We love us some food!

(When the food runs out he starts in)








Couscous and Vegan lowFat Potpie.. Mmmm

So precious!

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Yesterday we went to church. Seemed like in forever that we all went to church together. Someone has been sick every weekend for just about the past 4 months. A few times we have all skipped, sometimes chris goes with one of the kids or both. Anywho we all made it and the kids looked darling. Here they are enjoying the sun shine after we got back home. It was beautiful yesterday.

The dress isabelle is wearing was made for me by my Aunt Pam. Isabelle enjoyed being in her mommys dress. She got lots of special attention at church from it :)
(Wesleys smocked romper was a resale online order :))

Last weeks Photo of the Week!

Feb: 20th.
Isabelle and I were cooking and wesley was being distracting. I placed him in the high chair with a teething bisquit and he just LOVED it. He was very happy for an hour while we finished cooking and cleaned up. After that good long hour the results are in and here is what he looked like.
All that chewing makes a fella' tired

last weeks PHOTO OF THE WEEK

SLEEPING BOOKUTY

isabelle finished lunch, I chatted with a friend on the phone and asked her to go get in bed while i cleaned up the kitchen. She asked me (its so cute how she says it EVERY TIME the same way.. same tone in voice) "I can read a book just a while before i go to bed?"
A few minutes after the phone call and the kitchen was cleaned up I went to check on her..
how sweet. She loves to read before going to bed. Sometimes if I need just some real quiet down town and its not officially nap time, i ask her to go jump up in her big bed (it really is big the mattresses are huge!) and read for just a while. She has this little Barbie doll /princes light and she just loves it.

Westerly

what happend? We had this precious sweet loving cuddleing low maintnance child who slept good, loved good, and was very laid back. We now have a child that, must have Gobbled up the old Westerman and I want the old one back! 10 months old,.. does this attitude come with age? Is he exploring his independence? Is it because he has teeth breaking thru. 2 to be exact. Is it because he is eating everything in site and his tummy is overwhelmed?! Is it because there is a growth spurt taking place? All i know is.. its awful! Tantrums, throwing his head, arching his back, screaming for no apparent reason! Oh he still cuddles and loves all right.. just fusses about it the whole time. Whew, to bad we dont get paid over time for extra stressful high maintinance work!

He is cute that he says no no no, only its like 'eh eh eh" cos that is how me and izzy say it to him. He also barks at kayda,.. just started. He growls alot too. So those are cute but the constant complaining is just rude!
and sleep.. what is that again? This too shall pass

Isabelle

Showing off her new shirt and belt from Aunt Kristy,

This girl is so hilarious! I thought id just update a little bit of what she is all about.

These past few days she has been really cracking us up with her humor and sillyness. She is also impressive on the vocabulary and expressions in which she uses her words.
i.e. She fell against the window while looking out and scraped her chin. So she wanted me to get on the phone right away with mamaw Eslie and tell her. Then, today at lunch when we seen chris she wanted to make sure he knew just what happend, so he followed her by asking "how did all this happen!?" She followed by saying "The point is I got blood!!".. Point is. where did she hear that one from! She has huge imagination. Atleast it seems huge cos i have nothing to compare a 3 year old imagination with. She uses her dolls to talk back and forth and has real conversations and sitautions. She plays pretend with 'Keena and.. oh there is one other name.
We encourge play, but to understand when its play time and real time, and to make sure we know when she is just playing with her friend, Keena. She imates everything and everyone. She loves to play us. She will say, Im the mommy and you be the daddy! She wants me to carry a deep voice and pretend im daddy just coming in from work, and she is mommy with a really girly voice. She always says when we are playing this little game "You be daddy and you get your car stuck in the mud!" She can't keep up with her own game so she ends up with 'daddys voice' and realizes she switched charictors and cant remmeber whos voice she was to start with.
(confused?) I could type hours about her. Im so proud of how well she eats and how pleasant she is at the dinner table. We ate Belle Peppers and hummus today for a snack. Actually she ate hers and mine! Another thing is, she is catching onto so much and grasping ideas, styles, thoughts, and learning so well. I am so pleased with her and her wanting to please. Totally excited to see her daddy come home at the end of the day. She loves to pray, sing, color, write, snuggle, watch movies, signing, memorizing and play with wesley. ALL DAY! She enjoys being 'dropped off' with my parents or anyone actually. She is learning to tell time (it might take 4 years but she is learning) This past week she figured out she can open the "Fridgarator" now comes that she learns with great achievements comes great responsibility. (something like that) You didnt think there would be so much to to teach about a refridgerator but I think its important she gets into a habbit of asking to GET INTO the fridge, our house, or wherever so yeah, always a work in progress!
How about a little video clip too. Altho it might not be impressive, first handed its pretty cute :)
No doubt, staying with my children is a full time 'round the clock' job. It can be as many mothers and care givers can relate to, its just down right a lot of work. Wiping noses, and potty breaks, teaching and instructing can really wear but one thing is true its so very much the best thing. Last night I checked in on her, after she had been put to bed to find her looking thru a book with her little night light on next to her. My heart melted. Its so worth it. I praise The Lord for the great responsibility and blessing he has given to us.

My arms!

Family Portriats

Who does this look like?




Chris had today off so we decided last night to get a few shots of us at our local 'one stop shopping' studio. Its not cheap.. but its close by and mostly conveanant. Also, as much as I like to play with my camera its difficult to grab a self-family portrait. We got one of us at christmas but it was SOO much work and none of us were looking at the camera! Anywho, my fav Auntie Kimmy was requesting a photo and my mother in law is always looking for a new family photo of us. My mom always says.. Im just like my aunt kim.. now I said, my mother in law is just as bad as me and kimmy! I love it! hehehe. Anywho, here are a few poses. :)
My lil' honey is so sweet, that on his day off he went to the trouble of getting dressed up and making me happy by getting these done :)

Elmo on Stage

I had forgot to post some of these photos from back oh, the end of Jan. (24th)
My grandma won some tickets for Elmo at the Savvis center and gave them to isabelle for her birthday. So chris, isabelle and I headed up see larger than life elmo :)
here are a few photos of the show. A blurry photo shows our splurge for cotton candy! (she actually didn't really like it) We had a good time, altho she had a cold and i knew she wasnt feeling good during the show. It was nice :) Thanks gma elsie!

photos from both lil' parties

Here are the photos, scroll down to read more.

isabelles 3rd birthday

we had 2 small celebrations for isabelle. she turned 3. wow how the times is going by and she is changing so much every day. today, altho I cant remember she said 2 things that were very grown up. we had a small thing at my parents the night of her birthday. We were going to go out to eat with andy, kristy and the boys but we had spent 6 hours in the city with a dental visit for both chris and myself, then 3 hours at the hospital having test ran on wesley and having him checked out by the dr. so that eve chris and i ran into the pharmacy to get wesleys meds, then a few other stores to grab some cupcakes and balloons and her fav mexican food for supper. took it all back to my parents and here are a few photos from that. bless he heart she did so well being that we were gone all day, it was boring and misserable in the hospital and i was stressing and worried about wesley (btw praise the Lord it wasnt worse) and on her special day none the less she did so well. So that eve was nice :)
The following week we had her real party when some friends and our close family could come. It was a lot of fun for isabelle, and i hope our guest too! Everyone brought a balloon and she loved it. We have played with them all week! Only the Dora balloon, from Uncle Andy, has creaped me out a time or two. Nothing like getting up in the middle of the night and feeling someone looking at you! She floats around and is is huge so she might be the first to be deflated!
Isabelle recieved some very nice presents and she has enjoyed this all this week! Everyday she has a new favorite toy or item..

another brief update

Wesley is standing a bit on his own, slowly lowers himself, as you can see in the photo and is trying to take a step. he is anywhere from 2 months to 4 months ahead of what isabelle was doing at this stage. But he is less social and requires less group attention. he does need to be loved to much tho




A photo of some of the snow we had a few weeks ago. Chris got to work from home a day or two because he cou ldn't get out!
also trying to figure out how to wrap wesley.

growing like a little turnip

these sweet little frals are getting so big! Isabelle just turned 3 last weekend. We had her fav. dinner and some cupcakes. She was very excited about being three and told everyone we came into contact with that day about it! "Three candles" She would tell them "Im getting 3 candles for my birthday!" Oh she also got some balloons- very excited!
She is doing well with her alp-pa-pits (alphabets) I ask her to find them and circle, or pick them out for me. She recgonizes most of them. She can be a real hoot. She had us cracking up at supper tonight about all that she was saying and doing with her JuJu today.

Wesley is getting over being sick. Poor guy, he was pretty sick too. He is adjusting to her breathing treatments well and not putting up such a fight over it.
He is standing alone a bit. He was standing in his bed the other eve, I handed him a toy and he let go of the bed to play with his toy. He then realized he was standing alone! He smerked! He thinks he is such a big boy.

I love hearing him squill and laugh and jump. He sure loves to jump. I guess he will be walking in no time and im ready for that. All that crawling makes for dirty knees!

He went to his well baby check the other day. Here are his stats.
Head: 50% (wahoo! I like that number)
weight: 5% (hmm.. he didn't each much last week from being so sick)
Height: 25-50% (Im going to double check that one)
I will get his actual numbers on here later. This is all I can recall for now.