A Month...

This last month has been a month.  A hard month, a good month, a busy month, a milestone month, a time for remembering how good and faithful God is month, a month to get back to our routine, a month that things change.  It's just that time of year.

For starters, SCHOOL started again!

Griffin is old enough for Kindergarten but we decided with the summer birthday that he would just do Pre-K this year and he loves it!  He thrives at school and loves to learn new things and especially be around other kids.  It is not too hard for me to release him to this because I know how happy it makes him to just be in the mix.  School sits good with Griff.  I'm impressed with how much educationally he's doing and his teacher told us the other day that he has had awesome behavior despite the chaos in the classroom at times.  Makes my heart happy...even though it might not always be that way at home, haha, it is a small parenting victory!!!  Beanie as you can see by the pic also thinks he's going somewhere...tears ensued the first week every time we dropped off Griffy.  He loves and wants to be just like his big brother.  Luckily he started a little one day a week preschool class on Fridays and seemed to love it last week!

We finished out the summer with a swim at "Mary Lou's pool" on a beautiful afternoon!  All 3 kiddos swam and played in the pool at the country club where we had our wedding reception.  Wonder if that starry eyed bride could have imagined that!!??!!  So that and a great labor day weekend at the lake closed out the summer!  And just like that, cooler temperatures have finally seemed to sweep in and we are starting to settle into routine and pumpkin candles and Fall!!  And with Fall, out came our pumpkins and Halloween decore!  I LOVE this time of year and have already gotten a few fally shoots of my little "pumpkin patch"!!

A nightly request is made for these skeleton PJs that glow in the dark!  In fact Crosbi Lu scared us one night when we woke up, forgot she was wearing them and saw a strange glow coming from her bassinet!  Ha ha!

This last month has also been quite a time for me. I seemed to have hit a patch of postpartum, with hair falling out, no sleep, lots of trouble with blood sugars and a few other things going on I was really at a low.  Thankfully God provided just the right people, circumstances and timing of things so I was able to pop right back up and am feeling much better.  Still working on the blood sugars, but that's a constant battle.  It did provide me a great opportunity to really depend on the Lord, because I knew only he could get me back to feeling myself, and I am thankful for the chance to be awed and amazed at him again working in my life.  Especially though my amazing hubby & mom who always know just the encouragement I need.  God sure picked out just the right people for my life!!

And with beautiful Fall days all bundled up with this little smile, who can really complain, right??
We have a busy few weekends ahead for us and we're really looking forward to getting in more FALL...pumpkin flavored EVERYTHING, Husker football, hoodies, apples and cooler temps are just hitting the spot right now!!

Crosbi Lu @ 5 Months

Well, well, well...

Look who's 5 months old...going on 16 already!

I feel like my sweet baby isn't too interested in staying a baby...

but with these wild boys to play with I guess I would want to get up and go too...if for no other reason than in the name of self defence! Ha ha!   And since I haven't posted anything since she turned 4 months, you can tell it's been wild around here!!

 Crosbi, you are so so busy.  

You shocked us over Labor day weekend by arming crawling for my watch while you played on the floor, so we now have 3 mobile children (Heaven help me!!).  You're as smiley as ever, which we absolutely LOVE about you but you have also developed a few bad habits too...like crying in the car and only really wanting mommy (I only have 15 minuets to workout at the gym before I hear your cries coming down the hall to get me!!)!  I don't really mind that too much though, because I know they'll be a day you want me to drop you off a block away, so I'll savor the sweetness of you on my hip!



You in your first restaurant high chair (propped up by some blankies)!  You LOVED being able to take it all in!!!

You continue to be the hit of the family with your brothers who have a game/war that they play almost daily called "MY BABY" where they yell "my baby" back and forth over you. This almost always results in a wrestling match and tears for at least 2/3 of you.  I think it's really sweet in a "I wish they'd pledge their loyalty to you in a peaceful manner" kind of way.  Ha ha!



You and Griffin share mutual adoration for each other and he loves to sing to you and hold you.



Beanie, on the other hand adores you but you are still a little cautious with him, this picture says it all, haha!  But that's not to say you don't have a very sweet relationship!!  Every waking moment he is concerned for your whereabouts and loves to "baby talk" you.  He has the cutest "hiiiiiii" he always greets you with!

As Griffin told us last night, "it's a madhouse here!"  And that's the truth, but we love it and we love you.  

It's funny how we remember certain moments in our life so well, and last year at this time, while I was newly preggers with you seems like almost yesterday to me.  I can remember feeling so sick and having so much excitement and anticipation for you...I was wondering what #3 was going to be like...would you be a girl???...how will it be with 3 kids???  Now I know this will surely be remembered as such a "sweet spot" in my life.  My children are all here and so precious.  Crosbi, you are worth every side effect and struggle that I have gone through and more.  YOU have brought so much joy to my life and completed this family.  I tried to remember when I lost a baby between the boys and in the moments of stress and defeat during the "family making" years that God had our family planned out perfectly and I would just have to trust.  Standing where I am now, I couldn't have planned anything even remotely better and I am thankful for each step along the way, good and bad.  What was once just a hope in my heart has become my beautiful family.  Last Fall I bought this little skirt and leggings for a baby girl and this weekend when I put them on you the sense that you are just a dream come true washed over me again and again!

Another glorious month of you lived, and many many more to come!! 

We are blessed little one!

xoxo,

mom

Going for Gold:)

I couldn't LOVE my little team more!
We had a blast watching the Olympics and had a little with drawl when they ended.
Impossible to think the next time we watch the summer Olympics we'll be 9, 6 & 4!

**I guess I forgot to post this on here a while back, but I love this picture of them, so I had to put it up!