Pickle Pants

To our sweet Pickle Pants:

Daddy, Mama, Sissy, Bubby and Laekey are all waiting for you to come meet us!  You are 10 days late, and Laekin doesn't think you are ever going to come out.  We all have enjoyed watching you grow in my tummy.  Sissy loves to watch the ultrasounds at the doctor appointments, Bubby loves to patiently hold his hand on my tummy waiting for you to kick him.  You've kicked Laekin many times while I am holding her, and she looks at me and says "Pickle Pants just kicked me."  They all say good night to you every night and kiss my tummy.  So I just wanted you to know how loved you are.  Daddy gave you the name Pickle Pants because Sissy had written a story in school with a character named Pickle Pants and we all thought it was so funny.  Of course, your Daddy remembered.

We are excited to see what you look like. We talk about if you will have a lot of hair like your sisters, or be a fuzz head like Brandt.  We wonder if you will have blue eyes like mama and sissy, or brown like everyone else.  We do know you are beautiful and created by our Heavenly Father!  We wonder if you will be laid back like Daddy since you are in no hurry to come out, or maybe you just will be like Mama and need to know everything is done before you come...no surprises!  This has been a precious time with you, knowing that you will be our baby and I won't experience having a little one grow in me again.  I've prayed that the Lord will help me to treasure each day, and He has answered that prayer.  I have not been uncomfortable or so exhausted that it has kept me from doing anything.  It has just been a joy (except for the first few months of sickness) to carry you.  We pray that you will come quickly and without problems, we pray that you will grow in the knowledge of the Lord, we pray that you will be healthy, we pray that you will come to know Jesus one day, and we pray so many more things for you in your life to come. 

So as I watch my tummy wiggle around, amazed at the life within me, we will wait patiently for you!  Loving every step of life and knowing what a gift you are to all us. 

So much love is waiting for you precious one...Mama!

Catching Up

This was written in Spring 2014 and never got posted...




I wish I had a video camera following Laekin around because everything she says is just so cute!  Some of my fav translations....


coughcough - washcloth
him cute - he's cute
my paint still on - nail polish is still on her toes
sop sops - flip flops
I love when she prays... an example... tick tock go clock, now I pray, tank you for mommy, dada, sissy, bubbey, (clicks her tongue and says um a dozen times), papa go in airplane (clicks her tongue and says um another dozen times), tank you for John (because one night we couldn't figure out what she was saying, apparently it was Jen, but we thought she was saying John...don't know a John, but now she thinks it is funny), food, beds sleep in (clicks tongue over and over again and says um), go to liberry, mommy, dada, sissy, bubbey, go to ella's house (clicks tongue again and then I say in Jesus name amen and she says no mommy, not finished) and then says tick tock goes the clock, now I pray, mommy, dada, sissy bubbey (clicks tongue says um and then proceeds to ask me questions about something that happened so she can pray).  Then all of a sudden she says in jesus name, amen!


The other night Mike fell asleep while we were reading still, so I woke him up because we were going to pray.  So Laekin starts and all of a sudden Mike is sleeping.  So I shake him and say Laekin is praying....so Laekin continues her prayer...tank you mommy open her eyes when I pray and daddy sleeping.  I just busted out laughing and then she thought it was so funny and kept saying it over and over again.  The girl is a hoot!!

Time is flying

Last night, Laekin was praying and she said "dear Jesus, thank you for food, 5 food, um 2 food, and she kept going on."  I said, Laekin, we're praying not counting.  So she said, "oh, ok" and started again and then wanted help.  When we finished praying, it dawned on me that in her little mind she hears thank you 4 food, so then she continued on with other numbers.  We all laughed so hard once again at the cute things she does.




Laekin turned 3 years old, Brandt started kindergarten and Lucy is in 3rd grade.  It's hard to believe that our kids are getting so big!  We were talking about hobbies in school yesterday, and I was giving example of hobbies and Brandt said, and you're hobby is cooking and cleaning the kitchen.  He also told me a few months ago, "mama, I know your favorite things to do...cook and clean the kitchen." So apparently because I do a lot of it, Brandt thinks it's what I love to do.  I told him I do like cooking, but I just clean the kitchen because I have to.  I'm glad he thinks I love to do it because I guess that means I'm not complaining! 
Brandt learned to ride a two-wheeler this month, and Lucy went on all the roller coaster at Silver Dollar City this month when we went.  So those were big accomplishments that were fun to see because they were so proud of themselves. 
Laekin loves her Sissy and Bubba...whenever I give them choices of something she will pick something and then hear their choice and say "actually" and then choose what they did.  I'm thankful our kids are the best of friends...they love to play together when we aren't working on school, they love sleepovers in each other's rooms, and Lucy has really been showing us that she is thinking of them before herself which makes my heart happy!  I'm so thankful for our children, even though each day is a challenge to accomplish all that we have to do.  I will never look back and wish I hadn't homeschooled. 

I'm Done!

Laekin loves to help.  She is always saying "I do it."  Well, I still wipe Brandt, and one day he yelled, "I'm done."  I told him that I would be right there and then I heard the little feet start running saying "oh, Bubby done."  Then all of a sudden I heard Brandt yelling "no Laekin" and I hear Laekin saying "I do it."  I hurry in the bathroom and there's Laekin with a single sheet of toilet paper, trying to push Brandt over so she could wipe him and there's Brandt with his arm extended trying to keep Laekin back.  I just burst out laughing and told Laekin she couldn't wipe Bubby and she burst into tears.  Brandt has gotten used to Laekin running in there whenever he yells I'm done and just laughs with us as he holds her back.

Laekin's 2

Laekin turned 2 and we were all elmo'd out at our house.  She would just point to different things and yell elmo.  She loved it.  She loved having people call and sing happy birthday to her.  She would just sit and hold the phone and listen and smile.  She loves the phone.  She is talking so much, and every color is "geen."  It's so funny because Lucy's favorite color was pink, Brandt said everything was yellow and now Laekin has picked green.  Just shows how different each of them are. 

One night we were singing itsy bitsy spider and she just loved it.  When I stopped she looked at me and said "more piderman, more spiderman."  It was so cute.  So that song is now called itsy bitsy spiderman. 

B-I-B-I-B

Laekin still yells bye-bo, but she says B-I-B-I-B also when singing the BIBLE.  So cute!! 

Laekin also started calling Brandt "Bubbey."  I think she is trying to say Buddy, which is what we call him a lot, but I think I like Bubbey better. 

Lucy finished school for the year, and we are now enjoying summer vacation.  I can't believe I have a 2nd grader.  So thankful she loves school, but we are also so thankful for a break.  Now if these storms would stop so we could actually enjoy the pool...

Boo-Boo

The other night we were outside riding bikes and scooters.  Lucy headed down the hill on her scooter and somehow it wiped out on her and she ended up with a cut on her knee.  We went inside to clean it up.  Lucy sat on the kitchen floor while I worked on cleaning it up, and Laekin kept walking over to Sissy, wrapping her arms around her and saying "boo-boo."  I think she gave her about 5 hugs, and then all of a sudden she had this look like I've got it.  She popped her binky out of her mouth and said "bop" as she stuck it in Lucy's mouth.  It was so funny.  You know she was thinking, this always works for me when I get hurt.  It was very sweet and tender-hearted.  Mama's like to see that!  Lucy started laughing so hard that she stopped crying... so it did work!!