Enjoying Lent Readings

 I've been really absorbing these readings each week using a simple study system we learned back in VA during training called "SPECKA":

In this/these passage(s), is there a...

S: Sin to confess?

P: Promise to claim?

E: Example to follow?

C: Command to obey?

K: Knowledge newly gained (about myself, people, Christ/God/Spirit)?

A: An Application that I can apply to my life?

I've been enjoying how each week circles around a theme in the readings, too.  If you like them, there ya go! :)

Emma at 13 Months

Guess which of us is a morning person...

She can climb onto the couch and onto a bed by herself and get down from them, too. 

She went up the stairs to the slide by herself and down the slide, too, giggling all the way down... Of course with Mommy in arms reach just in case.

Waves bye-bye now with fingers going up and down and hand held still... And sometimes says, "Bah!" while doing that, which means "bye" of course.

Enjoys getting into confined spaces and making new friends.

Says "No!" With the head or hand movement for no/finished. 

Enjoys making silly sounds and faces to make her parents laugh... Pictured above is the 'mean sniffing face'.

Snuggles and gives long hugs that sometimes incorporate patting Mommy or Daddy on the back, too.

Can break down in an instant if something isn't going her way (above she didn't like the veil on her head).