It's that good..

My lil man

I never could have predicted the special relationship that a mother has with her son. This lil guy has my heart. I was holding him today and just about melted. He lets me hold him, and he even holds me back.

 In those moments, when he is in my arms, and rests his head on my shoulder, I want the world to stop. If I could just freeze time...

He has such a sweet, calm spirit. Today his sister got to go over to Mamaw's house for awhile so he and I had some time together. After lunch he pointed outside so we went out, in the rain. We have a few lines of paved brick in my driveway and rain will collect here. He loves to run and jump in them. It's so neat to watch his joy and innocence. I sure do love him!

Beach Day

We had a great day at the beach on today. Both kids are at the age where we can lather on the sunscreen and they can play in the sand and the water and we can have fun! Kerrington and daddy walked a bit down the beach and came upon an excursion. Sissy, being lil miss curiosity, got as close as she could, and because of her overwhelming cuteness, got I help put one of the fish they caught back in the ocean.
Kellan tried to make friends with the birds all day long. He figured out that they stick around especially if you have food so I found him laying down his bowl of goldfish quite suspiciously at times. In fact, one of the pictures I've uploaded is of him with his hands raised in the air asking where the birdies were.
I'm thankful for days like these where we can be together as a family and experience God's creation. He is good.

Dancing Queen

'You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only three
Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen'

 This past fall, we put Kerrington in to a dance class here in Richmond Hill. She is our Dancing Queen. She loved it from the very beginning. In fact, I took her one week and didn't realize that the class had been cancelled for that day. She was so upset. She looks forward to this class every week. It's been a great opportunity for her to channel her crazy energy and a break for 1 hour a week for me! A win, win!

There are often days when Kerrington will perform, or even teach her class at home. She impersonates her teacher, Mrs. Teresa, and sometimes solicits her brother or me to boss around...I mean teach.

 Today, the parents and family got to sit in on their recital performance. We decided not to put Kerrington in the recital, so we took this opportunity to shoot some memories. I invited my parents and brother who was in town as well.

These pictures are from their warm up and dance performance, later we moved in to another room to watch the tumbling portion of the dance. THAT is where things went south. Kerrington must have realized there were a TON of people in the room including some family members and all the sudden became very embarrassed and shy. She cried with every tumble or wheelbarrow she was asked to do. 

All in all, I'm so glad that she was able to take this class. Her spirit was so beautiful to watch. I know she enjoyed it. Next year, we are hoping to enroll Kerrington in to preschool, so that might conflict with dance class, but I know she'll just love school too. I can't wait to see what God has in store!

Mothers Day

This is what Drew, Kerrington and Kellan gave me for Mother's Day:

These sweet pictures were in a frame and wrapped up beautifully, for me to open. I couldn't have recieved a more perfect gift. For the cherry on the top, I also got a mani/pedi gift certificate! What!? I am looking forward to using that some day soon and getting a little pampering!

I have been able to celebrate Mother's Day for four years now, and they just keep getting better and better. These two miracles from heaven make my job the most challenging job I've ever done in my entire life. I wouldn't change that for the world! God has granted me the responsibility of raising these two babes, and I am extremely thankful. I, of course have two wonderful women in my life that I owe so much to, and these gifts from God are my very own momma, and my mother-in-law, Drew's mom!

Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful mommies out there!

It's Pool Season!

The pool opened this past weekend...

So of course we HAD to go check out the pool at our new clubhouse!

K is a big three year old now, and can jump in the pool with her floaties on, all by herself! She loved the pool, even though her lips were the color of her swimsuit after about a half an hour!

 This lil guy wasn't as thrilled to go plunging in the icy waters....hopefully he'll get more use to it, we'll be spending A LOT of time here this summer!

Allergy Testing

Kellan is our lil sick guy. From about 4 months up until he turned 1 year, he was sick, a lot. Due to his constant sickness, his doctors put him on breathing treatments and eventually Singulair. He was a wheezer, and so these medications were an effort to help our guy breathe better! At his 15 month check-up, our doctor thought it would be good to refer him to an allergist to see if we could pinpoint any specific things that may have been causing this. Our visit to the allergist was a really good experience. This picture is of the allergens that they poked his back with to see if he allergic to anything. Although it doesn't look great, this was taken shortly after they poked him, and after about 10 minutes, they were mostly gone. Good news....Kellan doesn't have any of the allergies they tested for!

We'll go back to the allergist in about a month to see if we can start reducing some of the frequency or dose of what he is on now. It seems like he has been improving over that past few months, I sure hope he is. The doctor reassured me that even though he is diagnosed as reactive airway disease, that most likely he will grow out of it and not become an asthmatic.

He was a good boy for all of it. He's put up with a lot of mess in his short lil life, so I wasn't surprised he did well. He has a sweet, calm, laid back personality. We love him, more than he'll ever know.