7 Months

I don't think 7 months of my pregnancy went this fast - and yet here we are...Liliana is 7 months old today. WOW. She is cutting her second tooth, you can see the little slit where it's going to come up. AND, just today - she can sit up on her own, once put there of course!!! Way to go Liliana! She eats like a trooper! Sometimes her mouth is open before I even have the spoon full of food for the next bite. She is such a good, content, and happy baby. We've been so blessed.








My sister and I talk mostly every day and she tells me what her kids say and do and it makes me think ahead to what Liliana will be like when she's older. What cute things will she come up with to say and do??? Will she take after Evan or me? What plans does the Lord have for her? Then sometimes I stop and remember...I get her for all those moments. I feel like with having had a miscarriage - I'm waiting for the day I wake up, and she's not there. It was almost like I miscarried and that was all I knew of pregnancy. A life grows for a while inside me, and then dies. I almost had that thought, image of pregnancy so deep in my head that I forgot that when I got pregnant again, it's outcome could be very different. I know life is fleeting and she is the Lord's and whatever He has in store for her - however long she is on this earth, is in His hands...but until that day comes, hopefully much past the day I die - she's mine to watch grow. She's mine to look at every day. She's my daughter. I'm so use to having nieces and a nephew that go home, that I don't see everyday. Sometimes I have to stop and really have to remember that when Liliana goes home, she's coming with me! And these simple moments of her reaching her milestones amaze me at the splendor of the Lord's creation, how smart these little ones really are and how much they learn in the first year of their life.

...For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
--- Jeremiah 29:11