Preschool Program

Maddox had a program at school with the entire PreSchool 4 classes. It was the most adorable program I have had the joy of attending. Maddox knew every song and coordinating hand motion and he sang his songs with joy and purpose. I am so very proud of our little man and all the wonderful things he learned this year.

Hello there handsome

Just a quick chat before the show starts

Maddox had the honor of being the flag holder for his class while they said the Pledge of Allegiance 

"Ho ho ho Hosana, He he he he saved me...."

Sweet sweet friends. Maddox and Brayson

Happy Mother's Day

What a glorious day to celebrate the one thing I love most about myself: being a mommy. I am so blessed that The Lord gave me three beautiful, healthy kiddos to love with all my heart.
Happy Mother's Day!!

Weekend Wrap Up

We had another wonderful weekend. Brad, of course had to work most of the day on Saturday, so the kids and I hung out at the house playing trains and riding scooters outside. Later that evening Cici came over and watched the trio allowing Brad and I the opportunity to go to dinner and to the Jake Owen/Jason Aldean concert. It was such a wonderful evening and a much needed date night. Thanks again Carol for your help with the kiddos!!!
Sunday we woke up and headed to church. It was a wonderful service and the kids had a great time. I love listening to the boys talk about what they learned during their classes. Maddox, the socialite, plays so easily and seems to soak up everything. Paxton, the observer, played with other kiddos today (for the first time at church). He is making such huge progress socially!!! And Harper Grace moved up to the "crawler" class and she did wonderfully. She seems to be very sensitive to others emotions (or completely freaked out by them) because the only time she gets upset is when another baby starts crying.
This afternoon and evening was spent outside enjoying the beautiful weather!! Such a wonderful start to the week!!!

10 Months Old

Harper Grace turned 10 months old on April 29th. Time is going way to quickly and I am now in the process of making sure I pick a date for her 1st birthday party. What!?! How is it possible that I now have to start planning for this little one to no longer be a itty bitty baby, but to be my big one year old. Nope. I just can't go there yet. I want to bottle her up and soak up every second of her babyhood. She is just such a sweet, calm, easy going, joyful baby girl.
What are you up to at 10 months old Harper Grace??
-wearing size 9-12 month clothes
-size 3 diapers
-size 2 shoe
-weighing about 20 pounds
-crawling everywhere
-pulling up to standing on EVERYTHING
-ZERO teeth
-eating all finger foods (you do not like to be spoon fed, you want to do it all yourself)
-your favorite foods are little bitty pieces of meat, sweet peas, toast, pears and cheese
-you some what can drink from a sippy cup although it's not always very efficient. You prefer the sippy cups with straws
-you sleep from about 7:30pm-9am (you eat one time during the night lately because you aren't drinking very much formula during the day. You are just too busy to stop and let me feed you a bottle. I really don't mind the middle of the night/early morning feeding though because you are so precious and snuggle up with me during that time. I absolutely cherish those moments with you)
-you take a morning nap and an afternoon nap
-you say "dada" and you babble pretty often. When Maddox talks to you, you certainly try to communicate back with him. It is OH so precious.
-you like books and to be read to although it's becoming a battle because you want to eat the book rather than look at them for the most part
-you have become a fan of bath time and have started getting upset when it is time to get out of the tub

Oh my darling little girl. I pray you know how loved, adored and cherished you are by me, your daddy and your brothers. You light up our world and we are so thankful to be a part of yours! We love you baby girl.

Maddox asked me the other day "mommy, when you are old, and you die, will you just reach your hand down from heaven and grab my hand so I can go with you?"
Oh my mercy. I had tears in my eyes as I grabbed him close to me and hugged him as long as he'd let me. I love when I have the chance to see the gentleness of his heart.
The other day while we were waiting at Maddox's karate class, Paxton was becoming fidgety (he was not allowed to play a game on my phone as we waited because that was the day he hit people at school, so he was beyond bored), he continued to climb all over me and I asked him to stop and he looked at me with those big blue eyes and said "momma, I just want to love on you"
Oh my mercy, melt my soul and play me like a fiddle.
Harper has started crawling all over the place and I love that her favorite spot to crawl is right into my lap. All day long. If I sit down, she crawls and climbs until she finds her cozy spot on lap.

Paxton's Birthday Party

Choo choo. Paxton is 3!!! He requested a Thomas the Train birthday party. Murlon (brads mom) made a delicious and awesome Thomas cake and my mom made her delicious sugar cookies!!! We had a low key party at the house with family and close friends. Paxton had a wonderful time and was so blessed with awesome gifts from our family and friends!! Thank you all for making Paxton's 3rd birthday so special for him.

The dessert and veggie table

Train cars with goodies, the awesome cake made by grandma, and the yummy cookies

My sweet, stubborn 3 year old

Getting ready to sing happy birthday

He wasn't a fan of all the singing and clapping afterwards. Is anyone surprised? How far we have come in a year...last year he cried the entire time the birthday song was sung.

Blowing out the candles 

Presents, presents, presents. Thank you all again for your generosity towards our little boy. He certainly was one blessed little man

playing

Sweet Harper Grace. Sheesh, such beautiful eyes

Big brother!!!

Friends

What an absolutely amazing weekend!!! We celebrated Paxton's third birthday and my best friend Sarah, her twins and her hubby came and spent the weekend with us!!! Sarah is such a sweet friend and was my dearest friend during my journey to motherhood. She has such a special relationship with my kiddos (especially Maddox since they lived here when he was little bitty and was at the birth of both Paxton and Harper!) I am sad because I don't get to love on her babies like she did with mine, so these special trips when all our kiddos are together are certainly very sweet to me! I love watching our kids become friends.
We decided to brave it and load up all 5 kids ages 5, 3, 17 months (times two) and 9 months and head over to the science spectrum for some exploration fun!!! The kids did great and we all had so much fun together!! This was my favorite adventure yet as we watched our children become friends and play play play!!

All loaded up and ready to go

Waiting to head into the Children's Museum

Row Row Row your boat....Mason's going over board

Grocery shopping

Future news team

Baby girl had a good time too

Getting sleepy

Sweet sweet friends in the making