This week you said your first sentence. "Oh! You did it!" You were so proud of me because I turned on the light switch that you were pointing at. Before this you were screaming bloody murder and I was about to go bonkers. But then you stopped and your eyes lit up and you exclaimed "Oh! You did it!"

You are barely even 15 months old, but you've sure hit that milestone month where everything happens at once. You scoop up yogurt and feed yourself, to which I exclaim, "You did it!" You are starting to help pick up toys and put them away in their containers. "You did it, James!" We sing together, play silly games and I watch how your mind is developing so quickly. Today you told me you had to poop and then you pooped in your potty. "You did it! You pooped in the potty!"

When I tell you that you are Mama's big boy, you say "I baby!" But I have to disagree. You are becoming a big boy and I love watching you grow.

Hugs and kisses,
Mama

How open are you about personal hygiene and bodily functions in front of your husband/wife?

"Doug Lueder and his wife Sam have wildly disparate ideas of what's appropriate to display in front of others, a philosophical difference that literally exploded one night during their courtship: Doug tried to impress Sam by holding a lighter to his backside while passing gas."

This article on CNN.com made me chuckle. To be quite honest, I've been with my DH long enough to become very comfortable--MUCH more comfortable than I ever imagined I'd become. Passing gas, popping zits, peeing with the door open...all things that I never wanted to do in front of Toby, but have become relaxed about.

On one hand, it takes away a bit of the mystery. When we were dating, I just showed up for the date, fresh and lovely. Now my sweetheart sees me pluck my eyebrows, slap on deodorant and paint my face with brushes and makeup in order to be "naturally" fresh and lovely.

On the other hand, our openness is a genuine expression of the intimacy we've achieved in our marriage. We are accustomed to leaving ourselves vulnerable to each other because we have a high level of trust. And that is a beautiful, sacred thing.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing."

The scripture continues on to explain what love is and isn't, and then ends with verse 13 "So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

Throughout my relationship with Jesus, I've been on a quest to understand this and live it out. What is love? How do I love God? How do I love my brothers and sisters in Christ? How do I love total strangers? What the world says is love is usually either purely emotion, mere lust or some self-serving connection to someone.

Father God, I pray that you will continue to teach me what love is, and that I will be obedient to seek it out and live it out in my daily life. AMEN.