Just a few photos from this weekend. First – Nadia and Dada playing.
Mmmmm these mashed potatoes are delicious!
All toys go in my mouth for inspection.
Thankful Thursday by Nadia
- I am thankful for Diet Coke bottles. (Mom and Dad don’t let me actually drink the stuff)
- For my “cell phone” (I want to be like Momma you know!)
- For Mac and Cheese – the best food on earth.
- For my learn and groove table. That is the best toy on the market right now Christmas shoppers.
- For goldfish – it’s the snack that smiles back.
- For the Christmas tree – I like to look at it and touch the ornaments on the bottom.
- For books – Momma and Dada will read them over and over.
- For all the people that love me.
- For stacking cups – need I say more?
- For learning to walk….it’s much faster than crawling.
Brownies
Nadia famously spit out her first bite of chocolate cake at the birthday party Nonni had (where is the video Nonni?) and so I made a vanilla cake on her actual birthday and she really liked it.
Today I have been baking for a Christmas party we are going to tonight. Once the brownies had cooled I offered Nadia a bite since it had been awhile since she had some chocolate baked goods. She promptly spit it out into her hand, used the other hand to get the crumb off her mouth and took off running. Where she proceeded to smear the spit out brownie on the door of the refrigerator. I hope the people at the party don’t react like that to the brownies 🙂
Thankful Thursday
Sorry that I missed last week, but I was THANKFUL for the photo above. My dear friend Jessica and her husband Randy came down for the company Christmas party on Saturday. So Nadia, Jessica and I got to spend Thursday and Friday running around having a great time and eating delicious food. We set a record and saw each other 3 times this year. WOO HOO!!!
- For Randy and Jessica’s visit and the fun party that the company put on.
- For all the KIDS HOPE USA volunteers at our church that help me make this such and awesome program. I would be useless without them and I am grateful for their time and energy put into these at-risk children.
- For Tarrant Net and all their work to reach out to people in our area. It’s a coalition of churches and community groups that are really reaching out to the people around us.
- For Darwin mentioning Nadia in his sermon this week – even though it brought me to tears (in a good way). Listen to the podcast here: http://www.fortworthpca.org . It’s the December 2nd sermon and you can download it on the right hand side of the home page.
- For the World Vision “Step into Africa- AIDS exhibit” that was hosted here at the Potters House last week. We went on opening day and thought it was a compelling view of the AIDS pandemic facing our world. It does a great job of making it real by viewing the pandemic through the eyes of children. To see if it’s coming to a church in your area go here: http://www.worldvisionexperience.org/ Click on tour dates to find out where it will travel to next.
- For Nadia’s sweet smile. It melts our hearts each day to see that this wonderful child is in our family. We are continually grateful to God for His wonderful gift He has entrusted to us.