I am BLESSED

I have been blessed with FOUR healthy, beautiful, intelligent, loving, caring, sweet-as-can-be children. I have been blessed four times over! Sometimes when life is crazy, and we're running from appointment to appointment, to the grocery store, to gymnastics, back home where it seems we live in a whirlwind of chores and homework I forget to be thankful.

I forget to just stop. And say THANK YOU.

I never knew what a blessing motherhood would be. And sometimes, even though I certainly don't intend to, I know I take it for granted. On the days I'm going a million miles a minute I do, I do take things for granted. How well behaved they are as we whip through the stores. How most of the time they willingly help me at home with chores. How Joshua will play with Leah just to make her happy, and how Hailey's favorite thing to do is read to Grayson. These are all GIFTS that I too often forget to be thankful for.

Now at night, when I'm lying there, moments before sleep, and I say my final prayer for the day of course I give thanks for my kids, but it's all of the little things that add up, and while, like anyone, I don't have time to name EVERY single little thing I am thankful for, I know I could definitely work on not taking them for granted.

So today I am giving all of the little things their due. I am reminding myself that my kids ARE AWESOME. And that they're MINE. And I am so, so, so thankful. Today I will soak in every laugh, and every smile, and I will work on not shushing the loud moments, I will not just let my little ones crawl all over me, I will greet them with hugs and kisses and HOLD them on my lap.

And I will tell THEM thank you. And remind them, again, how very much I love them.

Too long...

I can't believe I have gone this long without blogging! I feel like I've hardly documented Grayson's second year at all. :( How sad that makes me. I have, however, been capturing his life and the oh-so-many changes in photos at least.

My kids are awesome. They always have been, and I'm pretty sure they always will be.


Joshua is about a month away from graduating from the 5th grade. This kills me. KILLS me. He's only months away from being a middle schooler. I look at Grayson and I just think of Joshua, and how he was at this age. I still feel like Joshua should be so little. He crawls up into my lap and there's hardly any room. "What are you going to do when you don't fit anymore?" I asked him sadly the other night. "I'll always fit mom, and if I don't, when I'm big enough, I can hold you." Talk about tear-jerker! I just wish I had a time machine. I would get more hugs and cuddles and kisses in. I would just soak up more of him. Time goes by too quickly. We spend too much time worrying about things that don't matter. I want time back that I will never have.

He's still young enough that he likes me to lay down with him at bedtime. We talk, and he plays with my hair. {Just as he has done since he was an infant, nursing.} I asked him last night if he would always want me to lay with him. For the first time he put a time limit on our little tradition. He said when he's 15 or 16 he probably won't want to me lay down with him anymore. I fear that time will come sooner. But I hope that time NEVER comes. I can honestly see myself driving to his house one day, and curling up next to him. I guess only time will tell! lol


Hailey has started gymnastics and is just amazing. I knew she was a natural. She just has a little gymnast body. But I never really had anything to compare her to. Now I do. And now I truly know how awesome and amazing she is and can see an awesome and amazing future in this sport for her! Her VERY first class, she blew me out of the water. She was SECOND BEST in her class. Second only to a girl several years older with experience. And there was even a move my Hailey could do that the older student couldn't quite yet do! Talk about proud. I called everyone I knew on the way home and just beamed. I love watching her every week learn more, do more, and get better and better. She loves to show people her "tricks". She has mastered the back bend into a bridge and can flip over. I'm so excited to see where she takes this!

She is growing up so much too. I discovered this year that I can no longer buy her clothes. She's reached the age where she prefers to pick out her own clothes. Even though she likes my input, and for the most part like my style, she likes being able to pick the colors, etc. of what she wears. Sometimes I feel like she's 8 going 16. She can be so sassy. But then a sweet side to her comes out. Especially with her baby brother. They still have a special bond that melts my heart. I don't think it will ever go away. I certainly hope not.


Leah, oh my sweet Leah. She absolutely loves preschool! I only have one more year with my sweet Leah before she starts kindergarten. :( I will still have her Monday and Fridays anyway. I don't think I'm ready for her to be gone all 5 days. I don't see how I will ever be ready for that. :( She's my sweet baby. She's so sensitive, loving, and caring. She can bring out the sass at times, but really, she's just sweetness. She's my little mama for sure. She has an Itty Bitty Baby Doll that she's named "Lisa", and she takes care of that baby so well! Every time we go anywhere she buckles her in. It's precious. She "feeds" her and "nurses" her and changes her little diaper. She says when she grows up she wants to be a mommy like me. She wants 5 or 6 kids. lol I hope she is blessed as I have been! I can certainly see her being a wonderful mama!

Leah has gotten the gymnastics bug as well and I HATE that we can't put her in until she's older. I feel like she has so much potential that we are wasting by not getting her in. She is SO insanely flexible and talented! She can already do a perfect cartwheel, and is very close to perfecting a back bend into a bridge! She can lay on her belly and bend her head back and touch her toes! It's crazy! This summer we're going to work on riding a bike without training wheels, and reading. I feel like she's behind in reading because she misses the cut off by 8 days, she's older than everyone in her class and always will be. :( She's not able to identify all of her letters and I really want to work on that. She's so smart I know once we start working on it she'll have it in no time!


Grayson is growing too fast for my liking, just like all my kiddos. I find it so hard to believe he's so close to two. I'm not ready for him to be two. I'm not even fully able to accept that he's ONE! I've delayed so many things, feeling like it's keeping him a baby, but I know it's all going to come to and end eventually whether I want it to, or not. He's still nursing. I know that shocks a lot of people. But believe me when I say, I COULD NOT CARE LESS. I won't even go into the health and emotional benefits of it all. But it's been an amazing adventure for us. I worry it's going to be so hard on the both of us when the end comes. I've always been holding off on his first haircut. Some days he has a beautiful head of blonde curls. But most days he looks like a little surfer toddler. Some days he looks like Einstein. I love his hair. I LOVE it. I'm so not ready to cut it. But sometimes I see boys his age looking all sharp with their big boy cuts and I wonder if I'm depriving him of a cool hairdo! But then I remember he's a toddler and doesn't care. And also, he's freaking ADORABLE. With, or without a hair cut.

His birthday is just two short months away. For a couple months I began collecting ideas and planning a "Book" birthday. This kid LOVES books. We read ALL day. And night. All the time. He just loves to read and listen to stories! But recently, he's become obsessed with monsters. His favorite app on the iPad is a book called "Even Monsters Get Sick", he loves a book we have about hungry little monsters, and also he loves Monster's Inc., so now I'm torn. I don't know if I should do Monsters or Book! I'm running out of time to make a decision!

G is crazy smart. He is a little parrot and repeats any and everything. He can talk SO WELL and pronounces even hard words well. He's so funny too! He can say all of his ABCs, and can count to ten with help. We're working on counting to 20, and also working on his colors. He's had his first serious boo boo that needed glue, and it was so funny listening to him tell the story. "Running, kitchen, drawer, hit it, OW." He's working so hard on putting sentences together!  He's still a crazy picker eater. It's hard to get food in the guy. But when he likes something he can eat SO MUCH! Technically he can start preschool next year. So I could have middle schooler and my BABY in preschool. But he's my last, so he's staying home with mommy until pre-K! {I want him to go at least one year to get ready for kindergarten.} I will have fun teaching at home until then.

So there's a little update on my babies! Time just flies by and they grow and change so fast! I need to do this more. Thank goodness for cameras!

My Little Hoarder

{Don't let this super cute face fool you, she will turn your house into a landfill.}

At what point does it cross over from "messy" or "disorganized collector" to full blown "hoarder"??? I'm genuinely afraid that my daughter is just one scrap of paper away from being A&E's newest episode.

Every time my husband and I do a complete clean out if the girls' room I have these visions of visiting my daughter in her home and having to crawl over her mountainous collections of TRASH and... just things.

At 7 years old she is "hoarding" broken things that no longer work, every note ever written or received, notebooks that are filled to the brim with scribbles, paper scraps, artwork, pencils, crayons, markers, both working and dried out, various foods and wrappers, and I can go on. (Although I am sure you're beginning to gather a picture.)

H is responsible for cleaning her room. (Leah is as well, but being 3.5 years younger, not as much is expected from her.) When she is doing her daily clean up her room actually appears to be very tidy! It looks picked up, and relatively clean. Until you look closer.

Open a bin, pull open a drawer, peak under the bed, steal a view of the closet, or even just pull back the window curtain and you will quickly realize H's problem. She doesn't clean, she HIDES.

I have tried everything I can think of to encourage her to purge, organize, and keep her room clean! They've all failed. The frustrating thing is that she she can be SUPER organized! In fact when we had a desk she would organize it just for fun!

Sooooo...anyone have any ideas?! I'm willing to try and do anything at this point. This is my SOS!!

Here's some things we've tried:
Rewards for cleaning, bigger rewards for keeping it clean.
Both short term goals and long term goals.
I've tried plastic bins, cubby systems, drawers, just about every organizational item there is on the market, AND we've tried giving Hailey her own personal trash can for her room.

And I can't count how many times we've helped her get her room in tip top shape, hoping she would be able to at least maintain it, only to have it in shambles less than a week later.

So frustrating. So please, PLEASE, send your ideas, links, comments, or pins! This mama needs help.

Hailey's Tea Party Birthday Celebration! {7 Months Late}

Hailey knew months before her birthday came exactly what she wanted to do! She wanted to have a tea party birthday! I set out and began planning right away. I searched thrift stores for tea cups and china, table clothes, frames, and other trinkets and treasures that would beautifully decorate a little girls tea party.

•"Keep calm and have a spot of tea."• I ran paper lunch sacks through the printer, used a decorative punch along the edge, folded it over and tied it off with a ribbin.• I filled an apothecary jar with Hershey kisses that just so happened to coordinate with the pinks, blue, and teals Hailey requested.• I found the 7 which was originally black and spray painted it white to commemorate her seventh birthday! ^_^• I ordered beautiful tea party cake pops from a local baker who makes AMAZING cake pops.• I chose a beautiful bouquet of meadow flowers {artificial of course} to accent the table.•

•I hunted high and low for the perfect table cloth and just never had any luck. While making a trip to Ikea I just so happened to browse the curtains where I found the most PERFECT pattern! Because they were curtains I didn't buy them right away, but at least I now had an idea of exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately I never could find fabric to use and ended up making a trip back to Ikea for the curtains to use as the table cloth and no one even knew that it was actually a curtain!• I found pink chinese lanters, and a garland of flowers, and made the remaining "puffs".• Hailey's Grandmother has a beautiful little tea pot collection she shared with us. They were in the most adorable shapes; a couch with a cat, a sewing maching, a cupcake, and a little cottage.•

•A tea party wouldn't be complete with cucumber sandwiches  These were a request from the birthday girl and a MUST-HAVE. We served them along side deli roll-ups on a 3 tiered tray made from tea cups and saucers.• I found the cutest pink "H" at one of our local craft stores and it accented the table beautifully!• Cream puffs were piled high upon a tray that I had give little makeover just for the party. {A little spray pain and ribbon go a long way.}• Here is a closer look at the beautiful and DELICIOUS cake pops.• Another print I made wishing my Hailey Jo a very happy 7th birthday.•

Normally I wouldn't want to compare my beautiful 7 year old to a popular movie prositiute {HA!} but how Julia Roberts Pretty Woman is this?!?! LOL This is one of my most ♥favorite♥ photos from the special day.

The girls got to chose what part of a tea set they would like to paint and got to create their own little masterpiece.

After painting their little cups, saucers, and tea pots they decorated cupcakes. There were all sorts of shapes, colors, and things to sprinkle over the cupcakes.

And of course we had tea time! A tea party would not be complete without tea. :) {Although very quickly we realized that little girls do NOT love tea. and it turned out to be a "lemonade in tea cups" party.



{Aren't her lashes to DIE for?! People pay good money to have things glued onto them to make them look like they have those lashes right there. And look at that pinky! ^_^}

Hailey's party was so fun, and so special! I loved that we were able to use special family heirlooms and collections mixed with new finds that we love for all time! I never would have thought that a tea party would be so fun to plan. But I loved it. :)

Cousins Make the BEST Friends

$h*t my Kids Say

Hailey: Who cut the cheese? (pauses) You know, Daddy knows what that saying means because PA is close to Virginia.

Me: What does that have to do with anything?

Hailey: That's what people in Virginia say! They don't know what "fart" and "toot" mean.

Me: (blank stare)

Hailey: What? (shrugs shoulders and walks away)

And the hilarity ensued! I think one of the many of my favorite things about being a mom is getting to laugh at the things that these kids say!

The BSC

When Hailey told me she was reading "The Baby Sitters Club" I practically jumped with joy! I read every single book in that series when I was her age. I LOVED that series. Having her read something I enjoyed so much as a child felt freaking AWESOME.

I've gotta say though, that was I was pretty shocked when she proudly brought home the book to share with me and found that it wasn't exactly the same book I read 20 years ago. It actually wasn't a book at all, but a graphic novel.

All I could say was, "WHAT THE WHAT?!".

How can you replace The mother fracking BABY SITTERS CLUB with a graphic novel? So, incredibly, on the opposite end of the spectrum. Just saying.

Okay, okay, once I got over my initial shock, disappointment, and grief, I saw the that there was indeed at least a little bit of a coolness factor.

Exhibit A: Hailey is an AMAZINGLY animated reader. She can read a book out loud better than anyone I've ever heard. She gives LeVar Burton a run for his money. While she's incredibly smart and reading above grade level, she's not quite as ahead as I was at her age and I think she would really struggle with the series I grew up with. After all she only JUST began reading chapter books. The graphic novel is that, graphics, so it's a lot easier to read and enjoy for a youngster.

Exhibit B:. Okay, there's not an exhibit B, I got nothing after exhibit A. But I will say that I'm super stoked that she's interested, and I will be hunting down the original series. It will make a great gift for her 8th or 9th birthday and until then? I'm going to be looking for Baby Sitters Little Sister. The series that brought me to TBCS.

Okay, rant over. But seriously? Some things need to be left alone.

Happy Birthday Hailey!!

My baby girl turned 7 today....(by the time this posts it will have been a few days I'm sure.)...I know she's not a baby but your babies are always your babies. She's not my youngest girl but she was my first baby girl and first, third, last, middle it doesn't matter to me, they're all my babies.

Hailey Jo 3/9/05 7lb 13oz

Hailey's first year was rough. Going through a divorce sucks. I don't remember enough about wee newborn Hailey because life just wasn't good then. I am so glad it got better. I am so glad that eventually I was given the gift to stay home with her. That we were given a new start. The last 6 years, the majority if H's life, have been amazing.

Hailey 1 month Joshua 2 and 1/2

Hailey is something else. Let me tell you. She's the kid we almost went on Supernanny for. She is the little nugget that pushed me into reading "The Strong-Willed Child". She is my lively, emotional, dramatic, spunky, mean, fun, spirited, SWEET, nurturing, beautiful diva.

Hailey at a few months old. Look at her hair! Ahhh I could die! ^_^

One of the first things people say about Hailey is how beautiful she is. I can't disagree of course. But more importantly they speak of her strong character. Of her desire to help others. Of her kindness. She is the epitome of beauty inside and out.

Hailey's First Birthday

She makes me smile and laugh every. Single. Day. Her love for her baby brother melts my heart daily.

I just love her so incredibly much!

Hailey Today:

Favorites
Color: pink
Song: Anything by Adele
Tv Show: The Vampire Diaries
Book: Fancy Nancy
Toy: iPod
Favorite Game: (family)Yahtzee (video/device) Angry Birds
Movie: Justin Beiber Never Say Never
Food: peanut butter and shepards pie (not together)
Restaurant: Logan's Roadhouse
Store: (clothes) Justice (anything) Target


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My Fave Pic Today

I love this pic of Hailey and her baby brother. It's one of my faves I've uploaded this week!





Love the pic bling? Jess over at IROCKSOWHAT has tons of these amazing designs and they're FREE!!  I downloaded the ones I used in this pic HERE. {Check them out! ^_^}

She's Beautiful...

My daughter Hailey was seriously born with every physical attribute I've always wanted for myself. She's basically the complete opposite of me and undeniably the most gorgeous little girl I've ever laid eyes on.

I've always hated my super thin, fine hair. She was blessed with thick, gorgeous locks.

I've always hated my thin, barely their eyebrows. She was blessed with beautiful thick, shapely eyebrows. {And yet somehow managed to bypass the dreaded unibrow!}

Eyeslashes? I have to put on about 529 layers of mascara before my eyelashes can be seen to the naked eye. My lashes are long, but they're basically clear. And thin. Hailey's are the opposite. Her lashes are thick and black and loooong and gorgeously beautiful.

She's bursting at the seams with beauty and spunk. The definition of pretty, gorgeous. I am so blessed to be this beautiful little girls mama.



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Halloween 2011

The Gangster

Don't cross him, he'll take a bat to your knee caps.

The Angel

Don't let that sweet smile fool you, that halo's hiding devil horns.

The Monkey

Ooo-ooo-eee-eee such a cute little monkey.

The Dragon

Rawr might mean "I love you" in dinosaur, but it means "CUTE" in dragon.

The Gang

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The Best Big Sister Ever...

I can honestly say that Hailey has grown to be the best big sister I've ever seen. She is patient. And caring. And loving. And everything a big sister should be. I never in a million years would think that out of my babies, she would be the maternal one. To put it in a nutshell, Hailey is a badass. In every sense of the word. She is rough, and tough, can walk off bumps and bruises that would bring me to my knees, she's tough skinned, she's sassy, but the heart I thought was made of steel? Come to find out, that heart is made of gold.


She melts at her baby brothers smile. And I melt as I watch this bond she is creating between them.

I know that they will always have a special bond, and I'm excited to see what it grows into.

{Meeting for the first time.}

{Kisses from sissy.}

{Reading to baby brother.}

{Homework with Grayson...just because she can't put him down.}

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My Future Fashion Mag Editor

hailey, apparently there has been some sort of miscommunication. You are not 16 dear. You are 6. An entire decade away from 16. So can you please put the 16 year old opinion on clothes up for now? I would like at least a few extra years to prepare for this.

When I was 6 I wore either A}What my mom/sister put out for me, or B}Whatever was closest to the top in my drawer. Even if my lime green skirt didn't match my kelly green and purple striped shirt, I rocked them threads. I barely had time to notice if my shoes fit, matched, and were on the right feet. I could care less if they were "stylish". Style? That word was foreign to me at 6 years old!

When I take you shopping, I expect you to find cute shirts, try them on, love them, and wear them. I don't expect to spend hours while you agonize over which is better, the pink with glitter, or magenta with sparkles, because apparently in your little 6 year old delusional head there's a difference. When I buy an entire bag of back-to-school clothes, I expect them to be WORN. Not to remain in the bag, months later...so yea, lets get those last few shirts out and wear them. M'kay?

I love your enthusiasm and effort in picking your clothes out the night before. But when you get dressed, lets keep those on. The piles of clean clothes in front of your dresser gives me one hell of an eye twitch. And don't even get me started on my undying disgust, and pure disdain I feel when I pull clean clothes out of your laundry basket of "dirty" clothes. It would be SO much easier for you to know the difference if you put your clothes away.

Baby girl, you are beautiful and gorgeous and would be even if you wore a paper bag to school! Please believe me when I say that it doesn't matter what you wear. Because it TRULY doesn't. You are blessed beyond measure to have the clothes you have and to be able to have enough clothes that you have the option of choosing, let's not forget that! Let's go back to the days where you took 5 minutes to get ready for school and put on whatever I picked out with a smile. It would make me soo much happier! Your dream of being a fashion magazine editor can wait, let's just be a 6 year old for now.

Love, your frustrated, clothes hating mama.



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No Heat Curls Ya'll!!

There has been several tutorials and videos floating around blogs and Pinterest on how to create heat-free curls. I was very intrigued, they all seemed super easy, and seemed to work very well so I've been wanting to try them out for a while. But I wanted a guinea pig first.

Thank God I'm the mama to girls. Right? I don't see Joshua appreciating pretty curls on his head...

For Hailey's birthday she had her hair cut and styled and asked for curls. She looked adorable and loved them and begged me curl her hair ALL the time from then on. The problem is my curling iron sucks so I was just never very good at recreating the curls she loved so much. Last night she asked me to braid her hair before bed immediately prompting a light bulb moment and I remembered then the tutorials and videos I have seen. I told her my idea and my little guinea pig and I got to work!

I followed this tutorial:


Hailye's hair actually looked REALLY cute up like that, but she would NOT let me take a pic. She went to bed, and when we woke up I pulled the hairband out, and BAM. CURLS!

Beautiful curls!!

{Early morning, sleepy-eyed Hailey.}

They were a bit messy, but looked {I thought} awesome. I sprayed a little sprunch spray on them to get the hold to last, and sent her off to school.

While fiddling around the house aimlessly, I came across the hairband we had used later in the morning and played around with it, eventually ending up putting my hair up in the same way, hoping to create something, anything, and really hoping for curls. I figured, I could wear it like that until dinner and see if it worked.

The look? It was the opposite of hotness:

 

{Not sexy, even a little bit.}

After about an hour, I was already annoyed. The band was across my fiveforehead, and little hairs were tickling my neck and I was afraid to bump my head or touch it to anything and it was just...annoying, so I pulled the headband out. I didn't expect to see very much, if any, change to my hair, and was shocked to see curls! After only an HOUR!

{You can totally see a line from the headband on my fiveforehead.}

Curls! Beautiful curls! ON ME no less! My super mega fine and straight hair curled in just an hour. I was instantly and irrevocably in love with my curls. "I will do this every waking day for the rest of my LIFE!" I vowed to myself. But only, not really though, because I'm sure it would get old. But this is most def my new go-to for any event that's fancy enough for non-jean wearing. And maybe even fun casual events too. I'm not going to do my hair for the homemaking stuff though. That's dumb. Because it makes me want to wear makeup and heels and I don't want to clean in makeup, heels, and curls.

Annnnnyway. I LOVE THE NO HEAT CURLS and was seriously shocked and amazed at how AWESOME the tutorial worked!!! Seriously, anyone with long enough hair needs to try it. Guys too. Just because. {Hey duded rocked perms and curls in the 70's.}

♪ I feel pretty! Oh so pretty! I feel pretty and witty and.....okay I'm done.♫

CURL ON!

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First Day of School 2011

Today I officially became the mom of a 4th and 1st grader. I can't even begin to tell you what a stick of dynamite that is in my ear hole. It blows my mind. I remember 1st grade. A little bit. Okay barely. But I really do remember 4th grade! My teacher was Mrs. Strawn, my favoritest of all time, in all the world. She used to give me time to come to the front of the class and put on a "show" in hopes of containing my maniacal outbursts. It didn't work out too well. But bless that woman she tried!

Yesterday was open house. Which I thought leaned a little towards the retarded side. Having open house the day before school that is. I think it should have been at least a few days before. To give us time to work out any kinks. Luckily there were no kinks to work out. We met Hailey's teacher, Ms. Turner. She's British and has the best accent ever! But now all I can picture is a British nanny that pops hands with rulers and yells things like threats of "boxing your ears" and such . Is that racist? She seemed nice enough, but I can't help but think that anyone from "across the pond" finds us American's gross. I kind of find us gross. Anywho, we lucked out, and our prayers were answered because Joshua got Mrs. Little. His same teacher from 1st grade that we LOVED!


I'm hopeful for an awesome year. As awesome as last year at least.


You know I can't end this without "Back to School" pics! Most of them came out shaky, and blurry, and out of focus for the most part because it was still dark when we went out to wait for the bus. I only really got one good clear shot just before the bus came, the sun had finally come out enough for good lighting.

My Fourth Grader

{See how dark it was?? I had to use my pop-up flash.}

My First Grader

{This was taken, right before we went outside to wait for the bus.}

Just before getting on the bus to head off to their first day of school.

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A look into August 2011...

I feel like I never, or at least rarely, share photos anymore. I don't participate in the Before and After blog hop on Thursdays anymore, or any other photo sharing link-ups really other than an occasional Wordless Wednesday, and maybe even a Shutter Love Tuesday, or Paper Mama Photo Challenge entry.

I've actually gotten a lot better at getting my camera out. Babies grow up so fast, I don't want to miss a single cute moment with Grayson! I only wish I snapped more of the older kiddos. Anyhow, I thought I would share some of my most recent faves.

Grayson getting kisses from Aunt Kay Kay. He LOVES kisses! They get him smiling almost every time.

My handsome boy, I just love that face!

My gorgeous girl, with her crooked little smile! She's growing up too fast, I feel like I'm having a hard time catching up...

I love this look. As soon as he saw what was written on the box, he turned around and gave me this sly little smirk over his shoulder.

Hailey is the BEST big sister! She is the biggest help. She makes everyone nervous, except for me. She's GREAT with her baby brother.

Joshua and his guitar have been joined at the fingers since he opened it. I actually have to force him to do other things. He has no idea what he's doing, yet has this remarkable ability to make his random strumming pleasing to my ears.

He seriously loves his guitar!

Speaking of growing up so fast, this I can't believe. Look at that handsome, mature face! He's going to be a heartbreaker in a few years. Even going through this awkward time with losing teeth, growing big teeth, and being skinny as a rail he's gorgeous.

Lastly, the cutest little burrito in all the land. He loves bring wrapped up super tight, but hates the swaddle technique, so I literally have to just roll him in a blanket. It's hilarious, but works every time.

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