Love 'Em

 I LOVE this picture of Luke and Levi.  Luke is so precious and has the sweetest smile.  Levi is packing them on!  He is super long so he doesn't look as chunky.  Halle loves to have her picture taken with Levi.  She calls him Gigi-moo.  She says it over and over in this obnoxiously precious voice.  We have no idea where that came from.  She says she just thought of it.

Today we went to the toy store.  Luke peed his pants as soon as we walked in the door.  My bad for thinking he didn't need to go when we got up from his nap an hour and a half before.  NEVER trust a 3 year olds word about going to the bathroom!  Halle has been picking out gifts and asking me to take her picture with the gift so I don't forget about it!  Such a ham!

Notice Halle's shirt!  I tell her weekly Luke is her BFF!  She often says she like Levi better.  I remind her when he starts stealing her toys she will realize how great Luke is.  Also, what a smile she has:)  That is hard to capture.  We usually get the princess pose.  

Little Update

I think about blogging everyday.  I think about what I would blog about if I had 10 minutes and a computer in reach.  I think about all kinds of "blogging stuff".  I really want to be a consistent blogger but I do not have a computer or the time.  I know blogging would be therapeutic for me if I could just DO IT!

Levi will be 2 months tomorrow.  I think it is safe to say he is an amazing baby!  He is so content and so unbelievably precious.  He would be a perfect baby if would sleep longer stretches at night.  He enjoys Halle and Luke sooo much.  His face lights up when they come around.  He is smiling like crazy now too!  He is finally getting some chunk on his thighs.  I say finally because Halle and Luke both came home from the hospital with chunk.  He is really long and although it is not noticeable he is in the process of graduating to 3-6 month sleepers.  All of a sudden today I noticed he can barely stretch out his legs.

I am feeling more and more confident these days that we are DONE having children....at least giving birth to another one.  Levi is so amazing and I am enjoying him sooo much.  Halle was amazing but she was the 1st so I stressed EVERYTHING.  Luke was easier but was a pill so he was not that pleasant.  We held Luke all the time.  He was screaming if he was tired, screamed when we changed his diaper, screamed to eat.....you all know Luke.  He is the sweetest little child but lives on the dramatic side!  Levi on the other hand never screams.  Well, he may scream a few times a week and fuss once or twice a day.  He is laying in his crib, awake, quiet as a church mouse, suppose to be going to sleep.  He is happy in his chair or his swing or just laying on the bed.  I could not ask for a more pleasant baby.  I am so thankful.  I think the Lord new I needed Levi just as he is.  He melts my heart.  It is such a reminder of His love for us.  The love that consumes every inch of my heart does not hold a light to the love Christ feels for his children.  I am trying to soak in every second of every day.  Enjoy every minute I am nursing and staring at his precious face, so innocent and pure.  I love to hold him and feel his tiny little hand lay on my chest.  I would love to hold Halle and Luke at this age for just a minute or 2.

Luke turned 3 on Saturday.  It is amazing how your heart is capable of loving each child differently yet loving them the same.  LT, Bam Bam, Dash, Lukey, Bud, Buddy......the kid of many nicknames.  Luke is so full of life and love.  He is ALL boy....crazy and rough yet surprisingly gentle.  A wheel broke off one of his cars.  David showed him and told him it was broken.  Luke's face lit up and said, "Dad, you can fix it because you fix stuff.  You are a good fixer.  Let me go get your tools".  He is so animated and full of life.  He loves Halle and she is already the apple of his eye.  He does occasionally throw a shoe at her for not getting his way but overall he adores her.  She for the most part does great with him as well.  She is patient with him, mindful of him, and can hang with him physically.  Lastly, I do not have time to proof read this so pardon my grammatical errors!

Well, here are all 3 of the kids, each at 1 month. Putting them all together you can see they all kinda look the same. Levi is 9 lbs and 9 oz. Luke was 12 lbs and 14 oz and Halle was 11 lbs and 9 oz. Fun stuff!

Dead Batteries

On the way to Awana's on Wednesday I was helping Halle practice her verse and was asking her questions about it. Gen 1:31 "All He had made was very good." I asked her to tell me some things He made. She talked for a few minutes and then said, "mom, the batteries in my mouth are going dead".

David yelled to Luke to come upstairs. He said he couldn't so David just went down. Luke was standing on the sink.....one foot on each side with his hands on the mirror. That morning Luke brought David his poopy pull-up and sat it on his pillow! Luke has been bonkers this week!

TGIF? I am not sure if I am excited about it being Friday or not. Tomorrow is game day in Blacksburg and Sunday is David watches NFL Sunday ticket all day. My bad for encouraging that one! I enjoy some football but in case you aren't familiar with Sunday ticket......we have access to EVERY game that is being played.

The cabinets are coming along! David has one wall of uppers hung with doors on!! We just need to add the hardware and they are DONE! We haven't been super productive this week. By the time Halle and Luke are in bed and I feed Levi we are wiped! Levi did great last night. I am waiting for the day I put him down and wake up 5-6 hours later wondering what time it is. I guess that is expecting a miracle from a 4 week old.....at least a child of mine. Although I am thankful for 3-4 hours of consecutive sleep!

Being 4 weeks out from a C-section I feel really good and can not really tell I was sliced 4 weeks ago. I still would choose a natural birth hands down!! Do NOT plan on having to make that decision again. Pretty sure this last experience sealed the deal on that one!!

My 1st Attempt of Being Back....

I have great intentions of being a "blogger" but it may take a few attempts to accomplish it! I can't believe today is my official due date and Levi has been here for 2 weeks and 3 days. I have been pleasantly surprised at how well my 1st week of a mom of 3 has gone. Luke has been our most difficult one. We made the mistake of potty training the Saturday before my section....obviously not knowing I only had 5 days with Luke instead of the 2-3 weeks I was hoping for. Poor little guy's world was a little shaken. The kids are super sweet to Levi and are very excited to have him here. I feel like our expectations from the kids automatically were raised to a higher level which is NOT fair to them. Mr. Levi has been a very easy baby thus far and we are keeping our fingers crossed that he doesn't wake up a terror in the next few weeks. He just eats and sleeps! If he is awake he just chills and looks around. Luke was screaming or fussing if he was awake so we are truly enjoying our delightful newborn!

Yesterday the kids had a make-up gymnastics and then David took Halle to Lowe's to get her princess gardening gloves for her to wear to pick up apples. David is really enjoying mowing our yard.....I think he mowed it 3 times this week:) He put the kids to work picking up apples and paying them 1 cent per apple. They each earned $1.25. They found a little frog in the process that they carried around and tortured (not really)! It was a great Saturday, perfect weather, a mid-morning walk, and the smell of fresh cut grass!

David is making great progress on the basement. He is finishing the drop ceiling and wiring the electrical. I hope to start the process of putting together the Ikea cabinets this week. I have the most wonderful husband and I am so thankful for him! He has been amazing, he has been my rock and my brain!

Try This Again....

So I haven't blogged since December. I am not sure where to start.....we returned home from Clearwater Monday afternoon. Luke went to bed with a fever on Sunday and it is still lingering now. He and Halle both have nasty coughs as well. I am just praying his fever breaks tonight!!

A funny from the beach......I will start by saying Luke loves the David and Golitha story from his little storybook Bible. We have read it 100 times and Halle can recite it from another room without even seeing the pages. So, we were on the beach and Katie was down at the water with Luke and Halle. She brings Luke up to me and ask him to tell me what did. He says, "threw rock".....Katie tells him to tell me where he threw the rock and he says, "threw the rock at the giant".....the giant being the elderly man walking down the beach.

David was pretty laid back but the one thing he was determined to see was the raging bull! By golly we found it too! He wanted to see the financial district as well. Everyone was standing around waiting to handle the bull's boys. We assumed it was for good luck?!? Anyone who knows the answer to that feel free to make a comment. The FD was a little quieter and there weren't as many people down there, except for at ground zero.