Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Careful it's hot!
So last night at dinner we told Josiah to "be careful, it's hot, blow on it!" and he did of course... and then Lydia started copying him. She keeps learning new things every day by things he is teaching her and it's just TOO cute. Today at lunch I told Lydia her lunch was hot and to blow on it... just so I could capture the cuteness on camera. She makes this serious little face and then holds the food up and blows on it- so funny. Enjoy!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Silly Time Together
I took these pictures a few weeks ago while we were just being silly with the kids in the living room...now tell me these don't make you smile!!! :) Enjoy!
Monday, October 26, 2009
Wedding Weekend
This past Saturday we celebrated Ken and Emily's beautiful wedding... congrats to the new bride and groom!
I stood in the back and gave Josiah a hug and sent him up the aisle to do his job as "town crier" so I didn't actually get to see him do it.. but from what I hear- he was "Awesome!" and did "such a great job!!" and "so cute- he was great!" :) I heard him saying his line... "the bride is coming! the bride is coming!" and ringing his bell... but oh boy I wish I could've been up front to see him! He did a wonderful job and we are so proud of him and happy he could help to make Emily and Ken's day just perfect.
I still find it kinda wild that my friend from HS is now my sister... and that our kids will be COUSINS... but it's so cool! They had a wonderful evening and we are so happy for them!
I don't have many pictures yet but here's a few courtesy of Nana! There's one of Emily with Josiah ("town crier") and the other little boy in their wedding, Dillan(they were the only kids) who was the ring bearer. And another of Ken and Emily entering the reception as "Mr. and Mrs. Walk!" (hey wait a minute... that's us!) :)
more pics to come as I get them! Congrats again to the wonderful couple!
I stood in the back and gave Josiah a hug and sent him up the aisle to do his job as "town crier" so I didn't actually get to see him do it.. but from what I hear- he was "Awesome!" and did "such a great job!!" and "so cute- he was great!" :) I heard him saying his line... "the bride is coming! the bride is coming!" and ringing his bell... but oh boy I wish I could've been up front to see him! He did a wonderful job and we are so proud of him and happy he could help to make Emily and Ken's day just perfect.
I still find it kinda wild that my friend from HS is now my sister... and that our kids will be COUSINS... but it's so cool! They had a wonderful evening and we are so happy for them!
I don't have many pictures yet but here's a few courtesy of Nana! There's one of Emily with Josiah ("town crier") and the other little boy in their wedding, Dillan(they were the only kids) who was the ring bearer. And another of Ken and Emily entering the reception as "Mr. and Mrs. Walk!" (hey wait a minute... that's us!) :)
more pics to come as I get them! Congrats again to the wonderful couple!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Epic Fall of 2009
So tonight Daddy was going out with Uncle Ken for some guy time before the big day this weekend... very cool- fun fun!
So since it was Mommy home with kids time I decided we should order a pizza and Josiah said, "Let's have a movie night!!" When I said YES, he was thrilled!
Scene forward- we're sitting downstairs watching Disney's AristoCats and eating pizza... Lydia's cruisin' around the table happily eating her pizza pieces but at my lap currently trying to eat mine. I tell her "no, eat yours!" and point to the table where she turns to them... just as I think, "I'm going to pull that table closer to me so she can cruise safely to it... " she THOUGHT..."I'm going to try to take two steps by myself to that table" and BAM- that was that... the most EPIC crash I've seen yet. The poor girl... she is just starting to gain some confidence in walking and I'd noticed all afternoon she was trying, in fact just before this I'm pretty sure she took two steps by herself from the table to the couch to me! Anyway so she has her hand out to catch herself- but her little hand and arm go JUST UNDER the table's edge and WHACK --- she catches ALL her weight on her eye... just above her right eye, under her eyebrow, huge gash. I'm rushing to stop the (sudden and large amounts) of bleeding and her hero big-brother was helping me the next 20 minutes grabbing her juice cup... her paci.. her blankie... he was awesome. As usual :) I promised him a big bowl of ice cream as soon as "Grandma arrived"... poor Daddy never gets a night out, and I couldn't get a hold of him since he was out at a loud place with the guys. I DID get a hold of Uncle Ken, thank goodness and then told Michael we might be going for stitches really soon.
Scene forward... (Nurse) Grandma determines... it's a "toss up" but most likely if I did take her in I think they'd glue it instead of stitches because it's just not that deep... and we decided to bandage it up ourselves. I do agree, I think it'll heal okay by itself I'm just concerned on keeping it covered so it has time to heal and her pain with it all- and not picking off the bandages, etc...
Anyway she is sound asleep... doing fine... motrin and bandaids and bowl of ice cream later, she doesn't seem to care unless we are messing with it. The good news is she hasn't picked at the bandage (yet) but I'm betting it's due to the pain there.
Let's just say our little angel girl is going to look like Rocky Balboa for the next week or so... definitely a huge gash and a black eye.
Guess what Mom feels like the worst ever!?? :( I know it was "an accident" but UUUGHHH I was just ONE second behind her in thought and WHAM- that's that. It just happened SO fast! I hate when babies get hurt!!
Please please pray for Lydia's speedy recovery and for her pain during this process as well... she's bound to be miserable tomorrow :( I think we made the right choice not to take her to the hospital and put her through all that... but oh my this is one very BIG boo boo :( Please pray for her!
So since it was Mommy home with kids time I decided we should order a pizza and Josiah said, "Let's have a movie night!!" When I said YES, he was thrilled!
Scene forward- we're sitting downstairs watching Disney's AristoCats and eating pizza... Lydia's cruisin' around the table happily eating her pizza pieces but at my lap currently trying to eat mine. I tell her "no, eat yours!" and point to the table where she turns to them... just as I think, "I'm going to pull that table closer to me so she can cruise safely to it... " she THOUGHT..."I'm going to try to take two steps by myself to that table" and BAM- that was that... the most EPIC crash I've seen yet. The poor girl... she is just starting to gain some confidence in walking and I'd noticed all afternoon she was trying, in fact just before this I'm pretty sure she took two steps by herself from the table to the couch to me! Anyway so she has her hand out to catch herself- but her little hand and arm go JUST UNDER the table's edge and WHACK --- she catches ALL her weight on her eye... just above her right eye, under her eyebrow, huge gash. I'm rushing to stop the (sudden and large amounts) of bleeding and her hero big-brother was helping me the next 20 minutes grabbing her juice cup... her paci.. her blankie... he was awesome. As usual :) I promised him a big bowl of ice cream as soon as "Grandma arrived"... poor Daddy never gets a night out, and I couldn't get a hold of him since he was out at a loud place with the guys. I DID get a hold of Uncle Ken, thank goodness and then told Michael we might be going for stitches really soon.
Scene forward... (Nurse) Grandma determines... it's a "toss up" but most likely if I did take her in I think they'd glue it instead of stitches because it's just not that deep... and we decided to bandage it up ourselves. I do agree, I think it'll heal okay by itself I'm just concerned on keeping it covered so it has time to heal and her pain with it all- and not picking off the bandages, etc...
Anyway she is sound asleep... doing fine... motrin and bandaids and bowl of ice cream later, she doesn't seem to care unless we are messing with it. The good news is she hasn't picked at the bandage (yet) but I'm betting it's due to the pain there.
Let's just say our little angel girl is going to look like Rocky Balboa for the next week or so... definitely a huge gash and a black eye.
Guess what Mom feels like the worst ever!?? :( I know it was "an accident" but UUUGHHH I was just ONE second behind her in thought and WHAM- that's that. It just happened SO fast! I hate when babies get hurt!!
Please please pray for Lydia's speedy recovery and for her pain during this process as well... she's bound to be miserable tomorrow :( I think we made the right choice not to take her to the hospital and put her through all that... but oh my this is one very BIG boo boo :( Please pray for her!
Cleaning... and Cleaning... and Juggling 3 kids...
I've been cleaning non-stop and my legs are starting to give out. Ken and Emily's wedding is this weekend (YAY! SO EXCITED!) but also just, well, okay REALLY stressed out. *sigh* At least I'm just about done... we have company coming and staying with us for the wedding weekend so I just wanted the house to be in somewhat decent order and clean before then. And even though I know our guests really wouldn't love us any less with a messy dirty house, what I love about having company is it forces me to have a DEADLINE to get the cleaning (that I otherwise wouldn't do and would push off...) completed! SO YAY for company and YAY that my house is... well, so "in order" right now that I can actually feel my sanity creeping back in :)
I feel safe to say that I'm also juggling THREE kids because honestly, I have more trouble with babies when they are inside me then when they come out! Once I get my "non-pregnant" body back I might be able to keep up with Josiah and Lydia as well as figure out a way to add the newborn to the mix... I'm thinking I'll just keep him/her in a sling for at least a couple weeks until we figure it out :) Don't get me wrong, I'm not very hopeful and definitely have my days where I think, "really? three? how am I ever...." but- there's got to be a way :) And when I'm not pregnant, it just all usually seems easier. I told Michael the other day, "So I've finally figured it out... when God said to Eve after she sinned that she'd have 'pain in childbearing' He meant all NINE MONTHS of BEARING the child- not just giving birth!" and Michael laughed out loud.
I feel safe to say that I'm also juggling THREE kids because honestly, I have more trouble with babies when they are inside me then when they come out! Once I get my "non-pregnant" body back I might be able to keep up with Josiah and Lydia as well as figure out a way to add the newborn to the mix... I'm thinking I'll just keep him/her in a sling for at least a couple weeks until we figure it out :) Don't get me wrong, I'm not very hopeful and definitely have my days where I think, "really? three? how am I ever...." but- there's got to be a way :) And when I'm not pregnant, it just all usually seems easier. I told Michael the other day, "So I've finally figured it out... when God said to Eve after she sinned that she'd have 'pain in childbearing' He meant all NINE MONTHS of BEARING the child- not just giving birth!" and Michael laughed out loud.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Totally on top of things... Christmas in October
So I am just so anxious to be on top of things lately... I think it's because I know that about mid-December on I'll be completely USELESS :) But- I really wanted to get the kids Christmas pictures taken... however Daddy does not like how expensive they are. I agree with him... but do love professional portraits. So anyway I told him we could at least set up our own little "portrait session" and try to get some pictures of the kids and ourselves that we could use for a holiday card. And that if they came out terrible- off to the studio we go :) Well... it was basically a disaster, how can you make two kids look up and smile at the same time? Ironically- I've done this before but apparently THIS was the time they chose to give us complete chaos. They'd both gotten up from naps and had a snack and everything- but hey, I guess they got the memo that we were trying to take cute pictures so DON'T cooperate! :)
I am not going to let you see a couple of our best shots of the kids here- because well- we ordered Christmas cards so you'll probably be getting one of those in the mail! But... here's a sneak peek.
I didn't use any of these for the card so you'll only be able to enjoy them here. There were a couple cute shots of us with the kids (Michael and Josiah, me and Lydia... etc) but we decided to use just the kids on the card because the layouts were giving us such a hard time when we tried to combine several photos. I'm also including some of the (HILARIOUS) "outtakes" to show you the choas involved!!
Merry Christmas in October!
I am not going to let you see a couple of our best shots of the kids here- because well- we ordered Christmas cards so you'll probably be getting one of those in the mail! But... here's a sneak peek.
I didn't use any of these for the card so you'll only be able to enjoy them here. There were a couple cute shots of us with the kids (Michael and Josiah, me and Lydia... etc) but we decided to use just the kids on the card because the layouts were giving us such a hard time when we tried to combine several photos. I'm also including some of the (HILARIOUS) "outtakes" to show you the choas involved!!
Merry Christmas in October!
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