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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
What's up with us these days?
It has been awhile since I've updated our blog. Here are some pictures and a few words to help you understand just what we've been up to.
Sammy is now 3 and a half. He'll be four in April. Lately he gets lost in his imagination. He loves the movie, "Cars" and can often be found acting out scenes that include many of the characters. Last night he pretended to talk on the phone with Mac the Truck. He has learned his letters, loves reading stories, and most of the time likes playing with his little brother, Marcus. He's a little outdoors man, and we've been able to get out for walks through much of November and December. Recently, we've started finding nests in trees on our walks. Sammy is always thrilled when we find a new one, and insists on visiting each on we've already found. He also insists on saying "hi" to the cattails and "Mater" toy that we see on our walking route. He's my picky eater, who regularly throws up at the dinner table. I used to judge people with picky eaters - not any more. I've never seen anything like this little man. God knows how to humble us. He's a sweetheart who is learning more and more about obedience, forgiving his sinful mommy, and about the God who loves him unconditionally.
Marcus is 19 months, and has proved to be quite the handful. He delights in anything messy which makes his latest obsession with washing his hands quite ironic. Sammy made messes; Marcus brings destruction. In typing this much of the post, I have gotten up 5 times so far to get him out of things, and break up fight with Sammy, (mostly Marcus keeps attacking him, haha.) He's much more fearless than Sammy, and keeps me on my toes for sure. He's a little doll, though, which helps. He talks up a storm, and says so many cute things. He will say, "Yes, mama," "Need a mama, need a daddy," "On my Boyam, by self!" (boyam=bottom, when he goes down the slide), and so many more little phrases and words. He also LOVES to play outside, and I am so very grateful for the mild winter so far. Check out this cute little blondie.
Here they are together this fall. We spent a lot of time playing in our leaf pile. They loved it!
Baby boy number 3, yes we are having our third son kept me quite sick for part of August, September and October. Those were some hard months, that had me swearing I'd never have another child. Now, though, I'm very excited to meet our new little mister. He's due in early April. So, I'll have two April babies, and one May baby. Birthday's are going to be busy times for us in the future. Here he is today :-) Pardon the messy bedroom and finger printed mirror. The life of a busy mommy is never as clean and tidy as I would like I'm finding.
Sammy is now 3 and a half. He'll be four in April. Lately he gets lost in his imagination. He loves the movie, "Cars" and can often be found acting out scenes that include many of the characters. Last night he pretended to talk on the phone with Mac the Truck. He has learned his letters, loves reading stories, and most of the time likes playing with his little brother, Marcus. He's a little outdoors man, and we've been able to get out for walks through much of November and December. Recently, we've started finding nests in trees on our walks. Sammy is always thrilled when we find a new one, and insists on visiting each on we've already found. He also insists on saying "hi" to the cattails and "Mater" toy that we see on our walking route. He's my picky eater, who regularly throws up at the dinner table. I used to judge people with picky eaters - not any more. I've never seen anything like this little man. God knows how to humble us. He's a sweetheart who is learning more and more about obedience, forgiving his sinful mommy, and about the God who loves him unconditionally.
Marcus is 19 months, and has proved to be quite the handful. He delights in anything messy which makes his latest obsession with washing his hands quite ironic. Sammy made messes; Marcus brings destruction. In typing this much of the post, I have gotten up 5 times so far to get him out of things, and break up fight with Sammy, (mostly Marcus keeps attacking him, haha.) He's much more fearless than Sammy, and keeps me on my toes for sure. He's a little doll, though, which helps. He talks up a storm, and says so many cute things. He will say, "Yes, mama," "Need a mama, need a daddy," "On my Boyam, by self!" (boyam=bottom, when he goes down the slide), and so many more little phrases and words. He also LOVES to play outside, and I am so very grateful for the mild winter so far. Check out this cute little blondie.
Peter is very busy these days with working at HSLDA, working for CAMCO Investments, looking for a new house for us, a new job, hunting deer, becoming more involved at church with local missions, a tired, pregnant wife, and two very busy boys. But, he handles it all with much class and patience. He amazes me some days. We did purchase our first ever minivan this fall which Peter also dedicated much time to finding, researching and purchasing. It's been a pretty hectic, and stressful several months for us, but the Lord is bringing us through. I'm still working part-time, but it's looking like come time for this baby, I'll be dropping that. I'm quite relieved. I need to slow down a little.
There's an update from us. I will do my best to update a little more often from here on out.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
In the lives of the LaRock boys
My two munchkins are growing and changing so much these days. I have little "diaries" that I bought for them where I try and put little tidbits about what's going on in their lives and development from time to time. I am not a faithful to update them as I would like, but as quickly as I forget these precious moments with my babies, I need to record some things!
So, here's an update on each of them for the blog.
Samster is really doing a lot of changing right now. Thankfully, the tantrums have lessened, and he's learning to obey. When he's been naughty, (once he regains control of himself) he'll rub his eyes and say, "I sorry, mom" or "I sorry, dad." It's refreshing to see each positive steps with him. He's been more of a challenge than we "expected", (who can expect what comes in that little bundle?) He's a very passionate young man, and he has a very determined will. Peter and I have had to learn a lot about his personality - trust me, we're still learning! It's been really good for me to have this kiddo, though. He's humbling, and he's grown me in many ways already. Lest you think too negatively of our little goose though, let me say that he is a sweetheart! He loves to chit chat with me during the day about his toys, and whatever I'm working on. He'll quote his favorite movies which right now are, Toy Story, How to Train Your Dragon, Babe and various Veggie Tales. Now, he'll grab any old toy, (lately he's been using a rope) to act out different scenes. His little imagination is really starting to take off! If I look sad or tired, he'll come over to me and say, "what's wron, (this is how he says wrong) mommy?" He's not satisfied until I give him a smile and let him know that everything's okay. For Christmas we purchased a little children's computer for him. He'll take it over to the couch and say, "I needa work, mom".
Another funny, and sometimes frustrating line is: "I do it, no I do it!" If I "do" things for him that he can do for himself, he'll undo whatever I did and do it again, himself!
He's my picky eater and will literally gag on foods that he doesn't like, (which happen to be a lot of good food.)
He's starting to take more and more interest in reading stories. It took awhile. He has a hard time sitting still for long.
He loves outside, and neither of us can wait for the warm weather!
He doesn't cuddle much these days. Yesterday, though, he let me rock him to sleep while I sang some songs I used to sing when I had more time to rock with him. He loves, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Somewhere Out There, and You've Got a Friend in Me. Such sweet, precious times! He'll be three in April which is so hard to believe. One of my New Year's resolutions is to try to enjoy my kids more. It's so easy for me to get grouchy with them when they're being imperfect....kids. I'm so blessed to even have them.
Sam's my bud, and I'm excited to see what the coming months hold.
Marcus is nearly 8 months old, and he's really changing. He's getting closer to crawling, and has just started to move himself forward in the last few days. He still doesn't have any teeth! Sammy was the same way. They start "teething" in month 5, and then don't get anything for months - well, just the grumpies that come with teething. He's been very resistant to solid foods and has only just started eating solid food consistently. Hopefully this change will help him sleep better at night. I worked really hard with Sammy to try and get him to sleep through the night early. It didn't work, and the process made me cry more than anything else. So, with Marcus, I've been pretty laid back about nighttime sleep. I honestly don't know the answer to the nighttime sleep deal, but I'm just not willing to go to battle like I did with Sammy. I am ready for a full night of sleep though, that's for sure.
Marcus has become a lot like Sammy was at this age. He wants mommy to hold him constantly while he's awake, and he prefers to be walked and included in everything I do. I swear my back is not going to make it through my clingy kids! :-) He's also gotten really bad about daytime sleep. That is one battle I'm fighting with him! Even as I type this post, he woke up after 45 minutes of sleep, (which required 45 minutes of screaming to even go down at all.) Ah well, this too shall pass!
He is pretty happy-go-lucky a lot of the time. He smiles like crazy, and generally lets just about anyone hold and play with him. He has learned how to scream and enjoys listening to the sound of his voice. He says, "da da, ma ma" and "guh". He loves to chew everything in sight. He seems to love music. He loves toys that make music, listening to me sing, and Aunt Abby's guitar.
I'm loving this little one so much!
Now that I'm typing with one hand, I'm going to bid you farewell.
So, here's an update on each of them for the blog.
Samster is really doing a lot of changing right now. Thankfully, the tantrums have lessened, and he's learning to obey. When he's been naughty, (once he regains control of himself) he'll rub his eyes and say, "I sorry, mom" or "I sorry, dad." It's refreshing to see each positive steps with him. He's been more of a challenge than we "expected", (who can expect what comes in that little bundle?) He's a very passionate young man, and he has a very determined will. Peter and I have had to learn a lot about his personality - trust me, we're still learning! It's been really good for me to have this kiddo, though. He's humbling, and he's grown me in many ways already. Lest you think too negatively of our little goose though, let me say that he is a sweetheart! He loves to chit chat with me during the day about his toys, and whatever I'm working on. He'll quote his favorite movies which right now are, Toy Story, How to Train Your Dragon, Babe and various Veggie Tales. Now, he'll grab any old toy, (lately he's been using a rope) to act out different scenes. His little imagination is really starting to take off! If I look sad or tired, he'll come over to me and say, "what's wron, (this is how he says wrong) mommy?" He's not satisfied until I give him a smile and let him know that everything's okay. For Christmas we purchased a little children's computer for him. He'll take it over to the couch and say, "I needa work, mom".
Another funny, and sometimes frustrating line is: "I do it, no I do it!" If I "do" things for him that he can do for himself, he'll undo whatever I did and do it again, himself!
He's my picky eater and will literally gag on foods that he doesn't like, (which happen to be a lot of good food.)
He's starting to take more and more interest in reading stories. It took awhile. He has a hard time sitting still for long.
He loves outside, and neither of us can wait for the warm weather!
He doesn't cuddle much these days. Yesterday, though, he let me rock him to sleep while I sang some songs I used to sing when I had more time to rock with him. He loves, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Somewhere Out There, and You've Got a Friend in Me. Such sweet, precious times! He'll be three in April which is so hard to believe. One of my New Year's resolutions is to try to enjoy my kids more. It's so easy for me to get grouchy with them when they're being imperfect....kids. I'm so blessed to even have them.
Sam's my bud, and I'm excited to see what the coming months hold.
Marcus is nearly 8 months old, and he's really changing. He's getting closer to crawling, and has just started to move himself forward in the last few days. He still doesn't have any teeth! Sammy was the same way. They start "teething" in month 5, and then don't get anything for months - well, just the grumpies that come with teething. He's been very resistant to solid foods and has only just started eating solid food consistently. Hopefully this change will help him sleep better at night. I worked really hard with Sammy to try and get him to sleep through the night early. It didn't work, and the process made me cry more than anything else. So, with Marcus, I've been pretty laid back about nighttime sleep. I honestly don't know the answer to the nighttime sleep deal, but I'm just not willing to go to battle like I did with Sammy. I am ready for a full night of sleep though, that's for sure.
Marcus has become a lot like Sammy was at this age. He wants mommy to hold him constantly while he's awake, and he prefers to be walked and included in everything I do. I swear my back is not going to make it through my clingy kids! :-) He's also gotten really bad about daytime sleep. That is one battle I'm fighting with him! Even as I type this post, he woke up after 45 minutes of sleep, (which required 45 minutes of screaming to even go down at all.) Ah well, this too shall pass!
He is pretty happy-go-lucky a lot of the time. He smiles like crazy, and generally lets just about anyone hold and play with him. He has learned how to scream and enjoys listening to the sound of his voice. He says, "da da, ma ma" and "guh". He loves to chew everything in sight. He seems to love music. He loves toys that make music, listening to me sing, and Aunt Abby's guitar.
I'm loving this little one so much!
Now that I'm typing with one hand, I'm going to bid you farewell.
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