BRODY JAY: FOUR {AND A HALF}

How does it happen in a blink and feel like forever at the same time? another 6 months has gone by and my baby boy is 4 and a half now! regardless of the strange complexity of time, it happens before my eyes. You're so much fun…and such a mess…and the life of the party! you make us laugh EVERY day, and you have a sweet tender heart that easily shows itself to us. Your laugh is contagious, and the words you use are hilarious! you cant say your L’s so instead you replace L with R always so you “Rove” us, and “Rike” things.. its precious and funny both. I’m so thankful we are out of the ‘threenager” phase and we have been onto the magical fours for many months now. don’t get me wrong, you still have your moments, but thankfully we don’t see too many tantrums anymore.

you had your 4 year well child check up recently (I know 6 months late) but you have finally made it on the charts for your weight! at 31 lbs you are in the 3% and you are 38 inches tall but still 0% there. the nurse and dr both said your speech is amazing for your age and you use big words very well, you know some letters, your shapes and some numbers.. we are still working on writing your name, but your close! trying to get you ready for preschool in the fall. speaking of preschool, you are SO excited! and so are we.. even though I’m also emotional about it I just know you are going to have so much fun! and learn so much, I’m so excited for you to be going to a Christian school and getting to hear and learn Gods word every single week.

you are still not a good eater, pretty sure I will be typing that same sentence for years to come..I had basically given up even trying to get you to eat things but after talking to the Dr about your eating habits she gave us some suggestions and were trying to do some “food therapy” with you ha!…might be lots of gagging and crying but hopefully we will get you to eating a few more things!

Its really hard to believe than in less than 6 more months I will be typing your 5 year letter.. that just sounds way too big! but for now I’m going to enjoy my sweet little 4 year old!

PEYTON GRACE: NINE {AND A HALF}

My Beautiful, 9 year old girl,

Somehow I blinked and you went from 7 lbs. 10 oz. to THIS! Its hard to believe…and, when I look at you sometimes I’m still in disbelief that your mine. It may even be more shocking than when you were tiny…that all of those lanky limbs and scraggly teeth…all of that sassiness and whit.. started with you in my belly and into my arms. it brings me such joy to look at you..and to watch you grow into being Peyton Grace True more and more everyday.

I do feel like 9 is a funny age…stuck between being a little girl and a big girl. (that, thankfully leans toward the little girl most of the time!) you still love to play with your American girl doll. But you do really enjoy your iphone, ipod, wii, ipad all the technology stuff too, but some of those are playing girly kid games that sparks your imagination, its one of those things that keeps you little and I’m thankful!

you really enjoy sports, you are definitely a tomboy at times! you love most all kinds of sports from girly ones to rougher ones.. you are really wanting to try basketball this next year.. so guess we will see! you enjoy riding your bike so much, which is something ryley and bailey really never cared much about. so again, I love it because it keeps you little : )

you enjoy school for the most part, you have lots of friends and really have come out of your shell the past year, you like to play with the boys on recess even. You are a pretty good eater, you like all fruit and most veggies, not a big meat eater but neither is mama so I’m sure you get that from me. you still get growing pains which you have been getting since you were 3 so I pray they will go away soon.

we adore you…most people do! you're smart, compassionate and such a good helper. your favorite color is purple, you would choose mcdonalds if we let you pick where to eat at. you prefer baths over showers, you would rather not sleep alone, you are used to always sleeping with your sister and now that she has her own room you share with brody.

overall, I’d say that I’m the lucky one. I get to be your momma and get a front row seat to watching you grow. thank you for loving me back, always being a momma’s girl, being good about apologizing, for still holding my hand… and for giving me so very much to be thankful for.

TWISTERS VOLLEYBALL

Bailey decided to play volleyball this spring for the boys and girls club.. however she was pretty disappointed after the first practice and seen that most all of the kids are younger than her and don’t seem to focus and pay attention, and basically don’t have much knowledge of volleyball… much she is trying to make the best of it for now.

RANDOM END OF APRIL PICS

lunch with sissy! it’s a shame this boy didn’t get any attention : )

telling the girls how it is!

we had to go check out the crazy trailer that was on the news the day before

trader joes shoppers

church day

we walked and picked up our sweet peyton from school

this guy couldn’t make it to bedtime