2014 Spring Celebrations

Our Caileigh bug turned 6 in April 2014!  Sweet toothless girl, please slow down!  She has now lost a total of 5 teeth. She reads and devours every book she can get her hands on, she constantly wants to learn about new things, I love it! I learn new things too! Her favorite as of late is checking out books from the library on bugs and butterflies in particular.  She LOVES to tell me all kinds of bug facts and regularly brings a new "bug pet" to the house, wanting to take care of it.  We have some caterpillars we are hoping will turn into butterflies or moths.

We celebrated her birthday with sweet friends from both school and church.  Surprise, surprise it was not Frozen themed! :-) The chosen theme was a Sleeping Beauty Pajama and pancakes party.  The girls all came in their pajamas and we served pancakes on a table decorated like a bed.  They played some games and enjoyed playing in the backyard and singing the soundtrack from Frozen, what else?! :-) Let it go.. let it go...

Birthday morning Balloon Avalanche

Birthday morning pancakes.

Celebrating with her class at school!

We are so thankful for Caileigh.  She is such a joy to our family! This new season of having a "school-aged" child has been so fun to me.  She is maturing so fast! I love seeing her grow in boldness, compassion, creativity and responsibility.  I cannot express enough how thankful we are for the opportunity she has to go to Heritage Academy. She has grown in confidence in who she is as a friend, a daughter, and a child of God.  Our desire for all our children is that they would come to know and love Christ with all their heart but to also learn to love and serve others well.  She floors me with how aware she is of the needs of those around us, in school and in our neighborhood.  She is so diligent in praying for others and their needs. May I learn to love and serve others as she does.

 Sweet little sister is 3 1/2 years old.

Little Brother is 11 months now and still not walking.

For Mother's day, my sweet husband and children surprised me with two old window frames to use for projects I had been wanting to do.  They also took me out to eat at O'Charley's- where we ate exactly a year ago, waiting and timing contractions and hoping that we would get to meet our baby boy very soon... which we did! :-)

Also in May, Sweet Baby Boy turned one! That was probably the fastest year yet!  What a joy Connor Luke has been to our family!  He is everywhere!  I thought for sure our active little man would be the first to walk, but he was actually the last at 14 months. He is typically so content and happy. He loves to give kisses and hugs, although I think they are becoming more like tackles! He's obsessed with balls, and almost anything can become a ball when Connor gets a hold of it. Another favourite is making a mess every where he goes and all the better if it makes a loud crashing noise at the same time.  I have caught him trying to climb the bookcases - a big no, no!  The girls still adore him, Caileigh loves to baby him and is sad he doesn't want to be held much anymore.  Emma loves to make him laugh and always manages to get the biggest belly laughs out of him!

Birthday Breakfast

Enjoying his Birthday Balloon Curtain

Big sisters are determined to get this boy walking!

Supporting Hope for Augusta's Arrow Art Show

Enjoying his cupcake

Why won't you let me touch you?

For Connor's birthday we celebrated with family here at the house.  We celebrated our "Rookie of the year" with none other than a baseball themed party.  It was so fun having what family that could come and celebrate with us and we enjoyed watching the cousins play together. We were even invited to a wedding in the backyard- such fun imaginations we have in this family! 

Fun with Pittman cousins and Aunt Katie

These boys are so excited to finally have a boy cousin... the girls, not impressed with the boy stuff! Ha!

I love Connor's adventurous spirit, he always finds something to do or explore.  I have a feeling I will never be bored and will be kept on my feet for many years to come! I'm not complaining! :-)  He seems to have quite a sense of humor and loves to make his sisters laugh.

Before summer camp started we used our zoo passes and went for a family trip to the zoo in honor of both Caileigh's and Connor's birthdays.  So much fun!  The girls loved all the animals as always and this time Connor got really excited to see the animals.  His favorite was still the elephants and he was a little uneasy around the birds that you get to go in and feed.  I don't blame him. When they fly and land on your head, it makes me uneasy too!