and the answer is no. it's not that uncommon to find izzy asleep with a "baby in her belly". :-)
Showing posts with label the little people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the little people. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
hope fulfilled
i know you're probably surprised to hear from me. after all, as my mom pointed out recently, it has been close to two months since i've written. i've accepted that because of the nature of my business, this little blog will probably have some major peaks and valleys, but as the fall rush is gradually slowing i'm ready to once again overwhelm your eyeballs with photos of my darlings.
but first...
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 - for your child known only by god. then like i have every year since 2005, i wept for the child we lost that year.
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. the sixth stocking 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...
praising god for his faithfulness!
but first...
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 - for your child known only by god. then like i have every year since 2005, i wept for the child we lost that year.
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. the sixth stocking 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...
praising god for his faithfulness!
weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
psalm 30:5
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
the red plate and two of my men
the year josh and i got married we moved to nashville, TN for a time of leaving and cleaving. for those of you who know the whole story, you know that unfortunately, nashville wasn't that great to us. but one of the huge gifts that did come during that time was the ability to spend a lot of time with my cousin and her husband who lived just a hop, skip, and a jump down the road. tracy and todd had this particular tradition that they had done within their own family for a while, and when we got married they passed it on to us.
the red plate.
what's the red plate, you ask? well, it's not much more than a. red. plate. it's more about the who and why 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!!
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.
no, the lunch wasn't at the mcdonald's play place, but judging by that crew, it probably should have been. :-)
the red plate.
what's the red plate, you ask? well, it's not much more than a. red. plate. it's more about the who and why 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!!
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.
no, the lunch wasn't at the mcdonald's play place, but judging by that crew, it probably should have been. :-)
**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.**
Thursday, September 8, 2011
where the wild things are
it'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.
if you ask izzy what her favorite part of the day was, she'll tell you with an excited flair that it was the gruffalos. 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-in-breathing-and-slobbering-in-our-faces...
this is when izzy and i almost made a run for it...
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!
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 had no idea the gruffalos would actually try to get inside the car with us. there was no turning back once we had entered the gates...
but he eventually calmed down in my arms and was content to work the finger-of-much-soothing while he cuddled with grandpam.
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-nose)...
if you ask izzy what her favorite part of the day was, she'll tell you with an excited flair that it was the gruffalos. 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-in-breathing-and-slobbering-in-our-faces...
this is when izzy and i almost made a run for it...
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!
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 had no idea the gruffalos would actually try to get inside the car with us. there was no turning back once we had entered the gates...
but he eventually calmed down in my arms and was content to work the finger-of-much-soothing while he cuddled with grandpam.
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-nose)...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
the day is here. the hour has arrived.
izzy has wanted to be a "ballewina" for as long as her big sister's been donning slippers for her weekly class. and after an entire summer of asking if it was time to go yet, izzy's big day finally arrived and she had her first ballet class this week.
i loved hearing abby encourage izzy and share in her excitement. if only i had a nickel for each time i heard her say, isabel, only ____ more days until you get to start ballet!!
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 "miss bwook's house".
(please excuse the direct-sun-freak-out my blue-eyed little ones are doing in that last photo.) :-)
i loved hearing abby encourage izzy and share in her excitement. if only i had a nickel for each time i heard her say, isabel, only ____ more days until you get to start ballet!!
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 "miss bwook's house".
(please excuse the direct-sun-freak-out my blue-eyed little ones are doing in that last photo.) :-)
Monday, August 29, 2011
music appreciation {lewis style}
jack got his red guitar 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 whole 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 music appreciation: lewis style.
my favorite moments:
the acrobatic feat at 0:46
the sudden burst of hunger at 0:54
jack's transformation from 1:14 to 1:25
and finally, the lumberjack-esque dance at 1:42.
my favorite moments:
the acrobatic feat at 0:46
the sudden burst of hunger at 0:54
jack's transformation from 1:14 to 1:25
and finally, the lumberjack-esque dance at 1:42.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
the importance of flushing
lots of us have funny photos that look a little something like this...
but i hope that none of you have had the experience of finding what i did today. while preparing lunch this afternoon, micah went missing. i be-bopped around the living room and school room area until i finally discovered him in the bathroom...eating used toilet paper out of the potty that some other little person had forgotten to flush.
really wish i was making this up...
but i hope that none of you have had the experience of finding what i did today. while preparing lunch this afternoon, micah went missing. i be-bopped around the living room and school room area until i finally discovered him in the bathroom...eating used toilet paper out of the potty that some other little person had forgotten to flush.
really wish i was making this up...
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