....nice....

So the mail lady drives up to the house to bring our mail and says "I see you got it too... someone got almost all the mailboxes on this road last night".

Sigh.
Fun. Fun.

Ultrasound this afternoon...

stay tuned...


UPDATE:
Most importantly... wee babe is Healthy and Normal! Thank you Lord!!

There's only one wee babe in there!

And....
Well, when I called Jaynie to tell her the results she said "You are so predictable!" -giggle-

Yep! Our seventh son!!!!!!! Isn't that just amazing?!

See his profile? Abdomen and head, the darkest areas are fluid and the whitest parts are bone. See his forehead?

Okay, follow me on this one. You have a baby laying down to change his daper. Cock your head to the right. You see his legs bent at the knee and his hiney (the dark white lines are leg bones). Between his hiney you see his boyness. Do you see the little arrow pointing to a sticky-out thing? That's it!

I have sick children... UPDATED

Started Saturday night with Joseph. Fever. No other symptoms.
Monday morning Molly woke up with fever.
Tuesday afternoon Elijah came down with fever.
Wednesday morning Sam... and then MaryVance.

Please pray for us. Thank you!

UPDATE:
Thursday... Caleb
Friday... Isaac

That should be everyone! This *thing* is starting as several days of high fever and morphing into cold/allergy symptoms for most of them. Sore throat, itchy eyes, coughing, nasal congestion...

Today is day seven for Joseph and he's not 100% better yet.

I'm so thankful that it's not anything serious...just annoying :)

an Ike-ism...

(a funny from Isaac)

The other day Isaac came up to me and said, "Did you know babies like to be in their mother's tummies?"

I said "They do? How'd you know that?"

He replied, with a serious expression "I read it in the newspaper."

LOL

Wanna see a belly pic? or two?

Mama... these are for you :-)

10 weeks 6 days(excuse the silly face...)

14 weeks 5 days

And since I know you are wondering.. I've gained 6 pounds ;-) Yes, -nodding my head- that's very odd for me??

Fun at Three Rivers State Park

Our sweet children... in case you can't remember who's who... on the left: Caleb is holding Isaac, MaryVance, Luke is behind MaryVance, Molly is holding Joseph, and Elijah is in Sam's lap. Got it? There will be a test later. -giggle-
Caleb. He's not blurry in real life... 15 years old. sigh.
Molly. She's 13 and a half and a half...
Sam. Just turned 12.
Luke. aka 'Texas' (lives in this hat. sleeps in this hat. it stinks. how do you wash a cap?!). Luke is 9 + + .

Miss MaryVance. 7. still. till May. :-)
Elijah. All that. and 6 years old to boot!
Isaac. Ike. -snap- "I'm outta here". -snap- again "I'm outta here again." Yep, he's four.
Joseph. Too cute for just one pic.
There. Does that give you a Joseph Fix? He's 20 months full of lusciousness!!

Aahhh.... I think I'll have another... giggle. Check back in September for that pic!

Joseph and Chocolate Pudding.

He is such a Big Boy.... feeding himself.

This was his first time to have chocolate pudding.

I think he likes it!

School Day at Lewis Academy :-)

Notice the teacher's chair is vacant? Well, of course... she's the photographer! -giggle-
Hard at work!
MaryVance doing a pretest in her new math book. She tested out of the first 17 pages -- Way to go Mare!!
Caleb was Isaac's teacher today. He's learning to write "B".
Sam & Molly... Such concentration! Aren't you proud?
Look at that! Reading all by himself! Yeah Elijah!
Luke is pondering...

A pretty typical school day!

Picnic in the backyard

Yesterday the little boys were in desperate need of an Adventure. I had the bright idea to have the big boys set up our smaller tent for them to play in at the back of our backyard. It was a big hit! Elijah wanted to have a picnic lunch there too! I thought you'd enjoy some pictures :)

Just call her Funyan Face.... hahahahaha

They played in the tent for hours and hours and had a blast. Now they want to sleep in it tonight! We'll have to see what Daddy says about that ;).

Visiting the Bakers on St George Island

On Feb 11, Sam's birthday, we drove down to St George Island to visit our dear friends who were vacationing there.

We just want to wade in ankle deep, Mama... really...


Ooops...I think Ike is All Done!

These pics were taken on the bay. Later we went to the ocean side:

The sun was really bright so ignore the shadows!

Charlana does the beach!!!

Charlotte and Dana!

(PS Mom and Tommy... *this* is really where you need to vacation -nodding- yes!!)

Our little creek...

Remember that little creek that trickles through our property. Well, it has rained and rained and rained for two days and look at it now! You can normally just step across it!!

A dress for Isabelle

My sweet friend Patty just recently returned from Guatemala with her newest daughter. I made this little outfit for Isabelle. The pinafore buttons in the back with pretty red buttons.

Haircuts for the little boys

Here they are in the tub after their haircuts!! bbzzzzzzz......

The Beaver Saga, Part 2

After doing some research yesterday (and discovering beaver can be rabid and they carry several parasites that transfer to humans that can be really nasty) we decided to call Environmental Health. They sent someone to pick up the beaver to check for rabies.

We should know something Wednesday. The agent said it was a 'low risk contact' so we really aren't expecting rabies to come back as positive but it was prudent to find out for sure.

Poor fellas... didn't get to skin the beaver...

BEAVER in our yard last night!!!

a Beaver. big furry animal, big orange teeth, long flat tail--- a beaver!!

IN our Yard!!!Our yard is entirely fenced! Three sides with dog fence and one side with field fencing.A beaver in our yard! The dogs killed her. Sorry Mrs. Beaver. She got a couple of them though... one got it in the nose and one got it in the leg. Beaver have sharp teeth. I don't think the dogs knew what to do with her. They've never seen a beaver before.

I've never seen a beaver up close before.

Why, oh why was there a beaver in my back yard? Where did she come from?

The boys saved her body because they want to skin her. I told them I didn't care as long as I didn't have to smell anything Am I a good homeschooling mommy or what?Is there any reason they shouldn't skin the beaver? Any health concerns or anything? Anybody know?

Wanna see a pic of the dead beaver? I don't want to gross anyone out... she has orange teeth. Like UT orange... very wierd. Elijah said they are orange because she doesn't brush them!

Molly has some better pics. I'll get them from her camera in a few minutes!

Joseph's new diaper

I think he likes it!