jacobism...

bless his little heart!... the other day i was driving in to work with the kiddos with me and from the back seat jacob says... "mom, i wish we could go to church everyday.  we should worship the Lord with gladness..."  this was a verse he had memorized for awana, and he has been recalling his verses lately when he's scared and glad and in different situations, so i was happy that he thought of this one... trying not to crush his worshipful spirit i said, "well buddy, that would be great, but we have to go to work, so that we can eat, and have a house and buy things... how would we pay our bills?  we have to go to work."  he thought for a second and then he said, "well, all the people that don't love Jesus and don't go to church can pay our bills!"  i love that kid!  i'm thinking there's a new welfare! ;) 

a great wekend!

we've been so busy!!  but this past weekend we had a great, fun, weekend.  the kids and i went to the park and then we swung through mcdonald's for apple juice and tea and enjoyed those at another park, the weather was beautiful, so the kids played in the sprinklers, i planted more flowers, and then we went to the mall for the united methodist church's spring activity day.  and all of that was on saturday... then there was sunday... sunday school, church, lunch outside on the picnic table, cleaning the house (not so fun, but much needed), and then we made homemade cabbage burgers for dinner... YUM!!!  it was busy, but fun... and here's some pictures...

"oh, what a beautiful morning...."

 what a GORGEOUS day it is!!!  last night we went to home depot and bought some flowers that i got partially planted and 2 new flags... i was able to get stuff done a little before it got dark and then this morning God kissed those beautiful flowers with some sonshine... look at the beautiful flag flying in the small breeze.

a quick jacobism...

what a funny little guy i have!?!  he keeps me in stitches!  today we got him signed up for t-ball.  he is sooooooooo excited!  he got on the phone and called oma and opa, and then uncle jos and he told uncle jos not to worry about missing his games, 'cause he could just watch him on t.v.  ;)  he told him he'd be on espn. ;)  I LOVE IT!!  i've been chuckling about it all day. :)  gotta' love'em!

jayden update...

we made it home! yesterday afternoon we were released from the hospital and able to go home. we finally got jayden to drink something by having a contest with mommy. we'd see who could drink faster and she beat me twice... little stinker! ;) so they released us at about 2:30 ish and when we got home she was happy, but very worn out! she fell asleep in the play room sitting on a chair. she still isn't fully herself, but with time, hopefully she'll get there. she is very worn out, only wanting to lay there and not do much... except of course, fighting with brother. ;) we were very blessed witha wonderful supper brought to us by a great friend, Bethany Adams. it was very nice not to have to worry about dinner. thanks everyone for the prayers, calls, visits, concerns, and everything else. it was greatly appreciated!

jayden

1 march 2012

just an update to those of you who haven't heard... i am up at the hospital with jayden. they admitted her yesterday with pneumonia and rsv. her fever was as high as 107.3 at one time and has been up and down. she is on oxygen quite a bit (took her off for the last 2 or 3 hours), an iv and the are giving her quite a bit of meds. she looks much better than yesterday, but they say she will probably still need to stay 'till sunday at least. thanks for the prayers everyone.

......   day 3    

i go from crying to rejoicing, to crying, to rejoicing.... jayden is doing much better. her lungs sound great! her fever has been down closer to 99 and she's going without oxygen. PTL!! now it's just getting her to eat and drink. she doesn't have much desire to do either one, but for breakfast this morning she ate 1/2 a banana, a bowl of grapes and 2 bites of my omelet. SUCH AN IMPROVEMENT!! they say if i feel comfortable enough with her and if she continues as she is, we may go home late tonight. pending on how she does the rest of the day. please pray.... both for her and her health, but also, for this mommy. i now have rsv myself, from being up here with her and i'm just exhausted emotionally and physically right now. i'm not sure i'm up to her going home yet, with me being her sole caretaker. please pray.

the kids...

my kids can make friends with anyone!  they had them named and everything. ;) crazy kids!

 

the kids and their "towing business", jayden and her backwards overalls (personally  i think overalls are hard enough to put on, but to manage to get them on backwards...  now that's talent!), and jacee on her"bike".

jacee's 1!

well, my baby's not a baby anymore.  she's a big one year old. we took her in for her 1 year check up yesterday and she's 29 inches, and 19.8lbs  she is growing to be such a big girl.  she's really into twinkle, twinkle and playing with her brother and sister.  she's pretty good at wrestling with them.  she likes to take her sister by the neck and take her down.  it's actually really funny to watch.  she LOVES her new big girl carseat and she kicks and giggles everytime we get in the car now.  what a little cutie pie!