Mommy/Son Date

Kayla goes to same preschool as one of her friends and they both go to Cubbies Wed. night so my friend Jen and I decided to switch each week picking up the girls from preschool and then brining them to Cubbies at night. So, today was my first day not picking Kayla up so I told Ethan that him and I were going to have a "date day". We went to the pet store to get Ellie some food and looked at all the animals - Ethan couldn't get enough. Ran to Target to get a gift and then treated ourselves to lunch. After his nap we went outside (it was BEAUTIFUL) and raked leaves - played - raked leaves - played - you know the drill. It was a lot of fun. I have to admit I called Micah and said "Kayla is never going to school" I seriously missed her and felt so strange to not have her around.

Yes, he has his pj bottoms on. He loves trucks and grandma gave him these truck pjs and he fought me to put them on after nap time and I figured why not. Later he wanted the top on - whatever. :) His daily outfit always includes these cowboy boots as well - he either has the boots or a pair of Kayla's princess shoes on all the time. Fun pic to capture this stage.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow.....

Evie Jayne was born last night at 6:37pm. 6lbs 11oz 16.5 inches long. Praise the Lord they are holding their baby girl alive and doing well. Only God is the answer to this - our God of miracles, God of healing and our God of ultimate love! Thank you Lord!

Praying for Evie

Praying so much today for John and Lindsey and their baby girl Evie. They are having their second daughter today but very small percentage she is going to make it. They have known this for most of her pregnancy. Prayers and tears - prayers and tears.............I ache for them........

Here is a link to their blog - she put up scriptures she is going to have in delivery room - so powerful.

www.eviejayne.blogspot.com

Ethan to the ER.......again

I had a haircut appt. last night and so Micah took the kids to the park. I guess they were walking (Ethan of course running) to the playground and he went flying into the sidewalk. Micah took him to urgent care and they said he had to take him to ER and Micah finally said "look, I'm a physician he's okay he just needs glue or stiches" They (no offense - but it was a nurse - there wasn't even a physician on site) were so concerned with head trauma and told Micah as a physician he should no better and that he needed to take Ethan to ER. (interesting thing is last time he had "head trauma" was just above his right eye and I took him to that urgent care and they never said a thing to me about head trauma concerns) Basically they were busy and didn't want to deal with him and that's the last time we will ever go there. Anyway, turned out to be a blessing because Micah took him to ER at hospital he works at and friend just had him come in the back and glued Ethan up and they were on their way in 10 minutes. I have to admit I was glad Micah was there to take care of it this time - I just don't deal well with blood. Not sure if I blogged this but about a month ago he fell outside and chipped his front tooth - thankfully baby tooth. Sigh........I'd like to hope this is the last, but deep down I know it's probably just to be continued.............

Preschool and Cubbies

Wednesday was kickoff to preschool in the morning and cubbies in the evening. Kayla was exhausted by bedtime!

Kiddos not cooperating in photo time - they were holding hands all cute but couldn't get it quick enough.

Last spring we started attending a new church. Micah isn't always able to get to church Sunday mornings and if he does it is only for late service and our old church had sunday school at 9:00 which put that all together he was never there. So, we talked, prayed, talked and prayed a lot and decided that we needed to find a church that has small groups that meet in the evenings so Micah could be involved more. We are settling into a new church and it is large so it takes time to connect but feel like we are where God wants us. We are connecting and enjoying our small group. All that being said, our church has Awana's program which we were excited about and so this is Kayla's first year. Not sure why Micah chose this background for the picture but oh well! :) Kayla loved it and told me all about it the whole way home. I'm helping out in the 3 year old room and it's just awesome hearing these precious kids saying their verse!

Ethan - Big 2

These past couple weeks have just been crazy around our house - that's my excuse this time for being such a slacker on posting Ethan's birthday pics. He turned 2 August 27th and Micah's parents were here last weekend and my parents came up this weekend to celebrate for Ethan and my bday. I'm going to be honest here, I'm exhausted and am happy to just have some pics up even if they aren't organize to well. Once again also disappointed in my picture taking and I don't have good pics of kids and grandparents - I'll get there.




Baking with Mimi (Shanna's mom)

Ethan enjoying every minute of his birthday cake - he really had his eyes closed eating at this moment, I guess that's how much he loved it. He picked Elmo theme and the pic of his cake is on camcorder and haven't gotten those downloaded yet.

Telling Ethan he gets to open his gifts now. He is the most animated kid - cracks us up.

I'm 2!!!

Yes, of course I made everyone wear Elmo hats.

We went to Children's Museum here in Omaha on Ethan's actual birthday. The special exhibit right now is Sesame Street so we knew Ethan would be excited. The kids just ran from one thing to the next. Micah enjoyed it just as much I think. :)

Birthday streamers - he had them all pulled down within 1 or 2 hours I believe.