Blessings

Our children really are blessings.
It is amazing to see how fast they are growing. Austen really is a "big girl" now. It seems she learns new things all the time. She absolutely LOVES Luke and is already protective over him. She is quite the little helper and loves to help me change his diaper. She even folds it the same way I do before throwing it away.
She loves church and asks to go everyday (until we get to the nursery and she realizes mommy and daddy are leaving; yes she still has some seperation anxiety:)
It seems like only yesterday she was Luke's age. I know it's a cliche but it's so true. She has also developed an addiction to yogurt. She would eat it non stop all day if I let her. When she wakes up in the morning, before her eyes are even open (I'm not kidding) I hear "Yogurt?" The same is true after her afternoon nap. For those of you with the same fetish you know that much yogurt can get a little pricey.
So I bought her some cookies thinking surely she'll like these more than yogurt. Now for all you nutrition nuts out there shaking your head at me; stop. I know they're not as healthy but they sure are a lot cheaper. Plus she's pretty healthy. Anyways it didn't work because she didn't want the cookies. She wanted...you guessed it: Yogurt. Go figure.

Luke is also doing well. He is absolutely the sweetest baby in the world. He smiles and coos and laughs. We have so much fun talking to him and watching him respond. We don't go back to his ENT until November but we are already seeing signs of his hearing improving. He responds to all types of sound and we are praising God for opening his ears.
I have been working on doing "tummy time" with Luke since his doctor has told me it is very important that he have tummy time every day. I tried to tell his doctor that he doesn't like tummy time but she seemed to think I should do it anyways:)So the other day Luke was having tummy time and I was encouraging him to push up with his little arms and turn over by himself. (Not because I really care if he does or not, I think he's still too little, but the doctor seems to think it's important, you know how doctor's are:) so here he is doing tummy time and I can tell he doesn't like it because he's fussy, not really crying but fussy.So I make sure he's OK and go to sweep the kitchen floor and let him have his time to himself. I walk back in the room a few minutes later to check on him and the little bug was fast asleep! He obviously was more concerned with nap time than tummy time:) Go figure, he is his mother's child:)