15 Months and Teeny

 Purposefully closing the eyes.

I've been meaning to blog about Baby Sugars, yes her nicknames compile.  She started walking this summer and I am trying to think of the official first steps age... 14 months?  Walking well at 15.  She climbs, more than her siblings, she was on the back of the couch this morning.  She likes to stick her hand in the toilet, also something my other two didn't really do.  She is FUNNY.  Funny faces, imitator,  clinging spider monkey.  She loves to wave at the bus, or any passing cars or when once of us leaves, she always greets daddy with a " hi" when he comes in the door.  One day she said " hi dada"  Mitch and I looked at each other like, did we really just hear that??  She says "yummee"  She pretends to blow her nose as she rips out kleenex after kleenex.  She loves her blankie and her thumb for night time.  She still takes two naps a day and sleeps about 12 hours at night, you go girl.  She loves baby dolls and babies.  She calls them "day day".  She loves to dance, her latest move is swinging her hips from side to side like a belly dancer.  She is stubborn and hates diaper changes and getting dressed.  She is a bright little naughty beam of sunshine lol.  She has curly hair, it is way cute.  She LOVES outside.  She understands a lot.  She walked outside and I said, shut the door, shut the door, she walks back and shuts the door and goes on her way.  Today I pulled out a brush to clean the carpet that I had used to clean the couch the previous week with some baking soda and Aliza grabbed the brush and headed for the couch to start cleaning.  She is TINY  she weighs at 15 months what her big/small brother weighed at 12 months.  She is 18 lbs 4 oz.  She is 28.5 inches teeny and in that minus 5 percentile.  So could it be Isabelle is the exception to Mitch and my baby making rule?? 25- 50ish percentile seems HUGE now.

Resting Resting

 This song means so much to me!!  As someone who struggles with anxiety and seeing how the Lord has pulled me out of the muck and mire of the dark recesses of my own mind and heart, these words speak to my soul and I am overwhelmed with thankfulness to my Savior, for all that He is to His children.  I can't tell you unless you have struggled similarly, what it feels like when the Lord breaks you out of the bondage of fear and the clouds part and His peace settles in!!  I have been going through the gospels as I feel the urgency of the need to know my Savior in what scripture reveales of Him.  I am also going through the book " The Jesus You Can't Ignore" by John MacArthur.  I am seeing more and more that how you view the gospel trickles into your whole life, to strengthen it or poisen it.  Believers are meant to grow in understanding, love and longing for their Lord and Savior and eternity is the cullmination of that longing.  Only true peace and rest is found in Christ, not the Christ of our own making but as testified of in the scriptures.  Ok I'm done for now, maybe this will encourage you as it did me, if you know Him it will!!

1.Jesus! I am resting, resting
In the joy of what Thou art;
I am finding out the greatness
Of Thy loving heart.
Thou hast bid me gaze upon Thee,
And Thy beauty fills my soul,
For, by Thy transforming power,
Thou hast made me whole.

◦Jesus! I am resting, resting
In the joy of what Thou art;
I am finding out the greatness
Of Thy loving heart

2.Oh, how great Thy loving kindness,
Vaster, broader than the sea:
Oh, how marvelous Thy goodness,
Lavished all on me!
Yes, I rest in Thee, Beloved,
Know what wealth of grace is Thine,
Know Thy certainty of promise,
And have made it mine.

3.Simply trusting Thee, Lord Jesus,
I behold Thee as Thou art,
And Thy love, so pure, so changeless,
Satisfies my heart,
Satisfies its deepest longings,
Meets, supplies its every need,
Compasseth me round with blessings,
Thine is love indeed.

4.Ever lift Thy face upon me,
As I work and wait for Thee;
Resting 'neath Thy smile, Lord Jesus,
Earth's dark shadows flee.
Brightness of my Father's glory,
Sunshine of my Father's face,
Keep me ever trusting, resting,
Fill me with Thy grace.

The Shabang

And to the family pics..  all 100+ of them. ( Kay I'm thinking of YOU when I post these!!)

Posted... pics... finally...

Check out the shutterfly link for our branson, mo pics. :)

Yes

I will blog again, things are just busy with life.  We had fun family pics in case you didn't notice the header change and I will post a few of my fav's.  A friend of mine is a very talented photographer!!  If you are interested in her info, email me.  Also we had a family vacation in Branson, MO for a week.  So it's catch up, pics to deal with, school to get ready for, etc;  How I have enjoyed summer, no where to HAVE to be in the morning and I have really enjoyed Isabelle being home!!  I'm sad to see the summer end.  So I will get on updating eventually here.  Eventually. :)

Aliza 1 Year

How a year has flown!!!  Your first birthday you were met with multiple viruses one including an ear infection.  You are well now after a month of fevers and crabbiness and your happy self has emerged yet again! 
One thing I will say for babies is that we do not give them enough credit for how smart they are.  A few weeks back, I had what my friend Katie and I call " Number One Mom Moments". I had come up with laundry and forgot to close the basement door, Aliza went down and thankfully was crying on her hands and knees at the bottom of the stairs, with the terror of it seeming to be the worst part.  A couple days later Isabelle left the door open and she wouldn't go to the stairs.  We got back from Ks, she still won't go.  She used to try to put her face in the tub water.  Then she got to where she would start to, then look at me and shake her head no.  She heard us talking about going for a walk so she went and got her sun hat and pulled up to the bench at the table while I was cleaning up supper to give it to me.  She is a mimic.  She signs more, all done, milk, night night.  I need to learn more to teach her!  If I say are you hungry?? she starts signing "milk".  She loves to dance, she loves the outside.  She also likes to pinch and bite which we are working on. :)  She got to a point where she would pinch then give "loves"  like she knew she was supposed to be gentle.  When I was talking to the dr at her 1 year apt, she kept nodding her head" yes".  Her stats were 16lbs. 14oz. I do believe 0% and 28.25 inches which was 25%.  She isn't walking yet but walks around things, and can stand up on her own.  She came crawling in to the kitchen with a baby safety outlet plug she had pulled out, I later found it in the bottom of the dishwasher. :)  She imitates sounds and everything else.  Funny little baby.  Still taking those two naps which is great!!
And Christian had his apt and he grew 3 inches last year!  He is still at the bottom of the charts.  I charted his height as if he were a 4 year old and that put him in the 25%.  It gives me a good idea where he will be in regards to his fellow kindergartners size when he starts a year later.:)
That's all for now, I could go into how amazing sick we have been for the past 6 weeks but I'm too tired to put my energy there.  We are trying to make the most of when we are NOT sick. :)

here is a link I really enjoyed btw motherhood

We're Still Kicking

Not much as changed with our lives being bizaaay lately, weeks go by and Mitch's work hrs are long still.  I was feeling ill a month ago and went to the dr a couple weeks ago just to make sure my thyroid, iron, blood sugar are all well.  The dr said I need to eat more often.  I can do that.  Iron good, thyroid good.  She thought my anxiety issues were from hormones and stress with Mitch's hours and if I need to look at where I'm at in my cycle and " not plan a big birthday party for my kids" during that time, then don't.  She didn't even know Isabelle's birthday, which we kept nice and quiet, had been a few days prior.  She said sometimes we ourselves or others put too high a standards on what it means to be a good mom and sometimes we freak out over little things we think are important.  I LOVE our dr!!!  I have been feeling better lately and I got winter clothes organized and put away so I am thankful for some strength because when you're going it alone till 6:30 5 days a week you need the strength let me tell you!!  We have, despite the long work hours, kept our weekends fairly quiet and planted a little garden and just enjoyed each other.  It's easy to forget that we had these kids to enjoy them and spend time with them.  I am trying to break away from my getter done mentality and take 10 minutes to play Frisbee or take the baby out in her swing.

So some kiddo updates are as follows,  Isabelle, turned 7!!!  We kept her birthday quiet with it being a weeknight and all, this also proved a good choice since she had run a 100 degree temp 3 days prior and wasn't fever free long enough to get to school till after her birthday.  Also this Saturday, we had a fun little girl's day and went shopping, she tried on swimsuits and we ate at Olive Garden and she decided that day she wanted her ears pierced.  I had always told her she could when she is ready or never if she never was ready.  She kept insisting, I painted a realistic, cartilage puncturing picture.  I told she can't leave with just one done, and she doesn't have to at all.  " can I get ice cream if I hold still??"  I told her NO if you can't hold still you aren't ready for them.  So she was determined and she hugged the bear at Claire's and said after the first earring " just give me a second" as she pulled back some tears and we proceeded with the other ear.  She was pretty excited about it.  I so enjoyed my day with my daughter!!  She was an enjoyable real little person you could actually converse with and wasn't just work to bring along like kids are when they are younger.  She is growing way too fast!!
Christian, not much on him other than the fact that he is overdue for a bike and we need to get to the store, he rode his trike behind Isabelle on a walk and got going too fast down a hill and face planted in the cement.  We told him he needed a helmet, he said " why didn't you get me one??"  Because we thought you didn't need one on a trike... so he has a helmet now.  Another thing.  Mitch told me Christian was spelling words on the fridge and he told Mitch " I'm going to spell something inappropriate, how do you spell 'privates'?"  Mitch told him he was NOT going to be doing that.  Christian told him " well I already spelled 'Bum'"  and sure enough there it was, bum, on the fridge.

Baby Lovin Aliza, pulls up on everything, is a little imitator.  She makes kissing sounds when we kiss her, dances, signs" more "when a song ends and signs "all done."  She is snugglie and nestles her little head in my neck and sucks her thumb when she is tired or just because.  She cuddles and hugs stuffed animals and loves to nestle her forehead into yours.  She jabbers na na na, mamamama, dadada, yea yea, if you say shhhhh she makes a hiss sound, if you whisper she will whisper.  She hates getting dressed and bawls if you take something from her like her toothbrush or won't let her go outside.  She LOVES outside!!  She also loves messing up my laundry piles.  She has started the type of play where she like to give me something, then take it back and on and on. funny girl, she crawls around with her toys in her mouth, my little puppy. We started a little early on whole milk and she loves it.  She takes two good naps a day and sleeps from about 8-8 and it's nice not to have get up anymore.  I will put some pics up on shutterfly soon!!