Friday, April 27, 2012
baby kate and family
Sweet, sweet dear friends. Snapped a few pictures for them one night after dinner. Thankful for the Lord bringing such friends into our lives. I think baby K was three weeks in these pictures
complications
I have a ton of posts that I need to post but am having trouble with photobucket (the site I use to put up all my pictures). Please forgive me if I bombard your google reader with 10 posts at one time.
HAPPY FRIDAY!
HAPPY FRIDAY!
Saturday, April 21, 2012
17 months
Our little girl is almost a whole year and a half. Oh, and she is about to go from being our little girl to our big girl. Lots of changes about to take place!!
Lydia is learning and changing so much with every day. She is picking up new words and abilities.
She is 24 1/2 pounds and 31 inches long. She has her top front 4 teeth and her bottom front four teeth as well as cutting all four 1 year molars.
She can go up and down stairs really well (although I don't trust her completely on the coming down part). She can now climb up onto our dining room chairs. This really shocked me one day when I walked in to find her standing up at the table. Ha thankfully she wasn't on the table...
Lydia is still a very sweet and affectionate girl. She freely gives kisses and hugs. She's not shy and waves to everyone she sees.
(this is one of our neighbor boys...Lydia thinks he's funny)
We've come into a new phase where she is becoming kind of picky with food. She'll wave her hands in front of her face and say, "no no no." I ask her to say no thank you instead and then usually still make her eat the food. It's generally not that she doesn't like the food but more that she would rather have something else instead (bread). If she keeps sticking her hands in front of her mouth we swat her hand and then try again. It usually only takes one time of doing this and she'll eat the rest with out any problem. When she first started doing this I was really having a hard time knowing what to do. I was worrying about what people were thinking of me and how I was responding to her actions. Now that Patrick and I have decided on this method I feel much more comfortable and it's really seeming to work.
We are also really working on her obeying when we say "come." We don't want her to delay in obeying us when we ask her to come because this could be a huge safety issue. If she is about to do something that could cause her harm she needs to immediately obey when we say stop or come.
Some newer things that she is saying: hi mama/dada (she is starting to put a few words together), thank you, no thank you, everything, down, plane. I'm sure she's saying more I am just having a hard time thinking of them.
We ask her who made her and she'll point up and say God. We also hold her hands when we pray at meal times. When we are finished (well, actually she usually says this right in the middle of the prayer...but she's getting better) she says AMEN and it's the cutest thing ever.
Some of the songs she really likes right now are: the itsy bitsy spider, if all the raindrops were lemon drops and gum grops, our God is so big, and peanut sitting on a railroad track.
Patrick and I are extremely thankful for every single day we have with Lydia. She is truly a gift from the Lord that has brought us much joy. Just tonight I was sitting in the living room listening while Patrick was in the other room getting her ready for bed. She was giggling and loving her daddy. I was sitting there with a very full heart thankful to the Lord for one of his many many good gifts to us.
Lydia is learning and changing so much with every day. She is picking up new words and abilities.
She is 24 1/2 pounds and 31 inches long. She has her top front 4 teeth and her bottom front four teeth as well as cutting all four 1 year molars.
She can go up and down stairs really well (although I don't trust her completely on the coming down part). She can now climb up onto our dining room chairs. This really shocked me one day when I walked in to find her standing up at the table. Ha thankfully she wasn't on the table...
Lydia is still a very sweet and affectionate girl. She freely gives kisses and hugs. She's not shy and waves to everyone she sees.
(this is one of our neighbor boys...Lydia thinks he's funny)
We've come into a new phase where she is becoming kind of picky with food. She'll wave her hands in front of her face and say, "no no no." I ask her to say no thank you instead and then usually still make her eat the food. It's generally not that she doesn't like the food but more that she would rather have something else instead (bread). If she keeps sticking her hands in front of her mouth we swat her hand and then try again. It usually only takes one time of doing this and she'll eat the rest with out any problem. When she first started doing this I was really having a hard time knowing what to do. I was worrying about what people were thinking of me and how I was responding to her actions. Now that Patrick and I have decided on this method I feel much more comfortable and it's really seeming to work.
We are also really working on her obeying when we say "come." We don't want her to delay in obeying us when we ask her to come because this could be a huge safety issue. If she is about to do something that could cause her harm she needs to immediately obey when we say stop or come.
Some newer things that she is saying: hi mama/dada (she is starting to put a few words together), thank you, no thank you, everything, down, plane. I'm sure she's saying more I am just having a hard time thinking of them.
We ask her who made her and she'll point up and say God. We also hold her hands when we pray at meal times. When we are finished (well, actually she usually says this right in the middle of the prayer...but she's getting better) she says AMEN and it's the cutest thing ever.
Some of the songs she really likes right now are: the itsy bitsy spider, if all the raindrops were lemon drops and gum grops, our God is so big, and peanut sitting on a railroad track.
Patrick and I are extremely thankful for every single day we have with Lydia. She is truly a gift from the Lord that has brought us much joy. Just tonight I was sitting in the living room listening while Patrick was in the other room getting her ready for bed. She was giggling and loving her daddy. I was sitting there with a very full heart thankful to the Lord for one of his many many good gifts to us.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
hanging out back
We don't spend a ton of time in our back yard but in the late afternoon it's perfect for reading and getting some sun. Lydia likes to roam.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
beginning of baby season
It seems like babies come in huge waves with all of our friends. The births have just started last week. One of my friends, Amanda, had twins on Monday and then two of my other friends had both their little girls on Wednesday.
Here are a few of our friends at a shower a few weeks ago. The two ladies on the left are the ones that had their girlies on Wednesday.
Here are some of the girls from our bible study at the shower
And here is one of those babies... miss Kate. Who is as sweet as can be and makes me very anxious to meet our little girl.
Here are a few of our friends at a shower a few weeks ago. The two ladies on the left are the ones that had their girlies on Wednesday.
Here are some of the girls from our bible study at the shower
And here is one of those babies... miss Kate. Who is as sweet as can be and makes me very anxious to meet our little girl.
gatlinburg getaway
Back in the beginning of March Patrick and I took a little weekend getaway with a few friends. It was spur of the moment (planned in probably under 3 weeks) and lots of fun. Kids stayed with friends/family and we were able to hang out without worrying about high chairs, sippy cups, bedtimes, or diapers. It was NICE!
It really was refreshing. I told Patrick I felt like we were back in college. It was good to see Patrick joking around and hanging out with guys and I loved getting to sit around and chat with the ladies.
We did some hiking, outlet shopping, celebrated birthdays, SPUD playing, hot tub sitting, good eating, and overall just had a really good time.
I am so thankful for the season of life we are in. We are surrounded by lots of godly couples who can encourage and spur us on in our walks with the Lord. We have sweet sweet fellowship right now and I want to soak it all up because before we know it half of us will be spread across the world church planting, pastoring, teaching, and just living lives not in seminary.
We have said that this needs to be an every year event!! I totally agree and what better time than right after tax returns??
It really was refreshing. I told Patrick I felt like we were back in college. It was good to see Patrick joking around and hanging out with guys and I loved getting to sit around and chat with the ladies.
We did some hiking, outlet shopping, celebrated birthdays, SPUD playing, hot tub sitting, good eating, and overall just had a really good time.
I am so thankful for the season of life we are in. We are surrounded by lots of godly couples who can encourage and spur us on in our walks with the Lord. We have sweet sweet fellowship right now and I want to soak it all up because before we know it half of us will be spread across the world church planting, pastoring, teaching, and just living lives not in seminary.
We have said that this needs to be an every year event!! I totally agree and what better time than right after tax returns??
zoo trips
We have been going to the zoo a lot this spring. We have lots of friends that has memberships and they would kindly get us in on their passes. I just bought a membership of our own so now we can share the kindness of getting friends in with our pass. Every time we go we run into people we know from church or the seminary. The zoo is the happening place!
look at how many we had (there were even a few more ahead not pictured)
These first round of pictures are from a friends trip a week or so ago and then the last ones are from a trip with my sister and mom and nieces and nephews. Fun times all around.
look at how many we had (there were even a few more ahead not pictured)
These first round of pictures are from a friends trip a week or so ago and then the last ones are from a trip with my sister and mom and nieces and nephews. Fun times all around.
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