May 2008!

Whew! It's been a long time! Sorry about that! We've been quite busy here with the warm weather, the boys playing, mommy "doing pictures", and daddy busy farming. and the boys busy farming. :) Instead of overloading the post with pics I thought I'd put some pics all together for you. :)




Other than that there's a lot going on! Caleb will hopefully have his first soccer practice today. One of the homeschooling dads at Bethany is putting on a free clinic for kids ages 3-10 years old. He's also been very busy doing his chores (feeding and watering Sadie) and getting paid a quarter everynight. He's saving up for another farm vehicle. (Not surprised.) Benjamin is talking in three word sentences as of last night! Ryan got the boys ready for bed and I asked Benjamin if daddy had brushed his teeth to which he nodded his head up and down. I then said, "daddy's on the ball!" and B repeated saying "Dayee ah da bah!"...so it's close - we can understand him...and man is he cute!

Also....B had one of his lasts the other day and I didn't even know it but I enjoyed every moment of him being a baby in this way. I couldn't find his binky the other night when we got home from Chicago (I had put it in my purse and we couldn't find it anywhere) so he went to bed without it and cried and cried. I finally rocked him to sleep and he did that breathing thing where you catch your breath after you cry really really hard. Poor guy. Well then yesterday at nap he cried for it a little...but then last night he went to sleep just fine. No crying for it or anything!!! And then I found it. I mean seriously what kind of torture is that for a mom? I totally didn't mind him having it and was going to take it away after he was completely done teething (he has two two year molars left)...but it just kinda worked out I guess. Now I don't want to give it back to him b/c he's fine without it and has I think forgotten about it a little... {sigh}....you see? That "last" wasn't even planned for! Oh well....he's getting so big. We cut Caleb's binks at 19 months and just let B keep having his b/c I didn't think it was a big deal to have them longer + we had B on the way already with Caleb at 19 months and thought we should "prepare" him so he wouldn't want B's binks when he came along.

Okay I'll stop rambling now. I hope you are all having a great spring so far! We are thoroughly enjoying being outside!!! Blessings to all!! Love, ~RRCB :)