A Saturday Family night out with friends. We went and had a picnic with some friends who are transitionals residents with us here in Washington. We always have a great time and are so thankful to have meet them.
Saturday
Thursday
Big Special Thanks to Brian and Melissa
My Brother Brian and his wife Melissa made this speical announcement for us. I wish they had acquired this talent before we had had all of our other kids. They do such a great job! Thank you tons and tons for this special gift!
Josie is now 6 Weeks old! I still can't believe it, but am so thankful that she is growing big and strong. On Tuesday we had an appointment with the doctor, and Josie weighs almost exactly 3 lbs more than her birth weight! She weighs 8lbs 9.5 oz! (Angie, I can't believe your babies start out this size.) Josie also grew in heigth and is almost 3 inches taller than she was when she was born. She is now 21 inches! She is definitely my fastest grower!
We love her so much, and can't wait for more of you to meet her!
Wednesday
I get the Joy of Re-Discovering you...
Deeken and Micah
With Noah back in school, Micah and Deeken are getting back to playing with each other. They both love and miss Noah, but it is such a different dynamic with out him around most of the day. Micah is very motherly with Deeken and takes good care of him. Deeken is eating it up. He loves having all of Micah's attention. I think they will be good buddies for a very long time.
Between Due Dates
My due date was either the 2nd or 4th of September depending on who, what calculator, or the ultrasound, you trusted. I tried to be creative and see what it would look like if Josie were still inside me, but with Micah as my only photographer option, they didn't quite turn out how I wanted. Oh well, I got to play with my edit tools, and that was fun.
I am so glad I didn't have to carry Josie this long. Although, I doubt she would be as big as she is now if I had. They say a baby gains a half a pound a week in the womb in the last few weeks. Outside the womb Josie is gaining up to 12 oz a week. I have no idea how much she weighs, but that would be interesting to find out.
Anyway, I am glad she came early. She is an intresting addition to the mix, and is making things intresting with the starting of school. I can only imagine what it would be like if I was in the hospital right now.
Happy five weeks tomorrow Josie!
Tuesday
BACK TO SCHOOL
TO SHOW MOM I AM SUPER COOL!
Noah started First Grade and Micah started her second year of Preschool.
Man! What good-looking school goers!
This is Noah's cool first grader poise!
This is Micah waiting for Noah to run back and get his apple from Dad in the car. There could have been some major drama if we didn't have an apple for his teacher, Mrs Shelly-Ray. Good thing I happened to have some in the fridge. It's a tradition we have done every year since Noah started Preschool. He read it in a little critter book, and thought it was a must. I thought it was a very common thing to do, so when Noah's first teacher said no one had ever given her one, I was pretty surprised.
Here is the rescued apple. He ran right into the school with it, so I have no idea what his teachers reaction was to it.
Here is his teacher. She kind of looks like a frail little thing. I hope she can hold her own with 26 kids!
This is it! That first day feeling, your own desk (space) with your name on your desk. It takes me back to those good old days. Noah had something waiting to color on his desk. he was so big, he looked at Wesley(the kid next to him), and said, "What color are you going to color that?" It wasn't so he could copy. It was just a friendly conversation starter. My oldest baby is growing up.
Here is Micah, ready to be a preschooler once again...and she remembered her apple.
She didn't have too much of a 'cool preschooler poise,' she was too excited to get inside!
My questions for Micah after her first day(first hour) of preschool was So how was school?Micah: Great, I got candy!
Me: What did you think of your teacher?
Micah: She's old!
Ohhhh, well...don't say that to her face, okay!?!
Deeken got to play with toys at the preschool, while Micah had her first day hour. He is an excellent pre-preschooler!
And the day ended well, with a short walk for just Noah and I...the best part, no bus trauma this year!!!
I think all in all, the first day was a success, although
When Noah and I got out to take him to school Deeken got sad, and John said, "Don't worry Deeken, Mommy will be right back." Deeken: "Noah...Noah!" (Tears)
I think we are going to have to come up with fun things for Deeken to do, but I don't think we'll have to try to hard, as you can tell, he is pretty good at entertaining himself.
Monday
Piggies
When Deeken was born and Micah came to see him in the hospital, she looked at his toes and said, "His PIGGIES are wittle, wittle, wittle!"
I love these toes, they make it possible for the cutest run ever to happen. They carry around the cutest smile in the world. I love them because they cause the greatest laugh to roll out of the cutest tummy when I play 'this little piggy went to market" on them.
I love My little Deekers and his toes too!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
