Have you ever...

Have you ever been in the thick of the storms of life when things seem overwhelming, frustrating, endless, broken, impossible.........then you lock eyes with you sweetheart and in a whisper almost inaudible he says, "I Love you!" and just for a moment the noise ceases, the storm calms and your heart swells. Well I have, and I tell you what, it is as close to magic as possible!

Siblings are forever

Today the kids wanted to run home from aunt Christi's house. They all took off and Asher almost immediately took a dive. I was in the car and watched him go down and his face snap into the sidewalk. I threw the car in park and watched Jamison and Caleb instantly turn around and run back to their brother. He was crying of coarse, his teeth nicked his upper lip and was bleeding a bit. I asked him if he wanted to get in the car, and through tears he said, "No I am still going to run." He popped up after a minute and was off again. When we almost got home he was out of gas. The two older kids were basically to the driveway and Asher was back a ways at a stand still, upset. I watched as the two older kids stopped, turned around, ran to Asher and walked side by side with him until they were all home. This was such a good moment for mom. We tell the kids all the time that friends will come and go, but they will always have their brothers and sisters. They need to watch out for each other. We have had several experiences as of late where that has been manifest, whether they know it or not. Today I was able to witness the love of siblings in my own kids and it was a sweet sweet moment!

Lunch at Dadda's work

Yesterday we took lunch to Grant at work and ate with him. Asher was eating chicken nuggets and the following transpired:

Me: Asher, be careful you are getting crumbs everywhere.

Asher: Well I am sorry, but that happens, it just comes with eating.

(Well there you go...........where on earth did we get this kid?)

I had no clue

When I put her in a basket for the first time, I had no clue what I was starting. She obviously loved it.

It became a place to color.

A place she felt safe.

And it is still a place for her to read.

I am not sure what the fascination is with the baskets, but the kids love them. They are their hiding places, their beds, their cars, their boats...a tool of their imagination. I love it!

This Kid

To begin the story about a month ago I left this note in Caleb's lunch and he loved it. For the most part He is a really good kid. He is so smart and can be so sweet. But, every once in awhile he acts his age and drives me nuts. I try to remind myself that he is only 6, and it is not normal for him to be so good all the time. So this go round his streak was worse than normal and longer than normal. He was really acting like a spoiled brat, and that is one of many things I will not put up with. He pushed it too far and too long.....and then....

On the back side of that very note I gave him weeks before (which obviously he had kept) he wrote me a little note and left it by my alarm clock to find when I went to bed. All his attitude melted away, as did my heart, and all was right again. He could not have done anything more perfect!

I tell you what........this kid, we are so in trouble with him, hopefully good trouble!

(BTW he already has the girls in K swooning over him, yikes!)

Fatso

Isaac is what we affectionately refer to as our Fatso. He was by far our biggest baby. Today was his 9 month check-up, so I was excited to see how much he weighed. I was surprised when he was only 17 pounds 4 ounces. I really thought he would be more. So, I wanted to compare where he is to his siblings at the same age (give or take a month) and it was interesting to me that we are fairly consistent, except of coarse our anomaly James. So the stats go as so:

9 Months (give or take a month):
Isaac: 17 lbs 4 ounces
Miquelyn: 16 lbs 11 ounces
Asher: 17 lbs 4 ounces
Caleb: 16 lbs 5 ounces
Jamison: 13 lbs 2 ounces

So that begged the question, for me at least, where are they all now:
Isaac we know
Miquelyn: 25 lbs
Asher: 33 lbs
Caleb: 39 lbs
James 37 lbs (yet she is the tallest, funny girl)

I do not know why this is so fun and interesting to me, but it is!

Sure Fire

Asher learned yesterday one sure fire way to get in trouble with his dad.....just call his mom big and fat. It did not go over so well. I tried not to laugh when we were talking about it. When asked what that meant all he could come up with was big feet, oh well he now knows never to say that again!