9 months old

Happy Valentine's Day

"Whatever our souls are made of,

his and mine are the same."

-Emily Bronte

8 months old

usually i post a pic of her looking right at the camera because her eyes are so amazing but i loved this one. she is looking at her big brother here, who is the light of her life. she loves to watch him and will stop anything she is doing to do so.

Tigger Ears

i am a total blogger slacker over a month after getting little guy's tigger ears i am finally posting a picture.
oh well at least i managed to get it posted.
he's really good about wearing them even though he protests ever time it's time to put them in.
he tells me "no tigger ears" but then he sits there very still and lets me put them in.
that's him though.
i ask him, "do you want oatmeal?"
he says, "no oatmeal." then follows that statement with "i want oatmeal."
it's exauting and funny at the same time.

Matthew 11:28

"come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden,

and I will give you rest.

take My yoke upon you and learn from Me,

for I am gentle and humble in heart,

and you will find rest for your souls.

for My yoke is easy

and My burden is light."

7 months old

Books read in 2010...

Sweet Dreams-Robin Jones Gunn
A Promise is Forever-Robin Jones Gunn
Treasury of Miracles for Friends-Karen Kingsbury
Witch on the Water-Christene and Ethan Rose
The Lucky One-Nicholas Sparks
Belong to Me-Marisa DeLos Santos
Girls in Pants(the 3rd Summer of the Sisterhood)-Ann Brashares
The Handmaids Tale-Margaret Atwood
The Last Song-Nicholas Sparks
The Five People you Meet in Heaven-Mitch Albom
Baby Wise (second time through)-Gary Ezzo
Love and Respect-Emmerson
Take One-Karen Kingsbury
Take Two-Karen Kingsbury
Take Three-Karen Kingsbury
Take Four-Karen Kingsbury

16 books
no nearly close to the 52 that i read last year
reading more books
something to try to do for 2011

Blogging through 2010...

the 5th anniversary of blogging through....
i went to the first post of every month and wrote the first sentence or line of that post (not the title, unless there is no text.
i love looking back and reading what the beginning of each month held.
here goes.....

January: i'm a little late posting but better late than never, right?!?!

February: for this movie

March: hope things warm up soon

April: trying to decide on a camera strap and not sure which one

May: my little levi's man

June: i am so behind on updating the blog

July: my one month old girl

August: my girl is two months old

September: 3 month old girl

October: 4 month old girl

November: 5 month old girl

December: 6 month old girl

when you daughter is born on the first of the month and you get pictures and post them every month....that becomes the first post of the month. i love it though
next year will probably be different. :)

Happy 2011!

Tigger Ears Day 1

today little guy got his tigger ears a.k.a. hearing aids. it went pretty well too. a lot of it was going over the process of using them with us and how to put them in and change batteries and store them but then we were able to put them in his ears.

little guy has been somewhat traumatized over the past couple of months. he got stitches in august and then had them removed and just last week he got his flu shot along with a finger prick for a diabetes test, which came back borderline so they had to draw blood. to sum that up he isn't diabetic, good news.

so when it was time to get the hearing aids in he was not to thrilled with it. even when we held them up to baby girl he was still apprehensive. he kept saying no owie, no owie. reassurance wasn't enough that he wasn't getting an owie. once we got them in all was fine and he let us put them in and take them out a couple of times.

we got some of it on video and i will try and post it later. the audiologist told us that since he has some hearing function that the wow factor when we put them in wouldn't be as great as if it was a child with little to no hearing function. he was very quiet though. he just sat there and listened. the audiologist had some noise makers and was using them to test to see if there were any noises that were to loud that hurt his ears. all noises were fine. in fact the most annoying ones were his favorite (go figure).

he is doing pretty well with them in though. there are times when he reaches for them and wants to pull them out and says all done but we just let him know that it is okay and he forgets about them again.

while it is something that i would have never wished for my child i am super glad that for now there is something that we can do to help him to hear better. they are very cute on him. Christmas came early for us. we are thrilled.

i'll keep posting as new things happen in our every growing adventures with this little person that God has entrusted us with. but for now that is all i have. hopefully pictures to come soon.

Tigger Ears

tomorrow is the big day
we will be getting little guy's tigger ears (a.k.a.) hearing aids.
we are thrilled and can't wait to see the look on his face when we frist put them in and he realizes that he can hear all that we are saying. it may not all go the way that i see in in my head but reguardless it's going to be quite the experiance. will be posting later tomorrow to give the update on how it went.
until then....