From Luke

Hi guys...I hacked into mommy's blog again. I'm sorry, but she just doesn't post about me enough. I'm already almost nine months old and has she posted about all the cool things i'm doing? NO!! Anyhow, I will fill you in...... So, I can crawl now. Yes, I know i'm cool. Dad is always laughing at me and telling me i'm the 'craziest" child they have had so far... I Love to grab ANYTHING that happens to be around me. I especially like to grab bowls of food off of tables and counters while mom and dad hold me..actually, Dad's a little quicker than mom...so I usually can't get to too much while daddy is holding me. I take a shower with dad every morning...as soon as I hear the water turn on I hurry up and crawl to the bathroom before daddy has a chance to shut the door....I get in there and smile up at him real cute (this insures that he doesn't tell me no... I might be a baby, but i'm not stupid). Seth and Sarah used to give me whatever I wanted...but now when I crawl into their room to play with their toys they just scream for mommy and then she comes in there and gets me out. I am learning to eat really good. Yesterday I found Seths wallet and tried to eat a few pennies....but mommy got upset and took them all away from me. Grandma and Papa came to our house for mommy's birthday and Grandma gave me an ice cream cone. Mom and Dad said no...but she didn't listen. Now I love ice cream and daddy says its all grandmas fault. Mom says we are going to see her so I am hoping she gives me another one. (I will just smile at her when mom and dad are busy and she will probably give me one). Anyhow, I have to go now. I don't want mommy and daddy to know that I am updating our blog again.

Sneaky Boy

Look interesting? Tasty? No? Don't tell Luke that...he worked very hard to get that cheerio...

Luke is VERY mobile now. He gets into everything already!! I haven't had a crawling baby in almost four years and I forgot how hard it is to deal with!!!

I have a love/hate relationship with this stage. It is hard, yes....but it is also so much fun to watch him discover new things every day. This morning he was watching his big brother and sister dance around the living room to the radio and he thought it was the coolest thing ever...poor kid, he wants to run around with them so bad already.

Seth and Sarah are discovering how hard it is to have a mobile little brother....they are getting quite sick of him destroying their block towers everyday ;)

Blessings

I love being a mother. All through my teenage years I begged the Lord to send me children someday. I know how lucky I am to have my three... But sometimes, in hum drum of life....you forget. You forget just how lucky you are to be a mommy. Today I was reading the blog of a couple that just lost thier little girl to a drowning accident. It helped me remember why I wanted this job of a mother in the first place.

Sometimes perspective is so good and so humbling.

I love watching my children sleep. I love sitting next to them and hearing them take deep, sleepy breaths. I love watching their limp, sleepy forms snuggled under their covers. I would just die if the day ever came that I couldn't do that.

Matching smiles :)

All of my kids have their daddy's smile in some form or another....they all close their eyes and smile as big as they can....so funny, and SOOO cute!!!

Luke

Sarah

Seth

Sarah's Angel

So, Grandma Lisa had this angel that Sarah just LOVED...It sat on her coffee table and wasn't supposed to be touched, but Sarah would always sneak into her living room and turn it on so that she could hear the angel sing Silent Night. Anyhow, long story short....Grandma sent it back to Utah for Sarah!! She was speechless when she got it and she hasn't parted with it since......

My Beauty :)

Showing her angel to her friend Abby

The angel had to eat breakfast with us at table :)


She kept the angel in her shopping cart so Luke wouldn't get it.

Playing Chess with Daddy

Seth has been BEGGING Jimmy to teach him how to play chess for a couple of months now. Tonight they went and picked out a chess set together and spent the evening learning the game. I must say (just a little bragging here) he is picking it up Super Fast!! He is such a smart boy, and he is so excited about it that he pays such close attention to everything Jimmy tells him. It is so neat how special things become when your children love them...I NEVER would have been interested in Chess...but now that Seth is so into it, I think I might just have to learn!!

Ice skating graduates!!!

Seth and Sarah graduated from their first ice skating lessons!! You have to take a certain test depending on your age group and they both did great! They actually learned quite a bit during the last 6 weeks...they can both ice skate on there own really good and they can also stop, turn, and do this zigzag sort of thing. I am so proud of them, especially Sarah...she sometimes has a hard time trying new things...but she did really good going out of her comfort zone a little.

Notice all the cute girls around Seth? I think
this is the real reason he wants to take ice skating lessons! Ha Ha!