Thursday, February 19, 2015

Abundant Life...

God has blessed Josh and I with abundant life....that's the phrase that kept running through my head as I sang these little ones to sleep.


Keziah woke up later, disoriented, and I held her a bit and put her in her crib. An hour later, Keziah woke up disoriented again, so I went and held her a bit, and put her back in her crib.
Then I looked down and saw....this.


Jenny is pretty much in the exact same position, but Isaiah has scooted across the empty space vacated by Keziah and has taken Jenny's arm.
Isaiah always needed human proximity. He co-slept in our bed for the first year of his life, but would happily climb over our heads so much, to wake us up to play, that we kind of quit that. Then he would reach through the crib slats and hold my hand during his nap times.

A couple days ago, when they were playing outside, I drew Isaiah (at his request) a "Roman Soldier." He then started his quizzing game of "Roman Soldier Says...?" waiting for a response.
(the correct response to "Hulk Says...?" is "Smash" not "Rawrr," if you get it wrong he just keeps helpfully prompting "Hulk Says...?" at least a couple and up to ten more times before he fills in the answer for you, depending on how he is feeling. The correct answer to "Capun America Says...?" is "Stop, do not go to the dragon, I will fight the dragon." to which he responds "You stay here and pray to...?" and you have to say "God." This was straight from his St. George and the Dragon bedtime story. Somehow Captain America and St. George have gotten conflated in his head)

Back to the Roman Soldier. Never having heard this one before, and knowing how particular he is about the answer, I just kept repeating "I don't know." After a couple more prompts he helpfully filled in "The Roman soldier says 'Hear ye people of Nazareth, each must return to the city of his birth to be counted and...?"
So at least I could fill in "taxed." He beamed.



 He also is obsessed with having me draw him stormtroopers with the different colors of chalk. You can see a glimpse of one in the background....

Jenny remains her awesome self. She loves wearing "my skiwts," (her dress up skirts) over whatever else she has on. Here you can see she is wearing both her yellow and her pink one. I presume the only reason she is not also simutaneously wearing the blue one is that it was in the wash.


 Keziah remains so cute it hurts.


She really started playing with her siblings this month.


Now, she is not content to merely watch them playing something, but she laughs and crawl into the midst of the fray.

Here they are, storming the shed. Isaiah with his gun, Jenny with a stick, and Keziah hammering with her little hands. It entertained them for 10 minutes.




Keziah has been very playful with me too.


Often she will climb over me, and try to blow on my belly (I often blow on her belly, which always makes her laugh). She will try to blow on my belly and then laugh. She also smacks me in the face, and laughs. But there's a certain quality to it, an indefinable thing in which I see her trying to play with me, with twinkling eyes.

And happy St. Valentines Day!!


Isaiah kept saying "Get a picture of duh sword, Mommy?" I reassured him that the sword, would, indeed, be in the picture. I dressed him in the coordinating shirt. He dressed himself in the helmet and the sword....




She got away....



 
St. George on his way to church...





Monday, February 16, 2015

Circlets



I made it. Was quite pleased how it turned out.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

My Little Elven Princess: Arwen Evenstar goes to Sam's Club

I love seeing the kids in cool clothes. Hence, I love dressing them up for halloween, but that's once a year...so

I decided to dress her up for Sam's Club shopping, because...why not?



This is what my princess looks like dressed up like....an elven princess.




Jenny was making Keziah happy in the car (not Keziah's favorite place...)



Arwen being adorable...




A man was getting out of his truck. Keziah and Jenny found this alarming....


Then there was shopping. We outdid ourselves and arrived before all the free samples.
So ofcourse, we needed to amend that with food.

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And Arwen Evenstar got to drink soda and eat a berry sundae...



Highlights from the last month (ish): T-Rex comes to see Baby Jesus, and Elven Circlets

The highlight of my week, alas, I did not get a picture of. I had sprinkled the kids (and myself) with Holy Water and prayed for God to bless us. Jenny wanted the Holy Water. She sprinkled it carefully over her siblings (and herself) saying "God bwess Jenny" "God bwess Idaiah" "God bwess Kuziah" until it was all gone.
I came down the hall, and saw her sprinkling Keziah who was beaming up at her "God bwess Keziah," Keziah kept beaming, having to blink a little as the water drops covered her face, but opening her eyes to smile at Jenny again. It was like she understood it was a good thing, and was appreciative....


Still trying for a full sibling picture...

 Christmas Morning...


The T-rex came to the manger, to see Baby Jesus.



Jenny wanted to wear ALL HER HAIR PRESENTS.


Then off to the land of ice and snow...Alabama....

skyping Daddy...








I made the circlet...so proud :)

Jenny has a thing for hats.

Baby reaching for Holy Scripture....


Jenny really wanted to do the dishes...




Back in AZ, off the church...



Josh was humoring me by wrangling all the kids for the picture. He was not really as grumpy as he looks, Isaiah's grin is much more indicative of his mood pre and post picture taking. Josh does not like cameras. Someday I'm going to have to go to a Private Eye store to get hidden cameras so I can get pictures of Josh smiling....





They've discovered the joys of pushing eachother down the slide. Jenny will sit on top of the slide and straightforwardly ask "Idaiah, can you push me down duh swide?" Wheras Isaiah will sit on top and loudly proclaim "Jenny can't push me down the slide!" over and over until she pushes him down, and then he laughs.



She likes going down on her belly, it's safer than it looks, as she controls her speed with her hands...


Another attempt at a sibling photoshoot. I arranged them in a row, stepped back, and realized Keziah wasn't in the shot...


And then I found her. Sibling photo-shoot over.


We're very serious about gender-stereotyping our toys in this house.
;P
The water guns were left over from a teenager party with a boys team and a girls team or something. Isaiah calls it the "little green gun" for Jenny, and he carries around the "big green gun", and Keziah is lovingly given the "little blue gun" which she mostly just chews on.



Isaiah has been cheerful lately, randomly throughout the day, telling me "GOOD MORNING, MOMMY!" with great joy.