"The Leah"

I have noticed that Leah loves to give a certain look in which she raises her left eyebrow (especially when she's pooping). I have caught her doing it quite a few times, and have named it, "The Leah":

Boys and Dirt

We are currently in the process of landscaping our backyard. With Andrew's parents in town, we took advantage of the extra hands by clearing out the dead grass and sprucing up a bit. Joshua pulled out his bucket and went to work. He was in heaven as he moved rocks and dirt. This picture of the guys together is so special:

Mother's Day

I had a wonderful Mother's Day. We began the day by dedicating Leah at church. As Andrew introduced our little girl to the church, she spit up right on cue! We shared that our prayer for her (and for all of our kids) is to live out Psalm 63: to seek after, thirst for, and praise her Creator. Please join us in praying this prayer whenever you think of/pray for our kids.

After church, we headed home for naps, and I got a few hours of alone time out of the house. I spent most of the time driving all over the city trying to find an ice-cream cake for Leah's one-month birthday, but being in a car without screaming kids is basically like a vacation, so I enjoyed every second of it!

After naps, we had dinner and dessert at my parent's house. We had a delicious meal of steak and salmon, and followed it up with the ice cream cake...a perfect meal in my book! Even sweeter was that we enjoyed Mother's Day with both of our moms. As I looked around the table, I was so overcome with God's goodness. I'm so blessed to be a mom to my three crazy kids, and also to have two wonderful role models in my mom and my mother-in-law. Praise God, the giver of every good and perfect gift!

And to end the night, we tried to take pictures. I had a big-time picture fail as we finally got a good one of the kids smiling, and ruined it by closing my eyes...ugh :0(

One Month Celebration

When Joshua was one-month-old, we celebrated his first month with a Baskin Robbins ice cream cake. Then, in 2012, we made it a tradition by celebrating Makayla's one-month birthday the same way. So, with Leah turning one-month-old last week, we had to keep it going! It's so fun to have little traditions like this to celebrate and look back on...

Joshua

Makayla

Leah

Sleeping like a baby

I guess this is what they mean by "sleeping like a baby"...

One Month!!!

A friend of mine, who had her baby girl on the same day as Leah, texted me last night and said, "Can you believe our girls are one-month-old today? Seems like it's going pretty fast this time." I had actually communicated the same exact thoughts to Andrew the previous night. I'm sure the fact that this is her fourth kid, and Leah is our third has a lot to do with it. When you have two other active kids keeping you busy, life seems to happen at a faster pace. I've also noticed that after doing this twice before, you naturally fall into a rhythm, and the baby ends up being the easy one to care for. All that to say that Leah's first month has gone really well! Don't get me wrong, we have had hard days here and there, like the day I texted Andrew, "I'm waving the white flag!," and he graciously brought home Dion's for us. But, for the most part, we are figuring it out. Joshua and Makayla love their new sister. Joshua will lay down next to her and just stare at her in a protective way. Makayla loves to give Leah kisses, but quickly moves on to other things. I can't wait to see those sibling relationships continue to evolve as seeing them interact totally makes my heart melt. 

Leah and Angelina - born on the same day!

Her hair is starting to fall out...poor girl...

I Want To Ride My Bicycle, Bicycle, Bicycle...

Hopefully some of you caught my Queen reference in the blog post title ;0) It has been so nice outside, so we pulled out Joshua's bicycle. I think Makayla was a little jealous that she didn't have one to ride, so I think we'll have to find one for her now. Good thing Brother lovingly let her try it out.

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