Aw ... a new little Christian!

Little Lucy was baptized! We are so excited about it. Mike's parents were in town for the occasion and Emily flew down for the weekend to make the family complete.
Here are some pictures:

Even Cute When She Cries!

Diapers!

Hey, Mom! Check out the cool diapers you got for little Lu! We love you!

Ash Wednesday

Usually the dust and ashes of Ash Wednesday are a sober reminder of the end of our bodily lives, a physical sign of the ephemeral quality of so many things that we set our hearts on. The ashes provoke a meditation on the end of all earthly things and the supremacy of the spirit.
On Lucy, they brought other thoughts. Not being so far from her beginning, the ashes served a hope and a promise. (She told me all of this with her eyes.) If out of mere ash and dust something as incredible as a human person can come to be, what can we not hope for from Our Maker? Ps. 139 esp vs 14. There is power in beginnings so small, glory in a Creator so mighty and good. Amen. Hurray for this Lenten Spring to open us more completely to His Goodness.

Lucy, the Philosopher

Morning Calisthenics

It is hard to wake up for this, but good health is no accident.

Follow me everyone! Reach for the sky! Got to loosen up those joints.

...and One and Two and.....
Don't forget to lift those legs!

Bicycle in the air.

Aunt Maddie begins her Fabulous Dallas Career

Keep a sharp look-out, Sweetheart! Aunt Maddie will teach you everything you need to know about fashion.