Smiles & Trials

This is my first time posting for myself, so I thought I'd show you some of my beautiful smiles.


Here my big brother John has piled up all of my diapers and is jumping in them like they are a pile of leaves (not that I have ever seen a pile of leaves since I was born in December, but that's what mom and dad told me).

If you notice in this picture John is sitting in a chair across the room having a time-out. When mom walked into the other room John thought he let me see some more of the living room and pushed me off of the middle of my play mat unto the carpet.

I love my big brother John, but he sure is a messy eater.

I hope you are all doing well,
Therese Kay

Grand Parents

Nap Time in MI

Mid Jan to Mid Feb

So...yes mom and dad have been taking many pictures of us. It has just not been the hourly chronicle as when I was first born. Here are a few that are already several weeks old.

Thanks Uncle Kyle for the PJ's. I got to wear them to school for pajama day.


Guess what Baby Therese is doing???

Thanks for the shirt Shorty's, now I can match dad on game day.

Adjusting to 4

Thanks for the trains auntie Linsey, one less thing to fight about is bath time!

Hope this counts as tummy time/play time.

Shirt says, Big brother to serve and protect.

Sleeping princes Therese

It has been a challenging adjustment the last week or so. The steam engine that is our life wants to keep rolling along but our 7lb friend has caused some confusion and delay despite being a generally good baby with little spit up and pretty good sleeping. (One hitch is she sleeps during the day and wants to hang out for a few hours at night while I would prefer to be sleeping.) Mommy is learning to adjust. Someday perhaps Daddy will learn to say no but for now he couldn't resist a new position where he gets to interact with tons of people from all over at the Broadview office. John is having the toughest time adjusting. It is hard to go from spoiled to learning to wait for things & from full time day care to being home with mommy. We do think John enjoys his time home but he has regressed in behavior and with using the potty.

Today was a good day with the promise of a cookie afterward John cried himself to sleep instead of refusing a nap altogether despite time-outs and spankings for getting up. Harolding the camp of positive reinforcement I made a sticker chart to try with the potty tommorow!

John Sleeping!

Pictures of Therese from our quality moments while John has been at preschool.

The last family shoot before Grandma left! Do we look tired?

"T's" first week

Family Time Photo's

Therese Kay Childs

Born 12/23/08 12:11am
20 3/4" 6lb 14oz

The Polar Express

The Park district put together a ride on the metra with storebook reading, visit from santa, and a snack that our family couldn't stomach prepackaged donuts and chocolate milk. However, it was nice to spend some time focused on John before Therese comes. He was very interested in giving everything he had to santa this year. We will wait to tell him generally Santa is about getting because it was pretty cute to see him offer his enjoy life bar and jingle bell to bewildered guy in the red suit.

Our First Family Christmas Tree

John loves to read story books from the library. Some of his favorite are Bob the Builder, Thomas the Tank Engine, & Arthur.

Mom's Belly is getting bigger. Baby Therese Kay aka "T" will be coming in about 3 weeks.

Love to everyone!