Cutie Mareea & Thea

A random thought.

I love being pregnant and having babies. I love the nervous feeling I get while waiting for the test to show up. I love seeing those 2 pink lines. I love telling the kids that we're having another (they ask me constantly if/when we're going to get another baby). I love maternity clothes. I love using that silly pillow at Motherhood. I love that cute baby belly, too. I love feeling baby move. I love OB appointments. I love hearing the heartbeat with the doppler. I love counting the weeks. I love that 20 weeks ultrasound and finding out if the baby is a girl or a boy. I love lying on the couch at night and my husband understanding that I'm tired. I love shopping for the little one. I love getting out hand me downs from older siblings and remembering who wore them, where we lived and what our life was like then. I love folding everything and putting it in drawers and organizing diapers. I love itty bitty newborn cloth dipers. I love going to the hospital with my husband alone. I love holding my precious baby for the first time. I love sitting in the hospital in the quiet for 2 days with just my baby and maybe my hubby. I love nursing him/her. I love watching them curl their beautiful tiny hands around my finger. I love seeing their little mouth yawn.
What a blessing my God has given me to be able to be a part of this miracle FOUR times. I am in awe. To God be the glory.

Family Picture

This lovely picture was taken by "Ashton Bond Photography". I gave ashton a digital camera of mine that was broken and didn't work. Somehow he got it to work and has been loving taking pictures of all sorts of things. He tells me he wants to be a wildlife photographer when he grows up and take pictures of polar bears in Alaska!

mareea's big news

Mareea decided this weekend (sat. i think) that it would be a good time to start pulling herself up onto her hands and knees! My goodness. She is only five and a half months. We're thinking she's going to be an early crawler like Ashton was. She has been pushing herself backwards for awhile and sometimes and pull herself forward. This is especially impressive because she is such a BIG baby! I really wish I knew how much she weighed. She's also super long. We're enjoying her so much. What a little (big) blessing!

More June Pictures

Landon with his Monet painting he got for his birthday. I cannot get that kid to make a normal face for the life of me!

Landon's birthday Cake

Ashton and Landon at their swim lessons

Mareea asleep in the Bjorn. This was one of the last times I wore her in it. She got too heavy! Now she does very well in the Ergo and it is so much easier on my back.

Some pictures from this month

Mareea playing with the flowers my mom and I used to redecorate the bathroom. We also re-entered the cloth diapering world. She's wearing a bum genius one size pocket here. They're working well!
Our friends Anne and Nate. My mom and I stopped at their house for lunch on our way to Chicago. Dan went to china for 5 weeks and I drove home with my mom for a week to visit.

Mareea with her uncle Ben. They got along famously.

My monkeys in "the forest" in our yard.

Ashton and Q wrestling before Q left to go visit his mom for the summer.