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Jude experienced solid foods for the first time yesterday!
(Well, technically this is his second time eating solid foods. Someone snuck a sugar cookie to him at the wedding two weeks ago!)
Egg yolks are a great first food!
We do baby led weaning (also called baby led solids), where we give our kids solid foods around eight months and allow them to feed themselves instead of being spoon-fed.
Jude was pretty please with his lunch!
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If you’re a new reader, you may want to take a second and read this post from November, where I shared about why we left the ministry last year, and what had transpired from August to November.
Today, I’m picking up where we left off in November… no ministry position, no job, no more severance, no insurance…
I’ll jump right to the good part: Tad is starting a new job today! The job is full-time, includes benefits, and will allow him to work from home partially while doing something in his skill set (computer repairs) that he will (hopefully) enjoy!
I know you will rejoice with us and say along with us that God is good!
But I want to remind you that God is always good.
When Tad left this morning for his new job, God was good. When Tad lost his job in August (you know, the one he left his other ministry job for when I was 40 weeks pregnant with Jude), God was still good.
When new babies are born, God is good. When mothers wait with empty arms for a child, God is good.
When God provides in amazing ways and miraculously makes ends meet, He is good. When payments are missed and houses are foreclosed, God is still good.
When we are blessed with health and longevity, God is good. But just as equally, when we are sick and when people die, God is good.
When tornadoes pass over us and do not touch down in our neighborhood, God is good. When tornadoes and floods and hurricanes and fires destroy everything, God is good.
No matter the trial or the celebration, God is good, and He is faithful.
Over the last nine months of Tad’s unemployment (six months without a regular, full-time paycheck), God was so faithful to provide for our family, using His Church (the body of Christ, not one particular congregation) to meet our practical needs. Tad worked like crazy doing more part-time jobs than I can count, most of which were mind-numbingly boring. God took care of our family and gave us hope, even in our bleakest moments.
When I wrote that post last November, I had no idea that it would be another six months until Tad had full-time work. We know that God worked good in our character during that time, and we have so many stories of His faithfulness to share with others and with our children when they get older.
You may be facing something challenging today. Hold on to hope. God is always, always good!
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Our “Captain Adorable” is eight months old today!
Some milestones:
-can sit up for a few seconds when I help him get in position
-“army crawls” across the floor
-zips around the room in his walker
-loves looking at pictures of himself or a mirror
-goes to bed at 8:30 usually
-exclusively breastfeeds (still hasn’t started solids)
-weighs 22 pounds
-is starting to have some hair on his head!
-pushes up on his hands and a little bit on his knees
-coos, giggles, laughs, and blows raspberries
-makes some consonant sounds, such as “d” and “b”
-loves to eat carpet fuzz (eww)
-is overall very happy and pleasant!
Thankful for our sweet little guy!
