I love my kiddos. Maternal love must be one of the most powerful things other than God. Lately I've really been trying to slow down life and enjoy each and every bit of them. They are just growing up way too fast for my liking (not that I have any control over it or anything : ) The fact that Gracie is almost 5 is enough to make me want to cry. Even though I'm sad that her innocence is leaving her, I love the person that she is growing up to be. She is a beautiful girl who is filled with love for God and it makes me feel so grateful that she will have her faith, hope and love to turn to in such a hard world to live in. I know I can't imagine living my life alone without Him and I certainly don't want my children to have to either. I just love how she goes about her day quietly singing praise songs, whether she's playing with Barbie's or swinging or helping me cook it's just a sound that melts my heart. She still is obsessed with wearing dresses and she has done a spin test on all of them to see which dresses twirl the best. I'm hoping to get time to make her a super twirly dress that I know she will just love. She just started taking Tae Kwon Do this week with Colton since ballet is over for the summer. She did really well and seemed to have a lot of fun with it although she told the Master several times throughout class how tired she was. When class was over she told me, "that was a lot of work!" Now we need to work on kicking without her pointed ballerina toe : )
Fletcher is Fletch. Busy, busy, busy, starting to really talk a lot and is still teething. The poor boy only has 10 teeth so he's still got a ways to go! Joyce took care of him last night while the rest of us went and saw "Kung Fu Panda" and commented on how smart he is. I think he understands much more than we think he's capable of. She mentioned how tidy he is in the way that if something falls over, he'll go and pick it up, or he'll make sure to put the chalks back in the box correctly. I'm starting to see "some" of this also but I still see more of him dumping out anything he can get his hands on or throwing things across the room without thinking twice about it. He typically has no concern about messes that he makes but hopefully this is a sign that he's slowly becoming more careful and not as destructive. My poor house can't handle much more! We're slowly starting to work on potty training. Colton was right around two when we started working on it but with Gracie we started much earlier and by her second birthday, she was wearing underwear all throughout the day. Fletch might be a little harder but he is showing some signs that he may be ready. All I can say is him taking off his dirty diapers and leaving messes for me to clean up is something that I am completely over! It's time to potty train this child!
Colton has been a busy boy lately! He's been bouncing around all over town from several of his friends houses, to golf world, to super play, to the movies, you name it, he's probably been there! He is still waiting patiently to lose his first tooth but the good news is that his bottom two are loose! Stay tuned!
Today Josh is at Stuart's first Treasure Coast Bike Show which we will join him at later. See the pictures at the bottom of his departure. Fletch kept saying "I ride, I ride, I ride". Then he watched his daddy's trail until he could no longer see him anymore. After coming inside he banged on the front door calling out "daddy! daddy!" for quite sometime. Poor little guy! He has had a strong connection to his daddy lately. During the day while daddy's at work, he'll occasionally bring me the phone and say "daa..eee". When I call him he'll "talk" to him until daddy can't talk any longer. He'll go on and on and on in his little gibberish talk. If only we knew what was on his mind. He'll be so excited later today when he gets to walk around seeing all the motorcycles with his favorite man in the entire world.
{gracie monkey'n around}
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{fletch dreaming of the day that he can join in the shaving cream baseball game with the big kids}
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{sarah, noticing his desire, made his day by helping him play}
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{silly lauren... ava & kaya's cousin}
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