Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Surprise Family Day & the Neptune Festival

On Saturday morning, Izaak gave me one of my favorite surprises - he had taken the day off! I love it when he does this, and Saturday was especially happy for me because I was planning on going to the Neptune Festival with the Coston's, and was wishing he could come along too. So we packed up and headed off to the beach for a fun day.


Family shot



Waiting for the parade



The kiddos



The winning sand sculpture



Finishing the day off with some yummy custard



So worn out



Messy and happy

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Changing things up a bit...

...with a baby GIRL!
We are so excited, and praising the Lord that everything looks good.
Shiloh was right! :)

Friday, September 4, 2009

Been waiting for this one for a long, long time...

...and I finally get to say it: my little man, Eli Bryce, has cut his first tooth! I can't see it, but I can feel it. And I know it's there.

Honestly, never did I expect him to be so late, although he's late with everything else, so why not? But at the sweet young age of four months, I could have sworn he was already getting in gear: drooling, fingers in the mouth, painful crying. All the classic symptoms. Turned out the painful crying was always because of his poor little ears, but that's another story.

Anyway, eight months old came and went, which is when Shiloh got his first tooth, and so did twelve months and fifteen months. At his twelve month appointment, his pediatrician warned us that if we didn't see any by fifteen months they would have to check him out. Well, those three months flew right by and not a single tooth, and no sign of any either. So about two weeks ago we took him for bloodwork, to be sure it wasn't caused by some weird disease - I have no idea even what those diseases were. Yesterday morning the pediatrician called to say everything in the bloodwork looked great (Shiloh's cholesterol too, which they also had to check), and x-rays were the next step at eighteen months if we still didn't have any action going on in there.

Well, yesterday Eli woke up from his nap starving as usual, so we shared a protein bar, a gift from my hubby to try to get this little baby in me to start growing. I let Eli lick some chocolate off my finger and froze. Then unfroze, sure it had to just be a crumb. But nope! Wonder of wonders, there it is - an itty bitty sharp spot where his bottom front left tooth should be! I had the windows open and there were some kids outside riding their bikes who must have thought I was crazy - who cares about a tooth? Let me tell ya, sixteen months and three days is long enough to make a big deal.

So we called Daddy and the grandmas and baked some cookies to celebrate. My baby is growing up.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

even though it's a boring sport...

...baseball can be sort of fun.

That's right. I said boring. I grew up watching hockey, what can I say? Although I do enjoy actually going to baseball games, I have to be honest, it's mostly for the night out, the food, and the atmosphere. Not so much to actually watch.



Anyway, before I hurt any feelings, I'll get to the point: Izaak's boss had some great tickets for the Norfolk Tides game Saturday night. And since he had other plans, passed them on to us. It was a fun surprise for the boys - the seats were about 5 rows up from the visitor's dugout. Shiloh loved everything - the lights, the music, the funnel cakes, oh, and a little baseball too. Eli had more fun climbing Mommy and flirting with the lady behind us, but fun nonetheless. He got a little nervous when a guy wearing blow-up crab costume ate one of the players, but other than that, no tears...

This is the face we get when we tell Eli to smile...



...and this is what we get from Shiloh. Will they grow out of this?!?



And here they are getting excited (probably about the funnel cake)