Hanging w/ Mama Hooker: Houston

What an emotional week for so many people in the Houston area with the flooding. It's been so weird because we taught Micah the flood song before all this happened and he is singing it all the time. You know the song with these lyrics: "The wise man built his house upon the rocks, and the rain came tumbling down. The rain came down and floods came up, and the house on the rock stood strong. The foolish man built his house upon the sand.... and so on." The moral of the story is to build your foundation or life on Jesus Christ and instead of earthly things. But the whole concept of the flooding right now is devastating for those who lost their houses. Really puts this song into perspective. As long as we have Jesus everything else will be gone. Our homes, vehicles, clothes, everything! Just like a real flood, and all the devastation is showing that these things will pass and our family and God is the most important. While it's easy to say it's much harder to live through it. Praying for all those affected and thankful for our home right now. Even though we own this home I don't want it to consume us and we always need to remember not to count on these things. They will fail us.
So many of you probably know the so one of the verses is, "The blessings come down as the prayers go up." And I love that. Seeing all the blessings through a tragedy is pretty amazing. I want to say sometimes these big events happen and you wonder why God would do something like this. Then you see people loving on strangers and helping those around them and you realize how God can show love through these types of tragic catastrophes.

Today was a big day for us. We went to visit Micah's new school and teacher. It was a little hard with both kids, but we made it through. Micah didn't take a nap yeserday so we put him to bed at 7:20 p.m. and he woke up at 7 a.m. which was what I wanted since we needed to be at orientation at 9 a.m. It was good practice to get there at that time. His teacher's name is Mrs. Parker and was very sweet. She has a very soft voice and it was a little hard to hear with tons of kids in the room. Hopefully we can get to know her more throughout the year. He starts next week already!! I'm so so so excited. I realized yesterday that I could actually book some appoinments on the days he is in school. It was so weird to think I would only have one baby for a whole day!

Noelle is pretty crazy now though. She wants to get down and crawl and do everything her brother is doing. I think she will stay in the stroller if we are moving around, but not when we are staying in one place. She still loves to eat, so much so that she is having constipation and hard poo. We are giving her prunes, and pear juice. It's a constant battle to get all that out of her belly. She is in good spirits though, so I don't think I'm too concerned yet. Here are her 8 month photos:

Over the weekend we had Micah's friend Jackson and Logan birthday party. It was so cute. She did a trolls/batman theme since she has two boys. They both wanted different themes. I loved all her ideas. We got to make masks and troll hair. She is pretty great. I love being back here to see her and her boys. Micah and Jackson have been friends since they were in our belly's. And they LOVE each other. I'm so grateful for that.

We met some friends at Watters Creek on Tuesday and it was actually cooler out. The hurrican is making our weather a bit more barable. Micah had fun with all the boys. Charlie, Henry, Ben, and Owen and Noelle is the only girl.