5 Years Old!

Gabriel John Kibrom Laubach.  How in the world are you five-years-old already?!  To think you might never walk, and now well, we try and keep you from scaling walls.  Happy Birthday!  We love you.

You love...
*tow trucks
*dump trucks
*police cars
*trains
*riding bike really fast
*Curious George
*singing worship songs/pretending you're leading worship
*pretending you're preaching about God (You've gone to the backyard a few times and proclaimed loudly:  "God's not dead.  God.is NOT.dead"
*going to "group"
*your friends
*your family
*riding bike through town with Daddy
*riding bike on trail with Mommy
*sweeping, shoveling, spraying...anything involving dirt and water
*firetrucks (if they're silent)
*picking on Cole
*playing with Julia
*cool pops
*going somewhere, anywhere...every day.

Documenting a Day in the Life Of Us...

Gabriel:  "Ju-li-a Kibrom!"
Ana:  You're the best, Mom.
Mom:  Um, why is Cole's Algebra book hidden behind the chair?!
Ana:  Mom, no hands in your mouth. (sounding like Mrs. Grove)
Mom:  "ewww"-after licking horses mane to put bead in it.



*Dutch Blitz cards just got blitzed all over.
*email to Mr. Walter, Cole's algebra teacher asking if Cole needs his algebra book, after I found it hidden by G. behind the chair.  I'm sure Cole thought it was in his bag.
*iron fell square on top of Gabriel's head
*Gabriel starts a prayer from the wall, "Take away my mommy. She's mean.  Ana in agreement prays, yes, God, take her away. (the iron fell on G.'s head immediately thereafter)

One "N" ANA

Ana, here's the little girl you're sort of named after and just one of the little ones who captured my heart in Guatemala.  She seemed wise beyond her years and was just so so sweet.  She's grown SO much.  Her mama lived at the orphanage, too.  Go HERE to see Ana Carolina.  In Guatemala, Anna/Ana is spelled with one N.

Another reason for 1 N:

 I looked up the name before I even met you, I found that it meant "full of grace". Then, just the other day, I was reading in the New Testament and Ananias, the man God sent to Paul, his name means "full of grace", too.  Whenever you write your name, remember, "God is full of grace".