becket checking in...

hi! it's becket!
checking in, because mom is pretty lazy at keeping up with all the cute things i do.
i'm 2 years, 3 months old.  i like to read books.  any kind.  i get to stay home with mom and help her with all the stuff she does or doesn't do.  i always promise to not tell daddy about that.  daddy believes everything i say...probably because it's easier and he loves me.  i get lonely with my brother blaise at preschool, for the first time, 3 mornings a week...and my big sister, madelyn is gone every day at kindergarten.  i sure love going to pick them up.  mom gets pretty boring.  the last couple of mornings i've been waking her up around 5a.m. just to snuggle up to her and wake her up with my really cute kisses.  oh, she loves me.  i'm not much of a talker...but i've got it all in my head...i think someday maybe i'll start actually using my words...but pointing and silly sounds are doing just fine for now.  i can't wait for halloween when i get to be ya-ya a.k.a. winnie the pooh.  i love the word 'leaf' and love playing in the 'leafs' with my two buddies.  every chance to sneak out the door i take!  who wants to sit inside where it smells like a cross between pumpkin spice candles and dirty dishes?! not me.  gotta run...i do lots of that these days.

{summer time}

 {bringing treasures to my mom}

halloween 2012

halloween....i love to do all the fun things for my kids....and hope they remember them like i do.  so much fun.

cowboys and angel

my little cowboys and angel....from the song....even though it's a love song, i think of the babies.  they're so sweet together.  in fact, right now they're playing so nicely together.  blaise with his sword and camo hat and madelyn with her dollies and becket chirping in right along side them!



happy about his pumpkin :)

so halloween is over.  we stayed in pj's all day and carved pumpkins a day late....but the kids loved it anyway.  they begged all day to do it.....so we did it after supper and did bath right after.  we lit them up with christmas lights so daddy could be suprised when he got home.  they were so exicted.  madelyn was all into the goop and seeds.....she squished around in it the whole time.  blaise was very careful about it and didn't like being messy. and becket didn't like the messy ick either.  he ran around pulling my hair and checking everything out instead....with his hands behind his back, because that's how he rolls lately.

becket was not excited to be outside....

first snow of the season

family picture day today....and it snows for the first time.

i always love the first snowfall, mostly, because i remember how excited i was at their age.  madelyn and blaise ran in to tell me, "it's snowing, mom!!!"  i remember being in LeCenter running in our backyard with all the stray cats and hoping it'd snow enough to build snow tunnels and forts and snow balls and snowmen.  i loved it all.  i had the best siblings to enjoy it all with.  i still remember the blizzard of '92.  i would've just  turned 8.  we were in the car trick or treating and getting out in snow drifts on what should've been the curb.  ......  so i love the first snowfall, because i can remember how it felt to be so innocently happy about something.  and now i hate it.  i hate cold.  i belong in hawaii.  truly.  i'll stop complaining.....i've got a good life...even if it's cold.

so we took family pictures and can't wait to see them!

we went to the library where they had a display of camels out. becket kept wandering over to them yelling "d,d,d!" he thinks they're deer. so sweet.  i'm pretty sure that's his first word (but not the first time he's said it) ....besides the constant dadddddyyyy.  dadddddyyyy.  and the occasional, mommommom ;)  he's getting bottom molars in.  poor baby has icky diapers, runny nose, fussiness.  hope they come through soon. 



baby becket in the bath :)

summer is over, fall is here!

i feel like it was just july and i was getting all ready for madelyn and becket's mickey/minnie mouse party! but now that's long gone and blaise is all done with his camo birthday party too! so much fun with all of it! 

baby is 1!!!

 

no messing around here....this is CAKE!:

 

happy girl!  with friend from school/church:

 

camoflauge party:

 

 

so....now it's my turn.  i get to turn 28 22 :)

 

so excited for the weekend and feel so blessed the way my life turned out....i never knew a person could be so happy.....until now.  right now.  if there was perfection, this is it.

 

so ready for the rest of what's in store.

 

 

jack and a johnnie:

 

 leaf pile!

 

 fall :)

 

girly night

i was invited to a friend's jewelry party tonight.  i planned on taking madelyn and thought she'd love it.  i don't want to forget this day.  my little lady is growing too fast.  i know, they all say it.  but they say it, because it's true. 
i got a shower in while becket was napping earlier in the day.  i got out and blaise says, 'you smell good, mommy'.  well, thank you.  :)
went out for lunch with mitch and the kids and got home to get ready.  got ready.  wasn't sure about my outfit....but it was comfy and pink.  i walk out and blaise says, 'you look beautiful mommy'.  oh he kills me.  i felt pretty all night.  and i didn't even care what i looked like.  his innocent sweetness.  i want him to stay this way forever.  i want him to always be so from-the-heart.
we arrange for a photo shoot at walmart just to get a pic of me and her together.  turns out adorable...can't believe i haven't done this all along.  ugh. 

went out for dinner.  she orders..........a pb&j.  and picks out a yellow frosted flower cookie with a pink candy center.  she devours it the usual way, toppings, frosting, cookie.  :)  she saves a little for the car ride.
we get to the party and she tries on just about everything....even though the kid jewelry wasn't even at the show.  she's adorable.  she played with the puppy and the 4th grade girl that was her size....she made conversation easily.  what a doll.  had some cherry tomatoes and she said they taste just like from grandpa's garden.   and celery....i hate celery.  and a mini bottle of water. :)  we were done ordering and she was ready to go too :)
we made it in time to see francis' football game.  got a sweet picture. 

stopped at the gas station to use the restroom and get a treat.  juice and nutter butters. 

love my girl.  love my life.  right now. 

new year's resolution...belated

so, my new year's resolution was to journal at least once a day. it's almost june and i haven't done it even once. so many times in these days there have been things i've wanted to remember and capture on paper...but haven't. becket is still in our room at nights so my vision of writing things down before bed have been squashed. this will have to do for now. and hopefully i can get on here to do it. life seems so busy right now....and i'm running on empty.

but

i hope i never forget the way madelyn giggled and screamed when mitch swung her so high on the swing...and how blaise tried to be brave by saying 'no hands', like we taught him, and letting go of the chains for 2.7 seconds. and how becket squeals swinging back and forth with the biggest smile between his chubby cheeks. don't forget this.

madelyn's first tball game is tonight. team purple, coached by uncle nic and dad :) she practiced her skills at the park last night and is ready to go! blaise is so excited to cheer her big sister on :) becket almost fell asleep while eating his lunch in his high chair like blaise did. so sweet....so tired. oh how i love my kiddos :)

from the iPad....

can I get this to work so I can finally get back to blogging?!

yikes....i think I can!


that was easy.....how did I not know about that?!