Emotions Gone Wild

Do you ever sit down at night and look around at your life and realize just how good it is? I do. Every night.

Maddie’s post-op appointment was today. We spent the day with Grammy and Grandma, shopping, talking, laughing and loving Maddie. Perfect. Appointment went well, Mads is just the wonder child.

I don’t know if it’s because her birthday is quickly approaching or because her love for us has been so abundant lately, but I am an emotional mess over Maddie lately. How can a child born to another woman’s body be so clearly ours? How did I get so lucky to marry a man who knew that our daughter was waiting for us on the other side of the world? How can I love a child so fiercely it makes me cry my eyes out and I have only known her for 4 months? How can my children have such a deep bond that I already know will never be broken? How can I be SO FREAKIN’ LUCKY to have this life, these children, this husband, this family….

I don’t know.

But I do know that this ad: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1315793544?bctid=1546350694  speaks the truth in HUGE volumes.

I love my life. I love my children. I love my husband and I love God for giving it all to me.

Our life is in pictures

Yep. More pictures.

The kids and I on Mother’s day

Maddie and Sweet Meigan:

The kids and the ever famous Uncle Jack

Our Tee Ball Star:

Maddie’s 3rd Birthday Video

I made this video early because we are so busy over the next few weeks. It’s hard to believe she’s going to be 3 soon! I had so much fun doing this I plan on doing one for Connor’s 5th birthday too!

Enjoy!

 

Happy Mother’s Day

to my Sister In Law, Lynn. Who is currently on deployment training and is without her beautiful children today. I pray every day that her deployment (which begins at the end of June) goes by quickly, painlessly and that her children forget the time their Mommy was gone.

Happy Mother’s day to my Mom (Grandma) and my Mother in Law (Grammy), to all of my Mom friends, my soon to be Mom friends, and to all of the great Moms in the world.

I spent my day digging in the dirt, planting flowers and veggies with my TWO (read that again, thank you Lord) 2 children and my husband. It was perfect. Just perfect.

I Should Just Call This A PhotoBlog Lately…

‘Cause all I have are pictures and all I want to do it take more pictures.

Our Dogwood:

Connor’s 4 year picture (I love this one):

Connor being silly:

T-ball practice in our backyard (the bonus of Daddy coaching…)

The Mads:

See you when I have more pictures…

They make us laugh out loud

Our kids, that is.

Tonight Maddie was being fussy because she got water on her socks (OH THE HORRORS!) and insisted on changing them. I handed her two new socks and left her in her room to put them on. A few minutes later she came out. Later in the evening, I heard Erik cracking up. I went to see what he was laughing at and saw that Maddie had put her wet socks covering the antlers of her rocking Moose (I only wish I had thought to take a picture). I about fell over I laughed so hard.

Just now as I was sitting here, reading email, Connor came out to go potty. He asked when I would be giving him his medicine (yeah, he’s so sick I can’t even talk about it, poor kid) and I said not until later, he’d probably be asleep. After he went potty he came over and said “Mama, when I am asleep I’ll come out and tell you.” I giggled so bad after he went back in his room!

It’s fun, you know, this motherhood thing. It’s really really fun. And funny.

Meet Anakin

We got Connor his first pet today, well I should say Grammy and Pop Pop got it since they paid for it, but that’s because that’s how Pop Pop is, he insisted on buying the pet.

She’s a baby dragon and Connor loves her. Yes, she’s a girl. Yes, her name is Anakin.     We like her that way.

Oh and just ’cause this girl is cute:

Warm Days Proof

Some evidence of our outside adventures, plus Maddie dancing her little heart out and Maddie’s crazy hair in the tub post piggy tails.

Hope everyone else is loving life like we are!

Spring is like Heaven to Us

We can’t blog.

We have fresh air to breathe, sun rays to absorb, laughter to share, kids to play with, swings to swing on, bikes to ride, walks to be taken, pictures to take and joy to be had.

We had special visitors this weekend, people whom I adore with all of my heart (Hi Joanne & Marc, and Ben & Stuart!) and we shared our love of life and the outdoors with them.

It’s spring. Finally, it’s spring.

(pictures taken by Erik because I am too tired to upload mine…)

3 Months

 

  3 months ago today, we finally met our daughter…

What a difference 3 months makes…

We love you with all of our hearts Maddie Jane Xia,

you have always been our daughter…always.