My Belly...

This is for my Sister-in-law Summer and Brother Jeremy who don't get the privledge of seeing my beautiful growing self everyday :)...Since Summer and I are both expecting babies in May (only 9 days apart!!), I thought it would be fun to kind of compare bellies. I'm pretty sure mine is bigger-since this is my 3rd baby and Summer's working her 2nd...a sweet baby girl!!

18 weeks

Big News...

Just wanted to share a little news with you all. We thought we'd let the boys do it...

 My Mom is having...

 ...a monkey???

No. She's having a baby!!! And we are so excited!

Expected arrival of our new little play mate will be in May 2011.

Case's 1st day of Preschool...Sept. 2, 2010

1st Day of Preschool Sept. 2, 2010

Case was SO excited about going to school...he got a new backpack and he got new crayons [thanks to his Aunt Teesa (Teresa)]. He was even SO excited that he wanted to sleep in his "school clothes" the night before. His reason was so, "that I will be all ready to go when I wake up". I loved seeing this excitement!

Still in the back of my mind I had a picture of how the 1st day of school would go...I imagined we would pull up to the school still excited but as we walked closer and closer to the classroom he would get stiffer and stiffer and then the protesting would start. I imagined walking in and literally having to have the teacher "pry" him off of me as he is kicking and screaming....BOY! Did my imagination run away with me??? His excitement only grew and grew-until I literally had to grab him to have him wait for me. We snapped a few pictures and then enter his class...He took his backpack off, proudly showed it to his teacher and then put it in "his" cubby. Then like a flash he was gone-off to play. Never looking back until I said, "bye, Case" he glanced back and said, "bye, Mom" and then right back to his playing.

 Whew! What a relief...I think. This is how I wanted it to go-right? Yes it is...although, for a few minutes I secretly wished he would have "needed" me more. After a few tears I realized it was much better this way and that Case's no longer my baby boy-now he's my little man and that's ok.

He's always making silly faces in pictures...

Modeling his back pack

Outside of school-waiting patiently (kind of) to go in...

Finally inside and ready to learn :). He's such a big boy now! 

Logan's 2nd Birthday!

Logan turned the BIG 2 on July 18th...I can't believe how big is getting. Doesn't seem like my baby boy should be 2 already. We had a nice little party at Papa & Grandma Schaper's to celebrate his big day, complete with pizza, po & Veggie Tales...

He had a special birthday breakfast. When I asked him what he wanted he said, "Choc chip cookies"...we went with chocolate chip pancakes instead :) We put 2 candles in his pancake and he loved that-he wanted us to keep lighting them over and over and over again...

Opening presents-he had lots of help. (BTW, sorry about the poor quality of pictures...think our camera is on it's last leg + Daddy was taking the pics. That's why there isn't a whole lot of them...)

The cake & gift table

Logan requested a "Veg tales" cake...so Mommy did her best to recreate Bob & Larry. He was satisfied and that's all I cared about.

He was excited about getting to blow out candles again...

Silly Logan

Here's a silly little video of Logan Joel...It's actually from October-I know, I know. But better late than never, right???

Case & Logan 3rd & 1st Bday Pictures

Case's Prayer!!!

Case is our little prayer man...every time we sit down for a meal he's the first to pray & usually says Logan's prayer too. His prayers usually consist of the same thing...
"and me thank you Jesus for the food, Amen."
However, this past week he added a little bit extra to his prayer and since we all know how powerful prayer is...I think we are in trouble...this is what he said,
"and me thank you Jesus for the food, Amen...Oh, help Jesus bring me a baby sister, Amen."
I about choked on my food (since I had already started eating because I thought the prayer was over after the first "Amen"). For the past 3 or 4 days, a baby sister is all he can talk about...hmmm...I hope he doesn't know something that we don't know.
I can tell you one thing though, his prayer has inspired me to pray a little harder.
"Please Jesus don't bring that baby sister until you know that we are ready, financially, physically & especially mentally, Amen."

(And we will be taking extra precautions for awhile...separate beds on opposite sides of the house.)

I did shoot a little video of Case talking about the baby sister he wants Jesus to bring him...what he wanted to name her and so on...it was really cute. I have been trying to upload it to blogger for about a week now and have had no luck...so whenever I actually get it uploaded, I think you are all going to like it.