Time flies

Today is our seven year wedding anniversary and it seems like yesterday and forever ago. Our marriage started off rocky when Scott was deployed to Pine Bluff (yes, AR) after just 3 months together. He was able to come home for a day or two every two weeks or so (which doesn't seem bad once you've been married for a few years) but we were young and just starting our life together so it was difficult. Then just as things were starting to settle in, he was deployed again but this time it was to Iraq. He was gone for a year and a half (12 months in country) but we really grew as a couple, thanks to long (and expensive) phone calls and, on occasion, web conversations. This is were I must thank Jenna and her wonderful and patient family for giving me a seat at their dinner table at least 4 nights a week! We were able to conceive Katie on a welcomed R&R visit home and she was born just a few weeks after his deployment came to an end. She was baptised in the spring of 2007 in the same church that we were married. Now, just yesterday, Henry was baptised in the same church and our life couldn't seem more complete.

Everything's funner in jammies

Famous last words "I need my baby Henry!"

Where's Waldo?

So sweet

I looked everywhere for her!

There were 4 in the bed and the little ones said . . .

My first thought when Scott brought Katie to our bed at 4:30 a.m. was "oh no you didn't!". She hasn't been sleeping very well for the past few nights but usually he goes to her bed to sleep. I was up feeding Henry of course and was too tired to question his decision. Then just as I was getting Henry back to sleep and in his cradle, Scott's alarm started going off - and thanks to snooze, keep going off for the next 20 minutes. So Henry was having no part of going back in his bed. I couldn't believe my luck!!! I managed to get about an hour of extra sleep and when I woke up, I really couldn't believe my luck. My two precious babies snuggled up my bed. Sometimes I get so caught up in the chores of life that I forget that they will only be little once. That all too soon, they won't fit in my lap or need me to kiss their hurt away. Scott will probably laugh at me for taking another picture but when they are all grown up and thumbing through the CD album of their life, I hope they laugh and remember a childhood full of love and good times together. (But tonight it's back in their own beds!!)

From colic to cute

Right when I was ready to call it quits on maternity leave and go back to work . . . .

there's a light at the end of the colic tunnel. Every night Henry thinks he should SCREAM from about 7:00 until 10:00. I think I've figured out what he likes (a tight swaddle and mamma's boobs) and things have been better for the last two nights. I have felt so bad for Katie and not spending enough one on one time with her but. . .

finger painting seemed to make us both feel better! It was so funny. She doen't really like to be dirty so when I was explaining the concept of "finger" paint, she wasn't sure about it. But once she got into it, let's just say I had to carry her straight to the bath tub. She was so proud of her masterpiece and couldn't wait to show her daddy when he got home.

She loves him so!