My kids were eating pasta salad for lunch when jos asked where noodles come from. Ella Kate looked at him and said, " from butter, onions, broccoli, and cheetos!" sounds healthy to me:)

They watched Bambi for the first time today and when his mom died, they all 3 sat there on the couch looking like they were about to cry. It was so sad!! Then EK looks at them and said, "it's a good thing no one shot OUR mom!!!"

Funnies..

I was helping Ella Kate and Miley clean up their room the other day when EK looked at me and said," thanks! You're really fast! You're a big momma!" I think she meant to say big helper or at least that is what I'm telling myself:)

Jos told me one morning this week, "hey momma, did you know after we have baby Levi, we're gonna have anudder baby girl?!?" is this prophecy? :)

I told the kids that they could pick out a snack from the pantry. When ella Kate saw that miley had a fruit roll up, she said to me, "momma? Can she on earth have that??"

Adalyn drank an icee from a straw the other night at sam's! I feel like my other kids were 15-18months old before they mastered the straw!!

Miley was outside playing when I saw her over by our fence. I called for her and she came running to me saying,"I was just checking on the dogs... But they're not ruffin'." You know... ruffin, barking.. They're the same thing:)

Can I just brag on my kids for a moment?? I know I tend to look at all of the things my kids do wrong and focus on them. For instance: the disobedience, the lying, the sneakiness, the whining.... You know... Sin! Which we all struggle with! Well, the other night I put a 20 minute cartoon on netflix for the big three kids so I could go and feed adalyn and lay her down. Jos asked if we were going to watch another show when this one went off, but I told him no. It was going to be bed time and I wanted them to get some sleep. So I run upstairs and feed adalyn, put her down and come to my room to use the bathroom and brush my teeth without an audience:) I come back downstairs to see the tv off and all of the pillows picked up and put back in their places on the couch. I go to Josiah's room to see him already in bed with his lights off, and when I go to the girls' room, I see both of them in bed with their light off and their fan turned on! Miley was under her covers reading a book and EK looked like she was already asleep:) I was so proud of them!! I kissed them all and thanked them for obeying momma and I told them that I couldn't wait until daddy came home so I could tell him, too! I had a few hard days last week when I would go to my room and just pray and cry! I felt like such a failure as a mom! It felt like all I was doing was getting on to them and disciplining them every minute. I was exhausted! Bill and I have high expectations and we want our kids to behave, but I tend to forget that at the same time, they are kids... Little kids who need a patient and forgiving mother!! It is a challenging task, being a momma, but i wouldn't trade this calling or these kids for the world!! Please Jesus, help me be the best momma I can be!!

just some pics..

since our computer was stolen, i haven't been able to upload any pics to my blog. so unless i am on bill's ipod or borrowing a computer, (i am currently on my mom's) i can't update it. but, i have a few recent pics from my phone that i uploaded so.. here is our latest trip to publix:) my kids love that place!next is our sweet baby boy, who at 22-23 weeks already weighs a pound and a half!

next up is sweet adalyn from behind:) she has got the cutest backside i've ever seen!!just feeling the breeze..pajama day at preschool! (miley didn't have school that day, but she wanted to wear her pj's anyway!)pinterest helped me with our valentines this year and i think they turned out adorable! the kids had a blast getting creative! so fun..

More Miley..

I was soaking in a hot bath this afternoon while bill was playing a game with the kids downstairs. Just as I was closing my eyes and sinking deep in the bubbles, I hear a little whisper say my name. I look up and see a naked Miley sheepishly looking at me asking, "momma, pie get in the baff tub, too?" (can I) ((sigh))... "sure, come on in!" I mean, what mom ever gets 5 minutes to be in the bathroom by herself?! :) she smiles big at me and I tell her, " I love you, Miley! You're my buddy!" she's still smiling at me when she replies, "no, I'm just your kid!"

I caught her with my lotion yesterday. She was smothering and rubbing her little body when she looked at me and said, "what?? I gotta baby Levi in my belly and Him's fixin to come out!"

She was playing house by herself when she ran into my room and said, "mom, I can't find my dad anywhere! All him do's is watch tv and say bad words!"

Miney Moe

Miley sneezed super loud and hard in the car today then said," woah! It just rained in here!" :) thankfully it didn't rain on me in the front seat!

Miley was so proud of Ella Kate for being "stupa star" at school the other day:) (super star) ek and jos had a hard time not giggling every time miley would say "stupa" :)

With her pretend wand, Miley has been "spelling" the house with a "bibbily, bobbily, boo!"

Josiah helped Miley buckle up in the car today and she said to him," thanks 'siah!! You're my thooper hero!! " (super hero) then they held hands the rest of the car ride:) don't worry though, it was short lived. She was hollering at him and scowling at him this afternoon!

While getting herself dressed for church one Sunday, Miley looked at herself in the mirror and said, "wow!! I look fab-uh-lous!!"

We saw a huge group (flock??) of birds flying together one afternoon and Ella Kate said, "hey look! Those birds are having a get together!"

Josiah got a shirt from yaya for Christmas and he LOVES it! It is a Levi Strauss shirt and Jos calls it "my baby brother, Levi shirt!" :)

Yes... We are having another sweet baby boy, Levi Nicholas:) we are super dooper excited!!

(insert sad face here)

this, my friends, is a peek at our bedrooms after the thieves left yesterday. yes, our house gotten broken into.

but, yes, we were safe and the lord was gracious!

our neighbor was leaving his house from lunch when he saw our side door was opened. he walked over to shut it, thinking that we accidentally left it open, but he quickly realized that the door had been kicked in. so he called bill and then called the cops. bill calls me on his way to the house, and i run and pick up the big kids from preschool and head home, too. i remember my heart was racing the whole time i was driving, but at the same time, i was SO thankful that we weren't at home when it happened. and even more thankful that i wasn't the one to come home and find the house ransacked by myself with the kids! (there is silver lining on everything!! it could always be worse!) the kids could see me upset and heard me cry when bill told me what all had been stolen so far, so i decided that i should fill them in as best i could before we got home and they saw all of the cops and investigators.. so i told them that "a mean person came into our house uninvited and messed up some of our stuff and took a few of our things. but jesus kept us safe and the police men were there with daddy now and they were going to help us". of course they had a lot of questions. ella kate more than the others.. "momma, did they have a key? how did they get in?? did they take our dolls? am i gonna have to clean my room??" you know.. all of the important questions to a 5 year old:) miley cheered in the backseat when we pulled up the driveway, "yay!! our house isn't broken!! see, siah?? our house isn't broken!!" the kids played outside until aunt jenna came and took them to the park. we didn't want them to see everything and the investigator wanted to make sure he could fingerprint what he needed to, before they came in. i was saddened to see what they did and what all they took. so far, we have noticed that they took 3 of the kids' piggy banks, their nintendo ds and games, two mobigo's and games, dvds, wii, laptop (with all of my pics of all of my babies on the hard drive) camera bag and lenses, video camera (with adalyn's first 9 months of her life still on it with no extra copies!), some coins.... they broke some of our furniture (one being an armoire that was my nonny's that i can't replace!), our printer, our entertainment center, .... i can't even think. oh, and the most heart breaking thing to my girls was that they took their ariel pillow cases off of their beds to put some stuff in:( who does that?? it is one thing to violate me and bill, but they violated my babies' things! and this momma bear in me wants to hurt somebody!! i'm too hormonal for all of this:) i guess the part that hurts me the worst, is that i dont have any video footage of adalyn's life anymore!! nothing! not her first word, her first smile/laugh, her army crawl, her waving bye-bye.... and that makes me sick!! i also want to vomit at the thought of all of my pictures on the hard drive of my computer that i no longer have. it is a good thing that i have uploaded so many to facebook and to this blog... because that is all i have now:( but things could have been much worse, and i am trying my best to be thankful for god's provision and his timing in this! the kids have been keeping our focus where it needs to be, and they have kept us smiling! when ella kate saw her room for the first time, she gasped at the mess then looked at her dresser where 2 pennies and a quarter was laying and shouted, "YES!!! they didn't take all my monies!!!" :)

now if we could just get everything cleaned back up and put back in it's proper place, then i will feel much better! but if you think of it, please pray for us! pray for my anxious heart and fear, pray that i will be able to sleep soundly without freaking out about every noise i hear. pray that my kids will not be afraid and pray that we allow ourselves and this situation to be used for the glory of god! thank you jesus, for keeping us safe!