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This day has arrived much faster than I expected. Our baby boy is two years old! These past two years have been filled with more joy than I could've imagined. He's into everything, funny, adorable, wild, cuddly, imaginative, bold and sensitive. He's a handful and pretty easy at the same time. When we're home he tends to be a handful because he likes to get into everything and be all over the place. I don't rest until he's resting. When we're out and about he goes with the flow very well. He likes to blend with the big kids and does what he's told, which is an awesome blessing for me :) taken today - his birthday donut  He talks up a storm; using complete sentences and occasionally big words. He tries to copy everything we all say and does a pretty good job of it! He's going potty on the big potty, which was totally his idea. Not something I planned to do right now, but he wants to so we're doing it. I'm planning to fully potty tra...

If you take out the whole issue with allergies part, Spring is quickly becoming a favorite season of mine. Its a fickle season for sure, but I've actually been enjoying the variety. We've enjoyed so many long walks, trips to the park, days spent in Seattle, and just a ton of play time outside, which we're all in favor of. These two are very close. They're 27 months apart in age and have a close relationship. But with the closeness also comes the ridiculous amount of arguing and whining at each other and tattling. I'm so over the tattling. We've spent quite a few talks through the book of Proverbs and Ephesians lately, talking about what God says about that kind of behavior. Its a good reminder for all of us. They try to match clothes everyday. I had a lady recently tell me she thought it was odd that I matched them. I don't. It weirds me out that anyone would still dress their 7 1/2 and 5 1/2 year olds, but apparently its normal. When I take them sh...

I can't tell you how often I go to delete this blog and for some reason, I never do. I think it feels like its such a part of me and deleting it would be like losing a friend I've been close to for the past 9 years. So here I am, occasionally posting and you're stuck with me ;-)  April has felt incredibly long in good ways and bad. Our van has been having a bit of an attitude the past couple of months and no one, not even our mechanic, can figure out what's really going on. Many break downs, many warning lights, many trips to the shop (and many dollars later) we think we've fixed the critical stuff, but we're not really sure.  That aside, I guess its been a good month. Thankful for amazingly good health really since October. Our 3 older kids have battled maybe a sniffle here or there, but no actual long drawn out sickness since early October. SO thankful to God for that.  Jason and I celebrated our 10th Anniversary on the 3rd! His sister flew up for a v...