8 months

8 months old!! Wow! Wow! WOW!!

Look at this face and those cheeks!! ? I just want to eat him up.  =]

You are about 17 to 18 pounds if I had to guess.

About 28 inches (a guess)

Size 3 diapers

6-9 months clothes

No teeth yet

4 bottles a day with baby food to follow. You are doing great

You try to grab whatever is on mine, Dads or Kon Kon's plate.

Although you can, you do not like to sit up. If I sit you up and put toys in front of you, you always go to a crawling position or you just lay flat on your belly and kick your legs. The cutest thing.

You are always pulling up on the couch, tv stand, the shelves. You even walk the couch now.

You don't like to be in your exersaucer. Not long anyway. You would rather pull up on it and walk aroud it and play under it.

Here lately you have been climbing in your bouncer seat. You never liked that thing, but you will climb in it and it (and you) will tumble over.

One day I found you in your brothers room and you had climbed on his train table and you were just playing.

You ABSOLUTLEY adore your big brother.

And he ABSOLUTELY adores you too.

Balloon Release

my precious boys

he counted it down

Daddy helped Riv Riv.. he was too interested in what big brother was doing

Konner picked out the cake. It's chocolate on chocolate and he said it HAD to have flowers.

Happy Birthday, Adyson!!

TWO Years Old!!

Celebrating in Heaven

With those glorious voices of the angels singing

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, SWEET ADYSON!!

There is NO better way to be spending your birthday than with Jesus Christ.

Though I miss you more than words can express,

today I will celebrate the marvelous, miraculous things that have come from your life.

Konner, who got me out of bed each morning.

Rivers who has brought so much joy and hope to my heart.

Both of your brothers make me smile. Make me laugh. And make me cherish this time on Earth in a whole other way.

I read somewhere that eternity in Heaven is just seconds compared to life on Earth. It said that in Heaven you would be playing in a field of flowers and by the time you turned to see if I was there, I would be.

WOW!! Brings tears to my eyes every single time I think about it.

Psalm 90:4 says, "For You, a thousand years are as a passing day, as brief as a few night hours"

I miss you EACH and EVERY day.

I love that I can talk to God any time and tell Him to tell you I said hello or that I love you and that I miss you terribly.

 

Some people complain about not having enough time to spend with one another.

Oh if they only knew. What I wouldn't give for just 5 minutes. FIVE minutes with you. Oh how I would cherish those 5 minutes and make them the BEST I could.

What I wouldn't give to have you in my arms blowing out two candles and opening up gifts and playing with your brothers.

BUT,

Why would I do that, knowing what I know about Heaven.

I love you and miss you dearly sweet girl.

I WILL be there soon.

(If Jesus doesn't come back before I get there =])

Mom

Wild Things

WILD THINGS

That's the name of Konner's Upward soccer team.

Their first game was today.

Konner was pumped.

Before the game he was practicing hitting the ball with his head.

He did pretty good, I might add.

And this is him doing a trick by rolling the ball on his arms.

They play 3 (or maybe it's 4) 6 minute innings and they switch the players out each time.

4 players are on the field at a time from each team.

He scored the first goal and he was SO thrilled.

Those hands went up in the air and he was jumping up and down hollering.

We even gave the other team a few points.

Some of our players were confused as to which goal to shoot for.

In Upward sports, score is not taken, but Konner sure was.

There was alot of running and alot of fun that was had, despite the heat.

7 months

Rivers,

You are now 7 months old.

7 months of joy.

7 months of laughter.

7 months of healing.

7 months of pure sweetness.

You are now crawling every where and going fast too.

You can now pull up and stand, which you think is hilarious.

Just today you turned on your mobile by yourself.

We are always moving you from getting the frames on the bottom shelf of the "bookcase" thingy we have.

It's a picture of you and Konner when we first brought you home that you are always going for.

You can hold your own bottle.

We are starting to give you watered down apple juice in a sippy cup. Are you are doing great!!

You can say "Mama"

When you want to stand up or be picked up, you get on your hands and feet like you are doing a push up. Too cute!!

You will crawl to me or dad and do it.

Weight-- around 16 pounds

Height-- around 27 inches

Size 3 diapers

6-9 month clothes

You are teething.

You eat 6 oz every 4.5-5 hours with 4 "cubes" of baby food after each bottle.

You take a nap mid morning and a nap anywhere from 1-3. Sometimes later depending on the day.

You love to pull up on whatever you can.. mom, dad, Kon Kon, chairs, barstools, your bouncy and exersaucer.

You love to play under the kitchen table and pull at the cords from Mommy's computer.

Silly faces!!

AND you love to follow your big brother around. And I think he likes it too.

You love to go in his room too. It's a whole different world in there.

We love you, sweet boy!!