Little Miss Growing

 First Day of Second Grade... second grade....good grief.

 Isabelle did a little cheerleading camp and performed with a MASS of other girls before the varsity game.  We couldn't even find her in the crowd!!  But we got some cute pics right after.  It was cute watching her practice. :)

Last night Mitch asked the kids if they wanted to watch and episode of X Men, Christian was excited and Isabelle said " I want to watch Hoarders!"  She has also told her daddy that the inside of his car looks like Hoarders.  She is growing up so fast and becoming a little person to laugh with and enjoy.  We've had a couple of "girl's nights".  She gets pretty excited.  I love mother/daughterness. :):)  Gotta make supper....

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