So, Sydney is totally fascinated with figure skating. So much so that she will try her best to do everything that they do. Hope you enjoy.
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2/22/2010
9/01/2009
2 and a half weeks later
Sorry for not blogging for such a long time. We have been a busy family. I thought about emailing everyone, but this will be faster and everyone who looks at this would be the people I would email anyways.
The last two weeks have been kind of a blur. Isabelle started school this year, as you know, and her first week of K was great. We took her out for ice cream after her first day of school, just the 5 of us, and proceeded to ask all sorts of questions. As all you parents know, she said "I don't no" and simply "no" throughout the entire conversation without taking her eyes off of her ice cream cone practically. Duh to us I guess. Later that night though, she launched into a story about what happened at school, so that was fun.
This week, she has been loving school. Last night (Monday) she broke into tears because she didn't want to have only 4 more days of school left and then a weekend. We didn't mention that it is Labor day and she will get an extra two days off next week too!!! She loves going to school. She tells us all sorts of stories and sings us all the songs that she learns. It has been one of the greatest experiences of my life to see her changing so rapidly. Someone remind me of this when the conversations turn to boys. On that note, Isabelle had her first boy approach her at school. Of course, it was at recess. We don't know his name or age, but he told Isa that she is the nicest girl in the whole school and he likes her because of that. She doesn't remember his name either, so apparently I need not be worried.
Gideon has had a altering two weeks as well. He has become even more emotional and clingy. I feel bad for the poor kid because his ali (how do you spell that) in everything is now gone. He has done well switching and playing w/ Syd but she isn't the happiest with all the attention focused on her. She has resorted to swinging at Gideon anytime he is within arms length basically. Anyways, Gideon has quieted down a lot during the daytime when Isa is gone. He plays games alone (or w/ Syd if she will cooperate w/ him) and just seems to be doing ok. When Isa comes home, he turns into crazy child and his volume increases, speed of movement doubles, and amount of tears and cheers triples. Needless to say, it is tiresome in the evening now. (Not to mention that Syd has caught on to the "NO" word and runs after Gideon shaking her finger screaming NO at him and even stomping at him sometimes.)
Sydney has learned so many new words lately, including, lights, soap (which is soda), swing, play, outside (seeing a theme here?). She adores swings. She will sit on the swings outside for 20 minutes just rocking back and forth if we would let her. She refuses to wear shoes longer than 15 seconds - which is a problem in a home where we are REQUIRED to wear socks or shoes (which she won't wear socks either). Everytime we put them on her, she takes them off, points to her toe, scrunches her nose and furrows her brows, and simply says with a questioning tone "Owie". This stemming back from about 3 months ago now and there is no owie anymore, but the shadow effect of the wound must still be there.
Leann and I have been mondo busy as well. Our family has lived in 3 different houses in 1 month now. We moved out of Nelson, into Bolin. We moved out of Bolin (because it isn't licensed yet) and into Harrold to take the girls during a week. We moved back to Bolin for 5 days to move furniture in and continue setting up the residence. Finally, we moved back to Harrold and have been here for 5 days or so working with the girls again. Oh, in 3 days, we move back to Bolin for our time off. We are REALLY ready for the new house to be up and running.
The state came out the other week and looked at it and signed off on it finally. We have to get a whole bunch of signatures though from the state before we can move girls in. We are hoping that in the next 2 weeks that will be taken care of so we don't have to move again.
On Wed, our furniture came in for the house and some new furniture for another house. There were 100 pieces of furniture to off load on the semi. The driver just kind of chuckled when I told him it was just us. Luckily, we had some volunteers from our church come out to help us, which was great! We spent three hours unloading the furniture almost and the next 7 unpacking it all. We ended up getting our whole house unpacked in on day/afternoon, so we are no longer waiting for any furniture to move in. The furniture is amazingly beautiful too. Leann and I just love to sit in there (which we were able to do for about 1 hour on Thur because we had to move on on Thur afternoon back to the other house). We are pleased with how the house finally ended up.
As for Leann and I personally, we have had some work problems that we have worked through in the last couple weeks and things seem to be settling down there too. We just made our voices heard and that was enough for us to know that someone knew how we felt. We have been trying to make the adjustment of having 7 girls, a kindergartener, an on campus school, and a lot of extra running around. We have managed so far and in a few weeks, hopefully some kinks will be ironed out in the process.
Now as for myself, I have never been so in love w/ Leann than I am right now. We will have been married 10 years in December this year. I just can't believe that it has been that long. Today, I was just smiling because as she was talking to me, she was making faces exactly like Gideon's, and it thrilled my soul that he has such a unique part of her in him. Also, Leann is one of the best Christian women I can think of. Her grace and patience w/ me and the kids always astounds me. Even in the midst of her anger, she can control herself to the point of trying to honor me and the kids. She has become more beautiful with age and I catch myself staring at her just to admire her. (Usually her response is a Gideon face and a "What?" comment, to which I just chuckle.) She has been God's greatest blessing to me.
Well, I have gushed and sputtered enough for now, so I will go do some work. Next week, hopefully we will get some pictures up on here and maybe even a video or two - don't hold your breath though.
The last two weeks have been kind of a blur. Isabelle started school this year, as you know, and her first week of K was great. We took her out for ice cream after her first day of school, just the 5 of us, and proceeded to ask all sorts of questions. As all you parents know, she said "I don't no" and simply "no" throughout the entire conversation without taking her eyes off of her ice cream cone practically. Duh to us I guess. Later that night though, she launched into a story about what happened at school, so that was fun.
This week, she has been loving school. Last night (Monday) she broke into tears because she didn't want to have only 4 more days of school left and then a weekend. We didn't mention that it is Labor day and she will get an extra two days off next week too!!! She loves going to school. She tells us all sorts of stories and sings us all the songs that she learns. It has been one of the greatest experiences of my life to see her changing so rapidly. Someone remind me of this when the conversations turn to boys. On that note, Isabelle had her first boy approach her at school. Of course, it was at recess. We don't know his name or age, but he told Isa that she is the nicest girl in the whole school and he likes her because of that. She doesn't remember his name either, so apparently I need not be worried.
Gideon has had a altering two weeks as well. He has become even more emotional and clingy. I feel bad for the poor kid because his ali (how do you spell that) in everything is now gone. He has done well switching and playing w/ Syd but she isn't the happiest with all the attention focused on her. She has resorted to swinging at Gideon anytime he is within arms length basically. Anyways, Gideon has quieted down a lot during the daytime when Isa is gone. He plays games alone (or w/ Syd if she will cooperate w/ him) and just seems to be doing ok. When Isa comes home, he turns into crazy child and his volume increases, speed of movement doubles, and amount of tears and cheers triples. Needless to say, it is tiresome in the evening now. (Not to mention that Syd has caught on to the "NO" word and runs after Gideon shaking her finger screaming NO at him and even stomping at him sometimes.)
Sydney has learned so many new words lately, including, lights, soap (which is soda), swing, play, outside (seeing a theme here?). She adores swings. She will sit on the swings outside for 20 minutes just rocking back and forth if we would let her. She refuses to wear shoes longer than 15 seconds - which is a problem in a home where we are REQUIRED to wear socks or shoes (which she won't wear socks either). Everytime we put them on her, she takes them off, points to her toe, scrunches her nose and furrows her brows, and simply says with a questioning tone "Owie". This stemming back from about 3 months ago now and there is no owie anymore, but the shadow effect of the wound must still be there.
Leann and I have been mondo busy as well. Our family has lived in 3 different houses in 1 month now. We moved out of Nelson, into Bolin. We moved out of Bolin (because it isn't licensed yet) and into Harrold to take the girls during a week. We moved back to Bolin for 5 days to move furniture in and continue setting up the residence. Finally, we moved back to Harrold and have been here for 5 days or so working with the girls again. Oh, in 3 days, we move back to Bolin for our time off. We are REALLY ready for the new house to be up and running.
The state came out the other week and looked at it and signed off on it finally. We have to get a whole bunch of signatures though from the state before we can move girls in. We are hoping that in the next 2 weeks that will be taken care of so we don't have to move again.
On Wed, our furniture came in for the house and some new furniture for another house. There were 100 pieces of furniture to off load on the semi. The driver just kind of chuckled when I told him it was just us. Luckily, we had some volunteers from our church come out to help us, which was great! We spent three hours unloading the furniture almost and the next 7 unpacking it all. We ended up getting our whole house unpacked in on day/afternoon, so we are no longer waiting for any furniture to move in. The furniture is amazingly beautiful too. Leann and I just love to sit in there (which we were able to do for about 1 hour on Thur because we had to move on on Thur afternoon back to the other house). We are pleased with how the house finally ended up.
As for Leann and I personally, we have had some work problems that we have worked through in the last couple weeks and things seem to be settling down there too. We just made our voices heard and that was enough for us to know that someone knew how we felt. We have been trying to make the adjustment of having 7 girls, a kindergartener, an on campus school, and a lot of extra running around. We have managed so far and in a few weeks, hopefully some kinks will be ironed out in the process.
Now as for myself, I have never been so in love w/ Leann than I am right now. We will have been married 10 years in December this year. I just can't believe that it has been that long. Today, I was just smiling because as she was talking to me, she was making faces exactly like Gideon's, and it thrilled my soul that he has such a unique part of her in him. Also, Leann is one of the best Christian women I can think of. Her grace and patience w/ me and the kids always astounds me. Even in the midst of her anger, she can control herself to the point of trying to honor me and the kids. She has become more beautiful with age and I catch myself staring at her just to admire her. (Usually her response is a Gideon face and a "What?" comment, to which I just chuckle.) She has been God's greatest blessing to me.
Well, I have gushed and sputtered enough for now, so I will go do some work. Next week, hopefully we will get some pictures up on here and maybe even a video or two - don't hold your breath though.
8/13/2009
Happy Birthday Isabelle
Our little Isabelle isn't so little anymore. On August 9th, she celebrated her 5th birthday. It is hard to believe that it is already here. We had a Tinkerbell treasure hunt for her party so that she could run around to the different places here on campus and show off her outfit and get lots of "Happy Birthdays!!!" She really enjoyed it. The cake was her choice, over all the princess, butterfly, & Dora cakes, the simple chocolate cake below won out in her choice. I guess you can't keep a girl from chocolate. Finally, a picture of Sydney's activities when the rest of us were singing and watching Isabelle and her cake. See the cupcake, well, she was eating all the sprinkles off of it. She was simply sweet about it.
Isabelle had a great time and says thank you to everyone who got her a present and made her day special. Thank you everyone and have a great weekend. Leann and I are headed off to Branson tomorrow a.m. to go on a company trip with the girls and everyone one else. We will probably have some pics of that when we get back. Write to you all later!
Isabelle had a great time and says thank you to everyone who got her a present and made her day special. Thank you everyone and have a great weekend. Leann and I are headed off to Branson tomorrow a.m. to go on a company trip with the girls and everyone one else. We will probably have some pics of that when we get back. Write to you all later!
8/07/2009
McDonalds and Our Buggerfly
Is this a butterfly or a moth??? It looks like a butterfly but the colors were just weird. Also, this thing was just huge!!!
Ok, so the pics below are from our trip to the McD's to play in the play area. Since Leann wasn't around, I decided to let Sydney up into the play area with her brother and sister. She was enjoying it and having such a blast that when I wanted her to come down, she miraculously became deaf and was unable to hear me talking to her. I spent about five minutes walking around the area trying to get her to come down and she kept ignoring me. Finally, I cam up with a brilliant idea. I walked ournd the area with soda in hand asking Sydney if she wanted a drink. She immediately stopped, looked at me, said "Uh Huh" and started to come down. Crisis averted and another lesson learned - I am not above bribery.
Ok, so the pics below are from our trip to the McD's to play in the play area. Since Leann wasn't around, I decided to let Sydney up into the play area with her brother and sister. She was enjoying it and having such a blast that when I wanted her to come down, she miraculously became deaf and was unable to hear me talking to her. I spent about five minutes walking around the area trying to get her to come down and she kept ignoring me. Finally, I cam up with a brilliant idea. I walked ournd the area with soda in hand asking Sydney if she wanted a drink. She immediately stopped, looked at me, said "Uh Huh" and started to come down. Crisis averted and another lesson learned - I am not above bribery.
7/30/2009
Visiting Waddle Grandparents
Well, we took some time last week (maybe two weeks ago) to go and visit the grandparents. We had such a good time and I really really love them so much. It is great to have spry grandparents that jump off of swingsets, listen to rock and roll, and watch LA Ink!!! They just make me smile. Here are a few pics from the weekend that we got.
Sydney insisted on giving people chalk pedicures while we were there, so we had lovely pink toes during our visit.
Grandpa above is working the puzzle with the kids. Best thing is that when the kids left the table, Gpa continued to do the puzzle all by himself.
Grandma playing with Syd. What a great memory. (Grandma, are those the sunglasses you had when I was that young??? They look really familiar for some reason!)
Sorry we haven't been posting at all. We have been moving and just got internet today again. So, we will start back up here soon. I still have to get pics downloaded and such, but need a good brother to help me figure out how to network my computer and create passwords and share information - etc., but with all the family a-twitter over the expecting couple, who knows when I will get a chance to snag him for a half hour to help me out. :)
Sydney insisted on giving people chalk pedicures while we were there, so we had lovely pink toes during our visit.
Grandpa above is working the puzzle with the kids. Best thing is that when the kids left the table, Gpa continued to do the puzzle all by himself.
Grandma playing with Syd. What a great memory. (Grandma, are those the sunglasses you had when I was that young??? They look really familiar for some reason!)Sorry we haven't been posting at all. We have been moving and just got internet today again. So, we will start back up here soon. I still have to get pics downloaded and such, but need a good brother to help me figure out how to network my computer and create passwords and share information - etc., but with all the family a-twitter over the expecting couple, who knows when I will get a chance to snag him for a half hour to help me out. :)
6/06/2009
Smile :)
We have been taking pics of the kids but haven't been posting many because of the Italy stuff and we have been pretty busy lately. We have had 3 intakes in a month here at work and that means a lot of time explaining things and getting things set up with the new residents. Mostly it has been good. Leann and I are getting really anxious to move though, and unfortunately, it is hard to stay focused with our girls right now because we will only be with them for about 3 more weeks. We should be moving around July 1. We are really excited about the house becuase it will offer a lot of normalicy for our children, which we are glad for.
Anyways, we know that we have not been too good posting stuff, so I thought I would butter you all up so you will forgive us. Here are some great pictures of our little one learning to smile on cue. Hope you enjoy.
Anyways, we know that we have not been too good posting stuff, so I thought I would butter you all up so you will forgive us. Here are some great pictures of our little one learning to smile on cue. Hope you enjoy.
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