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My little Peanut

I just love this picture. It captures how Gracie feels about her little sister perfectly. I'm so thankful that they are such good friends. Gracie is SO protective of that little sister. From the moment we brought Lu home from the hospital Gracie has taken over the roll of body guard VERY seriously. The day we brought Lucie home from the hospital was Halloween. Jeff took Gracie and Isaac out trick or treating while I stayed home with Lu and my Dad was here from Boise. When Gracie got home my dad was the one holding Lucie and she started bawling. "That's our baby! He can't have her" She was so upset. She would get so stressed out if anyone else was holding Lucie.



Fast forward a year and nothing has changed. We were at Isaac's Christmas program last month and I was signing the check out sheet to take Isaac home after it got over. Grandpa F was holding Lu while I signed the paper. Gracie starts crying and freaking out. I try to calm her down and ask her what the matter is and through tears she says "he has our baby!" She was worried Grandpa was going to take her Lu home. She is such a good big sister. I never imagined she would even stop long enough to have anything to do with Lu let alone spend so much time playing with her and taking care of her.
She looks so much like Isaac did when he was a baby but she has Gracie's exact coloring and the curls have already started so we'll have two curly haired little girls. Which as their mom I was hoping for. I love the curls and I knew Lu would be jealous when they were older if she didn't have them. It will give them one less thing to fight about.
Lucie has taken the roll of baby on very well. She was my latest crawler. She doesn't sign or talk like my other two did. She's very good at calling for Isaac or Gracie and she knows thats all she has to do to get what she wants or needs. Gracie carries her everywhere so she isn't walking. She will walk along the couch and walls and the past few weeks shes started standing on her own. She took a few steps last week but that has been all we have seen of that.
She knows how much we all love her and she's quite babied. I think Jeff and I appreciate how hard it was to get her here and very realistically she is our last baby so we are trying to enjoy every last minute of it and the kids just love the spirit she brings into our home and feed off of it. Everyone gathers to where Lu is. She's our little peanut and I'm so glad she's a part of our little family.

Back

Okay I think I've neglected this poor little blog long enough. What a better time to start over than the new year so here goes. Hopefully I do alot better about posting on here this year. Here's some New Years Eve photos to start us off.
Aren't they the cutest sisters ever. I LOVE having two girls. They are the best of friends and Gracie is so protective of her. I love it.


Here's to 2011!!!

Love

My little peanut is growing up way to fast for my liking. She is 9 months old and I'm not sure where the time has gone. Although I do know I have slowed down and enjoyed her being a baby more than my other two. I'm not sure if it's because I now know how fast they grow up so I knew I needed to treasure each and every moment more or if it's because she is very likely our last baby so I wanted to enjoy every last moment or if it's because with the third baby I'm no longer obsessed with what every one else sees or thinks. My brain is totally gone ;)
At 9 months Lucie is
*Rolling everywhere
*Loving foods
*still no teeth
*Loves her brother and sister more than air
*Waves
*lifts her hands up the second her daddy gets home and if he doesn't scoop her up instantly oh the crocodile tears that come.
*She loves baby food but veggi's are her favorite.
*She's pushing up but not crawling yet. (I'm enjoying this one while it lasts)
*Loves her sippy cup
*Can and loves to drink from a straw
*She loves to snuggle

watermark Testing

Blue Angels

We have been running in and out of our house all week at the sound of these flying over our house. It has been so fun and the kids are so excited for the show tomorrow.

happy 4th of July!!!

The 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays. I love the traditions and celebrations. I am so Thankful we live where we can celebrate and enjoy our freedoms.
The day started with breakfast at our house. Everyone came over and we made pancakes, sausage, bacon, fruit and a really yummy crock pot breakfast casserole that was so yummy! Our house is right on the parade route so after breakfast we went to our saved places and enjoyed the parade. It was SO cold! Right after this picture Lucie went back into her jacket and with a blanket wrapped around her. The kids are to the age that they really love the parade so it was fun.
After the parade we went to my mom's for a BBQ. It finally warmed up a little bit and we just enjoyed hanging out with family. The kids LOVE playing with their cousins. I love this picture of Gracie and Lucie. As a mom you always want your kids to get along and love each other. I'm so lucky and thankful that my kids really do. Both Isaac and Gracie love this little sister. It's so cute and fun to watch them with her.


After the BBQ we went home and relaxed for a bit so everyone wouldn't be too tired for the fireworks. Then we headed down to the greenbelt and found a great spot and hung out. Again it started to get chilly but it was still fun. Lucie slept through the whole thing. The Melaleuca Freedom Celebration was wonderful as always. We are very lucky we live somewhere that does such a great firework display and such a fun 4th.

Happy Mothers Day

I have been blessed to spend my day with these beautiful people. I am so blessed to be their mom and am thankful for them. All the years of not knowing and not having a baby in my arms to hold and love were some of the hardest. I truly appreciate the blessing these babies are in my life and the miracles they are. They are my whole world. I was telling Jeff today I never dreamed I would be the stay at home mom that cooks and sews. But I love it. It is the most rewarding job and something that I love more than anything. I'm so grateful I have a wonderful husband that takes care of us so I have the opportunity to stay home with our babies.

Perspectve

Loved this. What a good reminder of how blessed we are and how near our Heavenly Father is during our trials.

Babies Don't Keep

A big Thank you to Leslie over at A Room Somewhere for sharing this poem on her guest spot today.

Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth
empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
hang out the washing and butter the bread,
sew on a button and make up a bed.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.


Oh, I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peek-a-boo).
The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew
and out in the yard there's a hullabaloo,
but I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren't her eyes the most wonderful hue?
(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).


The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
for children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

I've tried really hard not to feel guilty for the messy house, dirty dishes and pile of to-do lists. I've come to realize how fast these precious moments go by and I just want to enjoy my children. I've been lucky enough to have some great advice from mom's. Twenty years from now I won't care what my house looked like or if there were dishes that were dirty. I will remember the moments with my children. I don't know anybody that has grown children that wishes they wouldn't have held them as much as they did. So for now I'm letting the cobwebs stay and the dishes sit while I take these moments to enjoy these beautiful people I've been blessed with.