Conversations with a 2 year old are always interesting

ME: Hey Josiah, what's your favorite color?

Josiah: *very thoughtful* "Hmmmm...... gray-blue-yellow!"

ME: WHHATT???

ha ha ha.

Another funny conversation...

ME: You want to read this book next? It has sing along songs.
Josiah: YEAH!
ME: Okay... "Ring around the rosie! A pocket full of Posies, ashes ashes, we all fall down!"
Josiah: *Laughs* then seriously said, "Hey!!! Mom, remember we got ashes at church that time??"

ha ha ha... Ash Wednesday memories!

Oh I have so many more, and so many funny ones, even more hilarious... but I'm drawing a blank on recent hilarious conversations. I'll make some more notes on this soon... it's great to have it on record for him to hear some of the stuff he used to say. When he's older he'll get a kick out of it!

All is well here, ... just trying to pack and get things ready for the big moving day... Josiah is doing GREAT (excellent!!) with his potty training, and it's really exciting! Yesterday was absolutely accident free.... he even told me when he needed to poop in the potty, AND he pulled down his own pants to pee in the potty! I was so proud. Go Josiah! (Although he's growing up too fast...) :(

Pictures of Molly Rose!

Here is our beautiful new neice!

* Josiah looks really frightening in this picture-I know- HA HA, he was immediately saying "CHEEEEESEE!" but it's a pretty scary face! But it's a great one of little Molly!




Kisses from cousin Josiah

Teeny Molly sleeping in Uncle Michael's arms!

This picture is fun because it shows you her size.

Mom and Dad's average size cat, Maggie, is about 3 times the size of Molly!!

too funny...

Welcome to the world Molly, we love you! It was great to see you today!

Another Growth Spurt...

Do they ever stop growing!? Well, that's a crazy question, but do they ever stop growing so FAST!? I think the childhood growth rates are even more astonishing when looking at my children, who are always bigger than their ages say they should be... I have a 6 month old (just about) and a 2 1/2 (okay... almost 3 you could say) year old boy, and yet, Lydia is now reaching 12 month size clothes (!?!?!) and Josiah is outgrowing his 3T clothing and is definitely a 4T. It's unbelievable. THANK GOD for my cousin Jenny who's passing on her little girl clothes to us!!! Luckily her 1 1/2 yr old is growing out of clothes just in time for my abnormally huge 6 month old to fit them right behind her!! :)

Lydia has been sleeping more the past couple days, and Josiah was doing the same thing last week... taking REALLY LONG naps. And I swear I put on a pair of pants (or PJs?) that used to fit him, and now they don't!! Once again, unbelievable.

Anyway I have some cute recent pictures to post! (Here they are Nana!) I wish blogger would let me upload videos, I've taken dozens of cute videos but it never lets me post one! I'll try again sometime soon.

Daddy was home today (YAY!!!) and kinda took a snow day. He went out with Josiah first thing in the morning to pull him on his sled and play in the snow. And then he worked from home for a while, and then made a trip to the store for me (gotta love husbands for driving in the snow!) It was a great day. I have a couple cute pictures of the boys all bundled up, but they aren't uploaded yet, so maybe next time. Take care!

Lydia looking at her book waiting patiently (HA!) for me to make her food!

Josiah's squishy smiley face is just priceless!

Daddy reading books :) One of Josiah's current favorites, "The Berenstain Bears: IN THE DARK"... Josiah's never been "scared of the dark" -- at least not yet-- but this book may start it! LOL.

Welcome to the world, Molly Rose!

Molly Rose Cooke, my beautiful neice, was born tonight via c-section around 8:15(ish?) pm! She is BEAUTIFUL and PERFECT! She is 8 lbs even and both Mom and Baby are doing fine.

I was privileged enough to be there while Laura had the baby, and her and Andrew are so strong and brave. I was the photographer for the joyous occasion and got LOTS of new baby Molly pictures and enjoyed every minute of it... she's absolutely amazing! What little miracle! She has a full head of dark black hair, it was SO cute! I'm not sure, of course, what color her hair will be after they give her the first bath, it always looks different.

Anyway, I'm totally WIPED and heading to bed... but I figured I'd let you all know the good news! Please say a prayer for a speedy recovery for Mommy Laura and for a happy and safe time in the hospital for the whole family.

Welcome to the world Molly!! We love you so much!!!
Congratulations Andrew and Laura!

p.s. I'll post some pictures as soon as I can. I took all the photos with A&L's camera, so I don't have any of my own... but I'll get some up eventually! Or keep checking their blog- www.thethinkingmommysblog.blogspot.com for updates!

PICTURES OF OUR NEW HOUSE!!!!

Here it is! Our NEW HOUSE! We'll invite you all over for a housewarming party before ya know it... :) It's 3 bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths, located on a small quiet court back in a nice neighborhood. Sidewalks to walk the kiddos around in the stroller, a small (decent sized!) back yard for the kids to play as well as a screened in porch/patio. And best of all, of course, it's closer for Michael's commute.
Love you all, thanks again for your prayers. They are always greatly appreciated!!! Now without further ado...

I'll walk you through it... although the pictures aren't as great as seeing it in person!

Front of house...

View when you open front door- foyer, family room and dining room...

Family room/dining room... (that sliding door goes to patio, which you'll see...)

Standing in foyer looking to the right- the stairs that go downstairs and the eat in kitchen on far right...

Eat in kitchen (the door there goes out to the driveway, the side of the house)

Kitchen... opens up around left side...

Kitchen. All new granite countertops and stove/oven/microwave. Walk through to dining room...

Dining room- door out to patio...

Screened in patio (it's kinda large, so I took pictures starting at the right side then panning over to the left... here you can see the storage shed in the back yard...)

Looking out/center of patio

Far left of patio ...

off from right side of patio, little garden bench, storage shed... (I took several of the backyard as you walk through it...)

Stone landscaping at edge of grass. If you look up into trees you can see the benches/picnic tables and lanterns. Most of this wooded area is our land, so Josiah now can play "run around the trees" all he wants ;0)

When you leave the foyer and walk down the hallway to the LEFT you see the hall bathroom... (sorry this isn't a great picture, I forgot to turn on the back light!)

Master bedroom (big!) bigger than it seems here... and off to the back right corner of master bedroom is...

the master bath. (YAY!) pretty stained glass cabinets :)

standing in the foyer looking out the front door, beautiful stained glass!!!

Downstairs... forgot to take a picture of this but the light you see/small room on the right is another bathroom!

Coming off the bottom on the steps to the left, family room with fireplace...

family room extended... (room in back there on the right is really large laundry room, den and storage area on the left)

fireplace....

Den/office/extra bedroom... room to grow ;o)

storage room across from den...

left side of laundry room...

Right side of laundry room- door out the back right corner to the back yard.

laundry room extends to the back left with a workbench and more storage area.

WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!

That's right! I got a new van for Christmas, and a new house for my birthday... (We'll be settling right around then, late March) WHAT MORE COULD A GIRL ASK FOR!?

PRAISE GOD! We are so excited!!! A special THANK YOU to all of you who have prayed for us during this difficult time! It's exciting and scary and wonderful all at once, we can't believe it!!
I will be posting the pictures I have asap... stay tuned!

some recent pics...