31 May 2005
praise: the kids are winding down for the evening!!!!
prayer: my dad's mom is very weak. please pray that her surgery at the end of june will correct her problems.
playfulness: today at lunch auburn was eating a cheese sandwich with miracle whip. she was eating the cheese out of it and leaving the bread on her tray. landon decided that it would be fun to pick up the break and wipe her face with the miracle whip side. i took a beautiful picture of her with the white stuff all over her face.
landon has been hiding in our endtables and pretending one of them is his house.
auburn is trying to make goat sounds right now. she received some little people animals for her birthday, and she is copying the sounds that i make for her.
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31 May 2005
praise: mom smith arrived safely.
prayer: both of my grandmothers have not been feeling to well.
playfulness: auburn is getting around very well these days. she has even figured out how to climb up the front of my dresser. she likes to look at the pictures on the dresser and discovered that she can use the drawer handles as toe-holds to climb.
yesterday, we all went to the zoo. grandma got to see the kids enjoying the animals. on the way home last night, we stopped to get pizza at little ceasers, when we got home landon announced "i want some pizza on my spice pack!"
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27 May 2005
praise: dave received a sizeable monetary gift today. it will cover his plane ticket to denver this summer for his friend's (melvin) wedding at the end of july.
prayer: auburn's iron is low. pray that we can get it up.
playfulness: today, landon used his "hook" to drag auburn across the living room floor. he stuck it in her back pocket and just pulled. she looked up at me with an adorable little smile as she was slid from point a to point b. what nutty kids.
landon is great at playing hide and seek. especially when you say, landon where are you?-and he yells his location out. tonight dave and landon where hiding in the kids' closet. i knew where they were, but wanted to see what landon would say. i stood outside the door and said "are you in the closet?" landon yelled -"yes!" and then turned to dave and said "you say yes!"
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26 May 2005
praise: we are all healthy.
prayer: mom s. will be coming up tomorrow afternoon.
playfulness: auburn is one today! it's hard to believe that we have no babies here anymore.
she is very mobile these days. soon i will have two to chase.
not much to blog about-the day has just begun.
playfulness continued: auburn had her first soft-serve vanilla/chocolate twist ice cream today. she loved it! grandma vandervort treated all of the grandkids to grant's today in honor of auburn's birthday.
uncle phil and aunt michelle dropped off her birthday present tonight since they won't be able to make it to the party. she received a cabbage patch doll-which she adores. at one point, the doll's face was dripping with drool as a result of being kissed so much. it took pictures of auburn hugging and kissing the baby. she even was dragging it as she walked along the side of the couch. very very cute!!!! good job uncle phil and aunt michelle!!!!
landon also liked the gift - but had to be satisfied with receiving the box. he ended up putting it on and walking around with it. he reminded me of the photos you see of people walking around with a barrel around them.
yesterday, landon insisted on wearing his cowboy hat, vest and boots to the park. at first i was tempted to be prideful and worried about what people would think if they saw my son dressed up like a cowboy, but then i remembered-he's only three-he's supposed to have fun like that. so to the park we went. he was thrilled to be "woody."
one of landon's newest funnies is watching his shadow. it is very comical to see him running down the sidewalk looking sideways at the ground so he can see his shadow run with him.
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24 May 2005
praise: baby aubrey arrived yesterday at 1:23 pm (on the 23rd), weighing in at 7lbs. 4oz. and 20.25in. both dave and i have been up to see her. what a cutie! http://thebyers.blogspot.com/ one of my friends gave us more clothes for auburn today.
prayer: mom smith is going to be traveling up this weekend for auburn's birthday party (she turns one on thursday!) she needs to get a new car before then.
playfulness: landon REALLY wants to see and hold baby aubrey.
the names for the day-i'm landon, landon's daddy and i'm not sure who the rest of the fam is.
landon loves to jump in the piles of laundry-doesn't matter if they are clean or not. drives me nuts.
i feel comfortable saying that auburn is walking now. on a number of occasions today, she just took off across the room on her own. started doing it at about 3:30 this afternoon when we had some company over. she looks very cute! it's easier to notice how much skinnier she is than landon was at one when she is walking. their three and one year appointments are coming up-i'm interested to see what their measurements will be. (tall, i know.)
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23 May 2005
praise: friend, joybeth, had first baby on landon's birthday. joshua "jack" william mccarnan, jr. 8lb. 2oz. 20.5in.
prayer: friend, amber, went to the hospital this morning. i'm assuming to have her baby. we're praying that aubrey comes quickly and that the labor will not be horrible.
playfulness: had the "pleasure" of waking up at 2:00 this morning to the sound of someone hurling right by my left ear. what a wonderful thing to wake up to. thank you auburn. glad we kept her home from church yesterday.
found landon dragging his sister by her feet across their bedroom floor the other day. she was just looking around. didn't seem to be bothered by it one bit. today, he tried to help her walk, but since she wasn't moving fast enough, she ended up falling down between his legs. barely fussed. she's becoming more tolerant to torture i guess.
auburn has taken a few steps toward some of her toys recently. she also is walking with her toy "walker". actually, it's more like cruising with it. she can move very quickly from her bedroom to the back corner of the kitchen when she's hanging on to her toy.
landon was reading one of his new books, panda bear panda bear, when he came to a water buffalo and asked what it was. when told, he repeated it back-but it came out butter waffalo.
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12 May 2005
praise: it's sunny out!
prayer: wisdom regarding work opportunities and energy to complete assigned tasks.
playfulness: auburn is simply amazing. she found my headband in the bathroom this morning and immediately put it on. i hardly ever wear it, so i am surprised she knew what it was. she catches on to things so quickly. seems to be even quicker than her brother, who is seems to be very sharp.
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11 May 2005
praise: the weather is so much warmer!!! dave's paper is in, and his final is taken!
prayer: the high school play is this weekend. dave will get caught up on his sleep.
playfulness: so much has happened. the first few things have to do with food. last week we were eating spaghetti-o's and landon called them spaghetti-b's. while dave and i were having cheeseburgers (kids had other stuff since we thought they wouldn't eat them), landon put a pickle slice in his hand and held it up in the air stating "i'm the pickle man" (this is what he calls the character for the big boy's restaurant. in regards to kids not eating cheeseburgers-auburn was reaching for everything at supper and being really crabby about it that night, finally i held up my cheeseburger for her-that was what she wanted after all.
taught landon to say "howdy pardner" when he wears his cowboy hat. he said it when dave walked in the other night, and received a chuckle for his reward. very cute.
another milestone in auburn's life: she started standing up from a sitting position in the middle of the room today. once she figured it out, she kept squatting and standing, and squatting and standing... you could tell she was quite impressed with herself.
today i had 4 friends with their kids over for lunch and to take pictures in our fully white blossomed tree (pics there last year were beautiful). after i had lunch made and finally got the table and chairs set up outside-it started raining. now, 2 hours later with everyone just having left, the sun is starting to shine.
now for the two hightlights of my week-dave bought me a pocket pc for mother's day!!!!!!! it even has my favorite game on it!! yesterday, i walked out in the living room after getting ready and received a warm response from landon. he looked up at me and said "you look so pretty!"
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8 May 2005
praise: we made it home safely from ohio. dave's mom has a good idea of what car she will buy.
prayer: dave is pulling another all-nighter to finish his paper.
playfulness: auburn took her first steps tonight!!!! the most she took at once was five, but she really was walking independently!!!!!! she was getting so excited-arms flying and pure excitement in her voice. very, very cute.
landon, on the other hand, was a crank all day.
found out today that my friend, meredith, is expecting baby number three-due november 23.
on the way home today, i told landon that i might take him somewhere when we got back to "landon's house." i was thinking grandma's, but didn't mention it to avoid temper tantrums if we didn't go. his suggestion-"i want to go to dylan's house."
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