Hmmm what to play with tonight?

Well, we've hit a few milestones this week for both Tempie and JJ.  Tempie is spending the week in Georgia with her grandma and Papa J.  She is very excited and having a good time.  This is her first overnight experience!  Grandma is keeping her busy and they are having fun.  Chucky Cheeze, the zoo, and tomorrow a bounce house place (I forgot the name of it...).  I'm missing her like crazy, but making it through :)  Her Grandma is the best...she sends me several pics throughout the day of all their adventures, and we get to skype each night.  I'm SO blessed!

JJ has taken advantage of the quiet house and started crawling.  Hopefully he can somewhat master it before his sister comes home.  He has also started taking milk from a cup.  This is a VERY exciting milestone to me because up till now he wouldn't take milk from anything but me.  Which makes for a very tired momma!  Now I can leave him for a little while and not worry about him crying the whole time...whew!  JJ has also started pulling up on things.  We are at the stage where he pulls himself up to standing in the bed and can't get himself down, so he just cries.  It's a sad (but somewhat funny) experience.  Hope that doesn't make me a terrible mom...haha.  Here's a pic of him tonight.  He pulled himself up on his toy basket and began emptying all of it's contents onto the floor one by one.  I proceeded to change out his toy basket for one that he can't pull on top of himself.  It was mighty cute to see him doing this though.  What a fun time!  Now comes the real challenge: rebabyproofing my house!  AAHH!!!

Hmmm, what to play with tonight?

I can write my letters!

Yesterday while drawing with chalk outside during jj's nap, tempie draws an E and says "mommy look E". I was so impressed. She's starting to write her letters. We worked on T E O F and A. She's getting there, and super cute while doing it! Here's a pic of what jj was doing too. Not from the same day, but it's cute.

Life these days

Things have changed for our family in the past few months.  Bert has gotten a new job working for UK and I have gone part-time at my job.  I had the job of my dreams.  It took nothing less than the love of a mother for her kids for me to give it up.  I was in tears nearly the entire first week of the change.  I was terrified that I'd made the mistake of my life.  I don't feel that way now.  After just two weeks of the new schedule I am sure I love my kids at least 10x more!  I love having the time to enjoy them everyday.  My heart is so full.  I feel like the grinch in that it must be growing to contain all of this!  Yes, there are parts of my job that I miss.  But college students will always be there, my kids will not.  I want to cherish these years. 

Just a few fun facts about the kids these days:
Temperance has a few funny quirks.  When we paint her nails, one hand is ALWAYS white and one hand is ALWAYS pink.  Same with her feet.  It's actually quite cute.  I did my nails Tempie style once.  When she has pig tails in, one of the rubber bands is pink, and the other is red.  When she eats fries or carrot sticks, she will very often eat it down to the last bite and then leave that one on her plate.  So she ends up with a bunch of french fry nubs on her plate.  It's funny.  She sleeps with a book every night.  Her Bible is her favorite book.  I'm so proud of her on so many levels! 

JJ is tiny and super strong!  Due to his reflux issues, he hasn't gained weight like he should.  He's in the 5% for his age, but he is a He-man!  He sits up unassisted, stands up while holding on to things and is really close to crawling.  It's mighty cute to see something so small doing all these things!  He is the happiest baby I've seen.  He just smiles all the time.  He is also VERY SOCIAL!  He would rather have a person's face than a toy any day!  I already have to tell him to be quiet and eat!  He and Tempie play so well together.  He puts up with a lot from her...haha.  They laugh so much together.  It's the best sound in the whole world! 

As soon as I figure out how to get pics and videos off my ipod I'll post some on here. 

Consider giving of your self today for love, for God.  You will be blessed beyond your wildest dreams!