PRAISE THE LORD!!

The Indiana Lesnet's have just finished up a very busy and very eventful week.

As I said in our last blog posting, our very wonderful nanny Lizzie had to leave us and her last day was Friday. She did a great job taking care of the boys (Kai and his friend Max). She loved the boys and they were very fond of her. We are sad to see her go, here is a picture of her on her last day on the job.
On Friday, we hired Lizzie's replacement! Her name is Melissa and she will be starting with us in a couple of weeks. Melissa observed Lizzie on Friday to learn the ropes a bit and spend some time with the boys. The boys really like her and we are looking forward to her watching the boys in a couple of weeks. It is a huge blessing to have a new nanny!

Also on Friday, Republic Airways Holdings issued a press release saying that they are going to lay off 500 or so employees. Working for an airline always poses an interesting set of challenges and this is definitely an extra interesting time. I have been told that my job is safe for now and that is definitely a reason to rejoice and praise the Lord!!

Kai turns 6 months old this next week. Kai will celebrate his birthday with some immunizations at the doctor's office so we thought we would take his monthly growth pictures today since he will probably be a little grumpy on his actual birthday.

Kai ate his first "solid food" today. He had some rice cereal and he did a good job eating it. We caught it on video but we won't be posting it on the blog. It was just anticlimactic really as he didn't make any faces, he didn't cry, and he kept a pretty good percentage of the food in his mouth. Kai did great at eating with a spoon. Mom and I struggled a bit though. The cereal is pretty much the same consistency as milk and the baby spoons aren't very deep so a lot of the cereal fell off the spoon before it got anywhere near Kai's mouth!

We took Kai to the neighborhood pool for the first time today. He was definitely a little more at ease in the water since this wasn't his first time swimming. We picked him up some new "Body Glove" board shorts and UV shirt a couple of weeks ago. Here is a picture of him modeling his new threads!

But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. - Hebrews 5:14