Leprechaun Crossing

With St. Patrick's Day right around the corner, I just wanted to remind everyone to...
Keep 3 wishes handy
Just in case you meet
A little Leprechaun
Coming down the street


Three cute little Leprechauns have been hanging out at my house and they are being very stingy with their gold.

~ Warm Weather Weekend ~

March has finally brought along with it some nice, warm weather and this past weekend we were able to celebrate Papa JR's birthday spending most of it outside. And as always, the kids love spending time with all their cousins. My sister-in-law and I even managed to sneak away for a few hours on Saturday morning to hit an indoor garage sale.

It is hard to believe that just a little over 6 months ago we were bringing Levi home with us on a plane. Just looking at these pictures and even comparing them to the ones taken a month ago, I can see how fast he is changing. He definitely isn't a baby anymore and has taken on all toddler qualities. And he is all boy, with the exception of allowing the girls to dress him up and playing with Barbie's along with them. He is so much easier to communicate with now as he has around 15 different words that he says (Mom, Dad, Papa, Nana, Jaidyn (Yahden), Addy (Ahhh), milk, dog, ball, bye, hi, bath, hot) and seems to understand about any directions we give him. He is sleeping so much better through the night and now I can usually lay him down in his bed and he goes to sleep without crying.

Our 3rd post placement visit report has been sent to ICAB, so now we wait several months to receive the Adoption consent form so that we can proceed and finalize the adoption. We had hoped that our original scheduled adoption finalization date of May 11th would work, but I am fairly sure now that it will have to be pushed back as I doubt the consent form from ICAB will arrive before then. I was hoping to have one big celebration for the adoption finalization along with Addy and Levi's birthdays earlier in the week. Now we will just have the excuse to celebrate twice. :)

The battery powered vehicles are all of the kids favorites at the grandparent's house.


It wasn't long before Levi had decided he had enough riding shotgun and decided to get behind the wheel himself. There wasn't any steering involved, but he was able to figure out how to push down the pedal to make himself move forward.


Papa JR left all of the girls a special message for them in their playhouse. I love how Jaidyn drew a picture of him off to the side. He fits in with that bunch perfectly.


What a purdy little dress! These dresses are always picked first out of the dress-up box and most had been outgrown and the girls were wearing them as shirts. So Mama Lala picked up each girl a new one from their last trip to south Texas.




Levi thinks he is big stuff driving the truck around all by himself...someone please get him turned back around before he drives over the cliff.


Happy Birthday Papa!


Stealing his cousins Little Mater ride on toy.


Levi and Uncle Heath


Wes and all the kids in the hot tub. :)

~ Love is in the Air ~

Jaidyn and Addy both had their Valentine's Parties at preschool today. And what comes with a party but lots of candy and sugary food. Sugar foods = crazy hyper and no chance of afternoon naps. Levi had an early nap while we were gone, so he didn't have an afternoon nap either. I am keeping my fingers crossed that they will doze off early tonight. I already have a movie on thinking that they might fall asleep watching it.

Both Jaidyn and Addy made special Valentine's for each of their special friends who also just so happen to be cute little boys.


The Chicken Dance


Shaking their tail feathers


Making her bag to put her Valentine's in




As Jaidyn would say, "He's my best-es friend." She made the cutest Valentine for him, that said, "Happy Friendship Day!"


Teeter-Totter!!




The Chicken Dance, Flap those wings!


Placing stickers on her Valentine's bag.


Look at me, I'm 3!!


Somebody loves me???


Iced cookie and applesauce


Addy sitting by her Valentine.


I love my kids...they are sweet hearts! (well, most of the time)


Levi keeps running off with Jaidyn's Valentine that she made for her best friend. Could Levi possibly be jealous?


Pudding face! The kid's Nana has been placing treats in her Valentine mailbox each day of February and when they come to vist, the run straight to the mailbox to find their treat. The pudding was a hit with all 3 of them.

~ Snow Family ~

Is the snow person supposed to be me??? We have had lots of sun today, so unfortuneately she has seen her better days and is melting away.


Cutie-Patooties!

~ Baptism ~

Levi has begun his new life with Christ!! Yesterday he received the sacrament of Baptism. We are so glad that so many of our family was able to share this special day and baptismal ceremony with Levi and all of us. I can't think of a better way to spend a Saturday morning, but getting everyone to the church wasn't easy...

Jill, (one of Levi's Godparents) came down with a severe case of Tonsilitus two days before, but drove several hours very sick to be at his baptism. And, I managed to get the van stuck in my parents driveway shortly before we were supposed to be at the church.

My dad and brother had already left for the church to start shoveling away some of the parking lot so they had the snow shovels. So I managed to clear away the snow under the tires with the garden shovel.


Grandma Penny took control of the wheel while the 3 of us pushed.










Levi with his Godparents. I love the look on his face. Levi has other things on his mind...probably lunch. :)








Reading with Uncle Jared. Levi loves books!


Levi loves farm animals! Looking at his new book from Aunt Jill.


Looking at a picture book with Jared and Carrie. He especially loves the group photo and pointing to people he knows.

The future winter olympic bobsledding team enjoyed the 6 inches of snow we received on Friday with their Daddy and Grandma Penny. I did manage to make it outside, but only to take pictures and video.