Playing Together

Last night was my sister's Academic Tea at school. I gladly tagged along to see my beautiful sister get awards and take pictures for my mom. Since my dad had to work I had camera duty. My mom is forbidden by everyone in our family to take pictures. Only on extreme emergencies can is she allowed. We have so many pictures of people with no heads or half their body missing. She is a good sport about it, she acknowledges her lack of camera savvy.

Before the tea my family was at home playing. I'm not really sure how it all got started, but I look up and there is our petite, almost 1 year old girl pushing our big, 2 1/2 year boy in his big dump truck. She would push him down the hallway grunt for help and after me or daddy turned the truck around she would push him back the other way until she couldn't go any more. Again, she would grunt for help, we would turn it around and she would proceed to push it back down the hallway. This went on for quite sometime; well after I left.

Jadon loved it, Haven loved it and mommy and daddy laughed at them. What a fun evening!

By the way Mallory got awards in Yearbook & gym (after sitting out half the year due to injured knee).

My sister with one of her awards.

Mother's Day Thoughts

I had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend! We spent Saturday night at Nana & Papa's. We ate and just sat around outside watching the kids and talking. I had the best time. I am so thankful for my mother and grandmother.

On Sunday we had Baby Dedication for Haven. Then after church we went out to lunch with Mema and Pappy and Matt, Lindsay and Gavin. I am so thankful for a wonderful mother-in-law. After getting home and the kids taking naps my wonderful husband took us all back up to Cold Stone and we used our gift cards for some ice cream. Jadon absolutely loved his bright blue, cotton candy ice cream with gummy bears in it. He picked it out all by himself. Even little Miss Haven got to have some, which she absolutely loved!

Jadon & Haven,
I am so blessed to be your mommy;
I enjoy hearing you make each other laugh, especially when Haven wakes up from nap first and goes in to Jadon's room to wake him up.
I love hearing Jadon say his prayer at nights after reading his Bible story.
I love the little girl squeals Haven has started doing.
I love the way Haven's hair curls in the back when it gets wet.
I love those right before bedtime snuggles with Jadon on the couch.
I love how Haven can eat more than Jadon at any given meal.
I love the pride you have given me and your daddy every day, you are truly a gift from God!

Mommy

My Baby Girl

It's hard to believe that my baby girl will be 1 soon. With Jadon I think I had already planned, bought and sent out invitations to his first birthday party by this time. With Haven I just can't get it that she's going to be 1. With one child everything goes fast, but when you have another one it turns into warp speed.

Anyway, to prove to us that she is almost one she's been standing on her own. It is so funny to see such a petite little girl just all of sudden stand up in the middle of the floor, holding on to nothing. She actually startled Todd the other day. He was sitting in the floor with her and he turned out to look at something Jadon was doing and when he looked back at Haven she was standing there eye to eye with him. He said it was a little freaky seeing her looking right at him.

So, we are anticipating her first steps any day now. Still could be weeks from now, but that accomplishment is in sight. What will we do with two walking/running around the house?

Proud Mama

I am so proud of my little man. Today was the day that I put on the calendar to take some of Jadon's toys and give away. They are all toys that he's outgrown, but still sometimes like to play with. We had marked this day on our calendar over a week ago and had spent time talking with Jadon about how we were going to take his toys and give them to little boys who didn't have toys. I really thought it was going to be difficult for him. But, he is so cool. When we got to the Pregnancy Care Center he took out his mow (his favorite of all the toys we gave away) and pushed up to the building, into the building and handed it over to a lady and said, "Give mow to little boy." My heart melted! I was so proud of him for not throwing a fit or crying over losing his toy.

As we were leaving he asked me where little boys were. I explained that they will come in with their mamas and will pick out a toy and maybe even one he gave them. He then said matter of factly that they will most definately pick the mow. Because that is the best toy they could have in his sweet little mind.

Thank you Jadon for being so caring and thoughtful of other little boys. I pray you always have this giving, loving heart for others.

Just Us

So, Todd and I had a much needed fun day Sunday. We skipped our Small group and went to Silver Dollar City. Just the two of us. Of course, we could never tell Jadon we did this because he loves that place. He is always asking to ride the big swing and the tea cups and the elephants. He loves rides and I have yet to find anything he won't ride.

Anyway, back to my day with my husband. We had a wonderful time just talking and running from ride to ride. We were hoping if we went early enough in the season we could miss the big crowds. We did, the longest we had to wait to ride was 20 min. We also enjoyed a funnel cake. My husband thinks it is a sin to go there and not have a funnel cake.

Thanks Sweetie for a fun day with just you. I'm glad to know that we still got it!

WOW

Today I took Jadon & Haven to the Wonders of Wildlife Muesum by myself today. Sometimes it is fun to go out all by myself with the two of them. Other times I enjoy the help of others. But today was a great day. The only bad thing about it was every school in the area had the same idea. It was crowded, I might have left if we would of had to pay. But, since we got free tickets it was okay to spend 30 minutes going through.

What was so fun is that we were able to get close enough to the animals for Haven to see them. She was so cute, pointing and babbling at everything. And everytime Jadon touched something she had to do the same thing. She is growing up so fast and so adores her big brother. If only it would always stay this way.

Jadon is his daddy's boy. There was a lady holding a snake for any child brave enough to go up and touch it. Well, once Jadon saw that he went running up there to not touch it, no, he wanted to HOLD it. I think the poor lady was about to panic. She was afraid she was going to get bit while my son was trying to pry the nasty thing out of her hands. Yep, his daddy's son!

Blowing Kisses

Today was a new milestone from our daughter. Today as I dropped her off at Mema's she blew her first kisses. This is very exciting because now maybe she will start blowing kisses instead of lowering her head for us to kiss when she's not in the mood. There's nothing like asking your daughter for a kiss and having her lower her head for you to kiss her forehead instead.