Saturday, January 28, 2012

Why Yes It Has Been Four Months Since I Have Blogged!

And the winner for biggest blog slacker goes to...ME!


I know it's been a long time since I've updated the blog. Sigh. Life is crazy for this home schooling mom to three children. Our house is always noisy and always busy, and sometimes I wonder how did we go from one child to three children in such a short time? There are days I ask myself, "Do we really have three children age five and under? How did we get so blessed?" Life as a family of five is crazy in a good way and I can see now where our family wasn't complete until Atalie came along. And now I feel like we are really and truly done expanding our family. (See Randy? I'm actually putting that in writing!!) Somedays I think he doesn't believe me when I say we are done. I think he's afraid of letting me go back to the states without him, for fear of me bringing home another baby. But we are good. We are were we are supposed to be with these three awesome children!

So without typing out a major dissertation on what we have been up to for the past four months suffice it to say...

Artem's soccer practices have kept us busy...

Homeschool field trips have kept us on the go...

Both boys made Santa's "nice" list this year (there were times I was sweating that one)...

Atalie enjoyed her first Christmas...

And smiled her way through the holidays...


These two continued to completely and totally love each other...

And this little butterball gave us a run for our money when she dropped weight due to some HORRIBLE reflux that took her from the 50% to the 5% in weight until we got the reflux under control and got her plumped up again...



And she learned on her own to "cheese" for the camera at 5 months old. Can you say diva??

It's been a great, busy, happy, stressful, wonderful past four months and I promise not to go so long until I blog again. Pinky swear!