It seems as though life is moving at break neck speed and leaving me behind. I can't believe it is March and I only posted once in February! I have been a little distracted by Facebook, but I have given it up for Lent (little more than a distraction...hehe) and hope to be more focused on our family and updating the blog in a more timely fashion. Well since our last update, we finished off the major birthday month with Adam's birthday. We had dinner at his parents house with one of his brothers and family and the next night met friends at a local pub and hit our first movie since Gracie has been born! He is an oldie...33! We are both officially "middle aged." Yikes. 
February was a fun month. We took the kids to their first HS basketball game. Nate and Luke had a great time. They actually sat for an entire half! I was watching the cheerleaders of course and Adam reminicsing about his glory day on the court. It was really fun until we realized that we are TWICE the age of all the students there and they could all be our babysitters. (Was it really that long ago? It seems like only yesterday...or only a few years max!)Nate also started playing on a 4/5 year old soccer team. It is so cute to watch them run around and the progress they have made over the past couple of months. The first game was hilarious! We played an old 5 (maybe even a couple of 6yo in there) team and got crushed!!! We knew we were in trouble when the other team started running drills before the game even started! Ha! Our kids had NO idea what to do, but they had a great time. Normally play is 3 a side, but they let us toss in an extra player and it still didn't help. Nate had no idea about winning or losing and still is clueless. We will continue in that. He LOVES it and has a great time every week. Of course, I have only gotten a couple of pictures and next week is their last game, so I will have to get on the ball and post more after Saturday.
Luke is starting to get so old! He loves puzzles and will put them together by himself and entertain himself. His sentences are getting longer and longer and him and Nate are getting to be really good playmates. Luke is our little stinker. He will try to bug Nate whenever he can, saying the opposite of what Nate is saying just to get a rise out of him. And of course, my literal, by-the-book, rule follower, first born is driven CRAZY by it. Much to Luke's delight. Hook, line and sinker for Luke! It can be very frustrating to say the least. Luke is potty training himself right now to my dismay. I had planned on starting the process in early May after we get back from Hawaii, but out of nowhere he says he has to go potty on the toilet! Arg. About half the time he does it, which makes me think that he really is ready, even though I am not! (We just did this with Nate a year ago!) When Nate was 2.5, Luke's age now, Nate was potty training and about 90% of the way there, and then we took a family vacation to Sunriver and it was back to square one and pushed it back 6 months! So, I am vascillating between just keeping him in a diaper/pull-up and letting him do what he wants and me not pushing it at all, and praying that Hawaii won't throw everything off OR putting him in underwear and not going anywhere for a week and just deal with the accidents, but (hopefully) to have it solidified in 6 weeks by the time we leave for Maui. What do you think?
Miss Graciebell continues to be just the sweetest baby ever! And the belle of the ball around here. Her brothers LOVE her more and more ever day. She is 8 months old today! Don't ask me where the time went because I would swear that she was JUST born. She is rolling all over the place. She is not yet sitting up on her own or crawling, but that is just fine with me. (What do you expect from a 95/95 percentile height/weight girl?) She is very smiley and LOVES to be around her brothers. In fact, nobody can make her laugh quite like Nate. She laughs at him just standing there. So cute. We put all three in the bath together for the first time the other night. Since Gracie can't quite sit on her own yet, we popped the Bumbo into the bath (under careful watch) with the boys. They all loved it. Someday soon, bathtime with get easier with one round instead of the two required right now.
Luke is starting to get so old! He loves puzzles and will put them together by himself and entertain himself. His sentences are getting longer and longer and him and Nate are getting to be really good playmates. Luke is our little stinker. He will try to bug Nate whenever he can, saying the opposite of what Nate is saying just to get a rise out of him. And of course, my literal, by-the-book, rule follower, first born is driven CRAZY by it. Much to Luke's delight. Hook, line and sinker for Luke! It can be very frustrating to say the least. Luke is potty training himself right now to my dismay. I had planned on starting the process in early May after we get back from Hawaii, but out of nowhere he says he has to go potty on the toilet! Arg. About half the time he does it, which makes me think that he really is ready, even though I am not! (We just did this with Nate a year ago!) When Nate was 2.5, Luke's age now, Nate was potty training and about 90% of the way there, and then we took a family vacation to Sunriver and it was back to square one and pushed it back 6 months! So, I am vascillating between just keeping him in a diaper/pull-up and letting him do what he wants and me not pushing it at all, and praying that Hawaii won't throw everything off OR putting him in underwear and not going anywhere for a week and just deal with the accidents, but (hopefully) to have it solidified in 6 weeks by the time we leave for Maui. What do you think?Miss Graciebell continues to be just the sweetest baby ever! And the belle of the ball around here. Her brothers LOVE her more and more ever day. She is 8 months old today! Don't ask me where the time went because I would swear that she was JUST born. She is rolling all over the place. She is not yet sitting up on her own or crawling, but that is just fine with me. (What do you expect from a 95/95 percentile height/weight girl?) She is very smiley and LOVES to be around her brothers. In fact, nobody can make her laugh quite like Nate. She laughs at him just standing there. So cute. We put all three in the bath together for the first time the other night. Since Gracie can't quite sit on her own yet, we popped the Bumbo into the bath (under careful watch) with the boys. They all loved it. Someday soon, bathtime with get easier with one round instead of the two required right now.
Here is Missy Girl with her first ponytail! So cute!
All in all, we are doing just great! I started singing at church again with the worship team and am loving it. It is a great feeling to use God's gift for His glory. I am in a Bible study with three other women who meet once a week for girl talk, yummy desserts, and to work through Beth Moore's study on Esther. The study is aptly titled, "Its tough being a woman." I am sure that this is true at every stage of life. Sometimes this stage feels more like it should be titled, "Its tough being a Mom who used to be/feel like a woman." =)Adam is on a brief hiatus from his basketball league. Recently 2 of his friends have had serious injury's. One being out 6 weeks, and another out for a year! This is a bit scary to him as it would seriously hinder his profession if he were to sustain a serious injury like that. At the same time, sports and activity are a great stress reliever so finding a balence and praying for injury's to pass over this house so he can continue to play the sports he so dearly loves! Work continues to fulfilling and stressfull. As mentioned earlier, we headed to Maui for a week in April so that will be a great break from work and the rain.
We feel blessed to have healthy children (other than the constant colds and random ear infections) and a steady job. It seems like everything around us is so uncertain and with each passing day the situation gets more dire. We continue to place our hope and faith in our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. No matter how bad things around us seems to get, He continues to show us His goodness all around us, in our children's smiles and giggles, rainbows, and days where there is snow on the ground and sun in the air. Love,
The Sheron's
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Great perspective, my friend! :)
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