All smiles

While the first month or so is still a fun time with babies, it's always a little more fun when they start to interact with you. This week, Leah cracked her first smile, and she hasn't slowed down since! 

And, these goofballs, can't get enough of Leah's play mat and swing. At least someone is getting some entertainment from them because Leah does not want anything to do with them at this point. I don't know why we buy them new toys...

Sisters, Sisters

"Sisters, sisters. There were never such devoted sisters..." While these lyrics from "White Christmas" don't reflect Makayla's feelings toward Leah yet, she is starting to warm up to her baby sister. I finally have a picture to post of the two sisters together. And to clarify, Leah is just yawning, and not screaming in agony ;0)

"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"...