http://thethirdprayer.com Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:01:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Next Sunday starts the Advent season for 2008.  As we wait in anticipation for the birth of our Lord we will spend these next few weeks in prayerful thanksgiving.  And do we have so much to be thankful for this year! When I was pregnant I started thinking of all these ... http://thethirdprayer.com/2008/11/23/advent-2008/ Mary Rene likes to spit bubbles when she is bored. Is it just me or does she look drunk on my milk? http://thethirdprayer.com/2008/11/22/bubblehead/ I'm not going to write about how great of a sleeper Mary Rene is anymore.  It just comes back and bites me in the butt.  For the second night in a row she didn't fall asleep after nursing in bed.  In fact, it took another hour and a half to ... http://thethirdprayer.com/2008/11/21/double-jinx/ Let me tell you about our amazing friends Jenny & Ed.  I've been friends with Jenny since the 7th grade and Frank has been friends with Ed since high school.  Jenny has stuck by my sides all these years.  No matter how crazy I got she always remained a constant ... http://thethirdprayer.com/2008/11/20/a-million-thanks/ Yesterday while we were at the mall Frank noticed that nobody was in line to see Santa.  We figured this would be a good opportunity to visit him since there was no line.  But Mary Rene was dressed in pink overalls-not an ideal outfit for your first time visiting Santa.  So ... http://thethirdprayer.com/2008/11/19/here-comes-santa-claus/ I guess I didn't knock hard enough on that wood yesterday.  Mary Rene didn't go to sleep after nursing in bed last night.  She cried and cried so Frank had to rock her to sleep.  She was up at 4 a.m. to eat again.  But she did go back to ... http://thethirdprayer.com/2008/11/19/jinx/ Our sweet child of God is 9 weeks young today!  I love this picture because it shows her adorable chubby cheeks.  She is such a beauty. Each day she becomes more and more alert and is being more playful.  After her morning feeding (usually 6 a.m.) she is awake for a ... http://thethirdprayer.com/2008/11/18/mary-at-9-weeks/ Since Mary Rene's birth, every Tuesday I pull out the video camera and do a little taping of her progress.  Sometimes I will tape her a few times during the week.  I've taped so much that I am halfway through my second 60 minute tape!  Last night Frank and I ... http://thethirdprayer.com/2008/11/17/who-she-was/ Today Mary Rene is 2 months young.  We will never forget this day because she received the Sacrament of Baptism today.  Mary Rene is now a child of God.  She was the 64th baby to be baptized at our parish this year.  The baptism went amazingly perfect and Father Stanger ... http://thethirdprayer.com/2008/11/16/2-monthbaptism/ Gianna Jessen is living proof that babies are miracles, if they are given the chance.  When Gianna's birth mother was 7 1/2 months pregnant she tried to abort Gianna.  The doctor chose to abort Gianna with saline.  For 18 hours, saline was swirling around in her mother's womb in an ... http://thethirdprayer.com/2008/11/14/survivor/