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The kids love to hold Ephraim.  They don't get to a lot because he is either sleeping or eating.

 

The other day Thaddeus was holding him and he just stared at him and reached for his face, mostly unsuccessfully :)  It was so sweet!  Ephraim does this cute thing all my kids did at one time or another.  When he is tired his breathing gets funny and sometimes his eyelids follow his breathing pattern, breathe in, eyelids open, breathe out, eyelids close, and he breathes a little fast so his eyelids are racing to keep up.  It makes me smile :)

My sister came to take care of me a few days after I had Ephraim.  (She did a wonderful job and we wish she would come back!)  While she was here we got to talking about modesty and she mentioned a couple of her daughters friends who come over to her house and they are dressed immodestly and how she wished they wouldn't because she has 4 sons also living in that house who then have to look at that girl.  Anyway, I told her she had the right to ask those girls to dress modestly if they wanted to come over.  Well, she did.  It made me think about how much junk we allow into our home because the world has convinced us to be "tolerant".  I think that in my home, I have all the say in the world about anything and everything.  No one has the right to do something in my home that I don't want them to.  I have the right to censor things, and even people if it doesn't meet our standards.  And so do you. 

 

Peach Crisp

Just wanted to share this DELICIOUS recipe.  My Young Women's president made it for a little baby shower/presidency meeting we had and wowza, I could have eaten the whole thing!  Plus, it is made with peaches and oats, totally healthy........



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The recipe is from "Taste of Home"  If you can peaches yourself, you can use one quart jar in place of the two cans it calls for.  I will add a few more peaches from another jar when I make it again, but that is just preference.  Make it today, go to the store this instant and buy some ice cream or whipping cream and make it.  Do it, you'll be glad you did!  We look forward to also trying it with cherry pie filling....mmmmmmm......

Note: The juice gets pretty thick, you can use just 3 Tablespoons cornstarch if you want but it needs to be thick so it doesn't create a runny mess.  It took me by surprise, but turns out great!

A week in review

 

Madelyn is more willing to let me put something in her hair, and leave it in.

 

Already 8lbs at 2 weeks old!

 

Flashlight fun in the dark....or a UFO?

 

Ephraim sporting the sweater a sister knit for him.  This was his first Sunday at church.

Husbands

I don't understand how women, girls, can have babies without a husband.  Let's clarify, I know how babies are made :)  But to deliver that baby and bring it home without a husband there must be really hard. 

I just came home from my 2 week check-up and Grant had vacuumed and washed the dishes.  He has been home all this last week and twice a day drags the kids downstairs to play while I take a nap.  For the next 9 months to a year, he will get up with the children on Saturdays and let me sleep in.  If Ephraim is crazy crying one night and I am about to lose it, I know I can walk into our room and hand him off.  We women were meant to have husbands!  We were not meant to bring children into this world without them by our side for all of it, not just the beginning. 

With all this talk of gay marriage and women having babies by themselves left and right, I just feel like society needs to know.  My voice it tiny, but God has one plan for his children and no matter how hard society tries to change it, He never will.  He will always say that every child of His deserves a mother and a father who love them and care for them. So many sad things in this world would go away if everyone had that, just that. 

More baby pictures

 

We are enjoying him so far.  Madelyn LOVES to hold him.  She won't really touch him or wrap her arms around him and she puts her face in his and says, "Hi" in a high pitched voice just like her brother and sister.  So sweet.

Oh Baby!

 

He is finally here!  Ephraim Leon.  He came on Thursday at around 1:30pm.  He weighs 7lbs 1oz and 20 1/2 inches long and 14" head circumference.  We like him a lot!  He has some lighter hair, and as you can tell, no eyebrows because of it :)  We bought a camera for Christmas and I will take some better pictures after it arrives.  Enjoy!