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!

Birthday Songs for Mommy

Singing Happy Birthday to Mommy.


Practicing happy birthday to sing to mommy later.

Our Tough Zebra

Fall on your Face with your knees to the rising sun.

A catholic hymn goes, "Fall on your knees with your face to the rising sun." It once got sung backward to the glee of all the children in the mass.

John Mark had a fall on his face tonight. After checking out our newly carved jack-o-lanterns John excitedly tried to tell us something. Next thing we knew he fell on his face hitting the plastic tray that sits under our plant. This resulted in a laceration beneath the left eye and a small bruise/cut above the eye. Dad preceded to take the family to the ER where John after a short wait, got his face numbed with topical anesthetic was placed in a full body soft restraint and had 3 stitches placed by a very patient Doctor. Mom got too close and almost touched the wound without gloves ;)

A very eventful evening. Prayers for good healing would be appreciated.

Here are some pictures of our happier fall adventures.