little punkins!!!!

Our little pumpkin!!!

....and this is how it all started!!! Here is G picking out the biggest pumpkin for baby Q!!

 How cute is he!!!  We had the best time carving out his pumpkin!!!!

 uuuuh, so heaby!!!

I found online this fun Christian pumpkin lesson that I did with G while carving out his pumpkin!!!! 

1. Take a pumpkin. "You aren't a pumpkin, but all of us are something like one. God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off you may have gotten from the other pumpkins." Talk about how a pumpkin is like us: it has an outside and an inside. The outside is what people see. The inside is like our soul or our heart. A pumpkin left to itself will soon rot and die. We will die some day too." 

2. Carve out eyes and a small "o" shaped mouth.  As you make the holes and pull out the pieces of rind, ask people what they see inside (yucky stuff). "This is what we look like to others and what we are like when are hearts are not changed. The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live (Ecclesiastes 9:3). How can we get rid of this icky stuff?" 

3. "God is the only one who can change our heart. But in order for God to change our heart we must become open to him." Carve an opening in the top of the pumpkin big enough to put your hand through. You might want to quote Revelation 3:20: Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. 

4. Put in your hand and pull out the insides. "God scoops out all the yucky stuff inside of us. He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, impurity, and greed." Talk about the cross and how Jesus was willing to become messy for us, so that we might be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. (Ezekiel 36:25b-27). 

why we love him

9.1.12
griffin 2 (almost 3) years

griffin
-has quite the personality
-when you ask him a question, his typical answer is ummmmm, maybeeeee
-will put on one shoe just to stomp on a bug
-loves singing his abcd's (as he calls them) and hakunnah matata
-loves his sister soooo much...if you know what I mean.  He is on hugging her, sitting on her, playing with her or throwing things at her at all times!
-our favorite saying is "I love you times a million" or miyon as griffin says
-he is quick to tell me "I love daddy more" anytime i love you comes up!  Every so often he will tell me, "you are the best Mommy" or "no, I love you more" or " I love you times a miyon" and I can just hear his cute little voice as I am typing this!
-I could probably say with reasonable certainty that Q's favorite part of the day is after coming home from work, the second he opens the door he can hear little pitter patter of Griffin's feet running to hide...he LOVES hiding from his daddy!  and he just squeals and giggles until Q finds him!  LOVE it!  so cute!!!

-mommy, she's a princess (about Quinn, said in a fairytale type voice)

-"oooooh, so heavy" as he is picking her up and carrying her to me...yes, this boy makes me NERVOUS!!!

The other day I asked G what he wants to be when he gets big, he first replied "a schoolbus", so I asked him what else he wants to be, he told me "playday" lol... so then I asked him if he is going to go to work like daddy, he replied, "mommy, I not big, I still a kid"

6 months for quinn

at 6 months sweet quinn...

has gotten her 2 bottom front teeth
can now scoot
puts EVERYTHING in her mouth
doesn't sleep like her mommy wants her to
her favorite toys are her brothers!!!
no one can make her laugh like brother
is now about to start eating "real" baby food
is definitely a mommy's girl....and will fuss as soon as mommy walks out of the room...but loves daddy like no other!!!
as much as brother "beats up" on her...she is absolutely crazy about him!!!
her smile lights up the room!!
has the prettiest big blue eyes!...and everywhere we go everyone raves about them!

Our big (tiny) girl!!!

5 months for quinn

Oh where have the past 5 months gone!  Sweet Quinn Cate!  You are one wonderful baby girl!!!  

-her sweet smile lights up the room when she smiles at us

-cutest little laugh and no one can can make her laugh like her brother.....seems like she laughs the hardest when he is throwing things at her...don't worry nothing harmful....things like pacifiers, ribbon, -receiving blankets

-she is such a sweet baby mixed with a touch of diva!

-she is such a little chatty girl!  can't wait for our girltalk as she gets older!!!

-roly poly!  she can now roll herself across the living room...I think she just wants to get over to her big brother's toys

-gets SO EXCITED when we walk in to her room or talk to her, she gets a HUGE smile and gets her hands and feet a kickin'

my conversation with G recently:

Griffin:  here sister, taste this

Me: Griffin, did you just put a fruit snack in her mouth?

Griffin:  mom, she want to try it

...then his mommy races across the room to dig the fruit snack out of her mouth

...ahhhhhh, and I think he thought he was being extra sweet sharing his fruit snacks

4 months for quinn

One of my favorite quotes describes my baby girl in this picture perfectly:

"A girl should be two things, classy and fabulous!" ~Coco Chanel 

3 months for quinn

my sweet quinn, you are everything I could have hoped for in a little girl and more!!!  mommy and daddy and griffin love you to the moon and back!

pumpkin patch

definitely one of my FAVORITE fall traditions is going to the pumpkin patch!!!  LOTS OF FUNNNN!!!!

look at these two...I'm one lucky girl!!!

 and we went down the slide probably 100 times!!!

 our handsome man waiting in line to do the zipline!!!

 the bikes brought out a little competitiveness in our little man!!!

 g is quite the little pilot!!!

 g loved the big bouncy!!!  thought we might be here the entire time!!!

and of course a hayrack ride over to pick out a pumpkin!!!

 

filling in the blanks!!!

I have got A LOT of catchin' up to do!!  Decided to just start blogging on what we are currently up to and "fill in the blanks" with everything I missed!!!  Life is busy these days...and many time crazy...but crazy good!!!

 

happy halloween!!...from the Land of OZ!!!!

A tear almost wells up as I think that one year ago today was such a special day...we found out we were going to have a baby GIRL!!!  I was beside myself with excitement!!!  (I went straight to my favorite store and bought our little princess the cutest outfits....which she still wears since she is such a tiny thing!!!  ;)  and here we are one year later taking our beautiful baby girl trick-or-treating!!!  In a tutu costume no less!!!

When I was laying in the hospital bed about to deliver Griffin I announced to the whole room a list of sibling costumes...for when G would one day have a little brother or sister...I am sure the lion and dorothy was on that list!!!

he was BEYOND excited!!  He wouldn't say "happy halloween" or "trick-or-treat" but would growl like a lion at every house!!!!  love this boy!!!

LOVE these 2 pics!!!  Trick-or-Treaters in action!!!

tutu cute!!! ;)  cutest ladybug and dorothy around!!!

zoo animals!!!  Love that K wanted to be a tiger after he found out his bud was going to be a lion!!

....and Q and I were in costume too...  ;) griffin had told us earlier today that mom was a witch for halloween and daddy was a superhero (with a little help from Q...I am sure of it ;) ....so when we met up with some friends to finish up our trick-or-treating and they asked us where our costumes were....Qand I both replied....we are in costume!!!  HA!!!

Dorothy with her Superhero!!  Priceless!!!