Starting a blog!

Well, as most of you know, we are completely terrible at keeping in contact. In an effort to let everyone be more aware of what is going on in our lives, especially with our sweet kiddos, but also just in general, I thought a blog might be in order! That way I only have to remember to update in one place, and all of you can see it :-)

Hopefully this can be a place for some of those oh-so-elusive pictures, milestones (i.e., "Isaiah rolled over!", "Makaylah learned to read!"), family events, funny happenings, and of course, random ramblings from my sleep deprived brain.

To get us started:

Most of you probably know, we have been living in Tupelo, MS, for about a year now. David works for American Family Association as a web developer, and is very much in his element. I still stay home, and keep busy with our little ones. Isaiah officially joined the family August 15, 2008, and the girls are thrilled about him (as you can probably tell from the picture on the side!). Makaylah is four, and is my drama queen. She is also sweet and sensitive, and classic first born. Sophia just turned 3 on the 15th, and she is my wild child. She loves to play "monster", and chase Makaylah or anyone else who happens to be present around the room "roaring" and "eating" them. She is also my problem solver, and several months ago figured out that if the problem was wanting some goody mommy put in the cabinet, the solution was to push a dining room chair (or piano bench, or...) all the way into the kitchen, and climb on top of it - problem solved! You can almost see the wheels turning sometimes. Isaiah is my brand new boy, and still a little young to know much about his personality. He does very well tolerating his big sisters and all the commotion that comes with, and most of the time can sleep through all the yelling and screaming they manage to put out. He has just started smiling at us occasionally in the last week, but they are still elusive. Hopefully I can capture one on camera soon!

Today Sophia had her three year check up. She is 34 lbs, and 37 inches tall. They checked her vision, hearing, stuck her finger, all that good stuff, and everything looks great :-) You may or may not know that we have been concerned for awhile now about Sophia's speech. I discussed that with the pediatrician, and he referred us to someone to have her evaluated. Once I find out when that evaluation will be I will update.

That is all for now, but I hope to update, and I do apologize for how bad we have been about keeping you current so far. Please let me know if you are reading and enjoying it - that will be motivation to keep posting!

Love to you all!