Today this baby turns six months.
Good heavens, how I adore this baby girl.
Wordless Wednesday: Joy
Adore her!
Our World
So we added a few new faces around here, but due to protecting them in the world of Internet you fellow readers won’t be seeing them. 😉 But even in protecting their identities I can still share our lives with you all. =)
So our table looks like this…. daily. (only I’m usually there).
And this is how we do everything now:
And we have one more happy helper:
And our car is full:
And WE LOVE IT!!!!
Now let’s just help convince this guy to sleep through the night. 😉
And he’s even cuter in person. 😉
A Review
Last week:
- Celebrated Aunt Sarah’s 19th Birthday with the fam.
- Big Guy, Rachael and I took the cats to the yearly vet appointment on Monday and got their shots updated in time to give the record to our caseworker on Wednesday.
- Started only blogging when the kids are in bed/asleep.
- Little Man started rolling from belly to back. (YAY!!!)
- We focused on sleep training for Little Man and reintroduced sleeping in his bassinet after he had to sleep the past two weeks in a bouncer due to sickness drainage.
- Almost broke Abi’s new bad habit of getting out of her bed when told to go to sleep. (We’re pretty well there.)
- Moved Hannah out of Matt and my room (we’re no longer dueling bassinets on either side of the bed. YAY!) into “the girls’ room” where she did AWESOME in the transition and continued her middle-of-the-night feeding (around 4am) without disturbing her sisters.
- Matt and I had our first date night in weeks (months?) – thanks Grandpa for staying with the masses. =D
- Hannah had her follow-up Dr. appt for her double ear infection, thus ending antibiotics.
- Big Guy had his physical done for preschool with shots (boo).
- Hannah started solid food. (Yay peas!!!)
- Big Guy toured the preschool that he started today. (YAY!!!!! He likes!!!!)
- Our foster care caseworker visited and met our new kids. =)
- The boys’ GAL (court attorney voice) visited and gave me much more info about the case.
- We had a second outbreak of lice (BOO!!!!!!) and this time my 2 yr old got it. (SO not cool).
- Began planning for and hunting for tickets for our trip to CA in April. (WOOT!!!)
- Upward basketball practice for Daddy and a movie night for us.
- Nit combing, nit combing, nit combing…. hair treating (non-toxic, but still annoying).
- Matt went to his brother’s Bachelor’s party.
- Matt’s brother William married his lovely fiance (and now bride), Koutrney, Saturday so we hauled the masses out there to attend and celebrate.
- I tried to do homeschooling prep so we could start homeschooling this week (goodbye 3.5 week break!!)
- I cleaned like a beast, rearranged our room a bit (since Hannah moved out), caught up on my Bible Study, got those “twins” back on a feasible post-sickness schedule, treated our cloth diapers and got “the twins” into cloth, got my laundry routine rolling.
- And we OVERCAME LICE!!!!!!!!!
And I survived to tell it all.
(Deep breath) Feels good to be almost on track! =D
4th Birthday Cuteness
So here’s Rachael’s 4th Birthday cuteness in pictures. =)
my dear friend, Darlene, sent us this wreath to welcome home our Hannah. It has a clip on sign saying “welcome home Hannah” that can be replaced with this “happy birthday” clip on sign. Then the sign also has a clip attached to it and a name tag for each of the girls. SO thoughtful and super cute.
We started the weekend out with our intermediate family fun.
and we let Rachael struggle with Aunt Jes’ tape job. 😉
She didn’t complain once, especially post-gift.
Then on Saturday we had the family over to celebrate with a brunch and festivities:
our chefs.
our fine china via Rachael’s choice.
clown pancakes
making princess party hats (and knights for the boys)
pin the crown on the princess
pinata with strings (no we weren’t going to beat Ariel with a stick – that would have traumatized my kids)
the cutest little onlooker
And caked goodness. =)
with Daddy’s help again this year.
Then came the surprise slumber party with a friend that night. It was the first slumber party for Rachael and Josie both. =)
Watching a movie together WITH POPCORN!!! (simple excitements)
dance breaks during the songs, naturally
And then this happened:
=D
Wonderful time, indeed!
Music Monday: Be Still
I remember sitting on the floor in my room, well before the household awoke and listening to this song each morning. It was still frosty and cold and I had to get going to make it in time to High School. But I made it a point to sit, sometimes praying, sometimes reading the Word during that time, but many times just sitting with open hands and letting the song pray for me.
He is God.
Then when I went off to college I remember sitting in the hallway outside my dorm room. It was too early and my roommate wouldn’t let me keep a light on, so I sat in the hallway, in the corner of our fourth floor dorm building each morning at 5, just praying and reading the Word. Since my french class started at 8a I got up every morning at 5a, going to bed early despite the bustle of college, so I could spend however long the Holy Spirit led me to pour over God’s Word.
It was still.
Not a soul was awake on the floor.
The showers were vacant and the fall air crisp on that Tennessee morning.
After a quick shower, sometimes foregoing one because I ran out of time, I walked across the campus to this soundtrack.
Frost hung in the cold breeze. Hardly a soul in sight as the campus slept.
It was still.
And I knew that there was, and is, and will be forever… God.
This song is very dear to my heart.