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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Hiding HIS Word…

I finally videotaped Asher reciting his Bible Verses today. 

The first one, Psalm 8:9 is one he has known for a while…

“O LORD, our LORD how majestic is your name in all the earth!”

He just finished learning John 3:16 this past week…

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only son that whosoever should believe in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” 

It makes us so happy to hear Asher hiding God’s Word in his heart!

And in case you haven’t seen this clip from focus on the family, here you go! 

Love the “wow” at the end!  :)

Monday, January 23, 2012

Asher-isms

Asher says or does so many funny and cute things each day.  I really need to get better at writing them down!

When he is sad and I tell him something to cheer him up he will say, “that will feel me better.”  The other day he forgot his toy at a friends house and after we went to get it he told me, “this will feel me better!’   I LOVE it!

When we went to retrieve the toy I leaned back in my seat and unbuckled him and let him go up to the front door.  He got about half-way to the door, turned around and looked at me in the driver seat with my window down and said, “I’ll go get it mom, you wait here.”  I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry – when did my baby get so old?!

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He still pronounces his middle name “Joseph” with the s and ph reversed so it sounds like Jophes.  It will be a sad day when he starts to pronounce it correctly.  ;)

He LOVES to tell (and receive) secrets.  Instead of putting his mouth up to our ear to whisper he puts his ear up to our ear, but still whispers.  It’s precious.

He is very into imaginative play these days.  He likes to have cars and trucks or his stuffed animals watch cartoons with him and/or eat meals with him.  The other day while I was making lunch I heard him talking to all his animal friends about what his mommy was making them to eat for lunch.  They all sat lined up on the table next to him and needed plates and bowls… I did draw the line at utensils telling him they just ate out of the bowls like Daisy.  Thankfully he was okay with that. 

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He has officially learned the art of stalling at bedtime.  He will think of anything to keep us in the room longer.  Questions, stories, another hug etc.  Today when I went into his room at nap time to tell him it was time to sleep (instead of continuing to talk…) he said, “mommy, let me tell you a story.  Once upon a time…” When did he get so big?! 

He likes to “read” books all by his self these days.  When he doesn’t know the words he will just kind of mutter for each page, but then when he gets to the last page he will almost yell, “THE END!”

Asher loves M&M’s but he calls them “M’s the M’s” and it cracks me up. 

When you ask Asher a question that he needs to think about or doesn’t know the answer to, he will (I promise, I’m not making any of this up): Put his finger on his lip, say, “hmmmm let me think” and then give the answer.  He acts like a 70 year old man!  It’s absolutely hilarious. 

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Today he skipped his afternoon nap so we took a late afternoon trip to Target during “nap time” – he was very sleepy and as he started to yawn in the cart he said, “Oh I’m ‘zosted’ Mommy!”  (exhausted).  :)

I know I am biased, but I just love spending my days with the funniest, smartest, and sweetest little boy in the world.  We will go from a tantrum one minute to a hilarious conversation the next.  Moments when he comes up to me and says, “Mommy let’s hug!” are enough to bring tears to my eyes.  In the words of Asher, taking care of our two boys each day does make me (us) ‘zosted’ but I (we) wouldn’t trade a minute for the world! 

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Celebrate!

Today we celebrated this cutie who just turned 1!

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{Which is really hard to believe because I’m pretty sure we were just driving over to meet her for the first time…}

Her Mommy and Daddy threw the cutest party with the yummiest food and cake(s)!!  :)

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She was the perfect guest of honor and loved opening her gifts!

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Oh the sweetness!

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Happy Birthday, Sweet Coralaine!  We LOVE you!

It’s good to be loved.

Brotherly Love…

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Puppy Love…

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LOVE this sweet little face!

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

SO big!

Jesse has hit the stage where he is literally changing and getting bigger every day.  He had been teething for a while and we discovered his first tooth on New Year’s Day.  Today I noticed his second tooth finally popped through, too!  :)  I snapped a few iPhone pictures the other day of his new little tooth-y grin.

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A little bit closer up!

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Jesse is a big fan of FOOD!  :)  So far he loves oatmeal, sweet potatoes, bananas, and pears.  We’re going to start peas next. 

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I think what makes him seem the biggest to me is that he is a great sitter now!

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He still falls over now and then but it doesn’t phase him at all.  He just flips over and starts rolling. 

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I remember that funny feeling with Asher when I would lay him down in one spot and find him somewhere else… and now that’s how it is with Jess!  He’s a mover and shaker.  A few times I’ve even seen him stick his booty into the air like he’s really thinking about going places.  In the meantime he mostly turns in circles or rolls to where ever he wants to go.  :)

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In other news, someone is feeling MUCH better after the stomach flu and back to his goofy old self.  :)

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LOVE these two boys!

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Birthday: Take 2

Chris’s Birthday was Tuesday of this week… On his birthday he started his day by helping a little girl off the bus after she had thrown up everywhere.  He ended his school day with a frantic phone call from me asking him to come home quickly because Asher had just thrown up everywhere.  That night we tried to still “celebrate” with his birthday dinner… but taking care of a sick kid pretty much trumped any fun birthday plans.  I decided Chris definitely needed a birthday do-over!!!  :)

So today was Chris’s birthday re-do!!  We started with cinnamon rolls for breakfast…

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Lots of football watching in the middle (and a little Buckeye Basketball, too.)

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And finished with a yummy new recipe for dinner: White Chicken Enchiladas.  (These were SO good!) And a family favorite for dessert: Pioneer Woman’s Texas Sheet Cake.  (Amazing!)
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Happy Birthday to my sweet husband.
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So glad we could take an extra day to celebrate you!

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We love you so much!

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{And it’s ALWAYS nice to have an excuse to eat cake!!!}

Thursday, January 12, 2012

This & That…

Chris had to go back to work last week and we’ve been mourning the loss of daddy ever since.  ;)  For the first several days Asher asked where Chris was, why he was at work, and how soon until he’d be home (at 9 o’clock am that was still a lot of hours to wait!)  I have really missed Chris and the extra help.  It has been nice getting back into a little bit of a routine after two weeks of ‘fun’ though!   

On Saturday we took advantage of our Children’s Museum’s ‘early hour’ for members.  We were allowed in at 9, before the general public at 10.  It was so great!!  In some exhibits (like the dinosphere) we were just about the only ones in there!! 

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Asher LOVES the children’s museum and asks to go about every third day  ;)  so he was thrilled and even more excited to have daddy come along.  It was their final day for the Jolly Days (Christmas-y stuff) so the guys enjoyed one last ride on the Yule Slide until next year…

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After 3 or 4 weeks of no church nursery Asher was reunited with his nursery buddies at MOPS on Thursday and then again on Sunday during church.  Unfortunately we think he picked up the flu bug at either church or the museum and by Tuesday afternoon he was SICK!!  :(  It truly broke my heart to see him so miserable.  Chris hurried home from work (on his birthday no less) to help me clean up.  At one point in the middle of the night when Asher got sick and needed new pj’s and sheets he looked at me and said, “I’m sorry I do that mommy.”  I could have just cried!  We told him over and over not to be sorry and that everyone gets sick.  I think it made him feel a little bit better to know that even mommy and daddy had been sick before.  Daisy swooped into action and spent lots of time right at his side snuggling him.

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The next day he quickly discovered the one perk of being sick  – unlimited tv!  I think we’ve both watched enough cartoons for a few weeks!  We’re praying that Jesse stays well and that somehow Chris and I escape it too. 

Poor Chris’s 31st birthday got a little bit overshadowed by the Stomach Bug of 2012!!  We did bring him cupcakes - from a cute cupcake bakery in Carmel - at school that day (before I knew Asher was sick).  And as luck would have it, Chris had to help a child at school get off the bus after she had gotten sick everywhere.  NO ONE should have to deal with that much grossness on their birthday.  He definitely gets a re-do next week.  :)

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One REALLY funny moment happened the next day.  Chris and I were up off and on a lot of the night with Asher so we were both walking zombies the next day.  He was half-way through a meeting when he realized he was wearing a suit and his SLIPPERS!!  Ha!  :)