Baby Steps Through Motherhood

The kids have been very excited about today. They are starting to get to that age where they like to do special things on holidays.

I had got them a green shirt, or in Naomi’s case a green dress, to wear today. I gave them Lucky Charms this morning which I think they have only had a few other times in their life. We were suppose to go to the parade in Topkea but after looking at the weather and talking to Libby I thought we may be more miserable than having fun. It was kinda chilly, a bit drizzly and driving an hour for that didn’t sound as fun. So, after searching online trying to find something festive to do we ended up at Chick-Fil-A. Nothing festive about it except everyone had on green. It was pretty crazy there. Spring Break time around here so all the kids come out of the woodwork and go to Chick-Fil-A I guess. Anyhow, the kids had fun and Makenna was somewhat happy too. We are having our small group over tonight for a little St. Patrick’s day party. I think the kids will have fun playing with their friends and we will have fun playing with ours. We watched this little movie today on you tube and I thought it was a great perspective on who St. Patrick is and the attitude he has. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCB5QhHVJA

Well, I broke down and we finally went to the doctor for the kids well visits. I hate going to the doctors for many reasons but we may be changing our health insurance so I thought it would be best to get them in.
Anyhow, here are the stats…..

Preston – 4 years and 3.5 months – 44 lbs, 90% on the charts; 43.4 inches, 90% (and he is old enough to have his vision checked and his blood pressure too. He was 20/40 which they said was normal at this age and his BP was 88/58)

Naomi- 2 years and 8 months- 32.2 lbs, 80%; 35 inches; 25%

Makenna- 13 months- 21 lbs, 50%; 30.5 inches; 75% head is 17 3/4 in

This just cracks me up and shows me how God has created each of our children so differently not only in personality but in physical stature too.
Some of my observations are:
Preston is a big boy but very well proportioned. Guess that is a good thing when you are the big brother of 2 sisters.
Naomi is short and stalky. So cute, but hilarious!
Makenna may be tall and skinner, but it is still hard to tell. The thing that cracks me up is she is only 5 inches shorter than little miss Naomi.

The girls sizes are working out perfectly though because Makenna is wearing all of Naomi’s clothes from last year at this time. That worked out perfectly.

Thank you God for blessing us with our children and for how you have created them. They are healthy and thriving and amongst all their little quirks they are perfect in your sight!

Preston was playing with my bamboo tongs from Pampered Chef. Don’t know what he was doing with them but they fell on the floor
He said “Oops, I broke it. I’m sorry.”
I said “Broke what”
P- “Those things”
Me- “Preston what were you doing that broke them.”
He showed me he was putting them on the top of the chair opened up. Must have opened them up to far.
Me- “I forgive you but you need to be more careful. I am going to start taking your money to pay for the things that you break that aren’t yours.”
P-”That’s fine, you can take my money because I will just get some more next year.”

Ha. Ha. Ha.