What in the Wirt?????

How did my baby boy turn ONE so fast??? Life gets faster with every kid, for sure! The lil' guy buried his head in his blanket and cried when we all entered his room this morning singing "Happy Birthday". Our sweet little homie.

So sensitive. Enjoying his birthday cupcake!

Ok, the love I have for my kids is equal, of course, but he is the light of my life...well, all of them are the light of my life, but he's something special...ok, you know, they're all special...well, crap. Forget it.

I can say that when I look at him, I remember that God is a good God and that He loves me so much. That's a pretty cool connection...my baby boy and the Creator of everything...they are in cahoots;) I should look for a "Jesus is my homeboy" shirt for him. I digress. Too much sugar in those strawberry cupcakes tonight.

Here are a few more pics from his birthday dinner tonight.

We were so happy my older sister and her family stopped by tonight from out of town...Gina was in town too!!! We don't get to see them very often so that was a super special treat tonight.

Great timing girls!!

Spaghetti time...

The Cousins...

eeeee, yikes! What's wrong with her??

Sweet Alex...our OK family came in for dinner!

Rhett, you are so loved buddy! People are driving in from everywhere;)

Thank you OK family!

Playing in the bubble machine with Angel and Natalie

Uh-oh...where'd it go???

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RHETTSTERS!!!
We love you.

Just Can't Get Enough

A few things we just can't get enough of these days...

BLOWING BUBBLES!

She chews gum constantly and blows bubbles everywhere!

A Pink Lady in training, for sure.




RHETT
Nat can't get enough of her little brother...none of us can!

And he loves every minute of it!




SLEEP (is for the weak)
Lainey can't get enough sleep.

She's sleeping standing up.

The girl has so much energy, she has always had trouble going to sleep. Staying asleep. Sleeping in. Anything with "sleep" in it, she has trouble with it.

But not this little guy...

I can't get enough of him!

Our little Linus.

I have a serious crush.

This smile makes my heart skip a beat.


And this one...

ok, one more...I thought he was sleeping on this particular day last month.

Instead I walked in to this smile!

He had pulled up for the first time and was so proud.

OK, I can't get enough of any of these SMILES!

Lainey is obsessed with Cheley, my mom's dog (top right). Obsessed (maybe I should say "passionate") about any and all animals.

Nat can never have too many accessories right now.

This is her being subtle.

TEA PARTIES!

Have to have one a day right now.

Thanks Sharly! This tea set made Natalie's day "favulous!"

On some days, we have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
I don't know what she did here...and I don't want to know.

DARE DEVIL STUNTS

It was a beautiful landing. Thankfully. And without any practice.

Thank you Metroplex.

Crazy feeling this landing wouldn't have been as smooth for Lainey...

Which leads me to...

BLOOD, BRUISES AND BLACK EYES...

(at least one of these happens DAILY with our little princesses) And the bubble holds steady.

SUSHI

As in SUSHI. This girl ain't playin.

This is just a Kroger roll. Spicy Salmon.

When we go to our favorite place by Kev's office, she eats everything Kevin eats.

The last roll she devoured had calamari, eel, spicy tuna, and crab.

He is leaving hungry lately.


I GOT WORMS

These two (and Lainey included) can't get enough of BUGS!

Worms are their favorite.

I think our girls are well-rounded.

PERFORMING

This little girl can't get enough of the spotlight.

Anything for a laugh.

Off to get sleep while we can!

We need our energy for our BIG MOVE!

More to come...

Easter Fun...Mostly

This Easter was eventful for sure. With RSV season coming to an end, we were excited to get Lainey out and about with friends and family this month. She had her "coming out" party at the beginning of the week with an Easter party at a friend's house with all of her church friends...of course, she doesn't know any of them since she doesn't go to church, but she was still so excited to be surrounded by all the fun!

We then went to visit our family in OK, where we always have so much fun, playing out in the country at Nonnie's and NaNa's with Alex, T, Angel and Justin...but we can never escape Lainey's darn asthma when visiting. The days leading up to Easter we worked at getting the asthma under control, when first Natalie caught a little virus with a slight fever and cough. She kicked it in a day, the hoss, but then Lainey and Rhett got in on the action. They didn't handle it as well. Lainey's asthma episode set her up for something worse. Both babies ended up with a fever of over 103, wet coughs, and trips (yes, plural) to the ER and urgent care centers with dehydration and respiratory distress...and we were out of town, away from our doctors and hospitals, for most of the fun!

The exciting thing is, we heard this is going around! Why does this excite us?? Because, even NORMAL kids are getting this high fever and wet cough (this is how Lainey used to respond to every little germ that she came in contact with and it often times landed us in the hospital for days). So our Lainey Bug IS a normal kid now it seems!!! She just responded to this virus a little more dramatically because of her battle with asthma at the same time. The things we get excited about around here:)

On to pictures...what a great time we had with our family and friends!

My sweet baby girl, so excited to go go go!

Cousins at the Easter party
KK, cutie pieThe Branch Gang

Love on me all you want. You will not get my eggs!

Getting ready to hunt eggs in OK...or eat grass, whatever.

Cricket, he's got his eye on you...no funny business

Uncle Justin with the kiddos-getting ready to start the hunt

Good times with NaNa

YESSSSS! Victory.

Trying to peel and eat on the go...
SCORE!
(and hello asthma eyes)
More action shots...

QUICK! Noone's looking...get in my mouth grass!

Love this pic Happy Campers

Flying a kite at NaNa and PaPa's

Pink looks good on you Buddy

The Animal Whisperer-another action shot

Mommy doesn't go near Willard! Just looking at this freaks me out

And this is us in our Easter outfits...

We LOVE talking to Pops on the computer:)

HAPPY EASTER POPS!

Rhett's turn to take a hit...

Thankfully, Rhett's respiratory issues were MILD!! We've never seen 'mild' respiratory issues so, yes, we were excited about this report too:) Thank you, Jesus!