Roo is 7 months old today!

Yay for him and for us! To celebrate we went to the pool with our friends Beth and Will and had a wonderful time.

A friend of mine e-mailed me today asking about my experience with the doctor who delivered Roo and the hospital where we had him. I think my labor was pretty rough but enough time has passed that it is easy to talk about and I only have good things to say about the care we got. Later, having revisited his whole birth in my head, I was holding Roo and realized that the struggle we had in giving birth to him is not even in the same universe as the joy we get from having him. I can't even say how incomparable they are.
Ahhhh. The lightbulb slowly came on. God has been gently using my baby to open his word to me: "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us." Romans 8:18

If Roo is any indication, the glory we hope for must be so, so great.

I love my husband so much...

...that I created a blog just to make him happy! He brings up, albeit jokingly, at least once a week how all my friends have blogs and say wonderful things about their husbands on them. So Forrest, here is your official blog shout-out:

I love you! I think you are the best, and I mean the best everything: husband, friend, father, confidant, lover, jogging partner, handy man, impromptu song composer, impromptu song singer, dancer, ice cream finatic, leader and companion. I am so glad we are getting to spend a lot of time together and I don't think I'm going to get tired of you anytime soon =) I am super proud of you and can't say how much I love living this crazy life with you by my side.