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On Tues. we got to go to a water park for FREE! They are running a promotion this week and next week Mon-Thur. get there before five and get in for free! So we went and met the Finn's there. It really wasn't a baby friendly place, very loud and cold once you got wet. But our two perfect little babies had fun splashing each other in the pool anyway!

Liv got mad when Jamie wouldn't let her bite Aubrey =)

Yea, none of the kids would actually look at the camera, but do you know complicated it is to have a camera in a pool with three babies... two that can barely sit up and one that constantly runs away from you?? It's a miracle no one drowned and the camera didn't drop in the water!

Yesterday I trekked over to Mommom's for more sewing lessons and "we" made a duvet cover for my bed.

Lianna and Timmy was a HUGE help with Aubrey... I didn't even do anything for her except nurse her! Lianna took care of feeding her her baby food and changing her diapers and putting her to sleep! Melanie and Aunt Robin babysat Mackenzie over at their house so I could be undistracted and it was a very nice, and much needed, break!

I'm reading this book called, "Womanly Dominion" with my mom and sisters and we're meeting once a month to discuss it. Last night I read: "A mother is handling things for great magnitude. She is handling never-dying souls. She's daily conducting heart surgery on eternal spirits whose forever destinies are influenced most profoundly by the hands that rock their cradles, wipe their noses, spank their fannies, open their Bibles, prepare their after-school snacks, and turn off their bedroom lights. Those motherly hands are molding characters which will become men and women who will turn the world upside down either for good or for evil. Now that's a job that counts!"

If the concept that I'm handling never-dying souls isn't enough to fuel my passion for this season of wiping noses, changing diapers, constantly making food, cleaning up the mess the food made, getting poop stains out of clothes, and picking up toys... surely this quote is: "There she [the mother] sits exhausted on the edge of her bed, her face in her hands, wondering, 'Where's the glory in this?' She needs something more empowering to keep her going. She needs to gain and maintain the deep conviction of the glory, honor, and nobility of selfless service. This she finds at the foot of the cross, looking up to the One who earned for Himself 'the name above every name' (Phil.2:9), by 'emptying Himself, taking the form of a bond servant' (2:7), humbling 'Himself by becoming obedient even to the point of death, even death on a cross.' There she beholds her Savior who mopped up the damning vomit of her own sin with the precious sponge of His perfect life and atoning death. The love of Christ constrains and compels her to press on (2 Cor. 5:14). The Spirit of Christ empowers her."

I'm loving this book and feeling newly empowered for this season... there is so much more I want to quote, but that seems to be what God is impressing most on my heart at this moment!

Addendum: Ok... NO LIE... as soon as I turn around after writing all that stuff about motherhood and feeling newly empowered... I turn around to find this on the floor!!

God sure has a sense of humor about timing! Did I mention we are potty training?