Dear Ransom,
Four months ago at this moment I was laboring away for you to come into this world. Let no one try to convince you otherwise ( but since you're a boy it doesn't really matter) but labor is AWFUL. But, the great thing is-once you were in the world, the awfulness of that hard labor faded into the background-and you have been in your Daddy and my foreground ever since.
This month brought a lot of changes-I feel like of all your previous months, this month you adapted to life a lot. Up until now you'd struggled with going out into the "big wide world" and therefore I'd struggled too...what SHOULD we do together?! When SHOULD we leave you at home?! All these things were difficult, but then, as though all the practice ( aka all the times you'd gone out in public and cried yourself silly) paid off-and finally we went to bible study one Sunday night ( Nov. 14th) and you not only didn't cry...but you LAUGHED for the first time ever.
There we were in Bible Study, I was trying hard to pay attention and you were sitting in my lap facing up at me...and then, I glance down at you, and it was as if you'd been waiting to catch my eye and you let out the longest, cutest giggle.
Needless to say, your Daddy and I probably missed a good portion of the proceeding parts of Bible Study because you had so distracted us. But, hey! We were getting somewhere!! GOOD distraction is MUCH better than the crying distraction of the past!!
This month you also got your first cold. Luckily it was just a "baby" cold in the scheme of colds-but you did NOT enjoy using the "snot sucker" ( and neither did I ) and you DID enjoy sneezing. In fact, every time you sneezed you'd let out a little giggle and smile really big. It made me think about sneezing myself and I must admit they ARE terribly satisfying.
The other MAJOR event of this past month was that you rolled over on December 1st.
I was on the phone with your Aunt Anna and your Daddy was playing on the floor with you, and you DID IT! It was SO exciting that I screamed. And Aunt Anna thought something horrible had happened.
But, really, you were very nonchalant about the whole thing and to be honest I'm still not sure what you think about the whole rolling over business. You've done it pretty much once a day ever since, but its hard to know if you're <em>really</em> doing it on purpose!
But, even if its not on purpose yet, soon it will be. Soon you will do many things purposefully and so I pray that you will choose to be purposeful in the good things of life. That you will be intent upon what is right and true.
This past month brought about other firsts, your first time celebrating your Mama's birthday and therefore your first time away from your Mommy and Daddy for more than a few hours! Luckily for all of us, your Aunt Anna came all the way from Texas to look after you while your Daddy and I got a much needed weekend away in Atlanta. You had a great time with Aunt Anna. In fact, its possible that you didn't miss your Mommy at all-especially since drinking out of a bottle is waaay faster than the normal way of doing things! ;-)
You also had your first Thanksgiving-we had Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of Navigator friends and you were passed around the group. You were very sweet and looked around intently at everyone. Everyone still talks a lot about how much hair you have, even though they are polite enough not to mention the ever growing bald spot on the back of your head! SEE?!? This is a good reason to hurry up and learn the rolling skill so you don't have to spend your time rubbing the back of your head on the ground ;-)
This month your name has been on my mind a lot. Mostly because your name is in one of my favorite Christmas Hymns. O Come, O Come Emmanuel.
In the hymn it says,
This month brought a lot of changes-I feel like of all your previous months, this month you adapted to life a lot. Up until now you'd struggled with going out into the "big wide world" and therefore I'd struggled too...what SHOULD we do together?! When SHOULD we leave you at home?! All these things were difficult, but then, as though all the practice ( aka all the times you'd gone out in public and cried yourself silly) paid off-and finally we went to bible study one Sunday night ( Nov. 14th) and you not only didn't cry...but you LAUGHED for the first time ever.
There we were in Bible Study, I was trying hard to pay attention and you were sitting in my lap facing up at me...and then, I glance down at you, and it was as if you'd been waiting to catch my eye and you let out the longest, cutest giggle.
Needless to say, your Daddy and I probably missed a good portion of the proceeding parts of Bible Study because you had so distracted us. But, hey! We were getting somewhere!! GOOD distraction is MUCH better than the crying distraction of the past!!
This month you also got your first cold. Luckily it was just a "baby" cold in the scheme of colds-but you did NOT enjoy using the "snot sucker" ( and neither did I ) and you DID enjoy sneezing. In fact, every time you sneezed you'd let out a little giggle and smile really big. It made me think about sneezing myself and I must admit they ARE terribly satisfying.
The other MAJOR event of this past month was that you rolled over on December 1st.
I was on the phone with your Aunt Anna and your Daddy was playing on the floor with you, and you DID IT! It was SO exciting that I screamed. And Aunt Anna thought something horrible had happened.
But, really, you were very nonchalant about the whole thing and to be honest I'm still not sure what you think about the whole rolling over business. You've done it pretty much once a day ever since, but its hard to know if you're <em>really</em> doing it on purpose!
But, even if its not on purpose yet, soon it will be. Soon you will do many things purposefully and so I pray that you will choose to be purposeful in the good things of life. That you will be intent upon what is right and true.
This past month brought about other firsts, your first time celebrating your Mama's birthday and therefore your first time away from your Mommy and Daddy for more than a few hours! Luckily for all of us, your Aunt Anna came all the way from Texas to look after you while your Daddy and I got a much needed weekend away in Atlanta. You had a great time with Aunt Anna. In fact, its possible that you didn't miss your Mommy at all-especially since drinking out of a bottle is waaay faster than the normal way of doing things! ;-)
You also had your first Thanksgiving-we had Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of Navigator friends and you were passed around the group. You were very sweet and looked around intently at everyone. Everyone still talks a lot about how much hair you have, even though they are polite enough not to mention the ever growing bald spot on the back of your head! SEE?!? This is a good reason to hurry up and learn the rolling skill so you don't have to spend your time rubbing the back of your head on the ground ;-)
This month your name has been on my mind a lot. Mostly because your name is in one of my favorite Christmas Hymns. O Come, O Come Emmanuel.
In the hymn it says,
O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel
Sometimes I think about us, and how we are all-from the tinest baby (believe me, you are already very self involved! ) to the oldest man-held captive by our sins. But how WONDERFUL to think what the Lord has done for us, by paying the ransom and setting us free from sin and death!
I am so glad you are here to celebrate Christmas with us this year, and may it always be a special time of remembering just what your name means and what it means for the world. Just like you-baby Jesus came into this world-and just like you he had to learn all the things you're learning, how to roll, how be out in the world, how to walk and talk...he had to go through all the hard learning experiences we go through just so that he could save this world! How amazing!
1 comment:
Beautiful! What a godly heritage and what a gift you are giving him to read when he gets older. He will treasure this forever!
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