When I turn 3...

It's that time of year again.  You know the one where your husband disappears for the whole day?  He leaves with big hopes of big antlers, and comes home with wonderful stories of God's creation.  I have seen this husband of mine soften over the years.  He has proudly named his shot gun "The Widow Maker."  It used to make cringe when he would to say it with the biggest smile and this awful laugh.  But the other days it warmed my heart when he came home to say he let the best shot of the day walk, a momma doe and her 2 fawns.  He said,"She would've been a good one," but all he could think of was me and our 2 munchkins.  :)

 

 This love for "The Hunt," I think is genetic.  It's got to be!  This child doesn't even own a toy gun, he uses a plastic hanger!  But we talk about "POWING" and "shooting" deer, turkey, fox, pheasants, and dragons all the time.  He waits all day for Daddy to come in from the woods.  He's always very concerned that Daddy will forget to bring the deer he shoots home for Levi to see.  When Daddy finally arrives home it's all he can do to get in the door.  The questions start pouring the moment Levi hears the keys in the door.  He wants to know every detail of Daddy's time in the woods. 

A few weeks ago Levi told me, "When I turn 3, I'm going to the woods with my Daddy and my Bear-Bear and go target shooting." 

I smiled and said something like, "Oh, ok." 

And he TOLD me again, "When I turn 3, I'm going target shooting." 

So I replied with, "We'll ask Daddy about it." 

"Daddy told me to," he stated.

We saw Daddy a few minutes later and I told Levi, "Tell Daddy what you just told me."

"Daddy told me, my go'a woods, when I turn 3." 

Well, sure enough, Josh says, "Ya, I told him that." 

 

And here he is target shooting 3 weeks BEFORE his 3rd birthday :)

I always knew this day was coming and I was just as excited as Levi was.  I know how much fun he has being a big boy, and I also know how he still yells down the stairs, "Hug! Kiss! Hug! Kiss! Hug! Kiss!" because he needs just one more hug & kiss before he can take a nap. 

Pre-Cool

It was a very big morning at our house, Levi's 1st day of Preschool!!

 He was excited about his new shirt and

about all his school supplies in his backpack.

  He was ready to go and assured me that he would not need me at "pre-cool."

Mommy loved his seat decorations. 

And how all the kids in his class ate the apple in their bag, and 

Levi who has never eaten an apple followed suite!

 

 

 

Working so hard to sit very still in chapel.

 

Finger painting was fun, but playing on the playground was his favorite. 

 

1st pigtails

 

 



ok, I'm done.  let's go find Levi.

 

1st football game

 Levi enjoyed his 1st football game with his favorite girl. 

He loves to have her undivided attention and she can't bear to part with him with out a hug. 

 

 

One day taking a picture of everyone will be easy. 

 

 

 Just may be one day these 2 will figure out how to be still long enough to enjoy the game.

 

 

 This girl knows how to soak up every minute she gets with "Mr. Josh."

 

 

 When asked what his favorite part of the evening was he said, "running, faster and faster!"

He also said he liked seeing the "daddies" playing football and tackling each other.  I explained that those "daddies'' are just great big boys and soon enough he will be one of them. 

 

 

What a treat to get a picture with our very own flag girl. 

 

July & August

Excitement in the neighborhood!

 

She discovered a love for pumpernickel bread.

FREE Lunch at Chick-fil-A

and FREE dinner!

 

Dig-Digs making a new park

 

 "Fat Souls are better than clean floors...very often it is a fine time for helpers

- even a good time for them, if I am willing to get the grace for it."

- Loving the Little Years by Rachel Jankovic

A wonderful book I read over the summer.

 Her 1st balloon

 

 Mary Kathryn sat and watched a movie for 10 min...
a birthday to me gift from the Lord!

Turning 27 was very fun! 
The Lord has blessed me with an abundance of sweet friends.

 

Hot air popcorn

 

Pretty pink pigs

 

Go Tigers!

 

 

5 generations, what a blessing from the Lord!

Yogurt Mountain (or Yummo! as Levi calls it) has become
Bear-Bear & Levi's favorite after dinner treat. 
Levi gets gummy bears, gummy worms, & rice krispie treats.  No yogurt.

 

She only likes her milk warmed and in a bottle :)

 

Shoes,  make up brushes, jewelry & purses....she loves them! 

But what she loves even more is to laugh and to make others laugh.

(look how much her hair grew in 8 weeks!)


Getting to play a REAL guitar!

A few funnies to remember:
Levi learned to play I Spy...He calls is "I Pie"

Mary Kathryn called Josh "Momma" for 2 weeks, now she calls Levi & I both "Dadda"

Levi learned to say the Lord's Prayer, and every time he wants to start with "give us our daily bread."

Mary Kathryn discovered belly buttons.

Levi loves to tell me, "Mommy, I have an idea..."  It's usually to watch another movie.

Mary Kathryn is a multi-tasker.  One day she was screaming as she was trying to sit in the Bumbo seat, while holding a book and a toy, and she was trying to keep her purse on her arm.