4 kiddos at the park

We are SO thankful for the friendships that we have here! Thankful for our friends, and the friendships that our kids have too. These pics were from one of our date swap nights...enjoyed taking the kids to the park. It was fun to have Grandma and Papa here to help too. :)

Look at this cutie!

What a sweetie...

Spring Time Fun

It's a bummer that there were finger prints on my lens (I wonder how that could have happened :)) when I took these pics. This was from one of the early spring days...we had so much fun playing outside...finding rolly polly bugs for the first time this season and soaking in some sunshine!

He's a Crawler

This was at the end of April (I wonder if I'll ever get this blog caught up?!)...so imagine what kind of trouble he's getting into now :)

Here...sissy is showing Isaac how to get up on all fours. He was an expert army crawler...so we didn't' know if he would show interest in crawling on all fours...but he's a pro now :)

Saying "Bye-Bye" to Binki

Hannah loved her Binki. It was a source of comfort to her even while she was in the middle of sleep. The process of saying "good-bye" to her Binki started long ago. First, with not having Binki in public (she would leave it in the cup holder of her car seat). Then...just at home...and finally just in her bed at nap time and bedtime. It's been that way for a while...but at 3 years old, it was well past time to say "good-bye" for good. We talked to Dr. Bullach at her 3 year well child visit and he confirmed that it was time (it was nice for her to hear it from someone else to :)) but he said that we could wait until after Easter. We decided to do that, after all the family had gone home and Easter was over...we were ready. We had been gearing up for it, and one day she came to me and told me that she was ready to give her binki's to baby Clara. So..that's just what we did. Our friends Jeff and Amber just had a baby...so the opportunity was perfect. Hannah was able to give something that she loved very much to her new little friend. She packed them up in a box

and painted it and decorated it with lots of love and care...

and we delivered them to Clara.

The first night was hard...she was genuinely SO sad. It broke my heart...

The days after that were much better...still a little crying, but nothing that was uncontrollable. And after a few days....wouldn't you know it...she never asked again (okay...one time weeks and weeks later).

We are thankful that the process went so smoothly and now they are gone...she's growing up so fast!