"Na-nas" and phone calls!

🍌🍌This baby is WILD about BANANAS, which he calls "na-nas"...🍌🍌

If anyone even remotely attempts to leave a bit of banana on their plate after breakfast, he is ON IT, demanding to eat the "na-na!!"

He also might as well be running his own business.  He gets right on his phone and starts the bossing...

😂😂😂

"Da-Da!!!  Da-Da!!!"  

...And everyone comes running...

 😇💕😇

Randomness round-up from 'round the home...

Natalie has thoroughly enjoyed teaching Andrew how to "be a helper"...He loves "helping" put groceries away and clear the table!  She makes it so fun 😇

😎Mr. Muscles here can usually be found working or working out!! We're so proud of him! 💪

(Or eating.  A lot. 😋)

I mean, doesn't this just say it all?...💖💖

Church was awesome this week, we even learned some fun new songs! 

Oh and the produce bounty is AMAZING!!!  Natalie made a delicious tomato-avocado-basil salad, YUM.  I am so proud of our gardeners, they are learning so much!!  

And Mr. Bookworm!  He is LOVING reading big-people books and doing a great job at it.  He reads to his friends too...😇😄

Girls day, DOUBLE time!!

Well, after a week of resting and quiet, we were ready to get out a bit and have some girlie fun 😁

First stop? Brighten up the hair!!  

(Does this desire come upon anyone else after laying in bed for a week?! 😆)

Back to my original blonde-BLONDE, which Steve L💛VES!!! 

👒👒THEN on to HATS!!!👒👒

We have been invited to a Sweet-16-Mother-Daughter-Tea-Party and we're soooo excited!!  

We were all invited to wear our finery, which must include a fun hat!! 

We made multiple stops for hat trying-on and had lots of giggles...

...but we can't show you our final selections until the PARTY!!! 👒👒...Stay tuned...🥳🥳

Girls Day #2!!  

After all that resting, we were in serious need of some groceries, so we headed to town again!!  

Baby joined us at Costco and we deemed him "Teeny and terrified" 😇😅

He looked so very little next to all the HUGE Costco things, but he was a trooper, albeit 👀VERY suspicious👀 of everyone and everything 😂😂

I am so blessed to have such a wonderful daughter that is so HELPFUL and DELIGHTFUL!! 

 

A quiet week...well, for the photographer ;)

I have been trying to rest from my surgery and things have been (relatively) quiet around here. 

At least for me.  And the camera 😆

More great meals from wonderful friends...

More fun with the "whoop-whoop" can...

(Do you have a vote as to who actually likes this treat better: Dad or kids??  😂😂)

I mean this is a serious Steve favorite.  He's just trying to pass on a legacy...

😍😍😂😂😍😍

James wrote a sweet essay this week about a relative...

More beautiful blessings from friends!!! 

The bounty of their generosity is overwhelming.  God's gifts to us!  Both flowers, produce and a wonderful friendship!!!!  

Random shots of Joshua with cows and friends.  😄

This week's big event was swim lessons!!  Everyone did great! 

Mrs. Sue was so kind to shuttle our children to and fro all week so that I could stay home with baby and rest...She is so sweet to us!!! 

Super-Grandma in action 😍😊

That's all for this week!!  

Stay tuned next week as mama tries to get back into the swing of things...💖

 

Randomness round-up of the week!

Just the usual happy cacophony 'round here...

Lots of banging and dancing 😁

AND THEN...you'd never believe what literally showed up on our doorstep?!  

A UKULELE!!!!?????

Someone accidentally sent the order to the wrong address and when we tried to rectify the situation, they told us essentially to not worry about it 😲...soooo, apparently we will all be learning to play the Ukulele too!!!! 

It's so cute!!  

😍💙😍

Boys and snuggles, then boys and haircuts!

😍😍 No words do him justice. Just a pure and precious gift from the Lord 😍😍

Carrots came up in the garden this week!  Score! 

What a beautiful, blessed life we live!!! Thank you to our Lord and Savior, the GIVER of all good things!!! 

Surgery and sweet friends...

I was so blessed to have our whole crew accompany me on the two hour journey to a specialty doctor that was doing my second surgery for my Ischemic Bone Disease...this crew is THE BEST!! 

We brought a big 'ole party to the lobby 😂...and filled it right up! 

James was the entertainment for all the nurses...😆😆

Daddy cared so well for everyone!! 

Natalie was wonder-woman all week and took care of baby and home so beautifully!!! 

Precious crew, taking care of one another while mama was resting 💖

And oh the kind friends that brought meals!!  We are so blessed!! 

One meal we got included dessert...and Steve's FAVORITE, which he calls "whoop-whoop"...Andrew got his first introduction...😂

It always causes quite a riot 'round here...

😂😂😂

 

We are so blessed to have the surgery behind us and hope for a great healing!!