My Sweet Boys

Beautiful weather led to an after-dinner walk this week, followed by an impromptu photo shoot...

Our Little Monkey

Well folks, Cooper turned 8 months a week ago and has learned all kinds of new tricks. He's crawling, pulling up on things, and even walking a little holding onto furniture. He's climbing everything and NEVER SLOWS DOWN. Josiah didn't crawl until after he walked (when he was a year old) so this is a whole new ballgame for us. Cooper chases Josiah everywhere and he's fast! The poor child is going to have a lot of bruises due to his parents' inexperience with this.

I'm so cute, look at me standing up!

Hmm...this room looks more interesting.



Here I go, of course climbing up on something I shouldn't...

Onto the next thing...

A New Cousin!

We have a new cousin!

Anna Elizabeth Alexander

arrived this morning, weighing in at 8.5 lbs and measuring 19.5 inches. Everyone's doing well! We cannot wait to meet her and balance out all of the pink in her life with baseball, bugs, and other boy stuff.

Congrats AK & Scott!

UGGHH

Josiah has seemingly regressed with potty training in the past few days. He was doing great - telling us when he needed to go and making it to the bathroom. In the past few days we have had multiple accidents and he no longer seems to care about getting messy.

Please pray for me - that I would have patience with him and not get angry. And pray for him - that he would make it to his 3rd birthday without getting strangled by his mother :)

Treasures

I know that my worth does not come from material things.

I know I am storing up treasures in heaven, not on earth.

I know I can't take it with me when I go.

I know that my joy comes from the Lord, not from possessions.

But, sometimes they can make me darn happy!

We have been wanting a round kitchen table for a while and were finally able to purchase one with some Christmas money. It was on backorder for about 6 weeks, but is finally here! It's beautiful and it makes me happy. And, no persons under 4 feet are going to bang their heads on any corners during parades through the house. Yay!

To Bella's Delight

Our high chair was just too big. It was always in the way in the kitchen and I was done with it. So, we moved Cooper to the booster seat/high chair and put the other one away. Much to Bella's delight, the new seat is at normal chair level (aka Bella height), therefore greatly diminishing the challenge of stealing food out of the hands of babes. We'll see how this goes!

Seriously, Mom?!? Is she going to take my food?

Oh Well!

So...

When you've been snowed in for days and are getting stir-crazy, this is what happens...

You act goofy in Daddy's shoes

Where are that child's pants? Who is his mother?

And the laundry basket becomes a boat



See any fish?



Birds!

Hopefully the snow is gone soon. I'm ready for flip flops and hours spent outside.