There is still good people!

I realized that Wednesday being the "hump" day, middle of the week, BLAH day that I am going to make it my GRATEFUL day! A reminder as to why I continue to push on through the week!

1. Praise Fellowship
              I'm so very very grateful for our church and their love for one another. We spent last weekend getting water baptized and doing a bit of outreach work. We teamed up with the Coca Cola company and did another neighborhood clean up. It was great watching Andrew and Kaleb work along side the adults, to see their excitment and telling us that not only are we helping the Earth but we are also making God happy! Andrew also amazed his Sunday School teacher with his awesome prayer at snack time...GOOD JOB BUDDY!

2. Birth to 3
              I recieved a surprise visit from our old Occupational Therapist that Kaleb had for 3 years and Zoe had for a few months. Now mind you we were done with therapy as of Aprilish. She stopped by to drop off a very nice winter coat for the boys that her son grew out of. Miss. A always thinks of us and is soooo sweet, even after the 6 months we haven't seen her she still misses us and is still a sweet lady and remembers that we have 3 kids that love to grow out of at least 2 winter coats a season! THANK YOU MISS. ANN!

3. Maturity
              This one is double sided, Zoe is growing up sooo fast so it makes me kind of sad. I was playing with Zoe yesterday and this morning and noticed how much she has changed! My best friend (Zoe's Godmother) was over last night and Zoe sat with her copying her and talking, doing big girl things. It is sooo nice to be able to just put her shoes and jacket on and walk with her out to the truck to go somewhere, no huge diaper bag, no huge car seat to carry around (we are talking about a small car ride here lol:) She is such a big girl and it amazes me all the time at how far my two miracles have come!

4. Last but not least my FAMILY
                The have been really pulling through for us lately! I am trying to get the boys more involved in church activities but due to Zoe's schedule she is in bed right after they start so I have been cashing in on the offered babysitting services and IOU's passed my way! Also thanks to an awesome family member Bill was given the opportunity to go on a Christian's Men's retreat this weekend. Going to be freezing but what a great way to follow up with just being baptized! I am heading up north with the kids and Bill next weekend for my cousins baby shower and am SO very excited, I miss everyone up there and am so excited for Zoe to take her first trip up there!

This is just what sticks out for the week, I'm grateful for everything I've been given and recieved, HE is wonderful and continues to bless our family!

Kinda blah around here

Well there isn't much going on here right now but wanted to update so you all know I'm still checking and updating :)

Kaleb and Andrew are totally in LOVE with school! Which I might say is kind of nice right now! I don't have to fight to get them up or moving in the morning. Today when I dropped Kaleb off we were going back to his class and putting his backpack away and the teacher called him over and showed him a surprise......her THOMAS THE TRAIN TABLE! He was so excited, just rambling to the other 2 boys at the table...what a way to bond for him! :) If the weather permits Kaleb's Uncle Matt and aunt Ashlie are going to be taking him this Sunday to see a bunch of real steam engines, he is going to pee himself :)

Well that's about it! Update later with or when some news comes our way lol!

Pictures!

Since there are soooo many pictures to upload from our summer till this past Monday I thought I would use my old Flickr account I used for Zoe Lynn when she was in the NICU.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26567010@N06/

The pictures do start from the most recent first but please do enjoy! I am very proud of the kids and their awesome summer!

BIG NEWS..

Monday night Zoe Lynn finally took her firsts steps, she took 3 steps from Bill to me! It was so wonderful to see since we both were working when Kaleb took his first steps! Luckily I was also prepared (since I started scrapbooking my camera spends more time out of it's case then in) and caught it on camera, however I can't figure out why it recorded sideways so please forgive me but enjoy it:)

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=131605633878&ref=mf

So very proud of her! She also had her 15 month check up yesterday and is 24 pounds 1 ounce which puts her in the 75% for weight and is 29.5 inches which puts her at the 25% for length. The ped. said she is doing awesome development wise too! He was shocked at how well she was doing for being a 26 weeker, he said she is doing 100% better then Kaleb did at 15 months! Way to go Zoe!

I also have a video of Zoe Lynn being a typical girl, can't decide what to wear! I had to keep hiding so she wouldn't see me and stop. Too cute!!

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=125506603878

We are also on a whole week of no bed wetting for Kaleb...YAY!!

TODAY IS THE DAY!

Tody is the day that I promise myself that I will keep up on this blog! It's just that not a whole lot was going on for awhile with us but now...now we are moving right along! So here it goes, our first update in almost 3 months! (shame, shame I know)

Zoe Lynn is now 15 months old and has got to be the funniest little 15 month old I know. She goes to the doctor tomorrow for her well baby check up so we will know weight and length then but at her yearly she was 22 pounds. Zoe now stands on her own and can move like crazy but still REFUSES to take her own steps...a few tiny ones here and there, about 3 ever, seriously. Zoe is now off the bottles and on a cup which was a big task for her, she is stubborn! Zoe can say clearly mama, dada, bubba (Kaleb) and last but not least...UH OH! Yeah, absolutely love hearing that phrase come out of her mouth..."mamamamam, uh oh!" Last but not least, she loves her brothers unconditionally, where ever they go, she follows, whatever the are doing she tried to join. She loves them boys to peices!!

Kaleb is now officially a preschooler! YAY! He will still be seeing the speech therapist through out the year but nothing like last year in the speech/special ed program. He loves his class though, he already knows his teacher since it was Andrew's preschool teacher also and we did a lot of volunteering when Andrew was there. Kaleb has been nebulizer free for some time now and daddy and I are LOVING it! We are 100% day and NIGHT time potty trained...YAY! He loves it as much as Bill and I do! Kaleb has made a lot of new friends at Sunday School and has done such a great job helping us out with our Love Your City campaign through church, he gives it 110% every time so he can show God's Love. Kaleb has really blossomed over the summer and continues to surprise us all the time. He is also attached to Andrew's hip, they really truly are best friends. They do everything together, rarely ever fight and hate being away from eachother! Kaleb also spends alot of time with his other best friend/cousin, Kaya, those two are just as inseperable as Andrew and Kaleb are!

Andrew is now my FIRST GRADER!! How insane is that! I was looking through old pictures since I started scrapbooking and found the one of when Bill first brought Andrew to my house so I could meet him, he was only 16 months old and could barely walk, just learning. AMAZING! He loves it though, first grade and him are a good fit! He has matured sooo very much over the summer it's amazing, he has become very independent and is very much a little helper. Andrew is also an incredible big brother to Kaleb and Zoe. He takes that job very seriously as he also has a younger brother and sister at his mother's house. Andrew now adds double digit numbers, reads and writes a bit (his writing is awesome for his age), also can tell you what hour it is accurately! His latest favorite is bike riding with daddy, they do it a lot and I love that they have something together without me involved, a daddy and Andrew thing.

As for us, we are doing great! Bill and I have been talking and we are both being water baptized on the 27th. We volunteer at a ton of things through the church but only if we can do it as a family (the boys mainly, Zoe is still too young for most things). We have also been working more, Bill is on overtime (we are very thankful for it) and I picked up a few odd jobs around the resturant. My best friend is pregnant and is due on my birthday...HOW AWESOME IS THAT!?!? We did make it to the Zoo last month which was a blast! Zoe loved it and the boys were awesome. So now I close with a promise to continue to update this blog and once I figure out where my picture icon went to upload onto this blog I will post a ton of pictures!!