tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44498929252928023832023-11-16T06:06:40.021-06:00Five Lewis CrewJosh Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12676153257623247918noreply@blogger.comBlogger519125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449892925292802383.post-67910384297252270412012-02-01T12:17:00.002-06:002012-02-01T12:17:34.259-06:00wordless wednesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghJCbYhA7O96UKrbDT9H3YU8WnSWWS0NG4LVNj7S-RdXOqRj3Oh0fYJXVxQyQuA-VCmtJ75JqCogB9eJjt5YxLbtxFglLmjANhndIpD7eoh6C-gO1l-r7yd2Liyha8OPwTFnaOJrlbRTZI/s1600/-52-2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghJCbYhA7O96UKrbDT9H3YU8WnSWWS0NG4LVNj7S-RdXOqRj3Oh0fYJXVxQyQuA-VCmtJ75JqCogB9eJjt5YxLbtxFglLmjANhndIpD7eoh6C-gO1l-r7yd2Liyha8OPwTFnaOJrlbRTZI/s1600/-52-2.png" /></a></div>Allison Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02292308532458940508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449892925292802383.post-3101526947634427202012-01-30T10:00:00.000-06:002012-01-30T10:00:29.749-06:00overheard at our house today {big sister edition}izzy <i>(while watching micah be silly and belly-laugh his way through a game)</i>: <b>mommy, thank you so much for bringing micah home. he's my favorite baby!!</b><br />
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<b>izzy</b> <i>(reading her testimony from inside the storage ottoman/baptism pool)</i>: my name is izzy lewis, and i'm almost four years old. i came to know christ not long ago. when i met him he said, "izzy, what are you doing here?" and i said, "jesus, i need your help finding the gruffalo." <br />
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<b>abby:</b> well it's now my privilege to baptize you - my sister in christ - in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit. <br />
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buried with christ...<br />
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and raised to walk in newness of life!!!!!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>and the answer is no. it's not that uncommon to find izzy asleep with a "baby in her belly". :-)Allison Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02292308532458940508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449892925292802383.post-22903766181192454312011-12-07T14:40:00.001-06:002011-12-07T14:40:24.805-06:00wordless wednesday (a watched pot...)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0MryWhymH-OGsRF6kkYWvw5qA1duX8AdKCRxwQxrNPv8BCf0E_nZ5HvqE5yGRotS8P-k0019WgIvgZ3qNdZgyRWNemsDurxA51qPQZZnXJcpkXxswzCwwGqxDaqw0gIGm5YUVOzrkJ7mp/s1600/-1-1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0MryWhymH-OGsRF6kkYWvw5qA1duX8AdKCRxwQxrNPv8BCf0E_nZ5HvqE5yGRotS8P-k0019WgIvgZ3qNdZgyRWNemsDurxA51qPQZZnXJcpkXxswzCwwGqxDaqw0gIGm5YUVOzrkJ7mp/s400/-1-1.png" width="400" /></a></div>Allison Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02292308532458940508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449892925292802383.post-57343668507311870922011-11-30T07:00:00.001-06:002011-11-30T07:00:00.377-06:00wordless wednesday (leaf piles)<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/allisonlewisphotography/6428640127/" title="-8 by allisonlewis2, on Flickr"><img alt="-8" height="320" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6428640127_d08737d387_o.png" width="400" /></a><br />
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but first...<br />
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josh and i decided this year to do something "christmas-y" with the kids each day between now and christmas. we've got a handful of things already on the calendar - baking cookies, watching "rudolph", attending christmas concerts - but the first order of business was getting our tree up as soon as we got back home from our thanksgiving travels. so yesterday we pulled the truckload of boxes out of the closet and set to work. we assembled the tree, hung the lights, and started on the slew of ornaments. the little ones excitedly grabbed handfuls of them out of the "kid box" while i gingerly unwrapped the ornaments out of the "super-special-please-don't-break-these" box. i gently picked up one of my very favorites and turned it over to read the back for the 1000th time - <i>for your child known only by god.</i> then like i have every year since 2005, i wept for the child we lost that year. <br />
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like she has with every little one that has ever been a part of our family, my mom cross-stitched a special gift particularly for that baby and i hang the ornament in a prominent place on the tree each christmas. but this year, as my mind moved from the loss of our second child all those years ago to judah's death last year, i couldn't help but wipe the tears and smile with joy as i remembered a post i wrote last christmas. <a href="http://fivelewiscrew.blogspot.com/2010/12/sixth-stocking.html"><b style="color: #6fa8dc;">the sixth stocking</b></a> is a story of grief and hope - grief over the tremendous loss our family had just experienced but hope that in the next year the lord would bless us with a child. this is the third year that we've hung six stockings on our mantle but it's the first year that our house has been home to six people. and now, just inches from that first ornament made by my mom is another that she recently gave us...<br />
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praising god for his faithfulness!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>psalm 30:5</i></div>Allison Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02292308532458940508noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449892925292802383.post-16689964733425559702011-10-02T21:19:00.001-05:002011-10-02T21:20:15.815-05:00overheard at our house today (the gospel edition)<b>abby</b><i> (while praying): </i>god, please be with all the people who don't know you in china and ethiopia. and in wisconsin.<i><br />
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<i>later while looking at this picture on my phone...</i><br />
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<b>jack:</b> mommy, is that jesus on the cross?<br />
<b>me:</b> no, baby, that's abby in panama city.Allison Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02292308532458940508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449892925292802383.post-79610146247424090552011-09-28T07:00:00.000-05:002011-09-28T07:00:06.518-05:00wordless wednesday (the mailbox)<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/allisonlewisphotography/6187898618/" title="mailbox-9 by allisonlewis2, on Flickr"><img alt="mailbox-9" height="500" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6163/6187898618_8972249757_o.png" width="400" /></a><br />
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"i did it!!!"<br />
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the red plate.<br />
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what's the red plate, you ask? well, it's not much more than a. red. plate. it's more about the <i>who</i> and <i>why</i> of the red plate that makes this tradition so wonderful. anyone who's experiencing something special - a birthday, the first missing tooth, first day of school, anything - gets to eat their meals that day off of the red plate. and today was jack's turn - because our big boy turned FIVE YEARS OLD today!!<br />
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if you can't tell, jack's stuffing his face with a blueberry muffin (filled with five candles, of course!) before we jetted out the door this morning for our second big event of the day. another precious man in my life was celebrating a big milestone as well because as of friday evening this week, my dad will officially be a retiree! his secretary had put together a celebration with several members of his police department and josh, me, my mom, my sister, and our combined seven little people were invited to attend. <br />
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no, the lunch wasn't at the mcdonald's play place, but judging by that crew, it probably should have been. :-)<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>**tracy, in case you're wondering, that IS the original red plate that you gave us as a wedding gift eleven years ago. anytime we've moved it's gotten packed with the 'very important and breakable' box so it doesn't get damaged. and since i didn't feel comfortable carting it into the restaurant for daddy's big manly retirement party, i'll be serving him some goodies on it this weekend.**</i></div>Allison Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02292308532458940508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449892925292802383.post-38810652784841959962011-09-09T07:00:00.001-05:002011-09-09T07:00:14.530-05:00the night owl strikes againwe arrived in marietta on saturday afternoon only to realize that we'd left half our baby gear at home. we didn't forget to put it in the car...we just flat forgot we'd need it. <i>you'd think we've never traveled with a baby before. </i>but one of the joys of mine and josh's younger siblings now birthing babies as well is that they tote around much of the same gear we do. and not only is their gear nicer (let me tell you, a lot's changed in the last three years!) but their younger brains work better than ours so they actually remember to pack what they'll need. <br />
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one of the didn't-make-the-trip items was the baby monitor. since all four of our little peeps were sleeping in one room while josh and i were down the hall in another room, we thought we should make a wal-mart run to get a backup monitor in case micah protested his first night away from home. but before we could make it out the door, josh's sister, rebekah, offered us her ultra-swanky video monitor.<br />
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<i>ummm, hello! </i><br />
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i'll admit that this thought has crossed my mind before: <i>a video monitor? really?!? what do you do? just sit and watch your baby sleep all night?</i><br />
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YES, and it's fantastic! well, i guess there wasn't much <i>sleeping</i> going on while i was eyeing my littlest two, but i got a sweet glimpse into their world together. and what a cute, funny, precious world it is! (my apologies to all the video-monitor-owners out there that i used to secretly giggle at. you may now return the favor because not only did i watch my babies over the monitor for 30 minutes, i took pictures as well!)<br />
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the night owl crept up to micah's crib and whisper-yelled to see if he was awake... <br />
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when he responded with an immediate jump to his feet, playtime soon began.<br />
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i'm usually a pretty big stickler for bedtime, but for some reason it didn't seem all that important on this night. :-)Allison Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02292308532458940508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449892925292802383.post-710657982467816982011-09-08T00:00:00.000-05:002011-09-08T00:00:17.718-05:00where the wild things areit's not just a book...it's a place. and i can say with complete certainty now that it's in pine mountain, ga. on our visit to marietta over labor day, josh's family took us on our first "wild animal safari", and we all came home disgustingly filthy...but full of smiles.<br />
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if you ask izzy what her favorite part of the day was, she'll tell you with an excited flair that it was the <i>gruffalos</i>. ironically, she'll also ID that as the part she didn't care for so much. but who can blame her? i was thrilled/terrified as well when the massive monsters moved from outside our van window to head-completely-<i>in</i>-breathing-and-slobbering-in-our-faces...<br />
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this is when izzy and i almost made a run for it...<br />
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sometimes, though, massive heads or expansive horns got in the way of the animals being able to put their whole heads through the window. no worries, though...that's why god made two-foot-long tongues. EEEEK!<br />
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and if you're wondering about micah, he wasn't such a fan of the whole mess at first. for all you fellow adoptive parents out there, i know what you're thinking, and in my defense, <i>i had no idea the gruffalos would actually try to get <b>inside</b> the car with us.</i> there was no turning back once we had entered the gates...<br />
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but he eventually calmed down in my arms and was content to work the finger-of-much-soothing while he cuddled with grandpam. <br />
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you know, now that i think about it, i think the squeals of delight might have been as "exciting" for him as anything else. see for yourself - and enjoy jack's bull's-eye at the :32 mark (or should i say bull's-<i>nose</i>)...<br />
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i loved hearing abby encourage izzy and share in her excitement. if only i had a nickel for each time i heard her say, <i>isabel, only ____ more days until you get to start ballet!!</i><br />
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but ballet wasn't the only first this week. we were ecstatic to be asked to join in a homeschool co-op with a couple of sweet friends for this year, and yesterday was the kids' first day at "<a href="http://toomanybs.blogspot.com/"><b>miss bwook</b></a>'s house". <br />
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(please excuse the direct-sun-freak-out my blue-eyed little ones are doing in that last photo.) :-)Allison Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02292308532458940508noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449892925292802383.post-21390298248317335522011-08-29T09:55:00.000-05:002011-08-29T09:55:19.789-05:00music appreciation {lewis style}jack got his <b>red guitar<a href="http://fivelewiscrew.blogspot.com/2010/12/if-you-could-have-just-heard-squealing.html"></a></b> fixed this week, and our ears are all bleeding a little now because of it. we finally decided to take him out in the yard so the <i>whole</i> neighborhood could partake in the joy, and i shot a couple of minutes of concert video. in loading the video into my movies folder, i saw a bit of a theme that i'd like to share with you. please enjoy <i>music appreciation: lewis style</i>.<br />
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my favorite moments:<br />
the acrobatic feat at 0:46<br />
the sudden burst of hunger at 0:54<br />
jack's transformation from 1:14 to 1:25<br />
and finally, the lumberjack-esque dance at 1:42.<br />
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<br />Allison Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02292308532458940508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449892925292802383.post-63118225192862200052011-08-23T07:00:00.000-05:002011-08-23T07:00:07.946-05:00birthmarks {learning to do "man-work"}<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/allisonlewisphotography/6069968181/" title="Untitled-1 by allisonlewis2, on Flickr"><img alt="Untitled-1" height="320" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6068/6069968181_18ec3b280f_o.png" width="400" /></a><br />
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and now for the girly-girl version of yardwork...<br />
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<br />Allison Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02292308532458940508noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449892925292802383.post-29665265805792562182011-08-22T10:58:00.000-05:002011-08-22T10:58:42.036-05:00the anniversaryi woke up before the sun had yet risen thinking about him, but there were no tears, no falling apart. just that quiet sadness that's forever mingled with a contented peace.<br />
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last saturday was the one year anniversary of judah's death.<br />
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i was in memphis shooting <b>anna and scott's wedding<a href="http://www.allisonlewisphotography.com/anna-and-scott-memphis-wedding-photography"></a></b>, and i knew that the whole day would be a whirlwind of activity and excitement. i thought that would probably be best. in fact, between getting out of the hotel, inhaling breakfast after a snafu at the local cracker barrel, making a wrong turn on the way to the church (my precious second-shooter, anna rootie, and i aren't the best navigators), and running around getting everything set up once we arrived, i truly hadn't had much time beyond those first early-morning moments to think about him or about what august 13 had held for our family just one year ago.<br />
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as i usually do, i met and chatted with some of the other wedding vendors for the day and ended up in conversation with the florist who was wrapping up the final details on her gorgeous work. as she was preparing to leave, she asked if i would do her a favor. <i>sure</i>, i replied.<br />
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there's one more set of flowers right here, but i don't have a name for who it belongs to. it's for a friend of anna's who lost her son last year at this time. anna asked if i would make it the same as the others but add a single blue rose in the center. would you mind helping me find who this belongs to?</i><br />
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as she looked away from the flowers to my face, my tears gave it away. <i>i think that friend might be me</i>, i said quietly. she put her hands over her mouth and said, <i>i didn't know. i'm so sorry.</i> i thanked her over and over for her beautiful work and assured her that the tears were all sweet now. yes, they still come easily when i talk a lot about judah, but crying doesn't necessarily mean anything bad. it just means i'm feeling.<br />
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thank you, anna, for such a precious and thoughtful gift to <i>me</i> on such an amazing day for <i>you</i>. i treasure the many calls and messages you've sent me throughout our adoption journey, and i'm so thankful for your constant encouragement. i love you, friend.<br />
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