The nursery is back and ready to go!! And here is one of my projects I put together for Gabby's room- $15 book shelves :)
Speaking of little miss, she does have a name and I haven't even "publicly" announced it.
Lillian Grace. If you go to COTH you know that names represent the character, nature, personality, and authority of a person and there is so much to this name that I absolutely adore. Obviously Lillian means "flower, or Lilly" but Lilly represents purity, cleanliness, renewal, and essence.
When I found out I was having another little girl, I immediately started praying 2 Timothy 2:21-22 over my girls.
"If you keep yourself pure, you will be a utensil God can use for his purpose. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work. 22 Run from anything that stimulates youthful lust. Follow anything that makes you want to do right. Pursue faith and love and peace, and enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts."
And Grace which means favor, blessing. So little miss Lilly Grace, you are more than welcome to come anytime :)
(Here is her little profile :))
Well as a stay at home mom, life is never boring :) It has been the best couple of months spending all of my time with Gabby. She is so full of life and just loves people so much. We got her a princess potty chair a few weeks ago, and I'm not full on potty training, but she will tell me that she wants to sit on her potty several times a day and she really does go!! She'll get up and point and say "Look! Look!" And then of course we "YAY!!" and clap! I cannot believe how much she is talking! I pretty much talk to her like a little person. We have some pretty awesome conversations. I think my favorite "new thing" that she does is her "pouty face". If Dave or I get on to her or tell her no, she pooches her lips out and then lays face down for like 30-45 seconds in silence. It is so hard to not laugh!!! I am so anxious to see how she is going to react to Lilly...I honestly have no clue what she will do. I think she will be excited, sad, jealous all at the same time. Pray for her and for me the first several weeks that Lilly is here :)
Between my basketball of a belly and Gabby's spiral curly red hair, people seriously do not keep their hands off us!! I expect it at church, but at the grocery store and the mall from complete strangers?! It really creeps me out at times. I'm getting the "Wow you look like you are about to pop", "You're as big as a house!" "You look like you are due any minute", "You are HUGE!!" comments quite regularly. Can I just be honest and say that it doesn't make us pregnant women feel good about ourselves :) I mean our emotions are already out of control, our bodies have gone through so much trauma--In Jenny's words our bellies look like it's been attacked by a tiger from stretch marks-LOVE it! And at this point in the game we are tired, swollen, waddling, feel super unattractive in maternity clothes and secretly jealous of everyone wearing super cute spring outfits while we look like a whale ;) Feet and hands start to swell, super white because we can't fake bake...I just would like to say on behalf of every expecting mother out there, Even though we smile and may even say "Thanks" we don't enjoy those comments ;) and sometimes we do cry in private if we hear it too many times. So the next time you see an extremely pregnant lady--especially if you don't know her--Think about what she is going through before you just go and say, "Wow you are huge!" LOL.
Peace out from the Holland's, and stay tuned...Life is about to get pretty exciting with a family of 4 Holland's- Holla!
