shuckers

So I thought I would have more time to blog once my kids were all in school, turns out while the mice are away the cat likes to play.

And work and earn money.

So, I wanted to recap the what happened around here over the last summer.  So if the "cat" does stay home long enough....I may upload my little blog & print a blog book for my coffee table.  Gracious~I don't want to forget all the highlights of the summer of twenty-eleven. 

So for starters....Open up and say ahhhh.   

Jack had to get an expander fall of 2010, because apparently his mouth is NOT big enough.  This is a hereditary thing so lucky us, two down, two to go. 

It was pretty unhandy esp since the way it is attached to the back teeth, would not allow him to put his teeth together.  There was a gap, as you see modeled in the above picture.  :(  I don't think he thought much of it at first.  He was pretty excited to be starting orthodontics.  But as time went on he became self conscious and looking back as last years school picture shows he was very embarrassed of his smile that didn't close.  :(  When I asked why he closed his lips for his school picture he explained he hates how his teeth don't go together.  It was also hard for him to pronounce words correctly & harder to eat. 

But in February of this last year, the expander came out.  Braces went on the bottom and then later this summer braces on the top.  Yeah, for expander's that did the job & come out!!! 

And we also celebrated another thing with Jack....

He turned 9! on June 15th.  We let him invite 2 friends over and they did this:

A 72 foot slip and slide, good ol' dad made for them.  With water and baby soap to make sure it was nice and slippery.  My cousin scored the construction plastic...so it was FREE to us.  It offered several hours of fun for the afternoon.      

What a blast (for them)

Some of us caught the view from the porch and pool.  :)

After the water and fun....we had one of Jack's favorite lunches.  Hot dogs & hamburgers, Doritos, chips and pop.  Yep.   

After lunch we Donovan made a treasure hunt for them.

The last card invited them to come in for snow cones.  And a giant chocolate chip cookie "birthday cake"

I love this boy.  He makes our life so much fun.  He adds a lot of humor to our family.  While he strong will amazes & confuses me I know just where he got it. 

And then we end each birthday with a naked measurement.  No, not really it was just before bed and I realized that we had not marked his height on our door growth chart....he DOES have shorts on....just not that you can see.  Opps.  So he's at 4' 8" already he has grown since June! He gained another 1/2 inch since then!!!  He's growing so fast. 

Quote of the day:  Although caution it's rated PG-13 for language. 

Suzy loves to say "OH SHUCKERS!" when something doesn't go right.

  She adds the "er" to Shucks. 

 She's tricky like that.

She gets that from me.

 

So last night she starts starts rhyming things with "Shuckers"

Which was o.k.

Until she replaced the "sh" with an "f"

That pretty much was a show stopper at supper last night.  We all stopped and stared at her.  Poor thing.  So innocent, so sweet. 

We were all taken back and just stared at her. 

Until Jack pipes up and say, "No no you don't say that...that's a bad word" In a very authoritative voice.

To which she quickly realized it must have been severe that it stopped the world around the supper table last night.  She instantly got big tears in her eyes. 

Talk about Awkward & Awesome.   But mostly just awkward. 

I think I'm raising the next Neil Armstrong......

I had never had an ultrasound when pregnant with Isabella. So you can imagine the thrill when I had my first one a little over 7 years ago. And after the awe of seeing a healthy little baby I cried. I remember being with Donovan that day and after the Dr. appointment we went to lunch to celebrate. But I had lots of tears. Tears of disappointment. In my mind I was growing a little sister for Isabella inside my womb. I felt so guilty for being disappointed, after all I had a healthy baby. But it still loomed. It took me several days to get over what I had wanted, or thought I wanted.

After I changed my thinking to a boy...and all of what extra parts he would come with...I was getting used to the idea. Then we picked a name for our son. I grew to get excited. Then we went to pick out his very first outfit to bring him home from the hospital in. I was very happy and thrilled with meeting this new little boy.

I was so glad God gave me time to adjust. Because God really does know the very best for us. I love his plans. Sometimes I just need some time to adjust to His way of thinking.

It was so cool to add our 2nd to our family...I loved watching Isabella mother this little baby. I loved having blue all around us. I was in for a huge adjustment as far as the work load! I could not believe how much time and energy 2 required. Isabella and Jack are 23 months apart. I was so sleepless and thinking back to that time I may have had some postpartum depression going on in the mix. It seemed Donovan and I were both busy with a baby in each set of arms...and when he went to work....well it was me in a balancing act. We made it through and somehow when I think back to those days of just 2 kids at home....I sit in awe of how did I think that was so hard????

Celebrating Jack turning 3 at the park.
Jack's 2nd birthday

And a fast forward to last Monday...June 15th when we celebrated turning 7 at my sister Holly's house.

She invited us to go swimming for the day. What a blast our first time in the pool this summer!

Aunt Holly has a special gift for making birthday's special. This greeted us on the front porch that day. She also ordered pizza that day and had it delivered! What a treat!!!!

What a guy! This boy Jack is one of a kind. He has such a strong will, I'm learning how to relate to him- I hope better in the last couple of years. He has a hilarious sense of humor! I love it. He has humbled me on more than one occasion. I love that for the most part he is outgoing! He makes our family so much fun. I can't imagine our family without him.

Last week was so so so full! We had Bible school, swimming lessons, plus it was the first full week off of school. Over the weekend we had our small group here for dinner, and celebrated Father's day with 3 different groups of family. AND...we had to showings on the house last night. Are you starting to see why I didn't have time to blog????

Quote of the day
from yesterday over lunch

Jack: "Where do people go to the bathroom in outer space?"
Me: " I have no idea, Jack."
Jack: "Probably just where ever they want to, and then rockets would smash into it."
Me: "SICK!"
Jack: "Wouldn't that be cool if we could go to the bathroom where ever we wanted?
Isabella: "No, that would get smelly."
Jack: "Can Isabella, Dad, and me go to outer space sometime? I really want to see what it is like. For real."

Jack turns 6

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