First and most importantly, our little princess is the most amazing blessing. We are so thankful for her, and that our Good Lord chose us to be her parents. She shocks us everyday with something new, and I promise she changes EVERYDAY! (I know that many of you are parents and know all of this already, but humor me for a minute! I am new at this!) It has been so neat to watch her change over these past nine weeks! TIME HAS FLOWN BY! (for Mommy that is, it was a different story for Daddy for 3 1/2 weeks!) She is smiling and cooing like crazy. She kicks and moves her arms all over. We think she is going to be the best boxer and music director in town!!! She loves the bath tub, and literally throws a FIT every time she has to get out. She is sleeping 9-10 hours a night (which she decided to do the 1st night we arrived in PR), she takes anywhere from 3-4 naps a day lasting anywhere from 15 min-an hour and a half! She absolutely LOVES for us to sing and talk to her, and she FIGHTS SLEEP worse than any child I have EVER seen! (she gets this honestly from her mommy!) She can throw one heck of a FIT already. I really think she knows I won't let her cry, and I will hold her as long as I need to! Did I mention she LOVES to be held and snuggle?!?!? I think we fall more and more in love with her everyday, if that's even possible!
We are back together as a FAMILY again! WOO-HOO! Campbell, Mary Carlton, and I flew to Puerto Rico last Thursday. SHE WAS A TROOPER ON THE PLANE. She did great! Thank you Lord! I just knew I was going to be the hated mom on the plane that had to walk up and down the aisles, but she shocked us all! I could not have done it without CaCa. She is such a HUGE help, and Campbell absolutely adores her already! Levale was SO GLAD to see his girls. (baby girl ;-) ) I'm not sure he could have gone another day! I've never seen him so happy, and he is so glad to have us here! Not to mention how happy we are to be here. He has a lot of off days while we are here, so it will be nice to spend lots of quality time together. The weather is beautiful and warm. CaCa and I already took Miss Priss to the beach for the first time. She even got to put her feet in the sand, and she seemed to really like it. She enjoyed the wind blowing in her face. We plan on going back with daddy to spend a few hours really soon!
Speaking of Daddy, we ARE SO PROUD OF HIM! He is doing amazing. He has been throwing so well. We were a little worried he would be tired because he threw more innings this past season than he has in 7 YEARS! But, old faithful (his arm) is holding up, and not giving him too many problems! This is a HUGE PRAISE. We are so thankful for his God given talent, and we must give Him ALL THE GLORY! Our Heavenly Father has blessed us again with another wonderful opportunity. Levale has signed with the SEATTLE MARINERS! We couldn't be happier. After lots of prayer for wisdom, we really feel like this is where the Lord wanted us. (even though it is a day and 19 hours from home ;-) ) Fortunately, this year, as opposed to last, he had several job opportunities, but we both really felt led to this one. Again, we praise Our God for this blessing! We will go to Spring Training in Peoria, AZ (the 1st time in AZ). He received a non-roster invitation to Big League Camp, which means we will report in the middle of February. (the reason we have such a SHORT off season, NO COMPLAINTS HERE!) Depending on his performance, and the roster spots available, we will either start the season in Tacoma, WA, the AAA affiliate, or Seattle, WA. Please begin to pray for Levale's health, and our transition of moving to wherever the Lord has us go as the season approaches! We are very excited to see what He has in store for our little family this year! We are so thankful we get to be together!
