35!

We often travel on my birthday, which I love!!  Italy when I turned 25, Hawaii at 26, winter park for my 30th. And we just so happened to be in one of our favorite cities for my 35th birthday! We rode a cable car, ate Boudin's clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl, smashed a penny, ate ghirardelli chocolate, and drove down Lombard street! I feel celebrated!!

10 month old Roman!!

My baby is 10 months old!! He is so fun and sweet! He loves to play with cars, trains, or anything else Vin is playing with! The girls love to take care of him (whether he likes it or not). He crawls (mowgli) everywhere, pulls up on everything, and loves to slide off the couch to be able to walk to what he wants! He has 2 teeth on the top and 2 on the bottom.  He can eat anything he wants, and does! He is laughing at everything and wants to be part of the conversation. What a great blessing he is to our family!

Can't hold it in

"I can't hold it in when I want to draw something."

-Bria 

Waiting

I do a lot of waiting. I am an expert on wait-time after asking my class a question.  I ask (any) child of mine to do anything, I wait. I am working to lose the baby weight, and yet I am forced to wait.  (My current wait is literally waiting to pick up Bria from school.)

But often when I ask God for direction, I find my self waiting. Often I don't know the difference between being patient with His timing or  that eventually I will come up with the right answer to my own question. Which was His plan all along. Heaven knows I'm not a patient person which makes it even harder to wait.

I'm at a crosswalk. I need direction. And it's here that I wait.

Sleeping woes

I've always had a hard time sleeping. It's hard to quiet my mind and if I wake up in the night, it is hours before I can drift off again. Roman has decided that he doesn't like his crib and prefers the middle of our queen bed. I haven't slept in 9 months. But someday this sweet son of mine won't want to sleep by his momma. So tonight, sleep and I will battle once again. Sleep has nothing on this baby's delicious cuteness.

8 months of pure joy!

Roman is eight months old. He can say mama, loves to crawl, play with his brother and sisters, loves to eat squash, and shoelaces. With 2 teeth, he is 21 pounds of pure joy!

Boy cuddles

This is how we survive the perfect storm of coughs, fever, croup, and an ear infection. This is their version of cuddling.