Jane Turns Five!

Wow, I have a five year old. There's something about this age that seems very significant. Maybe it's that she's half way to 10 which is crazy to me. Or maybe it's more about the fact that she is becoming completely her own person. She has valid ideas and solutions to problems that I haven't thought of. We can have discussions that keep me honestly interested. She can play a card game, enjoy a live action movie and get first place in a racing video game.  She can understand reasoning and apply it to other aspects of her life. She's smart and picks things up quickly, but she gets bored easily when something starts to feel repetitive. She adores everything that is new and exciting. But as soon as something feels normal and known she loses interest.

Primping. I feel like I'm glimpsing the future here!
When did she become a pre-teen??. ;)

Something else that I feel like I just realized is she does most of the basic daily life skills completely on her own. Like getting dressed, brushing her teeth, brushing her hair(still a work in progress), putting on shoes, taking a shower, getting her own water, getting a snack, etc. She really enjoys the primping process. She likes to put on her play make up, put in a hair accessory and clip on her earrings at the beginning of the day. She's my girly girl and she doesn't get it from watching me! ;)

Pretending to go on a trip and making a house outside.

Jane is anything, but a homebody. Almost every morning after she gets up she asks me, "Where are we going today?" She gets awfully disappointed if I reply with, "Nowhere" even if I follow up by telling her where we are going in the next day or so. She always wants to go somewhere and do something special. Special doesn't have to be something she's never done before or anything extravagant. It can mean going to the grocery store or the library. As long as we do something! If we stay at home I try to do something that we don't do every day like paint nails or get the kiddie pool and sprinkler out. Normally that's enough to keep her happy for the day. I can't tell her that we're doing something exciting too far in advance because that's all I'll hear about until we finally get to go. I can always count on her to try something new and not be afraid!

Tickle fight!

Jane loves her friends! I'm so glad she's learned to make friends easily and plays well with kids she has just met as well. She's just a friendly and outgoing person by nature. If we're the front yard she waves to anyone that comes by and says "HI!". The picture in the upper left is Jane's longest friend, Brianna, they met when Jane was just 3 months old and they are only a few months apart in age. We live about 45 minutes from them and always have. They are 2nd Gen friends. We always make sure we get together at least every month or two. They always look forward to seeing each other! The picture in the upper right is Jane's best girl friend, Paige. They met last summer and clicked really quickly. They look like the same age, but Jane is actually a year older, their birthday's are May 23rd and 24th. It's awesome because Paige can play well with Jane and Atlas being a little younger than Jane and a little older than Atlas. They live two doors down from my parents so we get to see them a lot. <3 The bottom picture is Jane's first friend she picked out herself and her best boy friend, Nathan. They've been bffs since they were 2 and still love playing together. We lived only a few minutes apart when we first met and saw each other a lot! Then they moved an hour away about a year and a half ago. We make sure to make plans to see each other every month still. Jane watched the movie Ralph wrecks the internet and she could really relate to it since she had experienced a really close friend having to move away. So she told me she wanted to make a best friend bracelet for Nathan like Ralph and Vanellope have their necklace. It's so fun to keep watching her relationships grow and to help her learn to be a good friend. Other favorite friends are Whisper, our old neighbor friend. Liam, the son of my longest friend, Mindy. Alexis, her first friend made at Gymnastics. Also a bunch of new park friends she loves to play with.

Sweet siblings!

Jane really loves her brother and sister! But man does she seem to love to fight with them too. She doesn't fight with Xan too much yet, other than saying, "No that's my toy baby!" but she will go from saying Atlas is her best friend to being at each other's necks and exclaiming that she doesn't want a brother anymore. She's very emotional and dramatic in the moment and says things she doesn't mean. I know she really enjoys having lots of siblings though because she was asking for another baby before we were ready. I told her to pray for another sibling. When we finally told her there was a baby in my tummy she was soooo excited!! She is praying hard for a brother because she thinks Atlas should have a brother. We'll just have to see! It will be cool if she has her first answered prayer. At the same time, if it's a girl it will be a great teaching moment about how God will sometimes say no, but it ends up better than we imagined! Jane and Atlas continue to be opposites in almost every way. One example is Jane loves change and Atlas hates it. Xan and Jane definitely have more in common, they both love girly things and love everything loud and exciting. They have their differences too though. Xan is content to play independently and is a lot less dramatic.

Blueberry picking at 4 years old

Weight

Birth: 8 lbs

1 Years Old: 18 1/2 lbs

2 Years Old: 25 1/2 lbs

3 Years Old: 29 1/2 lbs

4 Years Old: 34 3/4 lbs

5 Years Old: 40 3/4 lbs

Blueberry picking at 5 years old

Jane has finally made it back to the 50 percentile in weight! She actually stops for a few minutes to eat these days. ;) I think she is the perfect weight for her height. Now that she's 5 I don't think I want her weight to get any higher than the 50 percentile if possible. I don't think it will be an issue since she's still so active and really loves her gymnastics.

Coach Shelton and Jane (4yrs)

Height

Birth: 21 Inches

1 Years Old: 28 1/4 inches

2 Years Old: 32 3/4 inches

3 Years Old: 36 1/2 inches

4 Years Old: 3' 3" (39 inches)

5 Years Old: 3' 6"

Coach Aloura and Jane (5yrs)

Jane is in about the 50 percentile in height as well. She really grew this year! At her last appointment she was projected to be 5'5". Just a couple inches taller than me! :) She's starting to get that girly shape. I've noticed her legs and bottom section getting some definition and she's starting to develop that hourglass figure. For those reasons and just the fact that she's 5 I've been trying to teach more modesty and being discreet. Like don't undress in front of people, close the door when you use the bathroom when you're not at home and try not to let people see your underwear when you wear a dress. She remembers some of the time... Haha!

Buddies!

It's time for firsts and favorites! It's so much fun to review the year and watch her grow. I was wondering if there would be enough firsts this year to keep the firsts section going. I was pleasantly surprised that there was one each month, sometimes even two that I had to chose between. There were a couple of ones that I put on here that I had to take off because I realized she had already done it before! This may be the last year I can do firsts throughout the year, but I guess we'll see what happens this coming year!

Firsts

Accepting Jesus <3 - June 2018

Jumping off the diving board! - July 2018

Hugging a Mascot - September 2018

Playing an arcade game - August 2018

Movie night with mom watching Star Wars! - October 2018

Kicking the thumb sucking habit!! - November 2018

Sitting with Santa - December 2018

Gymnastics Meet! - December 2018

Barbie! - January 2019

Library Card - February 2019

Chicken pox - March 2019

Starburst in hair... - April 2019

Being 5!! - May 2019

Favorites

Jane will pretty much try anything these days! Except for things like raw oysters. ;) A lot of times she'll try something new and say she likes it then I'll ask if she wants some more and she says no thank you I'm good. Haha, apparently she didn't like it that much. Her favorites have stayed the same since last year. We still have to put limits on her very favorites. They are Mac and Cheese, spaghetti and meatballs, ravioli, hot dogs, non frozen cheese pizza and chicken nuggets. If she eats too much for dinner she'll wake up around midnight and tell me her tummy hurts. I normally have to stay on the couch with her for an hour while it passes. I just have to pay closer attention at dinner time. Favorite breakfast foods are sausage and cheese biscuits, Scrambled Eggs and toast and cinnamon rolls. Lunch time favorites are a turkey sandwich or a grilled cheese. She loves all fruit and broccoli and carrots are her favorite veggies. Her very favorite place to eat right now is Cici's.

She is still a book lover! She loves to pretend to read to Xan and Xan enjoys it so much. It makes my heart melt. I can't wait until Jane learns to read so she can actually read books to her little siblings. I wish I had more time to read to them, but usually we only read a few books at bed time and maybe one or two during the day. Her favorite books this year have been Hannah's Tall Order: An A to Z Sandwich, Little Mommy, We Help Mom, Little Critter Just Shopping with Mom, Fancy Nancy books and Farmer's Market Surprise.

Jane never stays on one show for too long. She does have some she keeps coming back to though. A few of those are Miraculous Ladybug, Peg + Cat, Blues Clues, Paw Patrol, Power Rangers, Scooby Doo and Peppa Pig. A few new favorites have been Luna Petunia, True, Chip and Potato, some random short educational videos and Tumble Leaf. She really enjoys video games now! She doesn't have a real favorite from what I can tell but this picture is of her getting first place in Sonic Racing against all the computer players. She also enjoys the original Sonic the Hedgehog games on Genesis, Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros Ultimate on the Switch. We really need to work on being a good sport though. ;)

Frozen is still sticking around as Jane's longest running favorite movie. It's nice that she likes variety though. We only watch Frozen like once a month or so. Her other favorite movies lately have been Moana, Wonder Woman, How to Train Your Dragon series, Ralph Breaks the Internet and Toy Story. She loves to try anything new though! I'll tell her we can try just about anything that's age appropriate, but if I don't like it I will turn it off and there needs to be no whining about it. She does really well most of the time.

I feel like Jane finally got into playing with toys this year. She still prefers to be playing with someone else than by herself, but every so often she'll want to play with her barbie's or cooking things on her own. She LOVES to play pretend now. Her favorite pretend play is Mommies and Daddies, She loves to pretend to be pregnant and give birth to her baby in bed. She always wants Atlas to be daddy, but Atlas doesn't always want to play. I'm trying to teach her that she can't make someone play with her and it's ok to play on your own sometimes. She loves card and board games. Sleeping Queens and Catch the Fox are her favorites now. She can earn game nights on her own with me if she completes her bedtime and morning routine charts. Biggest toy win this year was Kinetic Sand. It will give me at least 30 minutes of quiet, happy play time for both big kids with minimal mess. Thanks Marie! Oh and Lamby still wins the favorite overall toy award.

Jane adores anything where she can be moving around. Her favorite activities are still swimming and jumping on the trampoline. Really if it involves water she loves it. She can swim super well now. She can do cannonballs, pencils and beginner dives. She can swim all the way across the pool and dive down to the deepest part of Marmee and Pappaw's pool. Her trampoline skills are getting better too. She can jump high enough to make me nervous and she can almost do a true front flip. Gymnastics is her favorite organized activity. She loves to practice at home too. The KinderStars meets were a big hit. Meet season is over and she's really missing it now.

Like I said at the beginning Jane is not a homebody. She loves to go anywhere and gets especially excited if it's an overnight trip!! Visiting Family is a big favorite. She loves to go to San Marcos to visit cousin Ellis, to Dallas to visit cousin Holden and to Austin to visit 2nd cousin Colin. New Braunfels/Schlitterbahn is still her favorite trip of all so far I think. Pretty sure she would go anywhere just so she can experience it though. Local places she loves to go are Pump It Up, Jumpalooza, Urban Air, the movie theater, any park or splash pad, the Humble indoor playground and Marmee's house of course!

Life with Jane is never dull. She continues to be just as excitable and energetic as always. She is very precise and has to have things a certain way. When she plays Elsa she has to have every item of clothing she deems necessary and her hair put up just the right way. She loves to perform and make up songs, dances and stories. Everything has to be dramatic and I'm trying to teach her about controlling her emotions so they don't control her. The character trait she struggles with the most is being more selfless. But I think that's a common problem with her age. We're wired to look out for number 1. I'm doing my best to help her rewire a little bit. She does not enjoy sitting down to do school or taking almost any kind of direction from me. But she's getting better because she is starting to see the results of her school and that I sort of know what I'm talking about when it comes to gymnastics. I love the little girl she's growing up to be more and more each year.

Happy Birthday girlie!

Y'all... She has outgrown her 5 year baby memory book. : o When I first got that baby book at my baby shower for Jane I thought oh wow it'll be a while before I can finish it. It's blowing my mind that I can finish it now. I just have to pick out a few more pictures for it. Time sure is flying by. The more kids I have to keep up with the more I turn around and realize one of them has grown up on me seemingly overnight. I feel like Jane has been doing that a lot. The way she treats others, the way she'll explain things and her reasoning skills seem so grown up sometimes, but then there the days that her behavior reminds me she has a lot of growing up yet to do. And that's ok with me. I have been feeling just how fleeting her childhood is lately. I mean we're starting Kindergarten in the fall! I'm doing my best to soak it all up! 

We love you so much lovely Jane. Happy 5th Birthday!!

John 5:24
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

Summer Fun 2018 Part 2

Ok I am attempting to get this blog post finished before Summer 2019 begins! We'll see if that happens!
Haha, I failed... Hey first trimesters are hard!! I fall asleep on the couch at 9:30pm every other night. Anyway, I'm trying again! Hopefully doing this post now will help me remember there's a lot of fun that happens in the midst of the intense Texas summer heat!

Look at how big that group has gotten!! We're overrun by kids. : D

I'll start right where I left off. In early July we were so blessed to get to have a full Sisterhoodie reunion when Liz came back to Texas from China for a bit. There have been two additions since the last time we all got together. Little Xan and Elias. Finally Atlas has another boy to hang out with in the group! We are quite the crew now. The kids totally outnumber the adults now. We usually have all our momma's to help us out with the kids while we try to hang out and catch up. That still makes us 7 adults to 8 kids and we're still growing! I wonder how many babyhoodies there will be in the end.

The babyhoodie boys

The Oldest babyhoodies!

The oldest girls sometimes separate themselves from the rest of the group, which I understand, the next oldest babyhoodie is two years younger than Jane and Brianna. Nicole is the oldest but she doesn't have anyone her age so she hangs out the next oldest girls. We try to remind them not to exclude the little ones if they are able to participate. In the picture above they were the only three that could swim and jump off the rock so they were validated in separating themselves.

Atlas and Lenore

Atlas and Ariella

These three are all about a month difference in age. It's so cute to watch them interact and grow up through the years! They were all 2 years old here. Atlas is surrounded by girls! I don't think he minds much though. ;)

Just the sisterhoodies!

No matter how much time I spend with these ladies it never seems like enough. It's so special to have such a wonderful friendship that has lasted about 15 years now. Love each of you ladies so much! Can't wait until we can get together next. Let's never stop! <3

She worked hard and earned her roller skates!

So Proud!

When Jane turned 4 I decided it was definitely time to kick the thumb sucking habit. We had tried a couple different methods. I tried the ignoring it all together and letting her grow out of it and I tried the reminding her to stop every time I saw her with her thumb in her mouth. I didn't feel like going to the nasty tasting finger stuff or the arm braces extremes. So one day I asked Jane if she wanted to work towards a reward if she didn't suck her thumb for a whole week. She said YES! And she told me she wanted a pair of roller skates. We printed off a calendar and used some stickers to mark off each day. She did great and earned her roller skates fast! It lasted about a month and then she fell back into the habit somehow. She had never stopped sucking when she slept though. So that was probably it. We tried again in the fall, but I'll save the conclusion of the story for my fall recap post. Spoiler alert: the next time we tried she stopped for good!

Thrift Store Win!

Have a mentioned how much I love my thrift store?? They have a semi annual sale that marks their  clearance items down to $.50! Amazing! Look at all the shoes and clothes I got for about $15 all together. Yes the backpack was $.50 too! I can't wait for the next sale. Kid to Kid is the best!

Unidentified virus!

Why is it that someone always seems to get sick right before you have a busy weekend planned?? Jane came down with a fever a few days before a weekend when Scott, Anna and Ellis were planning to visit and our Awana Camp Reunion was scheduled on the same weekend too. I thought, "Well it's early enough in the week hopefully Jane will get better before it all gets going." We also had planned to go see the McNairs and go to their neighborhood pool before the weekend got started. So after Jane had the fever off and on for a couple days I took her to the doctor thinking surely she has an ear infection from all the swimming we had been doing. If so, we can get antibiotics and know she's not contagious and get going with our plans. No such luck. She had nothing that could be diagnosed other than just a common virus. So we had to take a rain check on our visit to the McNairs and delay spending the night at my parents with the whole family a day or so. That night Jane's fever got worse and she started talking about her neck and legs hurting. She was being almost inconsolable. I called my mom crying thinking she'd come down with meningitis or something. My mom came over and evaluated Jane's behavior and I called the nurse to ask for advice. Both assured me she was fine and it was just the first time she was old enough to try to explain and really experience fever pains. Within the next day her fever finally broke and we were able to start our weekend fun!

They were so little!!

Can you spot Ellis being super interested in Xan's diaper change?

Ok, so this is when it's really fun to do this post almost a year late. Ellis and Xan are exactly a year apart. It's so cool to see what Ellis was like about a month or two older than what Xan is right now. Seems so crazy that Xan is starting to be a toddler looking back at these pictures. Anyway! Back to last summer. It was so good to finally get our family weekend started. It's always so much fun to all stay together at the parents house. Especially in the summer when the pool is warm. When all the kiddos are in bed for the night the adults AKA big kids play board games. ;) We were having the most fun with Say Anything and Balderdash this visit I think.

Look at the adorable smile!

Pool fun!

If I remember correctly this was the first visit Ellis could actually kind of play with her cousins. She was still getting her feet wet though. ;) My kids are a lot and pretty crazy. I think with Ellis being a little more timid, she was kind of intimidated by their ridiculousness. Haha! But it was sweet to watch the beginnings of their cousin relationships.

13 years earlier!

Me and my buddy Taylor!

Throwing the frisbee while trying to stay in the shade and avoid hitting children. ;)

Awana Camp Reunion 2018!

While Scott and Anna were visiting we got to attend the Awana Scholarship Camp Reunion! We got to see a bunch of camp friends we haven't seen in 10 or 15 years. Since we were home schooled it felt almost like a super low key high school reunion. I really enjoyed getting to reminiscence together, catch up on each others lives and meet everyone's spouses and kids. We fit in a fun camp like scavenger hunt game with red, blue, green and yellow teams. Our team won! Woohoo Yellow! ;) We also had to make time to throw the frisbee around and sweat a ton just like old times. Haha! It was a good time.

My oldest friend. 25ish years and counting.

So happy for you friend!

I was able to attend the baby shower of one my dear friends for her second sweet boy, Jaxon. Jane wanted to come with me but she had a cold. (Jane was sick a bunch this summer apparently...) Mindy and I have been friends since elementary school. It's super special that she moved back to the area and now our kids get to be second generation friends. While I was at the shower I met one of Mindy's friends, Tally and realized it was her and her family that moved into the Thistle Creek house after us. This was the house we shared with the Chandler family back when I was pregnant with Jane. Small world! While we were there we made plans to meet up at the splash pad on Tuesday.



We had lost touch with the Chandlers for awhile. There were some hurt feelings from some misunderstandings and differences that come from living in such close proximity. We had since forgiven each other and tried to get back together for a while! Finally we made it out to the splash pad together with Tally that next week after the shower. So the whole Thistle Creek crew was there. It was great to have restored and new friendships begin all at once. God is good.

First and last day with my car.

At the very end of July my car bit the dust. It had a hefty repair that was going to cost more than the car was worth. Plus we were outgrowing my little car. We made it work with three littles for about 4 months though! We needed a van. The very same day that we found out my car was done, my grandfather calls and asks my dad if I was still looking for a car and if I would be interested in their van. Talk about insane. God was so present in it all. HUGE answered prayer. If you want to read the whole story with all the cool details you can click here!

I got emotional. It was my first car.

My car served me and my family for 10 years. <3

Yep, I cried a little when the salvage yard guy drove off with my car. I loved my little car and it's silly, but I do get attached to inanimate objects. I mean your car is like an extension of your home and I had my car before I even got together with Sam. So we'd been through a lot together. In fact Sam told me that he liked me for the first time while we were driving down the highway in my Grand Prix.

Thank you sooo much Mama and Papa!

OUR VAN!

As much as I loved my little car, I love our (new to us) van even more!! It's amazing and so perfect for us. We've already gone on a bunch of trips in it. Some days I still can't believe it's ours. I can't thank my grandparents enough for offering it to us. Such a blessing.

She did really good at answering the questions honestly

Atlas too! Except I don't know where librarian came from. ;)

At the very beginning of September we started preschool! I decided to use a curriculum called playing preschool since Jane has a hard time sitting and doing worksheets or even a craft sometimes. It worked pretty well for us. The only thing is that it feels like there is paint involved every other day. Which is hard when my 2 year old boy has no idea how not to be messy with paint and always wants to paint too. Other activities I skip all together because it's just too messy or too difficult for not much learning. One example was, have a sensory bin of flour and cups and let your child explore. Put a towel down to catch the extra flour. I'm like WHAT? Give them a bin of flour?? Inside?? Like a towel under the bin is gonna help. Plus there was nothing important to learn from it. No thank you!



The other problem was, even though it's all play based, after the first few weeks Jane started saying most things about it were boring. So I had to add my own story to the activity to make it more interesting to her. Like, here help the little baby letters find their momma letters! We'll be taking a different route for Kindergarten.

Mario Kart on the switch!

My brother and I have birthdays just a year and 10 days apart. So both of our birthdays are in September. But his birthday is a Summer birthday and mine is in Fall. Growing up we'd always go to New Braunfels every year right around Scott's birthday since it always seemed to fall on the last weekend Schlitterbahn was open for the summer. It's my favorite vacation. With all the little kiddos around things have gotten complicated and expensive for that sort of vacation. So we don't do it every year anymore. On the off years we have a Daugherty Staycation at my parents house and we find fun things to do around town and hang around the pool a bunch. I mean it's not New Braunfels, but it's pretty awesome too.

It started to rain on us during one of our swims and the kids thought it was fun until it became a total deluge all of a sudden! Crazy Texas weather! But that's alright, there's a enough fun to be had inside as well. Scott brought his Nintendo Switch with Mario Kart 8. We all enjoy a good video game and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has steering and acceleration assist. So the little kids can really feel like they're playing with us.

Happy Birthday to us!

We find a moment in the weekend to sing happy birthday and have some cake and give presents. We never gave each other presents growing up because the majority of our life we shared our money so we could buy the video games we wanted faster! : D We do a couple of small gifts for each other nowadays. I've been giving Scott board games lately. I guess it's slightly selfish since I get to play the games too. ;) I like games that are less about strategy and more about just having fun and interacting. Our favorite game this year was The Game of Things. It's so much fun and really surprising sometimes. Looking for a fun new game to play with the family? Pick up The Game of Things. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Grandparents and all their grandbabies!

It is not easy to get a picture with all these little guys sort of happy and looking! Jane had a meltdown about it at first because she was just so tired from the weekend. We had a talk about how we can't make things all about us and we need think about how our actions are effecting others. She took a minute to relax and was able to sit for a picture and not frown. I was proud she was able to make that decision.

Birthday buddies hangin out at the baseball game

Jane loved swatson!

Everyone at the baseball game! Jane is hiding behind Xan's head.

Our outing for this staycation was a trip to watch a Sugar Land Skeeters baseball game! It was a good time. Jane loved the mascot. I guess she didn't inherit my childhood fear of people in costumes. Atlas might have though. ;) Xan got passed around a lot and what we didn't expect is just how hot it was even though we were in the shade! The humidity that day was killer. I had to spend a good amount of time up on the concourse with Xan under a big fan to keep her cool enough. I think next time I might opt for a night game and let the kids fall asleep in the car on the way home or something! Oh, I almost forgot! Jane and Atlas got to run the bases after the game! I didn't get any pictures of that because I ran the bases with them so I could direct Atlas. SO fun! It was a wonderful weekend. Can't wait for next year!!



When our friends, the McNairs, moved away early this year we were pretty sad, but we've been able to keep up with them pretty well! Their new neighborhood has a super cool pool with big, fun water slides. We were finally able to make it out there to try it out at the very end of the summer. Jane LOVED the slide. Sadly while she was up at the top waiting for her turn and I was waiting for her at the bottom. A mad red wasp came up and stung her. It was her first one. We went to a lifeguard and got some first aid provisions for it and she was able to forget about enough to keep having fun. Understandably she didn't want to go down the slide anymore. I had a tough time keeping up with Atlas, Jane and Xan. Next time I might have to leave Xan home or get my mom to come with us. ;) Jane says she wants to go again this summer minus the wasp sting experience this time.



These two have a special relationship. It's so cute! They have talked about moving in together when they grow up so they can play together all the time. Jane used to talk about getting married, but she changed her mind and said she was too young to decide to get married. Haha! Good thinking young lady! They have said they are going to kiss each other at times. Thankfully the closest they've gotten is a secret air kiss from Nathan in front of the fountain. So sweet!! I hope their friendship continues over the years!

All worn out from our trip to Nathan's pool! I LOVE OUR VAN!

And so concludes our 2018 Summer! It was full of family, swimming, splash pads, sickness, friends and sooo much fun. We are so very blessed. I am loving this hard and yet super amazing life.

Isaiah 41:9-10

You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,

And called from its farthest regions,

And said to you,

‘You are My servant,

I have chosen you and have not cast you away:

Fear not, for I am with you;

Be not dismayed, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you,

Yes, I will help you,

I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’