We have movement!

So exciting - Joey is finally scooting.  As of Saturday morning, he was scooting all around.  As of Sunday morning, Elijah already decided that he didn't like him scooting and taking his toys.  We started our first rounds of repeatedly saying "SHARE."  The scene is playing out just as I expected it too!

Other notes - Joey is saying "Mama" and knows what it means.  He is a big piggie!  He eats a ton - dinner, fruit, snacks!

Elijah is always "too busy" to do anything.  I don't think he really knows what he means by that.  We will say "take your milk downstairs."  He will say "I can't, I am too busy."  So, he is using it correctly but I don't think he knows what it means.  He has also started singing along to his shows.  It was so fun to listen to him sing!

We had a busy week with the Children's Museum, Soccer, Swimming, gardening, and a movie with Elijah and Morgan.  I am now getting started on Joey's birthday stuff.  I got a new craft tool for Mother's Day and I have tons of ideas.  I have made his card, sent in his cake toppers to be printed and can't wait to make a banner & cupcake holder for his party.

I will leave you both with some scrapbook pages from this past week.  I was trying to get caught up and I made some great progress.

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Scrapbook Pages & Random thoughts

Hi boys!
Few random things for this week...

Joey - you were sick this week.  On Thursday night, you had a high fever and you were so lethargic.  Your cheeks were flushed and your lips were red.  You looked so cute but you were just laying there with no spunk so we didn't like that!  Once your fever broke, you perked up a bit and I was running my nails on your tummy.  I was saying "Tickletickletickle."  All of a sudden, you were trying to say "Tickletickle."   You did pretty good, too!  You are so loud and boisterous that we are going to be in big trouble when you are actually talking!

Elijah - you are killing me.  Now, you will randomly say "Mommy, I wub you too."  It is one thing to hear it when I say it to you and it is quite another to hear it randomly.  *swoon*  You were so nice to Joey when he was sick.  You were rubbing his head and saying "It's ok, baby."

We did a lot this week.  We started soccer this week and Elijah really enjoyed it.  We went to Heartland Park to see the geese.  On the way there, Elijah was in the car saying "Hold on quack quacks, we are coming."  He loved chasing those geese around and throwing bread to them.  We also went to the Children's Museum.  We wanted to go see the Construction Exhibit.  Both boys really had fun.  Joey was most impressed with looking at himself in the mirrror!

Some scrapbook pages to share with you....

Random thought

Now that I have taken the pressure off myself to do a daily, weekly or monthly post, I have something to write to my boys.  Yep, I am going to address this to both my boys - no longer separated in two blogs.  I have said time and time again that going through our infertility and delivering our babies early helped me to appreciate you boys more.  I don't think I would be the parent I am today if I hadn't gone through that.  I know God needed to teach me to value you.

I was watching an Oprah special and she had a pastor on.  He was talking about how Jesus had 2 loaves of bread and he blessed them.  Then he broke them to become too many to count to feed all the people.  He said "You understand then, that the blessing is in the breaking.  That which refuses to be broken refuses to be blessed.  It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.  Now I know a lot of you in here don't understand that because you yourselves have not been broken.  But, I have noticed in my life that the most blessed people I have ever met in my life have gone through something that broke them."

As he was speaking, I was struck down by its truth.  It reaffirmed that your dad and I had to go through something that broke us (many, many, heartbreaking times it broke us) to be blessed with you two.  It didn't seem like a blessing at the time.  It seemed like a curse.  But, I can honestly say that the blessing it gave me - appreciation for you both - was worth the heartache then.  Even if I had to redo it, I still think I would because that appreciation is so great that it is a gift from God.  There are days when I will get tears in my eyes at my blessings - you, your dad, jobs, a backyard with a swing set and garden starting.  Small things.  Small things that I may have taken for granted if I hadn't experienced the heart-wrenching journey to get here.

Trips are great.  Electronics are fun.  But, nothing - and I mean absolutely nothing - can replace any of these small moments....

Elijah:  "I wub you too mommy."
Joey saying "mamamamamama"
Elijah patting Joey on the tummy saying "It's all right, baby."
Your daddy playing with you two and all three of you giggling.
Joey smiling, batting his eyelashes and tilting his head flirting with me.
Holding you both in my lap and rocking.

Yep, no doubt about it - I was broken for years and now, I am the most blessed.

Slacker mom...

Joey,
I am going to tell you that I am a horrible mom.  I just can't keep up with your blog.  I take photos, I do pages for you, I make notes for you.  I just can't keep posting here daily, weekly, monthly.  In some ways, it is second child syndrome but I don't feel like you are lacking for attention  :)

I don't know what the future will hold so I will leave you with these photos from this past weekend.  It was your last "First" holiday.  We had an AWESOME Easter.  You were so darn cute as a bunny and I love our family photo.  See, this is the thing, my little Joe-Joe, we are too busy living life to type about it  :)

Love you to pieces and farewell for now.  I hope to come back and post now and then.