My Sew Awesome Journey

My super sweet, super talented daughter, Lexie, has started her own blog showcasing all of her sewing projects.  It is called My Sew Awesome Journey please check it our and see just how talented she is.  I think she is amazing.

Last Day of School

Today was the last day of school for Lexie and Ashton.  We had a really great year this year.  Lexie learned a lot and got really good grades.  She had a few really good teachers and I think she had a lot of fun as well as learning tons.  Next year she moves to the high school, I shudder just thinking about it.  I can't believe that I have to send my 13-year-old "baby" to school with kids that are potentially 18 years old. But that is a discussion for another day.
Ashton also had a really great year and that is mostly because of this really great lady.....

Mrs Bjork

She really "got" Ashton and helped him to have a really great year.  Last year he starting "hating" school about October and it was not a fun year at all.  I felt so bad for him because I didn't know how to help him, no matter how many times I talked to his teacher she didn't get him and he was bored and frustrated most of the year.  This year was the total opposite.  He felt understood and was engaged in learning most of the year.  She understood his humor and relied on him to do classroom errands because she knew she could count on him to do what she had asked.  He also learned a lot and I wish I could clone her and that he could have her as a teacher forever.  She was definitely an answer to prayers.

Myles - 6 months old

My sweet little guy turned 6 months old on the 19th.  So now he is nearly 6 1/2 months old, but still.   Time has really flown by, and even after 4 kids it is still hard to realize that babies go from this

to this 

so quickly.  

I don't even want to think about what the next 6 months will bring.  

1 month

2 months 

2 1/2 months (blessing)

3 months

Easter (4 1/2 months) 

5 months

6 months

We had his well child check-up last week and he weighed 16 lbs 8 ounces and was 27 inches.  He is about 50% for both.  He started sitting up alone when he was just over 5 months old and although he won't be winning any land speed records (yet!) he can army crawl to get stuff that is out of reach.  None of his siblings have crawled this early, it is amazing to watch him figure stuff out.  Time to get this house baby proofed, man I'm so not ready for that again....  

He has two teeth, one came in a few weeks ago and the other last Monday.  His sweet smile and mostly happy personality melt my heart everyday.  People always comment on what a "good" baby he is.  Maybe I am just looking for something to complain about, but it seems he is always on his best behavior in public and waits to freak out when we get home.  He is much less fussy now that we have his tummy issues figured out though.  No milk or soy for this momma still, but I am used to in now and it is helping me loss tons of weight.  I have not weighed what I do right now since we were first married, probably before.  This morning I weighed 147.   Now if we could just get him to sleep better, but he is just to busy to be bothered with sleeping, unless of course he can get mom to just sit and snuggle him while he sleeps, then he'll sleep for hours.  

We started solids when he was 4 months old and he loves everything!  He wants more of our food and I try and give him the things that I think he can handle without choking and he does great.  But I have to be super careful because of his intolerances.  We are still hopeful that he will outgrow them sometime around his first birthday, so far he has not.  

This first 6 months has gone by so fast and I know the next 6 months will too.  

Mother's Day

This year for Mother's Day the kids got me a bunch of flowers for the yard.  It was what I really wanted, I just wish we had some actual yard to plant them in.  But still, it was fun to get to fill up all of the planters that we had.  I let the kids all pick out the kind of flowers that they wanted and then we brought them home and planted them.

Myles didn't like the fact that he didn't get to help, and was even more upset about having to sit in the baby seat.  

so pretty.

Preschool

Yesterday was Abbie's last day of preschool.  I am really sad for her to be finished with preschool.  She has enjoyed it so much and it seems like just the other day I was dropping her off for her very first day!

Here she is on her very first day of preschool.

And here we are at the last day of preschool.  She loved Sunshine Corner and her teachers

Mrs. Niehues

and Mrs Brady.

And all too soon it will be the first day of kindergarten!

Easter Pics

I took these pictures on Easter Sunday.  I just hadn't had time to edit them, and I wasn't crazy about the color or the lighting of them so I kept putting it off.  Then I ordered a collage picture for my mom for mother's day and I needed some pictures.  Finally I got around to tinkering with them and this is what I came up with.  I like them a lot better now, but I can't wait for this summer to get some others taken.  

Which Season is it?

It would seem that we went straight from winter to summer....

Two weeks ago we had over 15 inches of snow on the ground and today it is 97.  This is totally crazy! I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Do You See What I See

A TOOTH!

Myles has been working on that tooth for what feels like forever and it has finally come through.  I felt it for the first time last Monday and it is finally through enough that I could get a picture of it today.  

For the Birds

We bought a bird feeder a few days ago and have really enjoyed seeing all of the birds that have been attracted to it.  I don't know the names of all of the birds that we have seen and they are really fast, too fast for pictures most of the time.  But I did get a good shot of this little guy the other day.

Giggles