Malachi got glasses!

I was shocked when Malachi's  preschool sent home a letter saying that they did a vision screening and that they recommended he see an eye doctor immediately!  As it turns out Malachi is super farsighted and needs to wear glasses all the time!  Crazy!!  When we put them on he was sooo excited!  He just kept taking them on and off and saying "things are so big!" awww!  Poor kid!  Well it's been about 3 months now since he's gotten them and after a couple times of having to search for them at the park and  the McDonald's play place, leaving them at a church a few times, and already having to take them in to get fixed....I've decided it is HARD to get a 4 year old to wear glasses and not lose, break, or leave them somewhere! haha  But he's getting more used to wearing them all the time and is able to keep better tabs on them.  :)

Malachi at the eye doctor a few months ago.  Thought he was big stuff in the super cool elevator chair!  :)

Malachi sporting his new glasses on pajama day at preschool  :)

Happy 3rd birthday Ezekiel

My amazing mother who lives NEXT DOOR (yes I realize that I am the luckiest daughter in the world) is watching my little bits today and I am actually having a moment where I don't feel ridiculously sick...SO I am gonna try to take advantage of that and post some things that have been going on in the last couple months!  The big one being Ezekiel's 3rd birthday!

If you look at Ezekiel's 2nd birthday pictures you might find them to be very similar to this years...meaning...they look the exact same. As anyone who knows Ezekiel (or even walks past in the grocery store) knows that he is obsessed with cars...he proclaims it to the world every chance he gets and he will not go to the park, go to sleep, or even bathe without one of his cars in tow.  So we just decided to have another CARS birthday like last year and make it just for family this time.  Not that Ezekiel doesn't love people but he honestly doesn't even know anyone else exists except his brother and sister...although he is recently started to want to branch out so I'm sure these "family" birthdays might be coming to an end soon.  That to say, we knew a party with a bunch of kids would just be a waste of time and energy and what he really would want to do is just hang out with Annabella and Malachi and do fun stuff.   SO being the "fun" parents that we are we wanted to make a fun day out of it.

First we  started the day with a nice yummy homeade breakfast and then for lunch we took them to a playplace to eat and run around..then to Fun Depot to do some indoor kid bowling and imflatbale rides and then come home for cake, presents, and pizza!  Fun....right?  hahaha  We should have just stuck with cake.  :)  Not to say that he didn't have fun...more or less.  But as were leaving our last destination with three overly tried, screaming, kicking, yelling, children....we started to think that maybe we over did it... :)  Honestly the first indicator that maybe the day wasn't going to go as planned was when I put his special homeade birthday breakfast in front of him and he took one bite and yelled "YUCKKK!  I dont want this!" wow Ezekiel, just tell me what you really think.  :)

After all three took a full 40 minute nap on the way home they were still a bit delirious from our long day but with promised cake and ice cream as their reward they started to brighten up.

Ezekiel and his hats.  He is sporting a woman's "tea hat" recently purchased from the Good Will's "Senior" department. :)

I love how when it's any one of their birthdays the other two leap with excitement because they all have some sort of unspoken rule that they all get to open each others presents haha

 Oh Ezekiel!  You have changed so much... even the last 6 months!  I can't believe you are already THREE! You are finally talking more now but still prefer to use monkey language when left to choice.  :)  You are the most intresting, unique, crazy, silly, most delightful little person I know!  You light up a room and can make a room full of grown adults die with laughter.  We marvel at God's amazing sense of humor and joy because only HE could create such a funny, silly, CRAZY little boy!  You are ridiculously strong willed and sometimes make it VERY hard for mommy and daddy to make it through the day without pulling our hair out...but you always seem to pull through and your charm wins out. :)  I love you with ALL of my heart and feel SOOO blessed that God has given you to me!!  Happy 3rd birthday!!

Still alive...barely. :)

I haven't written in a couple months...not because nothing is going on in our lives...but more because I am not mentally or physically able to sit at a computer for long enough without throwing up.  exaggerating?  I wish I was. 

Oh the joys of pregnancy!  :)

I think motherhood is hands down the most sacrificial thing a person can ever do...and for me that starts at around 6 weeks when that precious little life is no bigger than a poppeseed!  I think I must have blocked out what my last 3 pregnancies were like cause I was like a naive school child coming into the SAT's expecting warm milk and cookies. :)  I just kept thinking, "surely, it wont be as bad as the last 3 times.." as if three times isn't enough to set some sort of pattern here! haha 

 All of that to say, the last two months have been rough.  Ya know, the kind of rough when you are just praying that your kids don't find the matches drawer cause you know you won't have the energy to stop them....the kind of rough when the UPS guy knocks on your door and you pretend like you didn't hear it cause the effort of walking to the front door in your pj's you've been wearing for multiple days sounds like just too much....the kind of rough when people come over to help and say, "wow...your right...this is bad" and that's after you already had cleaned up.  :)    

I am coming up on 12 weeks and am praying that one of  these days I will wake up and feel a little better...but even if I don't... I can just look at that precious little ultrasound picture and remember when I heard it's sweet little heart beat and KNOW it is ALL worth it!  I am amazed everyday at the heart God gives mothers...and ultimately His heart for us.  It doesn't matter how much my kids put me through...how many times they rebel against me and how often they continue to do what I tell them not to do....it doesn't matter how sick I get during pregnancy and how horrible the labor is........yes it's hard...it's really hard....yes, I get frustrated...really frustrated....but NOTHING could change or take away from how much I love those kids....nothing!!  And I am just a measly ol' human, how much more if we really understood God's love for us would we be in AWE of His feelings towards us!!

Life is ALWAYS a beautiful thing and Lord willing I am eager and excited about meeting our 4th little bit this October but praying that the Lord would have mercy on the kids so that they can have their mama back soon!  :)

haha!  I just went on my blog and saw that Ezekiel did this while playing on my Iphone.. somehow he took all these pictures and uploaded them to my blog! quite the little photo journalist haha  :)