Different. Same.

Sofia is our brown-eyed, brown hair daughter born in California.  Selah, our blue-eyed, blondie was born in Illinois.  Their differences, however, have no bearing on our love for them.  They are our children.  Our love for them is truly the same.  A love that is unexplainable.  A love that is deep.  A love that brings us joy.

Is that not true of God's love for us?  He loves us no matter the colour of our eyes, skin, or hair.  He loves us whether we were born in the U.S.A. or another country.   God's love is for all.    Different people.  Same love.

What's Sofia up to these days?

A couple of weeks ago we signed Sofia up for gymnastics class through the park district.  She loves it.  Class is every Friday morning for an hour.   Sofia enjoys learning how to tumble and walk on the balance beam but her favourite aparatus is the trampoline.  No surprise there!

Does she look like him or her?

Take a look at Selah's pic in the previous blog.  Do you think she looks like Keri or Kevin?  That's Kevin with his twin sis, Kerri.  And Keri is with her mom.

Selah at seven months!

Selah is almost on the move.  Oh no!  With your first child you can't wait until they start to crawl and walk.  With your second child, it's like just be our "baby-baby" and let us hold you and cuddle you.  

That's not for Selah.  She wants to get going and we believe she soon will be.  When sitting up she likes to fall forward so she can end up on her belly.  From there she uses her rolling techniques to move toward her toys.  And to her annoyance, when she scoots, she usually ends up going backward and not forward.  

"Da-da", "ma-ma" and "na-na" are pretty much the extent of her vocab.  Her greatest way of communicating is with her smile.    

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Take me out to the ball game,

Take me out with the crowd

Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,

I don't care if I never get back,

Let me root, root, root for the home team,

If they don't win it's a shame

For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,

at the old ball game.

This song is sung with much spirit by millions of fans each year during the 7th inning stretch of a baseball game.  Of course as a family who loves baseball we've made sure Sofia knows this song.  Did you know, however, that there are two verses?

Katie Casey was baseball mad,

Had the fever and had it bad;

Just to root for the home town crew,

ev'ry sou Katie blew

On a Saturday, her young beau

called to see if she'd like to go,

To see a show but Miss Katie said "no,

I'll tell you what you can do:"

Katie Casey saw all the games,

Knew the players by their first names;

Told the umpire he was wrong,

all along good and strong

When the score was just two to two,

Katie Casey knew what to do.

Just to cheer up the boys she knew,

She made the gang sing the song:

Enjoy the 2008 baseball season.