An Apple a Day

Monday, March 12, 2012

bolivia

last week nat and i took the kids down to bolivia to visit her in-laws and we were blessed to have some gorgeous weather! we ventured out to the beach one afternoon...and it was a hit!

a first look at the beach

(lj's only been 2x, but really i think this is the first time she'll remember the beach; and jack has been once, but he was like 6 months old so this is his first good view of the ocean!)

more pics to come...

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

over the past week lj has been heard saying this repeatedly, for no apparent reason, while she walks around the house or is in her crib for a nap or bedtime -

LJ: "bil-bur, listen na mommy"

i'll admit i wish she'd tell herself this sometimes instead of wilbur:)

Lilly Jo says

LJ:"date dada"
me: "that's right, you're going on a date with dada tonight!"
LJ: "oh-wa-way"
me: "that's right, you're going to chick-fil-a!"
LJ: "bye bye mommy"

Saturday, March 3, 2012

a quick 8 hours

that's not a phrase i've used often, if at all, since we've entered the land of parenting. however, today i experienced the quickest 8 hours since january 2010.

seth and i had a day date:)

my brilliant sister came up with the idea awhile ago and we set aside 2 saturdays - 1 to watch the morreale kids and one for them to watch our kids. so we each had an 8 hour day date with our hubbies.

awesome idea nibblet.

8 hours of kid-free driving, eating, shopping, reading, relaxing and talking.

ahhhhh...that was nice:)

this picture was not taken on our day date (obviously), however, i thought it a funny picture and also a good visual of why we need some 8 hour day-dates:)

first observastion: you'd think this was taken first thing in the am with the way i look. but it was sometime in the early evening. and i wasn't even sick. niiiice. but, i actually knew i was pregnant about 4 days before this was taken but didn't tell seth. i was trying to surprise him but he's too darn curious (and zealous for kids) that he made me take another test and this time watched me take it so he could see for himself the results.
second observation: i have no idea why seth is making this face seeing as each time we have a kid his ideal "kid number" increases. no lie. he would really have a baseball team if i were up for it. i actually remember conversations with seth in the recovery room at the hospital, both times we've delivered there, of seth talking about when we're having our next one. i'm talking hours, if not minutes, after i've just given birth.
if you met seth in college (or earlier) i'm guessing you wouldn't have thought that about him. i don't think i even thought that about him the day i married him. but God has surely put in him a desire to love and father his children. and i can't argue with that!

that was a tangent, but oh well. a fun day for sure! thanks nat and john!