Swiming Lessons!!

We are so excited to finally have Savnanah in private swim lessons! It's been two years since she took lessons and never really learned to swim . . . mostly due to the group setting. So when my friend Elaine recommended her neighbor who does private lessons we quickly called and signed Savannah up! She has been for two lessons (out of 5) and absolutely loves Ms Doris (or Miss Dora as Savannah calls her). We still have a long way to go, but honestly, I love that Doris is going so slowly with Savannah and not rushing her into learning strokes when she's still a little afraid of the water.

Double Well Visits

Today Dave and I took both Savannah and Preston in for their yearly well visits. Thank God that Dave went with me because, as my friends had cautioned, there is no way I could have done it alone! Each kid was due for four shots and Preston had to get a finger prick too. I decided at the last minute to postpone a couple of Preston's shots since he has to get another one at 15 months, but the finger prick was pretty traumatic for the little guy. :( We survived and Dr. Baker assured me once again that my kiddos are perfectly healthy and normal . . . it's nice to hear that from a doctor once in awhile. Here are the stats:

Savannah is still holding strong in the 90th percentile for both height and weight. She's over 3 1/2 feet tall now!!

Preston dropped a bit in weight (definitely fooled me) at only 23 lbs, 11 oz ( 50-75th percentile)and his length was 31 inches (75-90th percentile). Of course his head was still big, Dave says because he has a big brain. :)

Praise the Lord for two beautiful, healthy children!

Bike Boo Boo

Yesterday was the first day we actually got Savannah out to ride her new bicycle! It's just been sooo hot and we knew it'd be a lot of work trying to teach her to pedal so it's taken us awhile to get outside with the bike. As I was finishing up the dishes from dinner, Dave and I had a quick conversation about the helmet. We decided that even if she was just in the cul de sac, we needed to start off teaching her ALWAYS to wear her helmet. So, helmet on, she "rode" for a few minutes before I finally got out with Preston. Long story short, some how she got the bicycle on the bottom, uneven part of the driveway and suddenly fell completely over on her right side! She was screaming as the bike was laying on top of her. What a scare! I quickly got her up and thought that she just had a scrape on her arm, but at bedtime we realized that she has quite a little scrape above her eye too. Thank God we had her helmet on her!!

Preston Is ONE!!!

Preston, it seems like just yesterday when you were born and here we are already celebrating your first birthday! You are such a blessing and have truly been an easy baby so far. I think you are very much like your daddy, laid back and easy going. Just about everyone we leave you with comments on how happy you are, always smiling and never really making a fuss. Although we know that the fussy days come (especially when those top 4 teeth were coming in) overall, you are one content, happy little guy. Thank you for the joy you have brought into our lives, for being a gift of life straight from the Lord. We are so excited about the fun that awaits us with having a little boy in the house. Happy Birthday, Peanut!!!

A Very Special Man

Saturday Dave and I celebrated our 6th anniversary! Our sweet friends the Grahams took our kids for the afternoon and we headed to dinner at Maggiano's. It was nice to just sit and talk without having to cut up food or continuously pick things up off of the floor. :) Although our first six years together have been amazing, I have to say that I never imagined we face all that we have so soon. God has definitely used Dave to get me through some super hard times. I'm so thankful for a godly husband who loves me just as I am . . . who supports me, listens to me, and enjoys having fun too. I can't wait to share lots more years with you baby!


Not only is Dave an amazing husband, he's also a terrific daddy! Today we have celebrated what an awesome dad he is too. We started the morning with chocolate chip pancakes, polished off leftovers from Maggiano's for lunch, had big fat real hamburgers on the grill for dinner, and finished the day off with Baskin Robbins sundaes and some cookie cake! WOW! Honestly, I have to say Dave is much better at parenting that I am. He somehow knows when to wait out the cries, when a no nap day is okay, and most of all, how to let the kids have fun. Savannah says to me yesterday after church "mama, you can go run your errands. Daddy and I can take care of ourselves." What she meant was mama please get out of here so we can make a big mess and have some fun! Ha! I love Dave even more just watching him in action with our two precious children. I think his Father's Day card says it best:

Whether it's putting shoes on little feet

or reading bedtime stories with all the right voices,

it's there~

your commitment to being the best dad you can be.

And that's just what you are

the best Dad ever!

Happy Father's Day, Dave!!

From one lucky mom and an especially lucky wife.

One Crazy Week

This week has been insane! Right after the party on Saturday, Bible school started on Sunday night! I volunteered to teach so all week I've been getting up at the crack of dawn to run and get ready to be at church by 8:30 a.m. (we didn't actually make that once this week, but we tried hard). The hardest part was Preston missing his morning nap every day and being quite fussy by the afternoon. Whew!

To add to the fun, on Sunday night we discovered that I had a flat tire so we borrowed my neighbor's air machine and re inflated it. Well, by Monday morning it was flat again so we refilled it again and Dave took it to work to be fixed. Thankfully it was an easy repair and we didn't need a new tire. However, while the car was there somehow Preston's car seat was taken out and reinstalled a little unstable. Sooo, being that it was only a few days early I decided to go ahead and flip it around. He is LOVING it!!! Seriously, I'm amazed at how much happier he is in the car now!

Preston's first trip forward facing! Mom are you sure this is right??

On Tuesday we celebrated Savannah's 4th birthday! It was low key with opening gifts and dinner at Chick fil A (see previous post). Thursday we again celebrated her birthday and the end of Bible school by going to Coldstone for her birthday ice cream treat! Yummy!!!

By Friday I was completely exhausted, not to mention way behind on a lot of household chores and to dos. Soo, I pretty much let the kids watch TV and play together while I was on the computer. Bad mama I know! Anyway, here is what I found when I did emerge from the computer desk . . .

Savannah's favorite thing to do now is take the couch cushions off so Preston can climb up! He loves being able to get on the sofa and crawl all around. You can't see it in the picture, but I've trained her to put the cushions right below the sofa incase he falls off. We ended the week with daddy coming home early and we hit the pool!

Needless to say we all slept well last night after such a crazy week. Today we'll be celebrating our 6th anniversary and we're going to dinner alone!!!

The Carnival

Last Saturday we had a big carnival to celebrate Savannah's 4th and Preston's 1st Birthday!! It was much, much fun and we are thankful so many of our friends could come. We had a bounce house, face painting, balloon animals, games, sno cones, and even cotton candy. Preston was a little unsure of his cake at first, but it didn't take him long to figure out how good it was! :)