! lol.

Maria has her own room now. We have moved our little house around to be more suitable for our growing familiy. So that if another baby comes we will be able to bunk them in our big room upstairs. She sleeps through the night now... only took her 8 1/2 MONTHS!! ugh... But she is sleeping much better - an easter gift from Jesus to Chris and I!

When she wakes up in the morning, I watch her from our video camera and laugh to myself as she plays in her crib. She rolls around, pulls down the bumpers, stamds up, gnaws on the crib - WITH HER NEW TEETH, and waits for me to hold my hands out to the crib and say "goooood morning mawia!!" She waits for me with a smile from ear to ear. How my heart swells to see her long for me to hold her! It is such an amazing feeling.

Recently Maria has also discovered to jump on Mama and Papa's bed. AND SHE LOVES IT!! She holds on to my fingers and bounce her little frog legs up and down until Mama's arms are sore!

Speaking of FROG LEGS... oy vei... Those things never stop going! She has those legs "frogging" when she eats, when she sleeps, when she baths and every moment in between. They just curl in and out, they fling up, down and side to side. Instead of rubbing her eyes when she is tired, she puts her feet up to mouth, then her eyes, and then rubs her ears - WITH HER FEET! :) she loves to feel her feet! heehee...

I could go on and about how all of these little things that Maria does are so amazing to me, but I would have to write a NOVEL. And I will spare you from that.

But I am learning, that motherhood with Maria can be wonderful... it's more than wonderful. I have the best of both world with my family. I have experienced a love so profound in the pregnancy and life with Hope and Grace. And still discovering my love for that life and their heavenly existance. And with Maria I am able to watch her grow and aid her in living a life that will get her to Heaven also.

But I think it is my children who are giving me the biggest gift of love. They are truly making me a better person and giving me the tools I need to make it Heaven!