tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-283651012024-03-07T13:33:13.050-06:00What's Up With UsJLPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15350645686023542180noreply@blogger.comBlogger494125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365101.post-27431896563041019452016-04-02T22:13:00.000-06:002019-12-30T18:49:44.779-06:00SB's Birth: Oct. 4, 2015!Our sweet baby girl is almost 6 months old and I'm finally here to announce her arrival! SB joined us on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015 at 2:50 a.m. She made quite an entrance into the world just 15 minutes after we got to the hospital! I will tell the wild and wonderful story in a nutshell: I started having contractions midday on Saturday but I wasn't admitting it to myself or anyone else, possibly due to the fact that it was 8 days before her due date or maybe also because I was a little nervous about seriously trying natural childbirth for the first time. Early that afternoon I went out by myself and got a pedicure, then shopped at Hobby Lobby and Trader Joe's. I got home about 5:00 and we did supper and bedtimes for the kids, contracting in denial all the while. I did text my doula around 6:00 and told her I didn't think it was anything real, but just in case wanted her to know I as having some contractions. Finally at 11:00 p.m. I said to Trey, "Maybe we should get that app to track contractions." So we started timing them and at 12:30 a.m. tried to go to bed. Trey went right to sleep; I got right back up. I couldn't bounce on the ball...totally uncomfortable. I was struggling through contractions and finally called my doula at 1:45, and while I as on the phone with her I threw up (I've never done this in labor before). She said she thought it would be good for me to go on in to the hospital, so it was time to get someone to come stay with the kids. The first two ladies on our list were both out of town that night! I hadn't worried about that ahead of time because I assumed she would not come 8 days early. So I called another friend who'd offered to come over and lives just down the street but her voicemail picked up. What now? I had not talked to anyone else about coming over. Thankfully God brought to mind another friend from our church who lives in our neighborhood. We called her at 2:01 and she answered and got to our house about 2:15! We left home close to 2:30 and called the hospital on the way, and Trey had to talk because all I could do was try to manage the contractions at that point. They were so hard and close together but still I was thinking that we'd get there and they'd tell me I was at about 5 cm. Our doula was planning to meet us there, and we pulled up to the assessment entrance and I was stumbling into the lobby when a nurse was walking back in with a wheel chair. She offered it to me and I told her I couldn't sit down. She asked me what number baby this was for me and when I told her "Seven" then doubled over in pain holding onto the counter she told me to walk right back to the assessment room. Just as I was going back my doula ran in the entrance. I remember seeing very little after this because my eyes were mostly closed. They checked and I was at 10 cm!!! I was shocked but relieved in a way and thought we'd just go ahead and deliver her right there. But no, they said they were going to take me up to a delivery room! So I was lying on my side on a rolling stretcher with my eyes squeezed shut and several nurses along with Trey and my doula were rolling me down the hall to the elevator when I felt my water break. I told them that and then thought to ask if there was a doctor there. I remember hearing a man say, "Yes, I'm Dr. Cruz" and knew we were going up in the elevator. As the doors opened a nurse said, "Want to run?" And then they literally ran with me on the cart all the way to the delivery room. We rolled in and they told me I'd need to move over to the delivery bed. I think I said something equal to "Are you crazy?" and then they picked me up and moved me over. Everyone was in place and they told me I could push whenever I wanted to. My doula told me later that at that point I asked her "Do you think this will take long?" And then I pushed once and SB was born! It turned out that Dr. Cruz was a resident but there was no time for things to go wrong. I asked what the date was and someone said "10/4" and our doula said "10/4, over and out!" A perfect summary of what had just happened! SB weighed 7 lbs, 9 oz. and was perfectly healthy. It ended up being a little silly to have a doula, but I do think preparing for natural childbirth helped me be calm about how it all happened since I obviously couldn't have had an epidural anyway. It was intense but not scary, and looking back on it I can see so many ways God orchestrated it all perfectly even though I was in complete denial of reality all day and night! I can totally understand how people have babies in the car or even at home by accident now...I had no idea we were so close to that ourselves! While they weighed and checked out SB I got up and took a shower! Our doula stayed with us for a few hours and then we went to our regular room and settled in for some rest. The next morning, Gran and PopPop came to meet SB and Trey went home to get the kids and brought them to meet her before he took them to church. They were all so sweet and excited to see her! Later that day Nana and Grandpa came to meet SB, too. She is certainly a very beloved little girl! After one more night at the hospital we got to bring SB home at about 10:30 at night (another first!). There are pics of her below with most of the people mentioned above. What a precious blessing she is!
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JLPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15350645686023542180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365101.post-19545478363715132992015-09-26T20:50:00.004-05:002015-09-26T20:50:46.860-05:00IS's 2nd Birthday!We got back from our trip just in time to celebrate IS turning 2 at the beginning of June! All 4 grandparents came for lunch and cake; we are just so thankful for this precious and sweet little guy! In the months before and since his birthday, he has become increasingly busy, verbal, and engaged with playtime with his brothers and sisters. He is making all kinds of sentences now and through the summer some of his favorite things to say were "Doot!" (as in "I want to do it!") and "Holt!" (and in, "I want to hold it!"). He is a combination of fearless physicality (like climbing, diving onto the furniture, and initiating wrestling matches with his brothers) and heart-melting affection and sweetness (like insisting on nightly rounds of hugs and kisses for us all and twirling his hair and cuddling like a champ). We finally got his hair cut a month or so after his birthday (see last pic below) and that made him look older instantly, but I am still hanging onto his bedtime routine and putting him down in the crib because I hate to give up that sweet time (which includes him reciting all my facial features in his sweet little voice)! He is a wonderful blessing to us all!
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The three boys spent several days with each set of grandparents and had tons of fun while T and I took the girls to DC for the week! It was an awesome week all-around, from the flights (the first in any of the girls' memories) to the sights and so much more! The following pictures show just a sample of our jam-packed days of touring, sight-seeing, and visiting dear friends we hadn't seen in years. In order: we toured the White House, SJ, LL and our friend A met some neat creatures at the Museum of Natural History, enjoying a picnic and jazz in the garden outside one of the Art museums with our friends from way back (the Parkers), me and the girls with my friend E and her daughter A at the National Zoo, A and the girls loved the ducks at the WWII memorial, A and girls at the Lincoln Memorial, with Earhart's plane and the National Air and Space Museum, touring the Capitol and getting a behind the scenes look at a reception room honoring Lincoln, outside the Capitol with it's dome under renovation, girls with the Washington Monument (which we toured!), and the girls enjoying their favorite treat in DC, shakes at Potbelly's. We are so thankful we got to enjoy this trip and the boys had such a super time with their grandparents that week! 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Here are a few pics for the record! I especially want to remember that this was in the middle of IS's commitment to constant cap-wearing, though he took it to a rare extreme in the photo below. And not surprisingly, our little extra-affectionate guy was super-friendly with the gorilla statue!
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We celebrated with her grandparents and Uncle D the Saturday after her birthday with lunch and then all had a ball going bowling. What fun! I, for one, was thankful for the guard rails:). Then later in the week her sisters accompanied us to get her ears pierced! She did great...before and after pictures are below.
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I've learned over the years that they come and go surprisingly quickly, so we got some pictures of the kids with them while we could! And in capturing these background blossoms, the timing allowed us to also record evidence of a (thankfully) brief event for LL, her (barely) broken arm! After three weeks in a cast she was healed up nicely:). <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDmZJczGSim_uex2Kh2gzxVjq_XwyglqC-KAcGyy5THPk3GrxtJHFJLUCQyfB7doYCxdGtsrtMFvXW4MCqZXpWyCzuSBcqdiN-bEjqGE3kHm9DoBLsdWEXZ1lbDpd3K7leFdRe/s1600/IMG_0405.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDmZJczGSim_uex2Kh2gzxVjq_XwyglqC-KAcGyy5THPk3GrxtJHFJLUCQyfB7doYCxdGtsrtMFvXW4MCqZXpWyCzuSBcqdiN-bEjqGE3kHm9DoBLsdWEXZ1lbDpd3K7leFdRe/s320/IMG_0405.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicDrbU40md9sx4_esdsETomeLJwffLRTNGL6jZMCDCpbm226Qv3h5uzAkxr3-L_AW1NWN5W1nsmAr5cIom5BswqpeD77f2W5Ec9CMpqlFy6qXdQgF3DMc1VWpjx25KSRTcLTZB/s1600/IMG_0410.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicDrbU40md9sx4_esdsETomeLJwffLRTNGL6jZMCDCpbm226Qv3h5uzAkxr3-L_AW1NWN5W1nsmAr5cIom5BswqpeD77f2W5Ec9CMpqlFy6qXdQgF3DMc1VWpjx25KSRTcLTZB/s320/IMG_0410.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3AU-odkC4oQQ8Zyzsty5ZTOP2qi6rJgTOznj020LtYOTJSDvpnblMU8XNWW03fIpFTNC20AeZUHIDXONiLKmKDAg6_BaoqSoN-1XOHevfuCIqLrgr0I9yaKnyKLNltIjNS7kQ/s1600/IMG_0396.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3AU-odkC4oQQ8Zyzsty5ZTOP2qi6rJgTOznj020LtYOTJSDvpnblMU8XNWW03fIpFTNC20AeZUHIDXONiLKmKDAg6_BaoqSoN-1XOHevfuCIqLrgr0I9yaKnyKLNltIjNS7kQ/s320/IMG_0396.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinE1g9daEOSn5vi2EI8Rx9-yLm3HE6r9RqMJASzoGavaYvcBhOw9AvLMhQPutPgeS62bp4UeGbb9TfyWHcIed3Ly0TlsSy_BUwYc1WUSVynuyW-zRKFw4xj_f7VBmv7jej6RKq/s1600/IMG_0414.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinE1g9daEOSn5vi2EI8Rx9-yLm3HE6r9RqMJASzoGavaYvcBhOw9AvLMhQPutPgeS62bp4UeGbb9TfyWHcIed3Ly0TlsSy_BUwYc1WUSVynuyW-zRKFw4xj_f7VBmv7jej6RKq/s320/IMG_0414.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZd3nqSXDm2jbJyGpCjF9pX43bhgAeOFOnGMVmQNxQ6DFxn89NhsRPjF3gNEBf623d-VMU0w-hHoDufe2IjYbmKhjKMxDV07tJLsCTEpALoiLNOpPdxbGH3550_EGe1qSh97Ci/s1600/IMG_0433.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZd3nqSXDm2jbJyGpCjF9pX43bhgAeOFOnGMVmQNxQ6DFxn89NhsRPjF3gNEBf623d-VMU0w-hHoDufe2IjYbmKhjKMxDV07tJLsCTEpALoiLNOpPdxbGH3550_EGe1qSh97Ci/s320/IMG_0433.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5UcrfUh5guQyB_MINTtedHvAb4WMGACC25MbJdGm_GAlZu-mBiNQFSeoeUzyWBPBI6WZ1xxNBnV_7jHdmeD-R28-Vak_z1DWVAcPeT09PhOfLcSZqIhbw4BahurnPGF_57Rlg/s1600/IMG_0442.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5UcrfUh5guQyB_MINTtedHvAb4WMGACC25MbJdGm_GAlZu-mBiNQFSeoeUzyWBPBI6WZ1xxNBnV_7jHdmeD-R28-Vak_z1DWVAcPeT09PhOfLcSZqIhbw4BahurnPGF_57Rlg/s320/IMG_0442.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4_305itrpKni527pCQ9ErG13vTdAe1WFszN2QGPVjSBFzdmPMFoWWn6KYxn6XWbgxY7eM4qMOSd9GRNH3_TJLympc-qiBAoFyXj72j2xIgEQ5qpCZSJ-x_0mgZH_SRfecDIaz/s1600/IMG_0417.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4_305itrpKni527pCQ9ErG13vTdAe1WFszN2QGPVjSBFzdmPMFoWWn6KYxn6XWbgxY7eM4qMOSd9GRNH3_TJLympc-qiBAoFyXj72j2xIgEQ5qpCZSJ-x_0mgZH_SRfecDIaz/s320/IMG_0417.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4_SvFSVpMgM6dVpzTAdxwmbOQTgjBVTuHOcBI0xDt6tZf88wkTt2XlIftF6oWe4Kz5zVIRRr8FRoNRN0mPaeckkYWajtCqP3Q6776PRsWFEATy25y845XH-mKobAnYtsQHGA8/s1600/IMG_0393.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4_SvFSVpMgM6dVpzTAdxwmbOQTgjBVTuHOcBI0xDt6tZf88wkTt2XlIftF6oWe4Kz5zVIRRr8FRoNRN0mPaeckkYWajtCqP3Q6776PRsWFEATy25y845XH-mKobAnYtsQHGA8/s320/IMG_0393.JPG" /></a>JLPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15350645686023542180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365101.post-28637074167055160712015-05-09T00:04:00.002-05:002015-05-09T00:05:54.330-05:00Boys!They are so much fun and so busy! Here are a few views of them this spring: IS in tub and with phone (saying, "'Lo!"), SA in a favorite set of pjs with his "bear an noah" and in a typical self-selected outfit, and RL with the bunny train and wild hair!
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Boys at Thanksgiving, IS on scooter, Christmas stockings, mustaches with PopPop, Christmas at Grandpa and Nana's, T and girls, IS sliding (before and after!), Mardi Gras parade, and SJ's 1/2 b'day date.
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I am having the opposite experience: January's already almost gone? Whoa. All's well here, but boy do the days speed by. We got a new camera before Christmas and have been enjoying it, but haven't stopped to upload many pics yet, so here are a few from the first batch...Christmas card photo day. Tonight AG was playing with IS after supper and told me, "You have to blog before he grows up." Point taken! He is too adorable to miss these days! He has grown alot over the last 6-8 months and is a cuddly, playful not-so-little guy! His favorite new words are fish (which sounds like "she" with a cute little question-like inflection) and choo-choo, which he just started saying today. In his more somber moments, he becomes very straight-faced and focused: left thumb in mouth, right hand fingers twirling the hair on the back of his head...it is serious business. However, he also likes to tease me when he knows we're playing and will stare me right in the eyes and dramatically put his thumb in his mouth, challenging me to playfully pop it out which brings wild giggles! He started walking at about 15 months and is sort of like an (incredibly precious) old man plodding around. We are all just loving him!
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JLPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15350645686023542180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365101.post-67084779101751402272014-07-25T22:30:00.000-05:002019-12-30T19:00:18.035-06:00Making a Comeback!It's been a while! We are still here and all is well, thankfully, just busy! I want to go back and catch up on a few big events since I last posted, but for now, here are a few family photos from the last few months. (In order: we went strawberry picking, scored a corner booth, enjoyed the girls' piano recital, and captured a grocery store memory!:)
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We are so thankful for these precious girls and boys and really can't believe how fast they are rolling through these birthdays! Here's a little update on the birthday kids:
LL turned 8 on Oct. 16 and is having a good year doing 3rd grade at home. She loves reading Nancy Drew mysteries, watching LHOTP, playing imaginative games with her sisters and brothers, and jumping on the trampoline (the big birthday gift!). She is excelling at piano this year, has fun doing gymnastics, and is learning to enjoy public speaking through speech club! LL is quick to offer help with baby IS and SA and we are thankful for her compassion and energy. She is an entertainer around here and knows how to have fun!
SJ turned 6 on August 29 and is a first grader this year! She is quick with math and can sit down and read a whole picture book or reader to anyone who'll sit still long enough, or often picks up a chapter book her sisters checked out and goes for it herself! She's enjoying gymnastics and, like her sisters, is a huge LHOTP fan. She continues to be a late riser and a night owl...like she was born with a teenager's internal clock! We are so thankful for her sweet smiles, good questions, and how she loves her family and friends.
RL turned 4 on October 23 and has become a madman on a bike! He loves to build with Legos, color with markers, do workbooks, help in the kitchen, "play school" with his sisters, play outside, work with his Daddy on projects at home and give IS kisses while saying, "He's SO cute!" He goes all day long but often initiates his own bedtime, saying, "Will you put me down?" We are so thankful for this busy, bright, fun, sweet boy!
SA turned 2 on September 29 and is always on the go with a big grin! Right around his birthday he moved into the toddler bed and now shares a room with RL, and he likes to present encores after bedtime these days, but we are working on that! :) His talking has totally taken off and he is putting together words now, to tell us things like "Watch me" or "Hold it" or "Stop it" (which I wish I could honor when he says it at diaper-change time!:) He's finally gotten a real haircut (though he didn't like it) and likes to climb onto the trampoline and run around. He is still very attached to his lovies and his thumb, and we are glad he's still a willing snuggler! We're so thankful for this bright, bubbly, fun boy and enjoy seeing him blossom every day!
JLPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15350645686023542180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365101.post-4207623906593784362013-09-23T22:17:00.000-05:002013-09-23T22:19:32.046-05:00Summer Retrospective, Part 3: Our "Vacation"!By mid-July IS was over a month old and we were all ready for a change of scenery, so we spent 10 days with the grandparents. This was our only getaway all summer, and it was great! First stop was Gran and PopPop's house, where the kids had fun playing and reading, having breakfast on the balcony, exploring in the woods, going to the library, making an apple pie with apples from their tree, and getting to visit with Uncle David and my friend H, her mom, and two of her kids, A and L. And there was plenty of time to just hang out and snuggle with IS! It was a fun few days...see below!
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Then we went to Nana and Grandpa's for the rest of the week. The girls and RL went with Nana and Grandpa to VBS every morning, and I hung out at home with SA and IS. In the afternoons, the kids had fun swimming and playing in the "muddy muddy". T joined us toward the end of the week and he and Grandpa took RL to play golf. And of course, IS got cuddled plenty!
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RL has recently gone on some rides with T on one of the girls' old bikes with training wheels on it, and don't tell him, but there's probably a new "boy bike" coming his way in the near future!
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On July 5 we went to a Children's Museum we'd never visited before...the kids had a great time!
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SA serving up a sundae in the "café"
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LL and SJ checking out at the "grocery store"...they all loved this.
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Our four little dentists took care of T's toothache!
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RL was a great vet!
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Afterward, we went to visit Mimi and PawPaw and introduced Isaac! We are so thankful he got to meet Mimi that day, as that turned out to be our last visit with her. We miss her and are so thankful for all the wonderful memories that we all have of our times with her!
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PawPaw, T, and the "big boys"
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Mimi and PawPaw with all their great-grandchildren and T
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Just a few days past the one month mark, IS is getting pretty good at smiling when he wants to!
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Reading in bed during our community group meeting one Wednesday night
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"Aunt Katie" came to visit one weekend and went on some fun outings with me and the kids!
AG at her music program graduation on May 31.
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ISP joined us on June 6!
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We brought him home the following Saturday. Grandpa and RL were ready to lend a hand!
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Two days old and napping with his Daddy
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Bath time!
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10 days old and showing us a sleepy smile
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So thankful for this easygoing little guy! It's been over two months since this pic was taken, and he's been an "angel" baby if we've ever had one! :)
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Gran and SA visiting with IS
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Sweet feet, 2 weeks old!
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The girls went to a VBS and I ventured to Target for the first time with just the boys! We barely had room in the cart for everything and everybody!
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RL has had fun dressing up this summer in an assortment of random things. I love that the hat says "Work zone"...obviously!
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We celebrated all day, beginning with a birthday breakfast and opening gifts before T went to work (which meant she woke up a lot earlier than usual!:) and finishing the evening with dinner at CPK and ice cream. (See last three pics below.)
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More to come soon!JLPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15350645686023542180noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365101.post-48382668941418569932013-06-04T22:36:00.001-05:002013-06-04T22:50:33.729-05:00More May DaysHere's SA in true form...a lovie and a train in his hands. For months now he has been hooked on carrying around Thomas and friends, usually one in each hand, and he makes a cute little (ooh ooh) sound to say train. Lots of times it's the first thing he says when he wakes up and the trains go everywhere with us!
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SJ had her CC year-end celebration on May 10. She learned a lot and had tons of fun this year!
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Blessed to be mom to these sweeties!
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And this one! Still had about a month to go at this point!
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RL on his final day of swim lessons...
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And SJ, who had "moments of greatness" on her freestyle, according to her teacher! :)
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We enjoyed Memorial Day all together and had lunch at Cracker Barrel after visiting the nursing home with a group from our church.
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We were glad to have all grandparents with us for dinner before AG's music program graduation on May 31. This was a celebration of her completing 5 years of music/piano lessons, and we are so proud of her and thankful for all she's learned and her great attitude and hard work!
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Another baby belly shot on June 2. It's really pretty shocking to see myself from this angle...even though I feel huge, it doesn't look this big from above!
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I'll wrap up with a series of photos we'll call "brothers." RL and SA are starting to have lots of fun together and plenty of competitive moments, too. We are awed that, Lord willing, we'll soon have a third added to this dynamic duo!
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JLPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15350645686023542180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365101.post-27755886293434055262013-06-04T21:56:00.001-05:002013-06-04T22:11:27.330-05:00Special DaysSeizing a window of opportunity to update a little more with just a day or so more til baby arrives!
T took the girls to a father/daughter picnic with our homeschool group back at the end of April. They had fun exploring the beautiful grounds where it was held!
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SJ marked finishing her Kindergarten year with a very special graduation ceremony with that same organization on May 4. Didn't know I'd seen one of ours in a cap and gown so soon! She was all smiles as she sang songs, said Prov. 3:5-6, and received her diploma!
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May 5 was another very special day...not just cinco de mayo but Mimi and PawPaw's 65th wedding anniversary! We all went to visit after church.
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SA with his PawPaw, Grandpa, and Daddy...
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RL taking a swing before we left...
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JLPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15350645686023542180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365101.post-17041176914167256402013-05-09T07:26:00.001-05:002019-12-30T19:09:13.229-06:00More April CelebrationsWith 2 birthdays and 2 half-birthdays, April is a fun and busy month for our family! We celebrated T's birthday on April 13...
Ready for a birthday breakfast..."Happy Birthday, Daddy!"
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T took RL to a car show near our house that day...here's the little racer!
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LL and T went out to celebrate her 7.5 birthday just a few days later...
The next weekend we went to Gran and PopPop's house for a visit and the kids enjoyed lots of time outside. The girls liked picking and arranging flowers...
Future bulldog?
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The next week we celebrated RL's 3.5 birthday with a half-birthday dinner date: the first I've ever gone on! We went to Jason's Deli and RL gobbled up a hot dog and fruit and ice cream cone.
This is a super sweet and fun little boy! Two little bulldogs? We'll see...
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SA was so funny...he started anticipating the flash and squinting beforehand each time I took a pic!
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Love SJ and SA's great grins!
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The timing this year was really nice: we got to start the celebration with family when all her grandparents came for the open house the previous Thursday, then on Good Friday the girls were out of school so we all got to have a birthday breakfast before going strawberry picking. Then on Sunday we enjoyed our Easter worship service and lunch with a few friends...here are a few pics. (I am trying to find the good ones of all 5 of our kids on the swing after church, but they are hiding in some unknown folder, I guess!)
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Then the girls were out of school all that week after Easter, and AG's birthday was on Tuesday, so we got to just enjoy being home and taking it easier than usual!
Then on Friday of that week (April 5), we took a few of AG's friends to the zoo and then came back to our house for pizza, cake and ice cream, and a movie. It was a super fun day with a really sweet group of girls!
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Check out the peacock in the background!
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AG requested and helped decorate her butterfly cake...
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Happy 9th, AG!
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JLPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15350645686023542180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365101.post-53753965785532537622013-04-28T21:59:00.002-05:002019-12-30T19:12:37.983-06:00A Few Things in MarchMarch was filled with fun from start to finish, as was April, which probably explains why I am just getting around to posting about it! The first weekend in March T's parents came to stay with the kids for a night so we could celebrate our 12th anniversary, which was on Feb. 24. We are so grateful for that gift of time and care, but ended up with no pics to record it...we couldn't have been in that much of a hurry to get away, could we? :) However, here's one to remember the visit some of us made earlier that Friday to see Mimi and PawPaw. I love this one of PawPaw and the boys:
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Our neighborhood had an egg hunt the weekend before Easter and our kids had a good time...
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T built a great garden box and had some good little helpers...
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We were thankful to have all the grandparents come join us on March 28 for AG and LL's school's open house. Beforehand we had a quick supper and little egg hunt in the front yard.
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Here's LL in her Egyptian collar and cuffs showing off some of what she's learned this year.
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The next day was Good Friday, and our family plus all four grandparents celebrated AG's upcoming 9th birthday with a breakfast and trip to the strawberry patch, which I'll post on soon! Also, Easter photos yet to come!
A final March event: SJ's 5 1/2 birthday and date to celebrate with T.JLPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15350645686023542180noreply@blogger.com0